Do you have any weird rules in your household?

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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?

Absolutely. No big lights at all in our house unless we very specifically need them!

My weird one is that the cushions are only allowed on the sofa in the eve. In the day they're stacked on a coffee table..I can't stand them laying on the sofa in the day

We always had FHB ( family hold back) growing up in a family of 7 meant if guests came for tea , the posh cake our mum had made was for the guests to have first dibs

They can put almost anything in the anaerobic digester they use for food waste, but if my partner wants to compost stuff for the garden, you can’t put in meat or any cooked stuff although egg shells can go in. So we have two food waste bins - one for our compost heap and one for the council food collection - sorry, should have made myself clear! So cooked stuff and raw stuff goes in the one that’s collected but we save our raw fruit, veg, non-plastic tea bags and so on for the garden.

No pooing in the downstairs loo.

No. 1 rule: No outside clothes in bed! As in under the covers, you can sit on top of the bed but don't get into the bed in outside clothes. 2. Say sorry properly: look them in the eye and say it from the heart. 3. No helmet, no wheels: for bikes and scooters, not cars obviously.

Whisks of hair?!

No phones at the table.

Wow, I’ve never heard of this “no big light” thing before today. Dimmable bulbs might be the answer?

I currently have nothing stored in my loft, as it needs to be cleaned and boarded, but can’t wait to put seasonal things up there to make more space in wardrobes. If it’s well organised, labelled and in plastic boxes I don’t see the issue.

The loft is the one part of my parent’s house that wasn’t an absolute nightmare to clear out as they only had Christmas and Halloween stuff up there. Don’t get me started on the mess of the garage, the shed and the study.

I approve of these rules!

No blue products, e.g. toilet cleaner, bleach, handsoap, shampoo, toothpaste...

My school used to use some really cheap smelling and strong smelling products so I associate it with that.

Kippers must not be eaten unless I'm out for the day.

5 a day-that’s it

The loft rule is utterly daft! All the crap has to live somewhere and it certainly isn't going on display! Having said that, we converted our loft into two bedrooms, so there is very limited space now. We are down to essential crap - Xmas stuff and childhood rubbish that we just can't part with!

I don't have or store 'crap' in my house 🤷🏻

Ours is you do not ‘tinkle the piano keys unless you can play, chopsticks doesn’t count as playing!

Mine is to not bring home strangers - but we have a few of them stored in the loft.

The rule was because the bathroom was at the back of the house, through the kitchen and the plumbing was obviously weird because flushing the loo made the kitchen tap run slightly. It was very odd.

I've lived in plenty of houses where running taps made the shower go cold and it would drive me mad! Thankfully, noone ever did it maliciously but nonetheless....

Kill or harm a spider in my house and you will never cross my threshold again.

No gnomes or gonks.

I tend to agree. We've had to clear out the lofts of both sets of parents after they passed and it was, literally, decades of junk that should have been taken to the tip decades ago. Things that, realistically, were never going to be used again, but stored "just in case".

I'm half and half on this. Nothing whatsoever in the loft above the main house, but more than happy to store Christmas decs, Halloween etc, in the loft above the garage. I actually installed loft ladders in the garage to utilise that space! My wife won't go in either loft, so it is pretty much a one person decision anyway.

We don't have any "crap". If it's something we genuinely will need again, it gets stored properly in cupboards, the "spare" room, wardrobe or under a bed. But we live a "minimalistic" life anyway and always have done. We don't buy "crap" in the first place - just a single modest Christmas tree, no gaudy outside decorations, no Easter/Halloween crap, and only a single plastic large storage box of our son's "childhood memories" which fits snugly under a bed. Likewise, we have very few clothes, all of which fit easily into our respective wardrobes, so no excess clothing to store either. The only "clutter/crap" we have is DH's gardening/DIY stuff which is stored in cupboards and on shelves in two garden sheds. We have a couple of big suitcases which likewise "live" under beds. We've spent years scanning and digitising all our photos/videos so all now fit on a few hard drives and USB sticks, so we don't even have photo albums to store anymore either. We've never been into cheap naff home decorations nor bric-a-brac, nor cheap naff holiday souvenirs, so none of that hanging around either.

I have got some but its not going in the attic.

my garage rafters are used to store my long pieces of timber and drainpipe