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Quirky house rules prompted by bitter experience

336 replies

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)

OP posts:
paxillin · 26/06/2017 09:13

No toys with wheels on the kitchen floor fucking slapstick moment that was.

Bluntness100 · 26/06/2017 09:12

All windows to be closed at night as we have bats and they fly in by mistake. A full grown bat swooping round your house in the middle of the night is not as fun as it sounds....

daydreamnation · 26/06/2017 09:10

Me too scribble!! I was banned from dying my hair jet black indoors, after splattering my mums Laura Ashley with half a box of the stuff Grin
Our no 1 house rule used to be 'no coming off the rug in your princess dress up mules' Hard floors and clicky plastic heels are a shit combination!!

ShesNoNormanPace · 26/06/2017 09:10

No using the dishwashing up brush to wash your underpants clothes in the kitchen sink.

SacharissaCrisplock · 26/06/2017 09:09

No one is to give birth on my nice white rug.

Bon Jovi is not allowed.

HoneyDragon · 26/06/2017 09:08

No immac in the house with small children present.

No cheap 'washable' pens around toddlers.

Scribblegirl · 26/06/2017 09:04

(obviously at the time though I considered this fascist.)

Scribblegirl · 26/06/2017 09:04

Indeed, itchy... My mum still can't tell you which was worse - the goth stage where we wound up with black dye staining the toilet seat or the red dye that got in the grouting and made it look like a murder had taken place. I have many fond memories of sitting in old tshirts in the garden for half an hour and then having to wash the dye out with the hose!

ItchyFoot · 26/06/2017 08:59

That is a genius rule Scribble. I'm guessing there's a horrifying back story

JamRock · 26/06/2017 08:58

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Scribblegirl · 26/06/2017 08:55

When I was a teen we had a house rule that I was only allowed to dye my hair in the garden Grin

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