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?

Are these shared slippers worn by others 🤮🤮

😂 No they are discarded afterwards. DH gets them for free in hotels.

Even if you have influenza?

I wouldn't want to come in in any case - I'm terrified of spiders 😱

yeah or norovirus 🤮

No big lights on is my rule. I can’t bear them.

Yes, when I'm particularly poorly or infectious I make sure I lick them before they leave. 🙄

My ex husband lives back in his very remote mountain village in SE Asia. The (adult) kids and I visit regularly or separately.
if I am not going to be there. There are 2 hard and fast rules.

1. Do not get involved in ANY of daddy’s crazy schemes.:
2. Do not drink anything offered to you from a petrol can. (Moonshine)

Sadly they don’t always heed this warning. It rarely ends well ….

For the past 18 months every time I've left the house I've taken something out of it to give to a Charity shop or throw away.

LOVE decluttering! So freeing!

That's not really a "weird" rule. Lots of homes are "shoe free".

That's interesting - personally I'd love a loft for extra storage. I think the key is to put shelves up and a floor to make the storage space organised so that it is useful but not get crazily cluttered. Suitcases and Christmas decorations are things that immediately come to mind for a good use of loft storage space.

Outdoor shoes not allowed indoors and no over filling the kettle

I missed the no music rule! 😱 Absolutely not. I bought a radio/CD player last year so I can actually use my CDs (some I've had for 22 years, some I bought this year.) I absolutely love music.

@FieldofMusic Agree with you. Joyless is the word. I love singing to DS, whenever I hear Enjoy The Silence (whether Depeche Mode or Lacuna Coil's cover of it) I have to sing that to him especially.

Yes to the kettle!

Drives me crazy- especially as DH is so conscious about wasting electricity when it comes to phone chargers.

I love music too .....but also at times feel like silence is golden. I'm v v introverted so find too much noise over stimulating at times. That said, a tune can change my mood entirely and/or take me back in time #nostalgia

The new rule is in!! No nipples at the table! Although DS did go and put parcel tape over the offending area - but he had to get it off so ha ha ha

Not that this has ever needed to be a rule per se, but when my sons were young I did find myself having to say "please take your penis off the dining table!" 😂

Yes ! So glad to see someone else who won't allow bags to be put anywhere food might go. Why would anyone do that ?

😮😂

Ermmm…there’s something called soap/antibacterial spray?

Yes but why not just keep hnadbags off the food surface ?

handbags maybe, but we unload the shopping bags from the worktop/table as it’s easy and the right height. Then spray it down afterwards.

Whatever works for you. I'm very conscious of bugs at the moment but even before I got poorly I never put things that have been on the ground up on a food surface. My mum was a nurse and I think that's why it got drilled into me

I would say that’s slightly paranoid, eradicating all bugs is not great for your immune system generally. We are a super healthy household snd my kids played in dirt outside most days. I wash the counters so it’s not a problem. I definitely would have shoes in the house but other than that, stuff gets cleaned. I don’t want to live in a sanitised box, that’s really not healthy.

Very happy for someone I don't know to think me paranoid whilst I think her behaviour is dirty.

I won't reply again. Neither of us is going to change anything.