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

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I would
Keeping bread in the freezer

I keep the dirty washing in a cupboard next to the washing machine in the kitchen. No dirty washing baskets anywhere else in the house.

It's an actual kitchen cupboard though. Everyone seems to find it weird. I just think it's practical and tidier.

@SignOnTheWindow. ho ho - thank you - I can assure you you would not want to be dealing with my DD14 right now - Frank the bunny is therapy - rabbits are fantastic creatures 🤗👍🏼xxxxz

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion my 👴 did that too

@lockdownshmockdown apparently single cupboard doors normally have the handle on the left and pivot on the right. Ours have the handle on the right and pivot on the left. Obviously double cupboards open 'normally'. Our windows are small (old house) so we use just one curtain for each window. But when we open it we pin it to the left, not the right which is, apparently, expected.

We had no idea on any of these things but many different people have commented on them at different times, so I take it as true.

@MadameTuffington Gorgeous name! Would love a house bunny. I have two guinea pigs, who are house trained in as far as they'll flop out on my lap for a couple of hours and tug on my clothes when they need to go. I'd love to have them out for longer, though. Good luck with your DD. I think I have a DD, nearly 14, but it's hard to tell. Currently in bedroom with curtains shut. She might emerge in a few years...

I have two tortoises who roam around the house in the winter, in the summer they are in the garden during the day and in at night. However they have to be separated as they fight. They’re quite quiet but emerge a few times a day for food and have their special sleeping places. They also have baths in a washing up bowl every other day for hydration, and to go to the loo 😊.

My ex had an oven that only worked when you leant an antique butter churn handle up against the knob. You had to prop the butter churn on top of the Victorian child’s chair wind the hand round to the height of the knob for the oven and push it against it. It made making a roast such a fucking faff but his whole family saw it as completely normal. They’d say ‘I’ll do dinner, I’ll just get the butter churn...’

My dad is an electrician and I grew up in lots of fixer uppers. It was totally normal for us to switch the lights on by touching 2 bare wires. Till the houses were finished and the nice switches were put on the day before it went up for sale. Friends thought it was crazy. But I only got a couple of little shocks

We have a toy shark hanging from a mirror in our bedroom called Tim and a skeleton teddy with my partners face on it who is currently sitting in the office chair with sunglasses on.

You can open the cupboard under the sink to talk to someone in the downstairs shower room. We have one full staircase leading to our front door then three half stair cases to get around the house - literally.

We have two driveways - the north drive and the south drive.

@LaceyBetty

We freeze bread. We have two bathrooms, but no bathtub. Only showers.

Couldn't live without a bath 🛁 but know people who never have them x

I have an ' under the stairs cupboard ' but live in a bungalow !
When we first moved in the cupboard was named that and now we always call it that.

mrskoala oh dear. We all have little quirks but that is brilliant.
I once had people suing my place to stay in my absence. Was writing a list of ‘stuff’. It went on forever. As I was listing the steps to turn the tv on and actually watch something I was thinking - how have I been living like this. Why can’t I just turn a tv on ffs.? It was downright embarrassing by the time I’d done tv, Booker quirks, how to get the shower to run hot quirks, front door lock quirks. Awful.
In the end they couldn’t come. Wrote saying they were upset as were looking forward.
Thank god was what I thought.

We have a cloakroom.
This is a downstairs toilet, where you also keep coats.
A serving hatch.
Bizarre curtains
Sinks in bedrooms.
A doorbell on the backdoor

Quite standard features on on Army housing...

TashieWoo so do the tortoises only go to the loo when they have their bath (aaw!) - they don't pee/poo all over your house?

@TatianaBis I want to see your sugar glider please

We also have a wildflower garden! The neighbours hate it and try (unsuccessfully) to report it to the council.

We have one room that is a library room. Floor to ceiling shelves on all walls, all filled with lovely books, and a ladder to reach them!

[quote spiderlight]@TheDaydreamBelievers - here's his sloth collection as it was before Christmas (he has three more now and his favourite massive one that he carries around.

@BalconiWaferAddict - in a nutshell, just after we'd adopted him, someone gave me a lovely cuddly sloth for my birthday and he hankered and hankered after it, so I found him a sloth dog toy and he was so happy. I posted a pic of him holding it on FB and it just became a thing, because my friends are ridiculous.[/quote]

Spiderlight, your dog and his sloth collection are adorable! That's fair cheered me up out of a mood 😍

@iamasun

Said stag!

Magnificent! But I feel like you're not putting those points to good use think of the things you could hang from them

[quote spiderlight]@TheDaydreamBelievers - here's his sloth collection as it was before Christmas (he has three more now and his favourite massive one that he carries around.

@BalconiWaferAddict - in a nutshell, just after we'd adopted him, someone gave me a lovely cuddly sloth for my birthday and he hankered and hankered after it, so I found him a sloth dog toy and he was so happy. I posted a pic of him holding it on FB and it just became a thing, because my friends are ridiculous.[/quote]
😍

@MrsKoala - he's an English Cocker Spaniel. Here he is when he's not covered in sloths He just has to be carrying something all the time, though, and we get a present every time we leave the room and come back.

I've not even read half this thread yet and I already want a house bunny that sleeps in my bed, a hen for my lap and a sloth addicted dog

@FolkyFoxFace

We also have a wildflower garden! The neighbours hate it and try (unsuccessfully) to report it to the council.

We have one room that is a library room. Floor to ceiling shelves on all walls, all filled with lovely books, and a ladder to reach them!

Can I move in?

[quote spiderlight]@MrsKoala - he's an English Cocker Spaniel. Here he is when he's not covered in sloths He just has to be carrying something all the time, though, and we get a present every time we leave the room and come back.[/quote]
Oh he’s so handsome. Is that the same as a working cocker? I’ve seen those about and they seem much more intelligent than my English Setters!

@spiderlight I think your dog needs his own thread, with a picture everyday of his sloth carrying antics. You could see it as a public service to cheer us all up. Like when those stroking pets are taken to nursing homes.