Funny names for random things in your house

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Do you have any funny names for random things in your house that have just stuck?

Today I shouted from upstairs asking DH to put the washing out. I said to him that "the spin-a-poo-poo is upstairs" as if this is the most normal sentence in the world! It's only when I thought about it that I laughed. If anyone outside of this house heard me they'd think I'd lost my marbles. Our children (now 14, 16 and 19) called the laundry basket the spin-a-poo-poo when they were little and it shall now forever be known as that 😂

Are we just a little weird alone?!

Fat controller here too @dizzydizzydizzy

Ours was called Noo-noo after the one on Teletubbies.

Ours is called Peregrine. No idea why, the kids picked it.

Also when we're not talking to Alexa we call her 'she who must not be named'.

Tampons were mice on the shopping list after a particular Young Ones episode

Bagels are pingles in our house

my in laws call in the doofer. When I was little we called it the channel changer 🙈

Remote is dibber. My inhaler is my puffer. And microwave is now Michael wave.

We have a tiny oven mitt for holding hot handles, called “The This”

Remote control = diddle
robot hoover = Doris

Lurpak is Mongoose Butter. To differentiate it from the Butter Butter.

We call Home Bargains, Home Bargano to give it a tongue in cheek upmarket ring!

And we have cold frames for growing salad which are known as the 'slow worms'. My partner couldn't think what they were called just after we had them and in the heat of conversation I think it was just something with the same number of syllables - but it stuck!

Hot chocolate is called power fluff (no idea)

Hoover is called Rob as I was hoping he’d be as fussy over dust as a colleague with the same name

We call the dishwasher the dishie

And I thought we were unique! (Or are you DB?)

Cotton buds named by our youngest as a toddler as bugglins, bogglins and poppalins!

What's a potato ricer...?

waits for life to be on the cusp of changing

From when my kids were wee, but still use these now:
Nail clippers are the snip snips.
Poppadoms are poppy crackers.

My now 11 year old used to call water “schlava” when he was 1. So naturally we all adopted it. Sadly we don’t call it that anymore. It’s a great word 😂

Remote control is the doofrey here. Similar to doofer like a lot of PP but not sure why we ended up with a variation.

Our remote is called the doobery wotsit!

We have a room we call 'the void', its basically a hallway off a hallway. It feels too big to be a hallway, but not big enough to be useful.

Nail clippers = pingers
Baby powder/talcum = foofoo
Armpits = oxters
Putting your arms above your head = ar shumps

Our landline was called Persephone.

When I was about nine, one of my friends asked me where the box was. She meant the remote control. I had no idea what she as talking about until she explained, but you're not the only one to call it that.

I’ve never heard anyone else called them dibber and puffer before, thought I was just us!!