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What's the weirdest house rule you've ever experienced as a house guest?

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Creativemode · 21/09/2016 14:49

Just that really.

Mine is someone that wouldn't let me flush the toilet incase it woke their children.

Also another wouldn't let me go upstairs to the toilet incase the stairs creaked and woke their children (there was no downstairs toilet).

I had a school friend that wasn't allowed fish and chips in the house because of the smell.

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GingerbreadLatteToGo · 22/09/2016 21:51

mommybunny

wrong thread Grin

No it's not. Evidently you haven't read the entire thread.

GingerbreadLatteToGo · 22/09/2016 21:52

topcat 💐 It's funny the things that get to you x

nebulae · 22/09/2016 21:58

My mum had a house rule which was two plain biscuits to one fancy biscuit. But you had to have the two plain ones before having a fancy one - and if you wanted another fancy one, you had to have another two plain ones first.

I was laughing with my OH about this just the other night! I have an aunty who enforced a similar rule when we we're staying with her as children. I say similar because your mum's rule was exceedingly generous in comparison. We were allowed ONE plain and ONE fancy biscuit. None of this jumping back in for another round! I wouldn't have minded so much but she enforced this while tucking into several Club biscuits at a time herself. And her idea of a "fancy" was a bourbon or similar. A fucking bourbon!

TattyCat · 22/09/2016 22:00

GingerbreadLatteToGo

Thank you! I doubted myself for a moment Grin!

Izzy24 · 22/09/2016 22:01

Friends leave bath water in bath and anyone using loo must fish out dirty bath water in bucket provided and use to flush loo.

Very eco sensible but still yuck.

TattyCat · 22/09/2016 22:02

A fucking bourbon!

I don't understand the love for Bourbon's from some people. They're disgusting and taste like cardboard. Waitrose Sicilian Lemon and White Chocolate, on the other hand...

TattyCat · 22/09/2016 22:02

*Bourbons

topcat2014 · 22/09/2016 22:03

When I am older retired I shall have a house big enough to have a front room just for best. I have decided.

sits and looks around at shit tip of a lounge diner

standingonlego · 22/09/2016 22:18

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TattyCat · 22/09/2016 22:24

We m

I know it! A town in Shropshire. A bit cold and wet.... Grin

Ditsy4 · 22/09/2016 22:28

We had a rule at our house for visitors similar to the first answer.

Don't leave the back door open.

It was because if we were letting my horse in the garden to eat the grass and you left the back door open he would go down the hall and into the dining room and eat the apples out of the fruit bowl. My mum used to go mental at me!

ShouldHaveBeenJess · 22/09/2016 22:37

ditsy. What an amazing image!

ShouldHaveBeenJess · 22/09/2016 22:38

tatty. I reckon just as she started typing, she stepped on Lego - is probably clutching foot and roaring in pain right now.

Dontfencemein · 22/09/2016 22:47

I feel awful reading all those comments from people who were told not to flush the loo at night.

I have asked a couple of house guests not to flush. DS was a terrible sleeper as a baby and would wake up really really easily. I think I got so desperate that I was past caring about what guests thought. I am more relaxed now although there is a creaking floorboard outside his room which I still avoid.

Gwenhwyfar · 22/09/2016 22:51

"Very eco sensible but still yuck."

Why is it yuck?

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Creativemode · 22/09/2016 22:56

Dontfencemein to be fair what I should have said is that the children in the no flush household were 8, 10 and secondary school age.

Absolutely no babies in that house.

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KarmaNoMore · 22/09/2016 22:57

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Clawdy · 22/09/2016 23:04

We stayed with friends at a cottage years ago. Plumbing was dodgy, so we were told : " We don't flush for wees. And for a proper flush, you need to fill the bucket at the kitchen sink, and chuck it down the loo." So every time you saw someone filling a bucket at the sink, you knew exactly what they had been doing.....

Original poster
Creativemode · 22/09/2016 23:08

I've loved reading all of these. Although some of them are disturbing.

I don't think I have any rules in my house for guests.

The only thing I've realised I don't have is a bin in the bathroom for used sanitary pads.

What do people usually do? I don't remember ever staying over at anyone's on my period. Weird but the burning sanitary towels made me think of it.

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Bloodybridget · 22/09/2016 23:08

I have plenty of things I'd like visitors to do or not do, but very few I actually mention! Some of the stuff on this thread is just mind-boggling!

Ham69 · 22/09/2016 23:10

Stayed at a then boyfriend's parents and they made me sleep in a sleeping bag over a fully made bed to save washing sheets!

AnotherPrickInTheWall · 22/09/2016 23:12

DD tells me she has to wear " bathroom slippers" when she uses the loo at her friends house. Apparently it's a Muslim thing.
I have several Muslim friends ,none of whom have "loo shoes".

TattyCat · 22/09/2016 23:13

Ah, just remembered, my DM has a 'poo in the downstairs loo' rule. But that's because if you do it upstairs, it won't flush the first time... or the second time...

I think the builder's shoved some other crap down there some years ago and it's never shifted, but she's right because I've tested it Wink

tofutti · 22/09/2016 23:14

So every time you saw someone filling a bucket at the sink, you knew exactly what they had been doing.....

But surely you would take the bucket of water with you before the deed? Unless it needed multiple chuckings of water!

hotdiggedy · 22/09/2016 23:14

Flip flops to keep the floor clean since they probably splash water all over the place?

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