Do you have any weird rules in your household?

[Sofasmurfing]

Mine is: nothing is allowed to be stored in the loft. Nothing. Not even Christmas decorations or suitcases.

I get the feeling that if just one thing is allowed to live in the attic, then all sorts of crap will be ‘stored’ there until we die.

Personally I don’t think it’s odd at all, but my DH thinks it’s utterly bananas.

Anyone else?

I wish I’d had the nothing in the loft rule.

ours still has baby stuff in eg old car seats. My kids are mid 20s now. We can’t clear it out because they are covered in batshit. Literally. and I refuse to enter.

Yep. Your poor dh married a banana

If it's not a space issue, or cultural tradition then that is a bit peculiar. As in you'd think they'd just eat off their lap/tray on the couch (if they have one..haha. Assume my family was the only one without!) if no desire for dining table? I guess as long as everyone is fed and has a place to sit that's all that matters!

I have never been in my loft or attic in all the houses I've lived in. I'm scared of spiders and any other living creatures that may lurk.
My mum however has hers (and her house) full to brim of crap like whisks of our hair from when we were 2.

Me too! Ten years in and my loft hatch has never been opened!

It's not a rule though. I don't have a partner and live with my kids. I'd be happy for someone else to put shit up there.

No shit left on a toilet bowl. You brush it off when it's fresh and easy.

No dirty stuff on the draining board. It either goes in the dishwasher or gets washed by hand there and then.

My mum did this, as a child you’d have to yell from the toilet for someone to get you a toilet roll from the cupboard downstairs.

As an adult, I have storage in each bathroom for multiple toilet rolls.

That's v weird about the loft. You're giving up a lot of storage space. AND, just think, you're paying a mortgage (I assume) on that space but not using it! You should use all the space you're paying for! I understand about clutter concerns, but you just have to keep on top of it, and institute a rule that people can't just open the hatch and throw stuff up there.

Having said that, I'm the sort of person who would sit on the stairs, if I had any, in order to get the most use out of the space I'm paying through the nose for. My parents had a staircase that turned a corner and there was a very wide step on that turn. I'd have sat there when using my laptop sometimes, had it been my house.

Why on earth....? Why can't they have squash or Ribena?

That's exactly where it's from! We love that film.

No shoes in the house
But its not weird

No outside clothes in bed

No outside clothes to wear inside the house (but myself only)

No eating in bed

No juice in the front room

No shoes inside (guests, workman etc will get shoe covers / or they can take shoes off)

Heating is only be turnt on if you already have a long sleeve and socks on and you are still cold
Heating is not going to go on if you are half naked

Curtains to be closed when indoor lights are on / when its dark outside

Me too. I have upstairs books and downstairs books and a kindle which is mobile. But reading in the loo is revolting, and anyway, I have a healthy bowel and bladder so it probably wouldn’t be worth me trying to remember where I had got up to.

And as for reading in the bath? No point. Isn’t that why they invented radios?

I don't drink tea & barely coffee but I have a Harry Potter mug I brought all the way back from Thailand with the book "The Deathly Hallows" when it was released there first, time wise, that would cause mayhem if someone removed it from the cupboard

So yeah I suppose that's a rule 😆

Our version is DBAA (Don't Be An Asshole) my son is 9 so he has a few more years before he's given the code but still I salute yours

Agree with this! I was in Tescos earlier & a couple were separated by an aisle or two & were shouting "blah, where are you?" "WHAT?" until they found each other... & they had their children with them too

Oh, when people start speaking to me WHEN I'M NOT EVEN IN THE SAME ROOM! That is really, really annoying, because people who do that, do it all the time. I live alone these days, so I don't have to worry about it, but I'm feeling triggered by remembering how annoying it is! Effectively, the person is telling you to come here. I would just refuse to answer.

No poos in the en-suite 💩
downstairs loo is the place for that except in an absolute emergency.
I don’t want to smell it from my bed…

Ours is don’t be an asshole and don’t play with assholes. It came about because of some kids at the park being really awful to younger children. It just popped out, we don’t play with assholes let’s go get a Icecream. It’s a bit crass but they were the worst and their parents were ignoring the behaviour.

It's not weird to me. Lofts are subject to extremes of temperature, they are slightly awkward to access, and a fire hazard if full. I can understand people storing suitcases and Christmas decorations there if there's nowhere else to store them, but shoving things up there that you never look at again - pointless procrastination.

Screaming is only for emergencies!

@Sofasmurfing i have exactly the same rule- nothing is allowed to go into the loft, not even Xmas decs. I am unsteady on ladders ditto my other half so it would be madness to store stuff up there

I love music on too, very happy and soothing.
One of the great things is that if it annoys anyone you can put the earphones on, listen to what you want and the volume you want so everyone is happy.

But you are criticising them (!) for making an absolutely valid point!