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

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Keeping bread in the freezer

@Weedsnseeds1

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.

Wow! That's fascinating - what an absolute gem of a place to live! Any historian would have an absolute field day there. The Hyena bones in particular are such a bizarre and interesting addition! We have local ghost tour types wandering around where I live, and there's nowhere near as much history. I can imagine them rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of your place!

We have a old cellar. But there’s no access from inside main house. You have to go out the front door, down large slope and around the corner to a kind of tunnel entrance.

We also have a tiny kitchen, so keep the only freezer in the cellar. On cold wet evenings in January, you have to really like peas for me to bother going down there if I forget to get them out earlier on!

If we have people over and they want ice creams its like a cafe ordering system to write down everyone’s requests so everything can be retrieved in one trip down.

Each of my cats has their own mini dining table set out with a tray, cloth and ornaments. One of them has a crystal container for her cat biscuits.

My house is full of minerals, rocks, bones, fossils and artifacts.

Bellropes my cat now feels deprived!

FolkyFoxFace there are plenty of places here where wandering off the official footpath, in a spirit of curiosity about the little fenced off bit of field, will end up with you trapped in 80 000 year old reindeer bones! They are called swallet holes.
We also have some ochre and limonite caves, which were worked in the 1930s and lots of lead and silver mines, dating from Roman - Victorian.
The bone caves had a 2.5 meter high bear skeleton, which is now in the county museum.
Its an interesting area, but we don't get many visitors.

I have communion rails between my sitting room and my bedroom.

Having a bath stimulates them to go, so they don’t do it in the house! They don’t go very often, only a few times a week in the winter as they don’t eat so much 😊

That was to reply to @pinkearedcow

borntobequietdo you live in a converted church, or were they installed from somewhere else?

Weeds it’s a converted chapel.

I do not have any carpets or curtains in my house.
This is probably very weird.
I am fairly allergic to lots of stuff.
Most of the windows have outside shutters, though.

One shared house I lived in had timed light switches in the hallway: the big round ones that would only stay on for a minute or so.

@Caspianberg I love the old cellar, only accessible from outside. I want one like that! In one flat I lived in, I kept the freezer on the (very enclosed and sheltered) balcony, to save space in the kitchen. I also had a tiny tabletop dishwasher, as sometimes seen in office kitchens.

There was one feature I thought of building in the same flat, which would have been very unusual. The entrance hall was always very dark: I thought of building an internal window in the bathroom wall, facing into the kitchen, which would let light through the bathroom into the hallway, with a blind in the bathroom that could be lowered for privacy: I'd seen a similar internal window in a house to make an internal staircase lighter. I never had it done; I'd probably have had to block it up before selling! I suppose that more realistically, I should have installed a front door with windows in it.

In my present house (1930s semi), there was a gap in the wall between our attic and the one next door; we could look through and see into their attic, which was quite empty. We had this gap bricked up.

@FraughtwithGin I'm only kidding, and I'm sorry you're allergic, but do you know what that reminds me of? The story of Mr. Mean, and the inside of his house. "No carpets! No curtains! No pictures! No fires!"

It's not in my house, but I've just remembered the weirdest thing I've seen in somebody else's house: a toilet cistern containing real fish. It was carefully designed so that they would not be sucked out when the toilet was flushed. I asked if the fish seemed to mind this, I was told that they'd lived longer than any other fish they'd had.

I need more photos of stuff...descriptions just aren't cutting the mustard

my cat has a heated pad in her bed, and is either to be found on that or on my keyboard :)

I have never had any covering on my front windows, in any house. We have great views, and I don't want to cover them up. Means we can't run around naked, but oh well. (last house we had no neighbors overseeing us -top of a hill, this one we do, but I don't care)

We have a waterslide from an upstairs balcony to the pool. It has a outdoors stairs as well but kids often get up, strip and plop into the pool .
Previous owner bulit waterparks.
Master bedroom has four ensuites -one has a loo, one has shower, one has a bath and the other has a mirror and basins

Oops posted too soon....the basin ensuite has a bar fridge bulit in..plus there is also a walk in wardrobe. It is weird having so many doors off one room and hell to find the loo in the dark.

The 8 foot mirror was a doorway to a fortified house in the Indian desert. The gas pump is a cupboard full of dvds. The shelving is half of an old canoe.

Dad’s ashes and my fil’s ashes are next to each other in the study.

We put a massive recliner in the kitchen opposite a huge tv with surround sound and under-cupboard lighting for cosy film nights.

We have a loo that opens onto the kitchen (old coal shed) and it doesn't have a sink, it's also my pantry cupboard.

A log burner we will never use.

A set of steps attached to the side which go nowhere. They go up three stories (weavers cottage) and they stop at the bathroom window. They would have been access to the work rooms.

There are only two of us and we don't sleep in the master bedroom.

@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).

Your dog sounds fab

habibihabibi jealous of your water slide, but the bedroom sounds a nightmare to wallpaper!

Brigante9 you have some amazing bits and pieces. Do you, or someone in your family, do all the conversions, or do you have a good eye for picking up quirky items at auction etc.?

We have an emergency pull cord in our shower which rings the bell in the building's lift. I am not sure what the point is - even if you did get stuck in the shower, nobody could get in to help you unless you had remembered to open the front door first! No-one else in our block of flats seems to have one.

I don't have a dishwasher or tumble dryer. That's unheard of on MN 😂

imina nor me nor a microwave. Lockdown has made me begin to understand a dishwasher which is startling for me. Absolutely sick and tired of washing dishes. Realised eating every single bloody meal at home creates a load of them ! Normal life I’d maybe eat 10 meals at home per week absolute maximum.