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!

DarlingNikita

She probably ironed sisters too, who knows, she ironed everything else.😂

We always had a game on holiday of trying to spend as little money as possible. If, as a family, we could spend less than £5 per day we were all allowed an ice cream on the last day. I always thought this was part of what you do on holiday. When I went on my first holiday abroad as a teenager my mates were horrified when I turned up with a whole £30 for the week 😂. The weirdest thing is my family are neither poor nor frugal at any other times. We’d have flown business class to Thailand or somewhere and then the £5 a day game would start on landing .

I can't share bath water. As a PP said, you're already sitting in your own filth why would you want to sit in other people's filth! It's disgusting!

SitOnMyHouse

It is the height of horrible tourism to go somewhere and not help the local economy. Whether it's Skegness or Venice, to turn up clutching sandwiches in a plastic bag and whinge about entry prices is grim behaviour.

Is it irma? I certainly don’t ever remember my parents whinging about entry prices. Surely spending a fiver at a little street stall and staying in a local hostel/ house share isn’t much worse for the local economy than staying at a Sheraton and eating at a foreign owned restaurant?

When I was young we lived next door to a lady who owned two monkeys.
There was Penny the Chimpanzee and Mary who was one of those tiny Marmaset type monkeys. They roamed free and often climbed over the wall and into our garden. My mum has pictures of my younger brother aged about two sitting in his huge old fashioned Silvercross pram with Penny the chimp sitting with him sharing a Pear.

I can't share bath water. As a PP said, you're already sitting in your own filth why would you want to sit in other people's filth! It's disgusting

How bloody filthy are you?!

@dottygreen it's so unhygenic! I'm not filthy, but when you wash your dead skin comes of and dirt/germs that aren't visible to the eye. Why would you want to sit in bath water where someone else has been, cleaning all their bits and so on. Gross.

Agree snobby. No matter how close of a family member or friend, I don't want to sit with bits of them or their grime floating about me. Call me fussy .

I’m with you @Thesnobbymiddleclassone (not envy).

Thank you FatandSassy and user1474894224 for not thinking we are weird

No mains gas where we live either. Not just my house but all the village.

Agree snobby. No matter how close of a family member or friend, I don't want to sit with bits of them or their grime floating about me. Call me fussy

My husband wouldn't have any issue using my bath water after me (but I'm pretty hygienic, I will shower before bed, shower first thing in the morning, go to the gym and then shower again!) but never in a million years would I get in the bath after him with his short and curlies floating around and the potential for dingleberries and God knows what else.

Equally, if he comes along and drinks out of my glass, I'll have to get a clean one although I'd quite happily share with the dog Handling other people's forks putting them into the dish washer handle down makes me a bit "screamish" too

Well, back when the hot water tank allowed for one hot bath at a time, your choice might have been shared water, or no hot bath that night. (And no shower obvs, as many houses didn't have them).

The classic alternative of the time was the flannel wash (sink of hot water, flannel, soap).

"Screamish" has to be a new MN classic now.

@Motoko my nan does that. Reckons it's more hygienic

"Screamish" has to be a new MN classic now.

It's way better than squeamish

Smeeeeee

I have a "tankless" water heater. It's in the attic. Can't remember if it's electric or gas. Don't know how is works, but the hot water is endless!

Re: baths in/near kitchens-I always thought this had to do with the cost and water lines already being there???

Re: baths in/near kitchens-I always thought this had to do with the cost and water lines already being there???

The size of the house aswell.

I have a bath every evening and if any of my kids are here ( youngest is 27) they'll quite often come in for a chat whilst I'm in the bath, then hop in after me. When they were younger and lived at home, I'd sometimes have at least 2 of them in chatting plus the dogs would come in the bathroom as well!

I don't under people who Just have the 'big light' on at night! It's more Cosy and romantic to have little lamps or standing lamps on at night I think! My 2 friends just have this massive Bright light on all evening at their house at night which blinds you ! Maybe it's just me ?

I don't under people who Just have the 'big light' on at night! It's more Cosy and romantic to have little lamps or standing lamps on at night I think! My 2 friends just have this massive Bright light on all evening at their house at night which blinds you ! Maybe it's just me ?

Completely agree. Anyone who can sit under a bright overhead light all evening is a psychopath.

I do think the Japanese are right that having the toilet in the bathroom is unhygienic. It makes little sense shitting in the same room as you clean yourself. Many people didn't like the idea when indoor toilets started to be fitted.
The same is true of washing machines, many other countries find it odd that you bring dirty clothes into the room where you prepare food.