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

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I would
Keeping bread in the freezer

[quote AlCalavicci]@Giggorata , I am jealous of your Spike cut out !
But I have this picture framed over my desk .
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As well as things I mentioned up thread , I also do not have a tumble drier or a dish washer but I dont think that is so unusual[/quote]
I also have no tumble drier, dish washer
And I’ll raise you a microwave.

Had none for 20-30 years...but yes I did have all once upon a time.
And yes ..not a clock to be had either.

The middle of the lounge floor is a giant chessboard with pieces on.

Love it!
Cor some people must live in grand houses. 😁

We have no light switch for our kitchen light. It's on an automatic sensor - was here when we moved in and it's so useful. I can't cope with other people's kitchens where you need to keep a spare hand available to turn on the light now!

@speakout

I have a witch's workshop.

Ooo, tell us more please

We have 6 record players thanks to DH's obsession with them. He even put one in the summer house and completely ruined the nice relaxing space I'd created our there by putting a pair of speakers in it too. He also has two little 1980's vintage portable record players for when he decides he wants to play records in one of the few rooms in our house that doesn't have a bloody record player already in it. And don't get me started on the actual v

That last word was vinyl - pressed post by mistake

@Bagelsandbrie

My kids brush their teeth in the kitchen sink. No idea how this started, think it was when they were little and got ready for school and I could keep an eye on them whilst doing kitchen stuff but they are 9 and nearly 18 now and still do it

My MIL brushed her teeth in the kitchen sink because she had seen something on TV about toilet flushing and poo on toothbrushes. The thing is her toilet/bathroom sink were in separate rooms anyway.

She also kept any tins/jars that had meat or fish in the fridge, even unopened ones. So beans with sausages or tinned tuna was kept in the fridge. Bonkers.

We have two fridges and three freezers. Only three of us live here. There’s a fridge-freezer in the kitchen, another in the utility room (mainly for drinks/overflow food), and a chest freezer in the cellar (which was there when we moved in and we’ve never got rid of) which mainly has spare bread etc. It feels excessive in some ways but came in very handy over the last year.

I have at least one sofa in every room of my modest terraced house, except the bathroom (although I would it one fit!), and usually a greyhound draped on them.

I’m so enjoying this thread.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is a bit bonkers.
I’m so used to standardised houses here where I live, small terrace street houses,30s semis, then modern 70s upwards semis and detached S it’s lovely to ready about other people’s more quirky houses.
When I was a student in Sheffield I shared a semi with two other girls.
It was possibly a 30s semi with a cellar and the door led down from the kitchen.
I don’t ever remember going all the way down the stairs. Creepy.
The garden went on for ever, sectioned off by bits of hedging . Once you got past the cultivated parts there were old toilets, baths etc as the owner was a builder.
We loved opposite a huge park. I don’t think I ever went in it. Was wasted on me. I’d love it now.

We have two fridges and three freezers. Only three of us live here.

I have 2 fridges and I live on my own.

Many years ago I was in hospital accommodation, Rumbelows went bankrupt and I bought a mini fridge.

In places I lived since I took it with me and got used to having a beer drinks fridge in the living room. I keep it colder than the 'food fridge' in the kitchen.

I wish I had room for a chest freezer.

@ZackaryQuack

We call squash by the colour not the flavour, so when we offer it to ds he answes pink/orange/green/purple etc.

It's come from both mine and dh houses growing up.

But what if you have two of the same colour??

Ohh @00100001 we haven't encountered that yet and I haven't thought of a way round it.

But we usually only have 2 types in the house at once, so orange and one other flavour/colour.

Nobody in my house has a sock drawer.
Got fed in of having to put my hand in stinky teenagers socks to turn them the right way round to wash.
So now they all get washed however they are taken off,tumble dried and put in a communal sock basket in the airing cupboard.
( unpaired 😊)
It's a sock free for all.

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@79andnotout

I have at least one sofa in every room of my modest terraced house, except the bathroom (although I would it one fit!), and usually a greyhound draped on them.

Do you have a greyhound for every sofa, or just one who moves around a lot?

I'm imagining lots of MNers living in 17th Century farmhouses in the Cotswolds....

Not the Cotswolds, nor a farmhouse but we do have two mill wheels and millponds and a mill stream running alongside the house. Love the sound of the millrace when it's been raining. Our drinking water comes directly from a spring. Plus we have a resident ghost, apparently.

@TheNationsFavourite
That is really quirky.

I like the sound of your own spring water too

DP takes his clothes off as soon as he gets in (our children have left home) and spends the evening bollock naked unless he's off to the gym.

That is really quirky. I like the sound of your own spring water too

It's also quite damp! (the down side), The house can be glorious at times and a total nightmare at others.

It used to be the corn mill for the local brewery. The house dates from 1640 but we think the small mill down the field may be medieval as the manor house across the field was built around the same time.

Apparently in LA, the stars pay $39 for small bottles of 'raw spring water' as it's supposed to have health benefits - I see a business opportunity! It runs through chalk so it's dreadfully hard and we spend a fortune on descalers.

We have two staircases and it's possible to walk up one along the upstairs of our house through my bedroom, which has two doors, and down the other. Sometimes the person you want to see is upstairs and by the time you've got up there to find them they've gone down the other one looking for you.

We also have a honeysuckle outside in the garden that has found its way in through a downstairs window frame and is growing up two floors inside the house. It's now trying to get out of the Velux in one of the kids' bedrooms.

@MadameTuffington

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

I am so jealous. How wonderful for you, I would love this.

@safariboot

Leaving the bathroom door open while on the toilet, and talking to people in other rooms. Ahem. (The layout is such that you are at least out of sight when on the loo.)

We don't have a bathroom door on our en suite!

We removed it when we renovated the bathroom. Makes the room look more spacious and keeps me on my toes because I'm shy.

Our Potterton boiler is in the hall, just behind the front door and I can’t be doing with the hassle of having it moved. Because we love heating so much and couldn’t bear to be without, DD and I talk and sing to the boiler, and each morning we “kiss the boiler”.

The boiler has never packed up in 12 years.

Also, DCat sleeps on my pillow at night, and I sleep halfway down the bed. At bedtime she gets onto the pillow ready for the night.

@safariboot we do this too! It drives my dp mad though! Always shouting through the walls. Didn’t know it wasn’t the done thing until I moved in with him!