What are your weird personal rules?

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I have a personal rule, and I don't know where it came from, but it's: No outside things can touch the inside of the bed.

For example, if I want to put a bag on the bed, I would put it on top of the duvet. Absolutely no way in hell could I put it on the bottom sheet, or if the duvet was rucked up or folded over on the inside of the duvet. It makes me on edge just thinking about it.

Please share your weird personal rules (lighthearted + no judgement here)!

@Megan2018

I have loads but my main ones are:

Clothes must be hung on the line with matching pegs. If there are insufficient pegs of the right type/colour a pattern must be made. It’s why I use the airer rather more than necessary.

I can’t re-use a mug or glass. Every drink has to be fresh glass. I don't know why, it’s completely batshit I know.

Cutlery must match. I can’t eat with a different knife and fork.

Never eat the first slice of bread (it’s always drier and looks weird as it’s smaller). Strangely this only applies to sliced bread, not fresh.

You must spend a fortune on glasses 😂

Tea must be in a thin sided, equal circumference top and bottom, not too wide mug with a white inside.
All other colours are frowned upon, I won't drink from them, but I won't judge your choice.
Never, ever, ever drink tea from a brown inside mug, thats just feral.
I am aware this sounds batshit. I never tell anyone outside our household. I just politely decline tea elsewhere, and always have my water bottle with me so they just think I'm a health freak instead.

Oh god, loads of these.

Specific crockery for certain things

Food not touching on a plate

DH rinsing glass and putting on draining board. Ew.

I have to have sweet drinks with savoury food and a savoury drink with sweet food. Never, ever sweet food, sweet drink. Savoury food, savoury drink. Vile.

Getting into complete change of clean clothes when flying overnight because I won’t sleep in the ones I have worn all day. No mean feat in an aeroplane toilet!

@SlipperyDippery

I have that one too!

Mine is that nothing used to do the washing up must be used to wipe a surface. I always see (or did before lockdown!) people using the asking up sponge to wipe down the kitchen surfaces and I think it grim - but am clearly in the minority!

Same! It's 🤢

TV volume should always be an even number, DP has the same rule. Also, DP sometimes wears joggers around the house for comfort and he'll occasionally leave the house in them, my number 1 rule is; don't push DD's pram when you're wearing joggers, denim or nice pants only. He knows, if we nip out and he has them on, I push the pram.

Cups and mugs for tea can be any colour on the outside but have to be white inside or the tea looks wrong and therefore tastes bad

Coffee it doesn't matter

Good grief! This thread!

@ItscoldinAlaska

I have to have sweet drinks with savoury food and a savoury drink with sweet food. Never, ever sweet food, sweet drink. Savoury food, savoury drink. Vile.

WTF is a savoury drink? Bovril?

Can't abide bags or anything that has been outside or even on the floor in my own house placed anywhere on my bed. I have to wear my dressing gown to sit on the sofa because if I sit on it in just my nightie, the nightie can't be worn in bed. Clean nightie needed.

If clean clothes accidentally drop on the floor they cannot be worn. They must be washed or rinsed.

Dislike going to restaurants and finding cultery on the table. Have to surreptitiously wipe the cutlery before using. Even though I have washed and dried my cutlery before putting in the cutlery drawer at home, I have to give a fork spoon, etc, a quick rinse with water before using them.

I have to immediately wash my hands whenever I touch my own feet. I never walk about barefoot, but feet are unhygienic.

If I like a certain food/dish I can quite happily eat it for many days running. I always eat my least favourite food on the plate first and leave the best item until last.

Even before the pandemic, I washed my hands as if I was preparing to do a surgical operation. Why did people often just wet their fingertips and consider that washing?

Also, clothes pegs must be of a different colour to the clothes on the washing lineline. The same colour pegs on each clothes item and same colour pegs cannot be used on next item on the line. Lots of satisfaction when this rule is achieved.

@ZooKeeper19

People with the bed thing - do you not have pets? Kids? My bed is a den, used by any and all kids and animals to crawl into, paws, legs and all. No I do not change the bedding daily, weekly or similar. I'd do nothing but linen laundry.

Also we only have mugs and use them for anything from tap water to New Years' champagne (yes).

My rule is no bare feet on wet floor, nowhere and never. It makes me cringe just thinking about this. Not even at home or in a 5* hotel.

How can you only have mugs?

I never pay for tea that I'm going to have to drink out of a plastic cup.

@CustardGoodJamGoodMeatGood

TV volume should always be an even number, DP has the same rule. Also, DP sometimes wears joggers around the house for comfort and he'll occasionally leave the house in them, my number 1 rule is; don't push DD's pram when you're wearing joggers, denim or nice pants only. He knows, if we nip out and he has them on, I push the pram.

What do you think people would say on here if a man forbade his wife from pushing a buggy while wearing leggings? I'm all for weird rules, but for ourselves not if they are about controlling the lives of others for no good reason.

@ElizabethinherGermanGarden

There are particular spoons I won't use, and I always like matching size cutlery. I won't have a small fork with a big knife, for example.

Matching sized cutlery is a given. Only the soul less use none matched knives, forks or spoons.

One rule I live by is colour coded washing up sponges. Red for the cats' plates (which go in the half sink), green for human crockery and yellow for counters etc. This, to me, is just good hygiene sense.

Volume level on even number or ending in 5.

Glasses and mugs have to be rinsed, even my friends do this for me at their house 😂

I'll never drink the last tiny bit of drink in a glass or mug, a little bit must be left in there.

I have OCD, but I prefer to call it CDO because then the letters are alphabetical.
Like they're supposed to be.

Pets in bed 😱🤢🤮

One rule I live by is colour coded washing up sponges. Red for the cats' plates (which go in the half sink), green for human crockery and yellow for counters etc. This, to me, is just good hygiene sense.

Agreed

If buying something that on a hanging rack in a shop or in a box, I never take the first one, I have to have one 2 or 3 rows back. I think it might be contaminated or creased! I have always done this, not OCD and nothing to do domwith the current situation we're in.😊

Also same thing as another poster, washing up sponge can't be used to wipe down other surfaces and vice versa. Teacloths changed more regularly than probably needed.

Only drink from a China cup rinsed with hot water before use. Sink counter top cooker cleaned after use.
No dishes left overnight into the dishes after rinse. Wine in wine glasses water in tumblers. Fridge cleaned each week. Floor hovered every second day as floors washed.
Bathrooms each day. Came from a filthy household and could never go back there

I have several rules in life that impact to varying degrees, but I feel the most pertinent one to mention is that (42 excepted for obvious reasons) a volume must never be on an even number. Odd numbers only and if it's 13 then so much the better.

I never touch or lie on a hotel throw/ scatter cushion. They are removed immediately, even in the poshest of hotels.

I have my different mugs for different drinks e.g big mug for my nightly hot choc, small mug for coffee from pod machine, middle size for instant and tea is in extra big mug. My husband just can't get this right.

I also can't sleep unless the duvet has the buttons on the bottom

Can't clean the bathroom if Im dressed as it feels yuck. So I either do it in my pants and vest before I shower or my scruffy clothes which all go straight in the washing machine.

Glad to see some of mine are same as some of you!! So I'm not so odd!!
I can never take the first item of a shelf be it clothes, food or any product what so ever I have to remove the first few items to reach one I presume hasn't been touched!
Turning the sound up and down on the tv remote has to be on an even number, I have to check and recheck plug sockets in my bedroom and kitchen before I go out as they are the most used.