To ask what the weirdest thing you experienced or saw at someone else's house when you were a child?

@marmelised are you from a small place off the east lancs road ?!

@Neveranynamesleft

Soup over chips or a potato and meat pie was a common thing to have when I was young.

Pimbletts by any chance? Only ever heard of soup and chips in my home town.

^posted too soon,
Her mum threatened to cut off my Barbie doll's hair, and the house was always very dark.

Anyway, they moved away.

1994, popping round to a friends house to discover that not only had I inadvertently sat in daddy’s chair but the living room was full of fucking snakes - corn snakes but still

There was a child on my road who I always thought had a "strange" house.

I knew her from aged 6-9 ish. Her father was absent, so as a curious child I asked about her dad.

She told me her mum "had married the wrong man" and being a child I took this literally, thinking her mum had walked down the isle, accepted the ring, only to find the wrong man standing there!

Obviously I now have more understanding of adult relationships, and feel sad for her.

But unfortunately this neighbor stole things from me, her mum threatened to chop off my babydoll's hair,

@NextdoorNeighbourIsATwat
Me too!! 🤷‍♀️

aroundtheworldyet me neither. Lord knows I tried!

Soup over chips or a potato and meat pie was a common thing to have when I was young. As was mashed potato butties

I have an idea that a pie in a bowl of soup is known as a "pie float" in Australia (a country whose astronomic delights rival those of Scotland).

When I was about 5 or 6 I went to a friend's house for tea. I was really jealous of her because she had a massive stack of scrap paper, think reams of it, and we got to draw and paint all we liked - paper was in short supply at home. My friend gave me a big pile to take home and I was delighted. It was only years later my mum told me they were all very adverts for a local brothel, complete with very explicit pictures

When I was about 13 I had a good friend who lives with 5 siblings in a tiny house. It was utterly filthy, no carpets, except bizarrely in the kitchen which stank. I was never allowed to stay long because her dad didn't like friends there. One day he called her down to tell her she was in trouble for something and made her take her pants and skirt down so he could belt her on the bum. I was shocked and stood there frozen, and he turned to me and asked me what I was looking at, did I want some? He then said I should watch myself when I was at their house. it was in the eighties and I never thought to tell anyone until a few years later when I realised how out of order it was :( my poor friend and her siblings.

As a teen I went regularly to this absolutely massive house. It was full of statues - not just in the garden, but all over the house, like proper museum pieces and all these cherubs. The toilet had gold mirrored wallpaper you could see yourself in, a solid gold toilet and sink, and a big water feature statue of a cherub peeing crammed into the corner. It was awesome.

When I was seven or eight years old my mum used to do the Football Pools and collect the coupons to earn some extra money. I went with her one evening and I went to a bungalow on a street near my house whilst my mum collected from other houses. Anyway this man answered the door and asked me if I wanted to come in and play with his dead son. I ran away as fast as I could. I told my mother but she said I was making it up. I can still remember what he looked like.

I'm the last person to get any references but even I got the name of your friend's father, Anna. best to have it removed.

I can’t work our who it was. There aren’t many people of the name you say

Yes, I'll ask for it to be removed.

@AnnaFiveTowns that was very outing (for your friend and her father).

Friend's mum was quite posh. Would not let us fill the toy teapot with water (even though we were playing in the garden with it). Older sister secretly lowered bottles of water to us via a string from the bathroom ... until her mother caught her and walloped her.

Some adults are really screwed up.

I also remember my sis and I,we were 10 and 11,going to stay with my Swedish godfather and his new wife,between them they had four kids around our age.

We arrived in Sweden after flying on our own and played lots of yahtzee . I think after a few days godfather wanted rid of all the kids,so we all got on his speed boat,packed with two tents and trays of this under cooked chocolate cake and he dropped us at this island a couple of miles away and said see you the day after tomorrow.
My sister and I were terrified. But the other kids sorted the tents and stripped off and jumped off the cliffs naked.
We lived off this cake stuff until we got picked up. Looking back it was an adventure but seems such a strange thing g to do

Weirdest one for me was friends whose parents had a substantial pools win, early 80s. House was an absolute shitstorm, but they had a potato cut in half and each half attached to a length of string, hanging over the picture in the lounge. When I asked what it was the mum replied, "it's an air freshener" 😕

I remember in the mid seventies when I was about 5 asking my mum to pack me an oxo cube for my school snack and looking forward to this every day

Soup over chips or a potato and meat pie was a common thing to have when I was young. As was mashed potato butties.

I remember my friend, probably about 10 or so finding her mums vibrator... then pinging her mums knickers at the ceiling fan

Ahhh!!

Worse one ever was I went into a dark room there were two big dolls in the bed. The woman who lived there was injecting. Suddenly these dolls moved and I realised they were her twin grandkids.

Fish and chips on plates here too. Because its steaming hot, greasy and has to be shared out anyway.