What are your weird personal rules?

[Biffbaff]

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)!

Have only read two pages of this thread and now realise that my husband is normal after all!! I have been convinced for about 5 years that his brain wired differently from other people!!

@MrsMime

Cold puddings must only be eaten with a tea spoon and hot puddings only with a dessert spoon.

I didn't realise I did this until reading this post .

I have specific mugs for tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

Always pants on first - if I had to run out of the house in an emergency I'd rather be topless than bottomless.

Never put shoes on unless I'm about to leave the house - DH will put them on when he gets dressed and just sit around the house in them (weirdo!)

I don’t eat anything that was made in a house where there are toddlers.

I put everything in the Right Place. Where are my keys?! Right there, where they go.

@Mammyofasuperbaby

Black ink only never blue Wardrobe is sorted by item type and length of sleeve, going right to left getting longer. Books are sorted in size order for children and topic, size and colour for adults All word documents must be in times new roman unless it is for my pupils then is primary comic sans. I have a few others but I can't think of them right now

How do you ever find a particular book?

Both my late parents had a touch of the OCD kind of rules. and I decided that I was not going to follow suit at all. and so I don't have any,rules in the home as such, as its all kind of futile really.

I remember when I was first married in 1967.someone bought us a nice clock,and I put it on a shelf above the fireplace, but placed it randomly anywhere on the shelf. never in the middle at all...Every time my Mum came to visit, she always moved the clock, right in the middle of the shelf, saying that you must always put a clock in the middle of the mantle shelf. as it's bad luck if it's just shoved in any old place.

Mum had a lot of these kind of house rules,, and one of my Fathers habits for donkeys years,was that he had to keep switching light switches on and off for six times, before going to bed, to make sure they were really off.

More!

• Bleach in loo every night.

• No dirty washing in laundry basket; it is for taking clean clothes to and from the line only.

• Bra first when getting dressed.

• No white knickers; reminds me of school.

• No beige or so called “nude” knickers; it makes me look as if I have a cardboard crotch!

• Loo roll unwinds from the wall side.

I have to have a handbag on my left shoulder and I can only use a phone to my left ear.

The bed must be made ASAP after getting up. Even though I leave my husband in bed when I go to work, I dont like him making the bed as he doesnt make it as I like it. I get home from work and I make it straight away. That's something we both laugh at.

Toilet rolls need to have the paper hanging over and not under (yes I know, sounds daft but there you go)

No skid marks to be left in the toilet - this is more of an issue at work. It drives me mad - clean your bastard skid marks please and dont leave them like tractor marks for the next person.

N oiMy coffee has to be in one mug, my tea in another and I have my favourite mug for my tea in the evening.

@KTB19 while reading the first three lines of your post I was getting this cartoon mental image of a tightly made bed with a husband-shaped bump in it ...

[quote Stakhanovite]@KTB19 while reading the first three lines of your post I was getting this cartoon mental image of a tightly made bed with a husband-shaped bump in it ...[/quote]
Ive just realised how that must have looked and now Ive got the giggles trying to imagine it.

Nothing goes on beds except linen, pillows and people! Shudder when I see people on tv put shoes or bags on beds... especially in hotels, do you know how filthy your suitcase is!

Can't stand to see people hand wash dishes and put them in the drying rack with soap and bubbles all over them. Doesn't your food taste weird next time you pour your milk in your breakfast bowl?

Oh. I've loads

@kissmelittleass

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.

X 1 to the taking shopping items at the back! X 1 to even numbers on telly or radio etc.

No checking of sockets for me. What do you mean you check them?

I have to tone before putting moisturiser on. I start getting all jittery of my toner is running out, so I have about 2 spare just in case (or we have a zombie apocalypse)

@Sinthie

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

Yes this. Blankets and throws aren't washed between guests. Vile

I only like white bed linen. If I go to a hotel and the bedding is, say, grey, I automatically think ‘mucky’ even if it’s perfectly clean.

I prefer the tyres on my car to be all the same make. When I bought my most recent car it had Michelins on the front and Continentals on the back. I got the itch about it and only calmed down when I had them all replaced.

Clean crockery and cutlery gets put at the bottom of the pile when taken out of the dishwasher, so that every plate/bowl/spoon gets a turn.

If the clocks on the oven and microwave don’t match I become unreasonable 😬

Hate it when people don’t rinse their washing up (husband and MIL!) drives me nuts but I’ve never said anything I just quietly rinse the things if I get a chance ! Also drying up glasses upside down directly on a draining board seems wrong somehow !! Ha mine seem very washing up relates!

Only up to page 2 so sorry if someone else has thought about this regarding the water in a mug!

I also don’t like drinking water from a mug, I think it reminds me of all those times I’ve slurped a forgotten hot drink and tasted cold, lifeless tea! Nothing worse!

@Zancah I always change on the flight when long haul either into joggers or pjs. Then I'll change before landing

My weird thing is smelly, eggy plates.

If eggs have been cooked I literally have to use the hottest water to clean the dishes, often cleaning them twice! There’s a distinct smell that I can only describe as wet dog or similar that remains on an eggy plate, turns my stomach if I can still smell it.

A lady at work often does eggs in the microwave but then rinses the plate with tepid, lacklustre water! Boy I can smell that plate a mile off, even the next day.

I can't drink a hot drink from a black mug - black on the inside that is. I don't know why!

I'm also the same about water or cold drinks from a mug.

I won't eat with mismatched cutlery if I can help it.

White socks must only be worn if playing a sport. At any other time they are unacceptable. Even on kids!

I think it's a throwback from my teen years with the guys in white socks abs slip on shoes

@MasterBeth a savoury drink (to me ) is tea, coffee, and milk. So if I have cake, chocolate, doughnut, a cinnamon roll, a pudding etc I can only have them as an accompanying drink. With toast I drink coffee but only with sugar in it (to make it sweet).

I could never have fish and chips, pizza, a curry, cooked breakfast, chicken salad etc with any of the savoury drinks. I have to have squash at home with main meals, and I treat myself to a fizzy drink or fresh juice with my main if I'm eating out or it is Saturday. For pudding I order a brew.

Wine, beer, and water are 'neutral' drinks that I can't have with food. I also HAVE to have a drink with food. I can't eat without one. In fact I start panicking a bit if I'm at a friend's house for dinner or tea and they give me food without drink haha!

Following in from some bed ones, I have to air the bed, fold back the duvet for a good hour or so before making it. Plus open the bedroom window for a couple of hours or all day. I absolutely cringe at the thought of make a bed straight after getting out of it.

There are a couple of mentions of not drinking from an upstairs tap or the hot tap and there is a good reason for not doing so. These taps were usually fed from a water tank in the loft and are not fresh water. Go look in the tank next time you are up in the loft. (Hopefully you will not find any dead wildlife in said tank). Also, newer boilers do provide fresh hot water though and do not need a hot water tank or cylinder.

My food has to go on the plate in the "right" order. If it's served up by someone else in the wrong order, I have been known to rearrange it before I can eat

I always check the entire bed for spiders before I get in. This goes back to my teens when I was sent screaming from my bedroom by an enormous arachnid scuttling out from under my duvet one night. I clearly never got over it.