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?

Ohhh it's a slippery slope, needanewname. One minute you're admiring your show towels, the next your DIL is publicly mocking you and your eight hoovers on mumsnet .....

onepiece she's an odd one. She loves the dcs to bits, but is just a very tense and highly strung person and cares a great deal about what people think about her and her home. She'll admit to things like keeping DH outside in the garden in his pram for 10 hours at a time as a baby so she could "get on with the housework" - all a bit sad, really.

@ some of the rules on here!

I suppose my only one is (not very original) DP and poo related.... Poor man is now asking me in which bathroom is he allowed to poo, as depending of the time of day and the plans we have, I'll ask him to go and poo in the bathroom I'm least likely to use in the next couple of hours!

I too have the loo roll the "right" way around, and will get that sorted in all the bathrooms I'm using

I'm a bit at all the pooing which is forbidden upstairs but allowed downstairs. In my house it's the opposite. Our downstairs loo is right next to the front door so it would be horrid if the first thing you noticed when you came into the house is a smell of poo! Also, a lot of downstairs loos are near the kitchen

My own peculiar rule is that when replacing the loo roll, the paper must hang to the front not the back. Which is perfectly normal, surely?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Say it isn;t true pawsnclaws!

Honest I haven't done any of them yet, its just all in my head!

Yes buttonmoon that's perfectly normal (wink)

sorry !

Exactly tryingveryhard. My friend says otherwise the puppies on the Andrex rolls are standing on their heads.

Now that's bonkers

Toilet lid must be left down.

My Dh has a rule that the dryer is never EVER to be used. No matter what the weather. He stacks clothes crumpled as they come out of the washing machine onto the kitchen table and leaves them like that until they are dry. I have to then wet them again in order to iron. It drives mefucking crazy, but if i use the dryer it drives him crazy.

So I no have a complicated system where as soon as he goes out to walk the dogs or to his volunteer work on Thursdays i re-rinse everything in the washing machine and dry and dry. However, when i am caught he goes nuts so i also have to empty the lint filter and the water collector every time.

The secretive drying is the only secret in our marriage though.

I have a dryer too annabel. Mine lives in our garage which is about 30 feet from our house and has no power.

It has never been used...

DH's rule is that we can't use a cloth for kitchen surfaces more than once or twice and definitely not after it's been used for anything else, even simple things like rinsing a glass! I indulge him by buying dettol wipes for kitchen surfaces.

Mine is that there must always be enough milk for tea in the morning. I don't care how desperately you want a cup of hot chocoalte tonight, leave enough for tea.

What makes that worse is that I am something of a freak about fuel bills - we ended the winter in credit for goodness sake, and we pay less than £70 per month DD for gas & elec combined so it's not as if I want it on all the time. Just when it's persisting it down outside and none of the 5 (soon to be 6) have any clean dry clothes!

But obviously, if let loose with a dryer, well, who knows where it will end...?

DH is more concerned about maintaining the tidiness of the garage when he has tidied it, than any other area of the house. He has moved an empty gerbil cage from storage in the garage to the spare bedroom!
I am also a bit mad before the cleaner comes ('Everything off the floor! Tidy up!') and after ('No eating anywhere but the kitchen table! Shoes off on the doormat!) The rest of the time I am quite slovenly.

My aunt doesn't have a single bin in her house. So if you want to throw something away, you have to root out the back door key from the bottom of a drawer, then put on your shoes, go outside, walk across the patio to the bin and deposit the rubbish.

Many times I have had to sneak through the living room past the entire family with used sanitary protection concealed up my sleeve because there is no bin in either the bathroom or the guest bedroom.

Seems many people have bin issues....

buttonmoon78 I agree about the pooing by the front door - my dh insists on using that one for his excessively smelly carnivorous poos, and abhors the use of the ensuite for the purpose. I am the opposite. And of course my poo doesn't even smell...Grrrrr.

Mine does - of roses

You need to put your food down caffodils.
I made such a big thing about DP's horrid smelly poos (constand nagging / fake boaking and all that kinda' stuff) until he gave in. And he's one of those who are so proud of their turds and was known to gather his family in the loo to admire his "bridge" poo!!!

I meant put your foot down!

My ex (i say again, ex) husband treated the dishwasher like it was a God. After I had loaded it, he would riffle through it, pulling things out exclaiming "well this doesnt need to go in here, you could handwash this!". He was extraordinary.

I thought I was the only person indulging in secret tumble drying. I have it all timed down to a fine art, so that it's cooled back down in time for DH's return from work/dog walking. He's happy, safe in the knowledge that the offending item, which "just uses electricity" is surplus to our requirements. Does he really think that in this household of 5 people, including a toddler and a baby, that I'm hanging up every bloody sock, bib, etc to dry naturally!?

nutters.. the lot of you.

Yes - the kettle goes back in the cupboard after each use.

I used to have this rule with the toaster - however I was sick of the thing vomiting crumbs everywhere. So I threw it in a neighbours skip. You now use the grill in the oven for toast.

There is nothing on the worktops. Nowt. Clean minimalist lines. Until my beloved family members leave the kettle out again. And then I holler at them. And then they flick v signs behind my back, presumably.

pawsnclaws, your mil is seriously demented no? leaving her baby uncared for and uncuddled, for hours to do housework? that is psych time for me! very very sad but glad to hear your dh is ok!

i concur on the loo roll right way round and shoes off at the door, but don't really have any other rules. Except that you MUST put the lid down on the washingup liquid bottle after using it. It really irritates drives me to screaming point when dh uses my lovely Ecover to wash his hands, because he can't be bothered to walk three feet to the downstairs loo, and then doesn't put the lid back on!

just not bothered about cushions, towels, hoovering guests out of the door or paper pants tho! (lmao at that one, another one for therapy there!)