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Funny names for random things in your house

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GreatName · 21/03/2026 15:23

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?!

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GreatName · 22/03/2026 17:49

These are hilarious! We need the laughing emoji back. I didn't think that the remote control would be the stand out item on this thread as we've always just called it the remote (how boring!)

Spin-a-poo-poo came about because the children used to love climbing into the empty laundry basket and ask their dad to carry them around in it and spin 🤣😂

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Meadowflower2023 · 22/03/2026 20:47

remembered another.. whirlygig is the spinny clothes line dryer thing at my mums.

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