To ask what the strangest thing is that you've seen in a family home/life...

[purpleworms]

...that to them was completely normal?

I have just seen someone asked this on an AMA on their Instagram. Their reply was walking around fully naked in front of parents/siblings/any family members.

While this is obviously okay for some, if it happened in a home I was visiting I'd be but that's just because it's not the norm in my family.

I'm racking my brains but I don't think I've ever noticed anything! But people have such different ways/customs within their home lives and routines. We all regard our own as normal without ever really knowing if what's normal to us is strange to others!

I have been crying with laughter once this thread took a unexpected turn at the burnt mouse sanpro 😂😂😂 and will it wipe itself on the curtain. I need to re read the thread from those pages as its all been a teary blur!

Although i cant lie im in team get a bathroom bin lol x

No point claiming used tampons don't smell, old stale blood always smells!

mrsfrumble, a shower unit in the corner of a bedroom is not a big deal, surely? I’ve seen it done many times.
If done well it can look great

My Mum has several wastepaper bins in her small living room. When I bought my first house, I had one in mine but, discovered that I really don't like them so, I have a kitchen bin and a bathroom bin only in my house. In years gone by, used san pro would go into a nappy sack tucked into the bathroom bin and added to over the days...never any smell as it was in a bag, in the bin. I now don't need such 'young persons' items but, a bathroom bin is a must for loose hair, cotton buds, baby wipes and makeup tissues imho. I definitely wouldn't have put the san pro in a kitchen bin.

An acquaintance who happens to be a millionaire has two pet parrots that fly freely round her house.

When I enquired about whether they made a shitty mess, she said
“ I have no idea, the cleaners deal with that sort of thing “

Well this thread has made me smile, laugh, cry and cry with laughter in turns and has also kept me up far too late!
To those posters who clearly had such horrendous childhoods, I salute your resilience and stand in amazement and awe at just how sane and normal you all seem. To those of you who have told more bizarre stories, thank you so much, I needed a bit of cheering up tonight.

Don't have anything that will really stand up to some of these but here are my memories.

1. Being sent to stay with aunt and uncle whilst mum in hospital when I was aged about 4/5 being shocked to see uncle in lavatory, door wide open, trousers round ankles, reading the newspaper whilst taking his morning dump. My own father was such a prude that on long country walks he would saunter ahead with his hands behind his back looking as nonchalant as possible whilst my mother would periodically hiss, "for goodness sake just go behind a tree, nobody's looking, nobody's interested!"
2. Visiting ex-h family home for the first time as a guest for Sunday lunch, witnessed then future, now ex mil spill something on the kitchen floor and wipe it up with a cloth before using very same cloth to wipe down beef joint before putting in the oven! Boak, not envy!
3. Little male neighbour I had as a child who's mother didn't allow him to use the lavatory during the day (not allowed upstairs in shoes or something) coming around to play and insisting on going outside to pee down the soak away under one of the down pipes rather than use our downstairs loo. Apparently this is what his mum made him do at home! I am now one of the odd bods myself (OCD) and am now very anxious because I do have a cat and the litter tray is in the kitchen as are the feeding bowls and water bowl. Litter tray is cleaned twice a day and has a lid and wet food bowl and water bowl cleaned daily and kibble bowl 2/3 times a week. Biggish kitchen so not too close to food prep areas and litter tray under a counter. Now beginning to question whether or not this is unacceptable but really nowhere else for these things to go as everywhere else is carpeted. He spends most of his time during the day outside as it's impossible to train a cat not to jump on the worktops; not that they don't realise it's forbidden territory, they're as intelligent as dogs, just devoid of the desire to please! In the mornings and after work, if the weather has been too bad to leave him out, I have a thorough clean down with anti bac in case he's been up there while no-one was around to police him. He's not stupid enough to do it while we're around because, as I said, he knows it's forbidden territory! Also worried that house smells of cat and no-one is telling me. I do have a bathroom bin though!

I have a thorough clean down with anti bac in case he's been up there while no-one was around to police him. He's not stupid enough to do it while we're around because, as I said, he knows it's forbidden territory!

