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

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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.

Yep stratters I've never understood it. I'm a private person in RL so I don't shout about every health issue unless it becomes a problem for me and I need help. 9/10 I don't.

I've been very tempted to make up an illness just to see if she has it too but she'll probably Google and it'll back fire!

queen I have a DC (9) and grandparents still won't let me share a bed with a man until I'm married. They wonder why I don't visit.

I wish I'd thought of inventing something, that could have been fun.

Hehe yep it would! People like that deserve to be wound up imo.

Twat bizzarely we had holidayed with his parents several times, and they were aware we shared a hotel room. They had also stayed at our house and observed we shared a bedroom FFS.

Yes, if only the penis beaker was a 'thing' back then Oriana. My now MIL would be most impressed with the suggestion. Anything to reduce the laundry load.

I used to work with someone who, when she still lived at home, was only allowed 2 specific friends to come over, having been vetted by her batshit Mum.

But even the Chosen Two when they arrived at her house had to take a shower and change into clothes which her Mum kept for them! Afterwards they were allowed in her bedroom, but no one was allowed to sit or lie on the bed. If they ate there, they had to use their designated and cups, plates and cutlery which were kept separately to the family's.

Bonkers, yes...but also so sad because her Mum probably had MH issues.

Fuck me Stratters your family are officially certifiable. How come you're so luffly...?

It's the horror of being even remotely anything like them, dullingest MaQueen. The very thought terrifies me.

I'm probably hideously horrible underneath, the niceness is a fragile facade.

Nope...I is particularly apt at detecting dross from gold, and you is pure gold [adoring]

I luffs you too, an inordinate amount for an internetz person 😘😘😘

[Stratters and MaQueen hold hands and walk off into the sunset...]

Stratters is amazingly luffly. I know.

And I luffs you, too SDTG [expansive]

Awwww - you are so lovely. {{{hugs}}}

Me too, you are SUCH a lovely person, SDTG, you know how much I luffs you. 😘😘😘

Awww, are we about to spontaneously combust in a shower of glitter and rainbows...?

It's that or we are going to be covered in copious quantities of vomit from all the other posters 😂

Good point [grabs Stratters in a rufty-tufty headlock, and knuckle rubs her hair, instead]

😙💞👍👏🎉🍻🍰🌈🌟

No vomit here.

It can be a challenge to set/maintain house rules that respect all the residents of a house and not just one or two. But that's just another of the tricky things parents must try to achieve so that their children have a home and don't feel like lodgers.

The pet waste (apart from cat litter) would go in the gardening recycled along with food waste. I just wonder if people are actually recycling all that they can recycle.

This is all strictly forbidden in our garden waste. They don't have a food licence.

littlefrenchonion might you be my sister in law?!

Yes, we can't recycle pet waste at all, I couldn't even put the chicken shavings in. We can't recycle plastic here either, and they won't take glass, so if you don't drive/can't walk to the nearest bottle bank, you're stuffed.

Luffs SDTG too, so luffs anyone she luffs

Back to the topic, although we don't impose it on visitors, we have lots of different bins thanks to our say stem of glass collection.

Glass (usually in a corner of the kitchen until I can be bothered taking them down to the purple wheely bin

Large basket in kitchen for Recyclable stuff: paper, card, aluminium, carboard, tin, plastic but not tetrapak

Compost caddies: vegetable peeling, fruit that's gone off, egg boxes, egg shells, kitchen paper - to be taken up to the compost heap

Food waste caddy: meat scraps, left over rice, mouldy bread - to go into our brown (garden waste) wheely bin

Kitchen bin: every thing else - so, as it's a tall one, usually only needs emptying once a fortnight.

Fat jar for pouring fat into

Various waste paper baskets around the house: for crisp packets, plastic wrapping and miscellaneous everyday rubbish - don't need to be emptied that often

Our green (general) and brown (garden and food) bins are collected once a fortnight - half full

Blue bins (recycling) are collected the alternate fortnight (usually stuffed to the gunnels) - and the purple (glass) bin every 4 weeks depends on how much we've been drinking .

We share a drive way with our downstairs neighbours so we have 8 bins sitting there

At least they're not like our previous neighbours who didn't want the bins at the bottom of the driveway and just about visible from the road because "That's what the Asians do" Instead they wanted all 6 (didn't have the purple bins then) in the entrance to our side of the garden

Guess what got moved the day they moved out!

My mother had a blanket ban on ...Fruit! We were not allowed to eat it in her presence! My father had to eat and store his bananas in th garden!
I can remember her going to a works meeting and coming home traumatised as they served fruit at the break, she was beside herself "why would they serve oranges!"

However, the fruit ban did not include fermented fruit! She was an alcoholic and probably consumed several tonnes of liquid fruit!