What do you think of this family house rule?

Are you always this controlling?./. You will find if your very controlling your children will rebel.

I am always dressed before breakfast,, but live alone and impose no rules on others

Sounds obsessive and controlling to me. I'm someone who does shower, brush teeth and dress before going downstairs, but I wouldn't demand that my kids do. They always showered in the evening in any case, and two showers a day is wasteful and unnecessary.

They're grown up now and if they want to veg in PJs when they're here, that's fine.

But having Pj days with your kids is a must growing up!!!
My kids would totally break this rule in the first day.
It sounds more like a hotel than a home.

I think it's an awful rule.

It really is quite unhinged isn’t it?

Even the idea that you are slobbing if you are relaxing.

Most of us are pretty busy. Work, school, hobbies.

There is nothing slobby or immoral about taking a day to rest and sit down.

This obsession with tracksuits on MN is hilarious! I wear them at any given opportunity and it doesn’t make me any more of a slob than when I’m in my daily attire of dresses and suits.
OP I would find it sad as a child. You can install routines and good hygiene without being draconian.

I think it’s awful

On a flip. I don't like the kids wearing outside clothes on the sofa... filthy bus jeans on the sofa! much prefer PJS.

We have a you must be wearing pants rule at the table, that feels a lot more realistic although tea tonight did involve 2 3yr olds naked from the waist down. Can't imagine makeling everyone get showered and changed before coming down. Also it sounds like it makes extra washing if people lounge in one outfit then get dressed later to go out

It sounds shit....

Well put!

Controlling to the point that I'd suggest the person enforcing this had a personality disorder or mental health issues.

When I first came to the UK I was a bit surprised that people wore pyjamas downstairs and in the daytime. Would not have occurred to me growing up to come downstairs not dressed and groomed. PJs were considered bed clothes and not appropriate day wear.

I have fully embraced it though and was very happy for my kids to be in PJs in the house when they were growing up.

What does your husband think about your rules op?

I’d hate to live in a house where this would be a problem. People can be so uptight.

I went out after work with a female colleague and when I walked her to the bus stop (a rural route) and said ‘ah you’ll be home in your pjs before you know it’ she looked horrified and said ‘I couldn’t possibly do that it isn’t even bed time yet!’ On further conversation it turned out that her husband was one of these ‘no sitting around in nightwear’ people.

God I felt sorry for her as I waved her off… to live around people who are so buttoned up and implement petty ‘rules’ because of some Victorian moralistic worldview is odd, but the idea that you can’t relax or be comfy in your own home lest you are judged as some sort of unhygienic deviant is unhinged.

This was one of my father's house rules, along with, if you were not down stairs fully dressed by 9am at the weekend, you went without breakfast. And a whole list of other persnickety shit. The man was a tyrant who I went almost NC with as soon as I could. I barely spoke with him in 30 years He died 3 months ago aged 88, and I haven't shed a tear for him.

I would think very carefully before having dictatorial house rules like this.

LOL. 😂

Ridiculous! If I had a rule like this in my house, my family would never come downstairs. What is the purpose? You can laze around all day on the sofa as long as you are washed and dressed?

Well it’s not a rule that would work for my family, even my mum who is someone who wouldn’t dream of a PJ day goes down in her PJ’s for her breakfast. It sounds very formal, and well, pointless. It’s a family home I assume.

The owner of the house is choosing to moan. And frankly needs to chill out.

I kind of get where you’re coming from in the sense that saying ‘don’t slob around in your PJ’s all weekend’ is a bit woolly and will result in lots of moaning and reminding. Sometimes kids need a hard rule. If it was the hill I choose to die on I might say no PJ’s after 10am.
However, I love sitting around in my PJ’s and actually till my kids to go get out of their restrictive uniforms and get comfy and I don’t want to wash uniform lounge wear and PJ’s. Don’t know why you’d hate PJs seems random and pointless to me.

Surely dog fur sticks more to socks than to bare feet? Cat fur definitely does.

You'd hate it here OP.
We rarely get dressed until after breakfast.
DD5 will wander round bare naked at any opportunity, and will sit and watch TV in just her knickers, sat right next to Dad in his boxers and dressing gown, whilst I read my book in shorts and t-shirt that I probably have worn at least twice before for lounging.

It seems a bit odd to not have rules for school days and then implement them two days a week.

My sister did insist that her son have a daily shower before he came downstairs just before puberty hit, as "training" before puberty hit proper and he didn't turn into a greasy stinky teenager. And it's a good job she did, because on the odd occasion he skipped it, the boy did pong (despite a nightly shower)