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

[TripleHHHZ]

I would
Keeping bread in the freezer

@Nitpickpicnic

Does a garden one count?

I have several in-ground worm farms dotted around outdoors. You shove kitchen/vacuum waste in at the top (ground-level) and close the lid. The worms use it as a feeding station, coming in and out the side holes as it suits them. Then they trail their nutrient-rich waste through the garden bed. Very tidy, no smell, no work for me. You can definitely see the difference in the health of nearby soil and plants.

I get inordinately happy thinking about this system- diverting waste from landfill, promoting healthy soils, my effort-free bit for the planet! Visitors find it fairly barmy (the system, and how proud I am of it!). My mum got me a box of super fancy compost worms to add in, for Christmas. 😍

Want!

We have 2 toilets, one of which hasn't worked for over a year... its built in so part needs smashing to fix/replace. Cabt dace having my bathroom trashed.

PECS symbols people, you can buy Velcro dots. You don’t have to cut it into squares.

@SimonJT I also want to know why you eat o n the floor. Not only must it be uncomfortable but also don't you get draughts?

Brrrr!

No lock on the bathroom door.

No fire - never used it so we took it out, plastered over the hole a put a great big telly on the wall instead.

Heating rarely goes above 13 degrees, 15 in a cold snap.

My bicycles are kept in my bedroom. One is on a turbo trainer compete with headwind fan and tv that is only visible on the bike. The other because it's the second most expensive thing I own after my car, and actually cost more than our second car

[quote Literallynoidea]@SimonJT I also want to know why you eat o n the floor. Not only must it be uncomfortable but also don't you get draughts?

Brrrr![/quote]
Why would you get drafts unless you're sitting directly in front of a badly fitted door. I spend half my life on the floor (lots of babies) and hardly ever say on the sofa as a kid

No dining room and no table and chairs - we eat on the floor or off trays on our knee in the living room.

@spiderlight

A regular job in our house is sloth redistribution. Our dog is obsessed with cuddly toys and for reasons too ridiculous to repeat, we have got ourselves into a situation where he collects sloths. He has to have a teddy to carry with him on all significant occasions, such as getting up in the morning or going to his food bowl, which means that we accumulate piles of stuffed sloths in the kitchen and on his downstairs bed and periodically have to sneak half a dozen or so back upstairs when he's not looking (if he sees you trying to take them upstairs he will mug you and bring as many as he can carry back down).

I love the mental images I'm getting from this!

(Dumb question, but I've never known the answer: is it pronounced 'sloth' or 'slow-th'?)

Another PECS symbols everywhere house.

DD eats two out of three meals a day on the potty. Not ideal - it just evolved somehow.

SimonJT we saw the bum showers next to the loo in hotels (even four star ones) on holiday in the Far East. We loved them, so practical.
We have a bidet at the moment, they seem to be increasingly rare in the UK these days, but what I would really love is a Japanese toilet. They are ace. Preferably one that plays music too. Yes, they really exist

@MadameTuffington
We are the same!! Have a litter trained house bunny who sleeps in our bed x

I have a Library Chair in the kitchen, for the top shelves.

chair1

chair2

@MadameTuffington

My house bunny sleeps in bed with me - he is extremely clean and fully house trained - everyone I know finds it funny 🐇

Aww that’s lovely

Er, no margaritasbythesea we love this too -- it's my favourite bit of Spanish breakfasts, and I make it in the UK by whizzing up a few vine cherry tomatoes (more flavour than big ones at the time of year) in a blender with some salt, olive oil and garlic.
This is rubbed on/smushed into sourdough toast. Salivating
In the summer I just grate home grown tomatoes onto oily toast. Salt.
Breakfast of champions!

Why would you get drafts unless you're sitting directly in front of a badly fitted door. I spend half my life on the floor (lots of babies) and hardly ever say on the sofa as a kid.

Before we put a carpet down, my ankles would always be freezing from draughts coming up through the wooden floors. I've never made a habit of sitting on the floor, even (perhaps especially) with babies, because it's hard on the back, and such a chore getting up again...you must be much fitter than I've ever been .

If you're used to it, through habit or culture, great. It's not for me though.

I previously posted that I wanted a death cupboard and a sloth loving dog. I am now adding the picture of Spike - he will be right at home in the death cupboard.

@WomenAreBornNotWorn

We have a house hen. She is sat on my lap right now in front of the fire. She's beautiful.

This why we need a like button on MN

Honestly? You can house train rabbits?!!😀

My autistic ds. I say this with all the affection in the world but he's only 'normal' to us because we're used to him giggling at nothing now.

Our front room is our bedroom (disabled hubby), and we have a free roaming bunny.

I love this thread, so weird wonderful and random (apart from the freezing bread, surely everyone with a freezer does that!).

My house probably looks average, but it's been home to my husband's family for 45 years (his parents have now passed away) I've lived here for 18 years and we still have loads of family 'stuff' childhood toys of DH's and his sisters (who are now 50+ yrs), their dad used to collect and build radios, we've at least 100 of the buggers still in cupboards and the attic.

Over the years I've cleared the main rooms, our living room, dining room and the bedrooms. You take your life in your hands in you try to open one of our (fortunately large) storage cupboards. I swear you couldn't even fit a slice of paper more into the attic.

Goodness knows when we'll finally be free of all the 'stuff'. Meh, the youngest is 10yrs now, we'll leave it all to him...😁

@BitOfFun youngest child so I always got the floor of we ran out of seats lol.
I do regret it by bedtime but I sit strategically at the point where they like to climb so I can ruin their tiny 13 month old lives by stopping them

Yup, its pretty easy.