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 loathe it when I have washed all the towels, and they are all folded nicely with set square precision in the airing cupboard, and then some bastard has a bath and uses one of the towels.

I have shrieked before 'don't mess up the towels' at very confuddled DD/DP.

I am only one step away from being a loon who has towels for best (which I will never allow anyone to use).

GETORF

'..and then some bastard has a bath and uses one of the towels'

brilliant - would you like the number of my therapist - then we could both step away from our respective pile of clean towels and kitchen bin and go for a coffee - just one step further away every week.

We could help each other !

My family are used to my rants, they just completely ignore me now.

I have a dictat that nothing is to be left on the kitchen surfaces - so the kettle should be put in the cupboard after use. DD and DP just leave it there, and i always put it in the cupboard, chuntering away. How can I have a perfect minimalist life with those 2 around?

Dh is obsessed about stacking the dishwasher in a certain way. I can never quite figure it out , so now leave him to it.

I hate towels on the ground, and if I find any, I have to wash them, even if only used once.

Oh, and I can kill dh if he cleans up any spills with toilet paper instead of kitchen towel. Why why why would you do that?! Oh, and when he tries to give kitchen towels instead of napkins at lunch.

We have lots but one ( unspoken rule) that's not been mentioned is:

The toilet roll has to be on the holder the right way around...........with the paper coming over the top, towards the front.

My Ds came home from schoo the other day exclaiming he had to take the toilet roll off in the schol toilet, why? because it was the wrong way around - what a good boy :)

Shaz, that goes without saying. Even our DD knows about the divorce that was the result of wrong toilet paper direction. Unfortunately we have a dodgy loo roll holder that allows the roll to slip off onto the floor. Putting it back in the dark sometimes results in wrong way hangage. If DD goes into that toilet first, she thinks theres about to be a family schism.
She is particularly sensitive due to her and me leaving DH for a year.

Oh dear, and I thought I had it bad! Lesson learned though I take it?x

Divorce was the parents of a friend at school. DD is a bit raingirl in some ways. She remembers things that I've said years later. It can come back to bit you on the arse.

haha. My mum has a odd bin thing.

lovey nice 50l bin. All shiney in the corner of the kitchen.

noone is allowed to use it in case they mess it up.
So instead she washes recycling up and stacks it on the top in some kind of tower.

other rubbish gets but in a carrier bag which is hung on the door handle in a very attractive and classy fashion.

oh and i dont like people sitting on the cushions on the sofa.
they are for backs. not arses. People just come in and sit on them and squash them and then leave and my poor cushions are all squished.
if i do ask them to not sit on the cushions they look at me like im weird.
i am not weird
cushions on sofas are for backs!!!

manchestermummy - what on earth is 40 degrees with 2 lines under it please?

I assumed it was some sort of fancy pants washing instructions. All our stuff goes in on a 40 degree wash without two lines under it.

darkskies - I think it means delicates?

You lot are all NUTS. Seriously. If I see a cushion I presume it was put there for the express intention of making me comfy in whatever way I see fit, even if that means nesting in them.

You put your kettle in the cupboard, Getorf?

yes, but who sits on top of cushions on a sofa..
noone.
its weird.
they should move them.

haha

i do have a best cushion. and then there are middly ones and the least liked ones. i dont mind so much if someone squashes a not so liked one. but if they sit on the best one i am quite annoyed!

i should stop talking now shouldnt i.

tookool - they might have a haemorrhoid or any number of reasons for wanting a softer landing!

I think if a guest in your house needs a cushion to feel comfortable then you should smile and suck it up.

My mum used to put her toaster in the cupboard , weirdo .

Also if she had cleaned the front room you then had to stay out of it until the evening in case you messed it up .

It has made me slovenly .

I would secretly like no-one to touch anything in the house on Wednesdays after the cleaner has been. ESPECIALLY no-one to eat anything or prepare any food in the kitchen, and no-one to go into the living room. Obviously this does not happen. But my dream is to have just me creeping around a perfectly clean and tidy house all afternoon and evening. I realise this is pathetic.

DP we have two downstairs loo's. One in bathroom and one near the back door. The back door is DP's loo he is not allowed to poo in the bathroom one as he blocks it and makes the hallway stink .

My Mum used to fill up the fruitbowl and then complain if we had an apple as she wanted it to look nice for a while.

We were only allowed pure OJ for breakfast (didn't stop her guzzling it down all the time though).

My dparents also put the toaster in the cupboard. It used to drive me nuts. I now rejoice in my toaster on the worktop but am aware that I only allow the toaster and the kettle on there

I can get you theatre slippers { I work in a hospital ) WOLFHOUND [grins]

Think I might need a box full with you lot - anyone else ? Surgical gloves anyone ??

[grins] testing.

- as you were - dont know where that s came from. Going for a lie down now.

One rule of mine is windows have to be open, in the day time, whatever the weather, when I/we go out the windows are left locked but on the latch so that they are open slightly. Closed at night in the winter but mine and DH's bedroom windows open at night in the summer.
Reading that back I fear I am a bit odd as DH and my very lovely neighbour tells me I am

I didn't think I had any silly house rules but I'm definitely one of those who has a problem with the toilet roll being put on the holder wrong.

Like someone already said (sorry can't remember) it has to be going over the top and down the front.

Never thought that was a silly rule though

My Dss thinks I have silly rules though because I ask him to hang up his coat instead of throwing it over the sofa, put his shoes in the cupboard instead of leaving them on the floor, hang towels up to dry instead of throwing them on the bathroom floor.

I was duely informed once, whilst he was picking up said towels that "this is silly" I don't have to do this at home. Mum does it for me"

Oh what a 9yr old will do to get out of picking up after himself.