In my first flat, I had two cats who knew very definitely that the kitchen worktops were out of bounds. One night I got up off the sofa to go through to make a cup of tea and heard ker-thump, ker-thump in the kitchen. When I got there, there were two cats sitting in the middle of the floor looking nonchalantly around. If they could have whistled, they would have! 😂

Haha, cats are great at looking nonchalant, especially after they've missed when trying to jump up on something! "Oh, no actually, I meant to do that."

I had a dear little cockerel who was good at that too. Sebastian was about 6 inches tall, and would follow me around, and when I turned to look at him, he'd suddenly pretend he was really interested in something on the ground! I really miss him, he was such a sweetie. (He was a silver Sebright for anyone that knows chickens.)

I once viewed an apartment were there was a huge clump of black hair saved on the bathroom shelf,,a frying pan with a full fry up in the fridge and a pop-on turban hanging on the bedpost

Sam pro should be put in an outside bin as soon as possible
Dustbins ( whether kitchen or bathroom) should be emptied daily

Must say that I am horrified by some of the neglect and child abuse in seemingly ‘normal’ homes.
Makes be grateful for my childhood

My DS was a naked pooer when he was little, he said it was more relaxing!! He even stripped off in public toilets. Now aged 11 he keeps his clothes on 😀

@areyoubeingserviced the only thing that is put in my bathroom bin is empty toilet rolls i don't know what you out in yours 😂

Great thread! Nowt so weird as folk.

First time I visited the pil I was bemused by the fact that every family member took their sponge bag into the bathroom - when they lived there . So they went back and forth to the bathroom with toothbrush, deodorant, etc etc .

Furthermore fil slept on a camp bed in the sitting room. He was not allowed even a spare bedroom. Actually fil was the equivalent of Parker to Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds. He was the gardener, handyman and chauffeur. I simply don't understand how dh and his siblings are in existence...

This thread reminds me of this lady

The full episode in online if you wanna look. It's worse than an horror film!

the only thing that is put in my bathroom bin is empty toilet rolls
Curious. Why don’t you put them in the recycling?

@findurfavouritesorhaveabrowse my god that is absolutely horrific! That woman has serious serious issues! Wow

My Ex used to completely undress to have a Poo. He also used to keep a diary and would put a "D" in it when he had a turd! The wierdo would also get completely undressed and don a pair of rubber gloves to clean the shower!!!

@Ifeelsuchafool if your cat is most an outside cat do you need a litter tray?

I'm wondering how the naked poo doers cope if they're caught out of the home. Or do they do what I've heard a couple of MNetters claim and never poo anywhere except their own toilet? I once had someone on MN hold forth with much disgust on people who poo outside of the home - apparently she managed her working day, her eating and drinking, her social life etc to make sure that she only ever took a dump in her own house.

I don't know how she coped on holiday or if she just never went but she was definitely outraged at the notion that she would use a toilet that had been pooed in by anyone except her or (I presume) her immediate family.

The wierdo would also get completely undressed and don a pair of rubber gloves to clean the shower!!!

I clean the bathroom in my underwear so I don’t get bleach on my clothes.

What the fucking fuck?! Poo lady needs serious mental health treatment, not a sodding camera crew!

Smeeeeeee Yes, he's very fastidious and will only poo in the litter tray once and will then meow most persistently and indignantly until the litter is changed if he needs it again. Should've said it gets changed at least twice a day, sometimes it's three times! I have no evidence of him pooing in the garden and I hope that he doesn't poo in anyone else's. There's always at least one poo per day, if not two, in the tray so... TMI? [Blush]

Are the people who poo naked from cultures/countries that tend to clean themselves with water rather than toilet paper?

I've always wondered how they manage to clean themselves with water without soaking all their clothes, but I suppose that it's something that you learn to do if that's how you do it.

I'm slightly worried about this as I'm going on a diving holiday in the Red Sea and I've heard that there's no toilet paper allowed on the boat that we will be staying on for a week.

Poop lady! Just watched it ...

She needs mental health care, didn't she say her mum did it? Being the U.S. though maybe she can't afford it.