What's something normal in your home but probably weird in others homes?

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Keeping bread in the freezer

We have 2 guinea pigs that run around the living room all day, their cage is always open, the minute anyone opens the fridge they are at the door! we also keep bread in the freezer, DH thinks it is weird butit's normal for me.

My mum used to put sick or motherless lambs in the Aga on the lowest setting

I wondered where you were going with that one, theotherfossilsister ... some would have turned it up and cracked open the mint sauce!!

We keep the kids clothes in the utility room and they get dressed downstairs. We also keep their toothbrushes, toothpaste, hairbrush and flannel in the kitchen. It means on school days they come downstairs at 8.15am and we leave at 8.35.

H and the guinea pigs share an office. He does his zoom meeting with them chattering and munching away. His colleagues now ask after them. 😂

@Cattermole

Swords on the landing (reproduction 17th century cavalry backsword, mine, and Napoleonic boarding cutlass, DH's) Enormous quantities of wool, some of it au naturel waiting to be spun, and a Roman two-beam loom in the dining room.

I have a few fencing swords around as well as a brass shell, shell as in weaponry not off the beach! When OH taught in a military school a child brought in a shell casing to show the class, about 6 inches, OH said Can your Dad, (a Navy officer) get me one? Next day Dad is there with an enourmous parcel, a solid brass shell case, about 2 feet tall and weighing a ton! Excellent for brollies. golf clubs, swords etc.

@TheDaydreamBelievers not full size, fortunately! They range up to about 8 inches tall. I'm sure if we had space they might be joined by a life-size friend!

Our dining room has become a fort movie room complete with sheets, blankets, fairy lights and a special low table to eat at.

We have silicone kids cutlery as I am sensitive to certain sounds and sometimes need quiet dinner times

DH has a sofa in his office because I'm stupidly clingy and like being in the same room as him even while he's working.

The hooks in the beams on our bedroom ceiling are definitely for hanging fairy lights on...

DH.

Just DH.

If you knew my DH you'd understand.

My DH wraps my birthday and Christmas presents in front of me, while I'm blindfolded. I love this ritual, but everyone things it's weird!

My pa kept live lambs in the Aga too. Not unusual on a farm. I loved feeding them with rubber teats from huge bottles of warm milk!

@Puzzledandpissedoff

My mum used to put sick or motherless lambs in the Aga on the lowest setting

I wondered where you were going with that one, theotherfossilsister ... some would have turned it up and cracked open the mint sauce!!

I'm sure I've seen that on one of those Yorkshire Dales programmes, the one years ago about the shepherdess Hannah Hauxwell. Either that or Jill Archer's done it, Roothie would burn the poor lamb.

@MissingLinker

We have the Death Cupboard. Originally, it was just a cupboard with very old photos of dead relatives who'd have mostly died before I was even born. Then OH won a full size skeleton at a work fundraiser who also lives in there. And then she won his wife the following year. We've arranged them in there on chairs and got them clothes. So yeah.

You win this thread and my upmost adoration and respect

we are pretty weird, but reading this thread makes me feel more normal. Each to their own, I say.

Our cat has a pair of neon green (toddler) monster claw foot slippers. She has had them for about 7 years, and we find them all over the house. She will bring one or both to the door, if shut, and loudly announces that she is doing so. I swear I hear "Slipper. here comes slipper" in her loud yowls. She's pretty quiet otherwise.

Note that I have never, not once, seen her carry Slipper. DH has many times, but not I. One of these days. I'm waiting.

@PandemicAtTheDisco

I have a wildflower garden. None of the neighbours listen when I tell them about the birds and bees. They really object to it (the garden not the environmental lectures).

I don't want help weeding my garden, I don't want weed killer sprayed over it. It was fantastic a few years ago and several environmentalists visited to examine the species diversity.

Yes I have one of those. 11 species of graswes in there last summer.

We have no "devices" - no Xbox, no playstation or anything like that. No i-tems. Bog standard small TV with Freeview, and internet connection for social media and so forth. Smartphones but not anything current. DCs friends usually taken aback when we say we don't have Minecraft or Netflix or iPads, etc.

Love a little insight into other people's homes...

All of our upstairs doors are locked, with keys hung on very high hooks out of reach of our autistic son. Even the toilet door remains locked, you have to unlock it using a knitting needle pushed into the safety release hole (so don't be in a hurry!) The knitting needle lives on the top of the doorframe, again out of reach.

No clocks in my house.
No vacuum.
Several besom brooms.
Several cauldrons.
6 dogs.

Shoes on seems pretty rare these days!
Our house is shoes on and we don't live in filth and our floors, white.. Survive!!

@theotherfossilsister

My mum used to put sick or motherless lambs in the Aga on the lowest setting, then get them out warm and pass them to us to be fed.

No one at school believed me.

I believe you. My uncle was a shepherd.

The weirdest thing in this house is probably that anything really important, such as "phone bank first thing Monday", gets written on a piece of masking tape and stuck to the burglar alarm.

Egg why's foods locked?

A 19c shaman's mask from Africa. A bell to call the family to meals. A grand piano, several violins and assorted other instruments. A locked cupboard with guns. A sugar glider called Mitzy.

hans when I was a child, we had a brass shell case too. It was where we kept the pokers for the coal fire - the perfect size and shape. Seemed normal at the time ...

@NeverRTFT

Has anyone said penis beaker yet?

😂

I freeze butter

I have a fitted kitchen with zero drawers.