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Quirky house rules prompted by bitter experience

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KERALA1 · 26/06/2017 08:54

No under 8s allowed to use cling film (rendered unusable)

Windows always to be closed when you go out for day however high up you are (pigeon lays egg in bedroom drama)

Cheap feather boas not allowed in house (purple feathers everywhere for weeks)

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YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 12:09

Sanscollier it's turned into a sort of running joke in our family now - if DH gets home before me he will hang some on certain door handles. I went round to my parents' not long after and my dad had hung a few of my mum's up in a similar fashion. She was equally furious Grin

Sanscollier · 26/06/2017 12:03

YesMadameDeputySpeaker that's hilarious! Grin

We live in a very tall house and, after a few near misses, I'm always very careful when I throw dirty laundry over the landings in to the hall ready to carry down to the basement for washing, in case any smalls get trapped swinging from the staircase when visitors arrive!

letsgomaths · 26/06/2017 12:02

Edward Scissorhands has been to dinner Grin Grin
We have another rule for wrapping, after people have accidentally walked in on their presents being wrapped, which caused great upset: the recipient should be told in advance that they must not enter the room (but the loophole is that you may sit in on your goodies being wrapped on one condition - that you are blindfolded).

When a certain small bell is rung, teasing of any kind immediately stops. (I grew up being mercilessly teased; I don't tolerate non-consensual teasing at all, and I wished I had a way to make it stop.)

No netball practice before 8am: balls go THUD on the patio under the net.

RolfNotRudolf · 26/06/2017 11:56

DH recently decided we should only buy sugar cubes not loose sugar because DS kept spilling it "everywhere" (he didn't, it happened once.) This rule is not being implemented.

YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 11:48

Sanscollier I was asked if my tumble drier had broken and I was having to 'air dry my delicates'. It was then I realised..

steppemum · 26/06/2017 11:48

OH Goldmandra - I think you live in my house!

yy to Dr Who epeisodes
yy to opening curtains
yy to yellow car games (banned as ds though ti was funny to hit really hard and dd2 didn't see the joke)
yy to log pile!

cjt110 · 26/06/2017 11:42

All requirements for hot water shall be met before the washing machine is switched on - our machine is supposed to be plumbed to the cold tap - it's not.

Do not take a swig of anything in a "pop bottle" that's not yours. Olive oil is not a nice beverage.

Sanscollier · 26/06/2017 11:41

Grin MadameDeputySpeaker

steppemum · 26/06/2017 11:40

youngest is now 9, and until recently we had a rule

-all pens must live in a pot on top of the fridge.
-no bare bums on sofa is one of ours
-no undressing in living room (quick change to Pjs in ad break on Sat even, but living room is at front and summer so curtains open and dds are no longer little.....)

All ice creams are eaten in garden (not warm enough to eat in garden, then not warm enough for ice cream!)

no bringing animals in through the cat flap (bit hard to enforce that one)

Sanscollier · 26/06/2017 11:40

Do not play with velcro hair rollers and stick them to every wool scarf hanging by the front door, strategically placed so that the wearer doesn't notice.

Do not leave colour photo results of a recent endoscopy lying around so that they are offered to guests along with bowls of crisps.

RoseVase2010 · 26/06/2017 11:40

No chickens in the house. No horses on the lawn.

The dog has his own bedroom though.

IDismyname · 26/06/2017 11:38

No un-plugging of my phone/ipad charger.

I may, just may, have covered it in pink neon tape and written MUM all over it.

(Seems to have worked so far)

Secondly, if it ain't written in my diary - it ain't going to happen -especially if it involves me in any way...

MrsMarigold · 26/06/2017 11:37

No walking and eating.

No eating anywhere except the kitchen.

No hanging on the banisters and looking down or chucking stuff, we have a very tall central staircase and it's my worst nightmare that someone could fall and get impaled on the coat stand.

For boys: flip and flush the loo.

YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 11:30

When guests are coming over, please do not take my bras out and hook over every doorhandle in the house. Especially if I'm unaware until said guests arrive.

YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 11:28

No playing maraccas in the lounge. (Overenthusiastic playing broke our tv screen).

Grin
purpleprincess24 · 26/06/2017 11:23

Do not use the oven when pissed!

DS (who's 25 ffs) got in at 2am, put pizza in the oven, went to lie down for 30 seconds .... cue DH going into the kitchen at 8am and the pizza was still in the oven !!!! One if the few occasions since they've been adults when I've gone mental at him!

allegretto · 26/06/2017 11:11

No playing maraccas in the lounge. (Overenthusiastic playing broke our tv screen).

HunterofStars · 26/06/2017 11:05

No sleeping naked on my sofa. Do not mark the songs you don't like on my laptop to 1 star and think I won't notice. In fact do not touch my laptop at all. Do not use my expensive shower gel gift sets, when there is a bottle of shower gel next to the bath.

IHeartDodo · 26/06/2017 11:04

In our house we have: No cats in the bathroom.
(1. they drink from the toilet, 2. the stupid one will jump out the window, and 3. the other one is black and her hair makes it look like pubes are just sprinkled everywhere!)

At my Parents' house we had: No singing after 9pm, or in the kitchen. No Balloons near mum (she really hates them - in the car they had to go in the boot, under something).

Goldmandra · 26/06/2017 10:58

Curtains must be opened as soon as you are dressed or if you were the one that closed them in the downstairs rooms. The neighbour came over late afternoon concerned that someone had died Blush

No yellow car (hitting) games when I am around.

No knuckle cracking in my earshot.

If you open the bathroom window in winter, set the specially purchased timer on the landing for 5 mins, otherwise we heat the rest of the world for hours before anyone realises.

Take the logs from the top of the pile, not the front or they fall on the dog.

The headphones and charger on my bedside table must never be borrowed.

The dog isn't allowed to sleep on the third stair down (she is the same colour as the carpet).

The person on dog-poo picking duty has to bag and bin it, not flick it into the flower bed.

Shoes off in the porch after DH walked CV joint grease onto the hall carpet for the second time, just four weeks after the insurance company had replaced it due to the first time Angry

No more than two episodes of Dr Who on the living room TV per night and I think that is far too generous.

BabsGanoush · 26/06/2017 10:57

No talking while MIL is interrupting. Grin Grin Grin

glitterglitters · 26/06/2017 10:57

No Sweet Home Alabama or My Sherona to be played in this house.

Coca Cola must not be stored in the fridge.

No poohing in the downstairs toilet.

Ceic · 26/06/2017 10:56

Unless your name is on the list, you are not to open new packets of cereal.

silkpyjamasallday · 26/06/2017 10:50

DD is too little for her to cause much havoc, its DP that needs houserules.

No practicing MMA kicks and punches on my antique rugs (he has ripped two of them doing twist kicks and such, they had survived almost a century in tact until he moved in with me Angry)

No football/ball games in the house

No pissing with the toilet seat down no matter how good you think your aim is I am the one who ends up having to have a shower because I've sat in someone's piss (this was our former lodger who was eventually kicked out because I couldn't take being covered in his urine on a daily basis)

No one is allowed to use my nice face masks or oils. DP wastes them by using half a bottle in one go and doing it all wrong. I hide them when we have guests Blush

Princecharlesfirstwife · 26/06/2017 10:49

No sitting on the loo after fake tanning your backside (rule applies only to dd1)

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