(Unimportant) Rules you live by

[linmanuel]

Today I realised that I always try and reverse into a parking space when ever I can - makes things easier for later (plus you usually have better control in reverse imho)

Also taught 11yoDS how to wrap a present for his mate and said how I believe a gift without a bow is a little bit underdressed.

Any others I may have missed?

DH reverses into every parking space and it drives me mad. The amount of times I have to squeeze between two parked cars lugging shopping bags because the boot is the wrong way out.

And don’t get me started about needing to get in the boot at the local nature reserve when he’s reversed it in tight up against a hedge or as last week on the biggest muddiest puddle he could find. I left him to sort both toddlers out with their wellies that were in the boot and laughed when he moaned about getting his feet wet. We’ll park with the boot not in a fucking puddle then dick head.

Never drink blue drinks.

Always check the oven is off before I leave the house. Even if I haven’t used the oven that day..

Mess is stress. I'm naturally quite a messy person so this one is useful for me if I'm feeling a bit chaotic- getting things straight helps me think straight.

Never ever work over flexi time in work, always be in the minus figures. Included in that is always take all my annual leave- god forbid I would die and work would owe me time! Also always close doors behind you, a door is not a door if it is ajar.

Always judge a book by its cover, if it looks shite it WILL be shite.

@Marmite27

DH reverses into every parking space and it drives me mad. The amount of times I have to squeeze between two parked cars lugging shopping bags because the boot is the wrong way out.

And don’t get me started about needing to get in the boot at the local nature reserve when he’s reversed it in tight up against a hedge or as last week on the biggest muddiest puddle he could find. I left him to sort both toddlers out with their wellies that were in the boot and laughed when he moaned about getting his feet wet. We’ll park with the boot not in a fucking puddle then dick head.

That is interesting

@TheCanyon

Always judge a book by its cover, if it looks shite it WILL be shite.

Always judge wine in the same way.

I hang clothes to dry and stack dishes to dry in a specific order (for clothes it’s larger clothes on top racks for heated covered airer, for dishes it’s largest at the back of the rack towards smallest, cutlery types together in the draining ‘cup’). In my head it means everything is easier to put away and dries more quickly.

DH does it in whatever chaotic way he sees fit at the time and the reality is, it doesn’t make a difference but I still do my very organised washing and drying!

Biscuits can only be eaten in even numbers. So you need 2, 4 or 6.

Tell the truth. Although not if it will drop so one else in the shit. Except if you don’t like the other person.
Buy the best quality of food you can afford that suits your delicate babies tummy. Beware the poonami
Don’t assume your Dd is telling the truth.
Never intervene in friendship issues

2nd should be best dog food

No TV in the mornings

The house MUST be spotless before we go on holiday, and sheets changed, so we come back to a clean house. The funny thing is I’m quite bad at regular cleaning so it’s often cleaner then than at any other time of the year

I never reverse into a parking space because I can’t get to the boot.

@triflinpud

I hang clothes to dry and stack dishes to dry in a specific order (for clothes it’s larger clothes on top racks for heated covered airer, for dishes it’s largest at the back of the rack towards smallest, cutlery types together in the draining ‘cup’). In my head it means everything is easier to put away and dries more quickly.

DH does it in whatever chaotic way he sees fit at the time and the reality is, it doesn’t make a difference but I still do my very organised washing and drying!

Are we (and our DHs) the same people?! I am really messy about nearly everything except laundry and washing up!

The house must be spotless before Christmas decorations go up, God knows why

@piglet81 apparently so, I also have very little spatial awareness normally, except for laundry, dishes and stacking the fridge!

Never drink in a flat roofed pub

Beds must be changed on a Sunday.

Getting dressed before ever going online each day.

@Hellocatshome

Never drink blue drinks.

And never eat yellow snow.

All light switches on a multi switch socket must face the same way.

And, when eating a sandwich, eat the bottom of the bread before the top.

After reading somewhere that if a toilet lid is not closed, the contents will be airborne and land on toothbrushes; the lid must always go down.