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

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I would
Keeping bread in the freezer

@lockdownshmockdown

A tiny hot water bottle for my cat. I fill it and put it in her bed every night during winter.

The walls and ceilings are also covered in wooden steps and platforms that my partner made for her to clamber on.

I love this!

If I made that level of effort for my cat, he would blink and then go outside for a shit.

[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]
This is amazing! 🙌

Not my house, but we once viewed a house that had four full-size clowns sitting around the dining table, and another two lying down on the bed.

I thought we were going to be murdered.

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

Not my house, but we once viewed a house that had four full-size clowns sitting around the dining table, and another two lying down on the bed.

I thought we were going to be murdered.

😂😂😂😂

Brilliant!

DD has a massive, 5ft tall plush white teddy bear. It usually sits on a special chair in her room, but is often to be found positioned in the bath, on the loo, on the sofa (reading a book). It also wears seasonally appropriate accessories, so wooly hat in Winter, flowery headband in Spring, sunglasses in the Summer.

We, the parents have our own separate rooms. Best decision ever but it seems to get peoples back up

one of us can often be heard saying 'is the cat in the bath?' Its his bed of choice!

Our kitchen has a stream underneath it that is dry most of the time but water rushes past under the floor when heavy rain pours off the hills behind the house...it was built like that about 200 years ago, and we only discovered it after we moved in.

@Beetlewing

We, the parents have our own separate rooms. Best decision ever but it seems to get peoples back up

As in seperate bedrooms or you have day rooms the kids can't use?

@MrsKoala he's a show type - they're bigger, calmer, hairier, and in his case much, much dimmer than working cockers.

I have a gravestone in my kitchen floor.

@spiderlight This is the kind of post I live for! Gorgeous doggy .

@Weedsnseeds1

I have a gravestone in my kitchen floor.

Ooh, that’s interesting- can you tell us more about it?

@sleepingstandingup You'd be very welcome, as long as you don't mind the smelly old grump of a house cat!

@Weedsnseeds1

I have a gravestone in my kitchen floor.

Oooh, I'm intrigued! Please do tell more!

BitofFun here it is. I don't know much about it, it was here when I bought the house. I tried a bit of go ogling but can't find the people named on it

Excuse the mess, I'm making marmalade and everything is a bit grubby at the moment!

I guess this is weird, we share our back garden with some foxes as in they actively choose to hang out in out throughout the day for hours on end to sunbathe or take a nap.

I looked out the window the other day and there were 5 sat on the lawn, squirrels running through the trees and then next door's cat stopped on her way through to sit with them for a while. It looked like Farthing Wood out there.

@Weedsnseeds1

BitofFun here it is. I don't know much about it, it was here when I bought the house. I tried a bit of go ogling but can't find the people named on it

That's fantastic! I bet your house/the land it's on must have a really interesting history!

We keep all the big kid’s clothes downstairs - it just makes getting ready for school in the morning a bit easier and it’s a throw back to when they were potty training and had multiple changes a day.

My mother in law used to put any left over food that was beyond it’s best down the loo which I always found a bit stomach churning for some reason.

We still co sleep with our nine year old - he has ASD and absolutely hates change (we’ve gently tried to nudge him into his own bed over the years but it’s fruitless he always comes back in) and it’s not enough if a problem for us to really worry about it but to I do sometimes wonder if he’ll be still doing it as a massive hairy teenager in a few years! 😂

Due to SN and various dietary needs in our family I rarely if ever cook the same meal
for everyone. Normally I have to cook at least three dishes (there are 5 of us) and getting a takeaway is a nightmare as it’s impossible to please everyone.

Sorry I took this more like what’s weird in your home in terms of habits? Apologies should have read more closely before I dived in

I have huge framed portraits of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Katherine Parr on my living room walls, and a big reproduction 16th century tapestry map as well. One corner of the living room is my study area with all my history books and general nerd paraphernalia

FolkyFoxFace as far as I know it was a pub (of the bring a jug and fill it from the barrel in the parlour type) at one point. The village was big on brewing (and wayercress) due to having a very pure spring, which still feeds our taps. There were 12 or so pubs in the street originally.
There are a couple of houses that originally had the animals housed on the ground floor, a former bakehouse, school house and Temperance Hall (good luck with that, given all the pubs).
Most of the houses are 1600-1800.
There's one with caves full of hyena, wolf and bison bones in the grounds! They have open days a couple of times a year.

To be fair, there are a lot of caves full of extinct animal bones round here

I can't think of anything relevant - just hoping that the MNer with the poo knife from an old thread will come forward!