Silly house rules

[tabbyH]

My husband has just emptied our kitchen bin. Apparently this means that I'm not allowed to put anything in it! Not sure what the time frame is until the bin is allowed to be used again... Does anyone else have any peculiar rules?

thereistheball - oh dear, you've just made me realise that, yes, the slicing of butter is one of my 'rules'. It also pertains to the Bertolli in the plastic pot, and even the cooking marg! No way should it be scooped and certainly not with a serrated knife (those are eating knives for cutting food not spreading), put preferably with either a bone-handled butter knife, or one of the 'little' desert knives put out specifically for spreading toast.

I think I'm a loon

So what do you use then twopeople?

I have a thing about pegs.

Respect the pegs.

They live in the peg bag and not on the washing line, and heaven help you if you drop one on the floor (they are for attaching to clean clothes!!!!!) I even rinse them occasionally.

And noone but me can hang washing out correctly either. Must be neat and tidy and uncrumpled so they dry properly.

Socks go in a big lingerie bag that hangs off the back of the wash basket. Then they don't get eaten by the machine, or stuck in a sleeve and not dry properly.

Good idea, clam

My sisters has bins that are just for show.

If you actually want to dispose of rubbish you have to put in a carrier bag which acts as a bin. Why she doesn't just do away with bins is beyond me.

Just caught up - ROFL at people brushing their teeth in the shower!!!

Do a lot of people do that?

my rules

• no scraping the butter (my parents do that, with serrated knives and jam residue [boak]
• toilet roll goes the right way round, except for the family bath where the roll is up high so that toddler cannot get to it
• the extractor fan must be running for half an hour before leaving the bathroom door open after a shower
• the bedrooms must be aired just before going to bed.
• no dirty dishes in the sink, they need to go into the dishwasher or on the side

LeQueen no you didn't :(

Can someone put me out of my misery (so to speak) and tell me if it's common to brush your teeth in the shower!

i love brushing my teeth in the shower.

Our first house had shag pile in the bedroom and came fully equipped with a carpet rake...never striped it though. Too many towels to fold!

LeQueen, I think your Ma has a lot to answer for! I smell a big rat - before you lined up your cuddlies and lay very still, were you one for getting out of bed? Was it just a ruse from your parents to get you to stay still?

I brush mine in the shower whilst the conditioner's soaking into my hair. Time saver! :)

LeQueen we have the same mum! The rake,

I also lined up my dolls in bed, left very little space to sleep in. I open the blinds/curtains at night now, ready for the morning. The house has to be welcoming and clean for the morning, who wants to go into a dark and dim kitchen/sitting room?

I take a large bottle of water from the freezer, pour it, still almost iced, into the coffee machine by the bed, ready for the morning. Can't stand coffee made with stale water and am waiting for an invention that opens bottles to pour in while I sleep.

Oh my Lord, LeQueen I used to do that with all the dolls and cuddlies. I literally had to lie completely rigid in bed so as not to disturb any of them - and woe betide anyone who interfered with their special positions. I also had the duvet right up under my chin, but that was more to prevent me being murdered in the night (clearly a mad axe murderer would be likely to (a) wander into a child's bedroom, and (b) take one look and say "oh no, she's got the duvet up to her chin, no way this axe will cut through that, best find another victim .....").

Clearly my peg fetish has its roots in childhood ....

paws, I used to pull the covers right up because of the mad axe murderer. I also insisted on complete darkness so he wouldn't be able to see if I was awake. I also lay on my front with my hand over my heart so he couldn't penetrate it. Actually I also used to hold the chain of the loo (I'm very old) out as far as possible before I flushed it, pull and belt down the stairs as far as possible so that the toilet goblins couldn't get me. My dcs don't have/have never had any of these. They think I'm a complete loon.

My DH has to make sure all drawers and wardrobe doors are closed at bedtime. I tease him about those pesky vampires. He never laughs it off. Maybe it's a genuine concern