Silly house rules

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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?

I have never brushed my teeth in the shower. It sounds minging

I have an Ikea duvet cover set (white with blue toile de jouy design) which has a different design on the two sides of the duvet cover. There's only one side I like, so that side has to be uppermost, and I will turn the duvet over if dh gets it wrong.

The pillowcases from this set have little ties to fasten them up with, and these have to go at the edge of the bed. In fact, I think that any housewife-style pillows should have the open end pointed towards the edge of the bed.

My mums rule was no shoes on the table.....

I cant break up bananas in the supermarket as they will miss their friends-have to buy the whole bunch

PML at MumtoEva - do you have to eat the whole bunch in one go as well?
That is really, really weird funny!

No poos in the downstairs toilet. My Mum's rule. My DH was not aware of this the first time he visited their house and did the unspeakable deed.

No newspapers on the sofas (I can just imagine all that dirty newsprint transferring to my clothes afterwards)

Nothing which has been on the ground outside should be put on the beds. DH always ignores this and puts suitcases (just recently trailed through filthy airports) ON TOP OF THE DUVET to unpack

He also puts laundry basket on grass outside and then puts on top of bed/duvet to sort out clothes/ironing.

It gives me the creeps... don't know why...

SDTG - that's not silly, that's normal and I quite agree!

Cornflakemum - that too is perfectly normal and rational!

Those of you who have experience of the "no poos in downstairs loo" rule.

If a visitor needs a poo, are they then expected to announce this and enquire as to which upstairs loo is to be used? If they are rude enough to actually do a poo in the downstairs loo, does the host/ess then confront them? Would they get away with it if it was non-smelly and or no marks left?

Personally I would go ahead and poo if I needed it. I can just imagine the host/ess confronting me and I would deny it. They are hardly likely to take you to court over it are they?!

I cannot get my head round this controlling behaviour of dictating where family/friends carry out normal bodily functions. It's unhealthy to worry so much about a temporary potential smell imo.

DH cleans the kitchen on Mondays. The sink is vile white plastic and he bleaches it. He won't let me put anything in the sink for the rest of the day 'in case you make it dirty - I've only just cleaned it'.

That night, I served supper to me and dd on plates but gave him his scrambled eggs in the saucepan.

Who are these people who have time (and the inclination) to iron everything?
Sign of an empty life, I say :)

I won't let anyone use bathroom sink for hours after I clean it as I want it to stay sparkly.....they usually ignore me

I'm with you wizzchick - I don't iron, thats what tumble dryers are for!!

The thought of brushing my teeth with hot water in the shower is gross. Yuk.

I thought of a few more last night. Someone beat me to the pillowcases opening to the edge of the bed, but I'm also fussy about the buttons at the bottom of the duvet cover. They have to be buttoned up on the inside so the whole effect is smooth.

Some of these 'rules' are plain bonkers but some are fair enough or simply odd little habits. Obvioulsy, all mine are fair enough

Have been training DH for YEARS not to leave wet towels on the bed. I thought we'd cracked it. On a rare mini-break away he relapsed and threw his sopping wet towel on the massive pristine white bed. After taking him to task he replied 'Oh, is it ALL beds? I thought it was just ours'. Fgs.

I can beat the MIL hoovering her driveway. My neighbour hoovers his car engine.

I mean, he hoovers everything else too, DH thinks he is going to go through their floor one day . But yes, he does outside too - the patio, so the car engine (to get out the leaves etc that get in there, presumably) seemed quite logical. But the funniest thing I've ever seen is him standing on a ladder trying to hoover their guttering

I can also beat the MIL hoovering the driveway.

My bro in law (before he married my sister) used to hoover up the guinea pigs droppings from the lawn and their hutch, rather than going to the trouble of actually cleaning them out.

Think my sister got a new hoover when they got married. (Not to be used for hoovering up guinea pig poo).

I think that is common among guinea pig owners Pawan. I do clean them out properly but if they poo on the grass it is very effective at cleaning it up. I do of course buy an old hoover from ebay for the purpose though
In my defence I know of quite a few people who do this and of others who scour the grass every night for dog poo and chicken poo.

Also, I hardly iron anything (literally - once in a blue moon I will iron a shirt for dh) but I do try and iron the sheets and pillowcases for our bed. Sad i know -but it is so nice to climb into a bed with ironed sheets and pillowcases (you should try it if you've not ever done so). But even sadder, is that, if I've ironed them, then they need to stay clean and pristine for at least 24 hours. So you need to sleep nicely - no messing the sheets up or scrumpling up the duvet. And definitely no sex.

Carrotsandcelery at the time my BIL only had the one hoover - hence our horror. I guess poo on the lawn when kids are around isn't great, but think I'd either get rid of the guinea pigs, or just leave them in one place.

This thread is very funny!
My rules: No hands on the hall wall when going up or down- there is a bannister and I am fed up with dirty marks on my lovely walls.
No shaving (only applies to DH) after I have cleaned bathroom and then I spend the next two days wiping the water marks off the shiny tap like a mad woman!
I also do not understand why people have to mess my sofas up either. Just sit on them don't squash the cushions, move them or make my throws messy. Not difficult.
And really any kind of mess after I have cleaned just makes me mad, or should I say madder??
Going to get a cleaner I am fed up with the thankless, joyless, energy sapping monotony of cleaning!!!!