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

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Keeping bread in the freezer

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

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

I now have a dishwasher for the first time ever, but no washing machine and I've never had a tumble dryer of my own - which is quite common for singles I think.

@HeronLanyon

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.

Yes, I appreciate my dishwasher now I'm home for every meal.

I have a dishwasher and microwave but no tumble dryer or hair dryer. We actually bought our house because it has an integrated dishwasher, it’s the best thing we own 😂

50 litres of distilled neutral alcohol in the guest bathroom waiting to be made into gin.

(It's the coolest room in the house and has lowest footfall so it's good for storage)

Oh I once lived in a one bed room flat in South London that had a 4 door Aga in it. And a panic button in the bedroom.

It was owned by one half of a reasonably famous group. He lived upstairs.

And I have a cat that jingles. Last Christmas she ate (?) a bell from a Christmas decoration. It's got stuck somewhere.

I causes her no discomfort and goes quiet for months but then she shakes her head and...jingle.

At the moment it's like living with the dinosaur in Jurassic Park that swallowed the satellite phone. Makes her easy to track down.

[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]
I think it would be a fitting tribute to change your username to Slothdogmum 😂
He is adorable, thank you for sharing his antics

Iamasun love the green wall behind your stag.... Can you tell me what colour that is please? 🙏

@Shannith

And I have a cat that jingles. Last Christmas she ate (?) a bell from a Christmas decoration. It's got stuck somewhere.

I causes her no discomfort and goes quiet for months but then she shakes her head and...jingle.

At the moment it's like living with the dinosaur in Jurassic Park that swallowed the satellite phone. Makes her easy to track down.

I have 4 .5 metre flag pole in the attic and a place where you attach it to which goes through the wall on to the roof - also a lead safe in the cellars.

I live in a flat in a Victorian house. My airing cupboard has a 7ft tall door with a bolt on the inside. It also has an unconnected electric switch outside presumably for an immersion heater. Behind my front door is a nailed up door to the cellar. My neighbour would like to go down there, I don't. I keep a large chest of drawers in front of it. When I lived on the top floor, there was a small connecting door in my bedroom to the next door flat to be used as a fire escape and they had one to the next door house. I kept a chest in front of that one too. A later tenant used the inter-wall space to store ill-gotten goods.

There was also a turret in the living room which I had much admired when passing by before ever moving here.

@Kimber2310

We call the thing you use to turn the tv channel over ‘the bleep’. It’s never made a sound, not sure why but that’s what we called it growing up and now my children call it that too.

We call ours the doofs!

The story of Mr. Mean, and the inside of his house. "No carpets! No curtains! No pictures! No fires!"

OMG that's me.

The curtains thing is because all the radiators are below windows so I don't want to heat the window in winter so I have blinds.

I have never liked carpet and wore as a child I would not have it if I could avoid it.

I actually do have 2 pictures, but that's it.

When my mum was alive she called the TV remote the 'flat controller'.

@RealisticSketch it's this one, I just love the colour!

I generally have various past best before food in my lounge awaiting collection

Have seedlings growing in my bed room.

Various glasses of water round for the cats as they prefer to drink out of them

Awaiting collection by whom?

@cateycloggs I used to live on a flat with the fire escape into next door as well, you could walk through the whole terrace if you wanted too

@itsbiganditsorange

I have five guitars in my bedroom.

I have eight

We have fairy lights up all year, in every room (even the bathroom).

We have our own names for things that nobody else would understand, plus our own swearwords (to be used in addition to the classics).

@Maireas

Awaiting collection by whom?

I'm an olio volunteer so we collect food thats either on or past its best before and list it for people to request and collect. Stops a large amount of food waste

Good idea.

I have one of those old dial timers in the kitchen that I set every night so that the kettle boils in the morning and I don't need to wait for it.

I didn't think it was odd at all, but everyone who comes into my kitchen always asks why its there.

I could buy a new one but this one works fine and I get up when I hear the kettle click off the boil. So its also like a double alarm clock.

I freeze bread, and have done for years so that isn't odd. And milk. I keep my flour in the freezer too, so the weevils don't get in it.

All of our clothes, linen, towels and associated dresser drawers + hanging racks are housed down in our laundry room. Everyone goes downstairs to pick out their clothes for the next day.

The kids bedroom closets have been turned into shelving for toy/book storage. We use the master closet for various coats, exercise equipment storage and as a general catch-all. The linen closet is a board game closet.

Obviously we've have some storage space issues but overall this arrangement has really helped.

*By downstairs I mean our basement

[quote AccidentallyRunToWindsor]@cateycloggs I used to live on a flat with the fire escape into next door as well, you could walk through the whole terrace if you wanted too[/quote]
Our flats are in large Victorian semi-detached so I don't know if the connection continues into next door. It's actually not a very pracical idea is it as you still have to get some 30 feet down to the ground. Glad I don't live on top floor nymore , though I do miss the turrett part of the living room. the rooms were very odd shapes.

@FixItUpChappie

*By downstairs I mean our basement

Meant to mention I wish I had a dishwasher because I hate washing up but it's not justified for one is it? There are 2 ginger boy cats living with me and I do wash their plates more than mine, 2 x 2 per day. Do people put pet dishes in dishwashers with their own? Oh and I don't have a cooker now as the hobs broke and I realised it was too expensive to run the oven for 1. I have an halogen oven, an induction hob , a toaster, a kettle and a microwave which is my most used thing. When my newish poshish sagey green digital one broke last year I was straight down to Argos to get their cheap own brand white analogue one. Works great.