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)!

I can’t poo while wearing socks
I don’t like socks much anyway but I really can’t wear them on the loo unless it’s a quick wee

No packets on the table; everything must be served in a bowl or dish (caught DD doing this to share sweets with friends when she was about 5 "I'll just put them in a nice little bowl")
Never ever drink Diet Coke out of anything but the can. Never buy it in bottles.

I can’t drink out of cups with coloured insides as I always feel like they’re dirty.

No chocolate, sweets or cake before midday.

I can’t drink alcohol at home. (May have something to do with living alone and it feeling a bit Bridget Jones).

I can’t drink out of polystyrene cups.

I can’t eat anything that’s coloured blue or green.

I make sandwiches then take them to pieces to eat them.

Mine is food related.. I have to eat vegetables in order. Carrots until gone, then broccoli and then peas. I can't bear it if there are 2 different vegetables in my mouth at the same time. Also peel apples and eat in slices as I don't like the texture/ squeaking of the skin on my teeth 😬

@Hoppinggreen

I can’t poo while wearing socks I don’t like socks much anyway but I really can’t wear them on the loo unless it’s a quick wee

I nominate Hoppinggreen the winner!

No plate stacking at table.

Never wear shoes in the house. People know i hate this so take them off but when they leave they get their shoes and bring them to the sofa to put them on and so walk through the house wearing them to leave. Or put them on at the door and walk back into living room to get their keys/bag. I then have to mop everywhere they walked.

Bags never go on the bed, work top, sofa etc. When guests come round and do this it drives me insane. Have to antibac everything the bag has touched.

Get changed into my indoor clothes when i get in and changed again to go back out. But when people come round they are sitting on the sofa with their outdoor clothes on still....makes me want to cry!

Basically having guests round is very traumatic.

@Arbadacarba

When I'm working from home, I don't switch the radio on until I've checked my emails.

This originated when it was possible to go into the office, and I might find an email that meant I needed to go in, and I thought it would be depressing if I was enjoying the music on the radio.

Currently due to Covid it isn't possible to go into the office unless you give a week's notice and get authorisation from someone very high up but my superstition has persisted.

I think I am the opposite- I have to check the news before heading off to work. This is because, a few years ago (just before we all had 24/7 news on our phones - it just the Daily Fail!) - I was just about to leave for work when my line manager rang saying 'have you seen the news?' Then told me to switch on the TV. My work place had been burnt down in a riot (prison)!

@ItsStillRaining

Never wear shoes in the house. People know i hate this so take them off but when they leave they get their shoes and bring them to the sofa to put them on and so walk through the house wearing them to leave. Or put them on at the door and walk back into living room to get their keys/bag. I then have to mop everywhere they walked.

Bags never go on the bed, work top, sofa etc. When guests come round and do this it drives me insane. Have to antibac everything the bag has touched.

Get changed into my indoor clothes when i get in and changed again to go back out. But when people come round they are sitting on the sofa with their outdoor clothes on still....makes me want to cry!

Basically having guests round is very traumatic.

Have you ever considered having counselling? That is way beyond normal "shoes off in the house" type cleanliness.

Should have tagged @ItsStillRaining there.

@PragmaticWench

Jogging trousers may only be worn outside of the house for sport or travelling to/from a sporting activity. The only exception is on an aeroplane, longhaul, but not in the airport at either end.

I have a horror of getting out the car at destination and discovering our teens are in track suits. They are not restaurant wear.

I cannot bear my husband's bare feet touching the soles of my feet in bed. The tops and sides of my feet are fine, but if I feel so much as a whisper of a touch on the soles of my feet, I jump off the mattress in... what.... shock, I suppose.

I just cannot STAND it.

I won’t eat with a spoon - unless it is a sooon eating food - pasta salad with a spoon, no way, casserole with a spoon, no! And when I eat spoon food, ie ice cream or yoghurt I must use a teaspoon, not a dessert spoon.

Nothing can touch the bed under the duvet.. (so if bed isn’t made.. everything goes on the floor until it is)
No shoes inside upstairs.
Kitchen has to be cleaned every night with shiney glass clean afterwards 🤷🏻‍♀️
Cat bowls have their own cleaning sponges
No meat on Friday
Tables are for glasses not for dirty a*ses 🙈 (nothing but plates, glasses and cutlery on tables!)
Cleaning clothes washed on their own, as are towels.
I’m sure there are more, but this makes me sound weird enough!

Could never drink tea out of a mug with a coloured interior - must be white
Couldn’t buy the newspaper/magazine on top/at the front

@Phyllidakettle

Tv always has to be on BBC1 before it’s switched off last thing at night.

I’m enjoying the thread and comments.

I almost thought that I didn’t have any weird personal rules until I read yours Phyllida.
I’m the same, have to make sure that the TV is on BBC1 before switching off at nighttime, and if it’s a Saturday night then I’ll make sure that I switch off with the BBC News channel because I don’t want to switch on the football Match of the day on a Sunday morning. 🤣🙄🤣

Yeah im really not right in the head.

I hardly ever watch TV, i can go for weeks without turning it on, if I'm in someone else's house and its on without being watched it drives me mad. My husband had it on all the time , but since he died I don't bother.

@Autumn101

I can’t have a shower without brushing my teeth first - whatever time of day! I just can’t feel clean without doing it

I always brush my teeth before my bath no matter what time of day!

Can't eat ice-cream with anything but a tea-spoon. Doesn't taste the same.

@lollipopsandrainbows

No number 2 in the downstairs toilet.

No clothing with butterflies on.

Volume to be on an even number.

Washing machine must do two additional spins before I empty.

Mine is one extra spin otherwise in my head the washing is still dripping wet! (i t's not though!)

@ItsStillRaining this drives me crazy too! I have a bench in the porch so people can sit to take shoes on and off if they prefer. My father in law obediently uses it but then walks all around the house to find the grandkids to say goodbye. I have to herd them into the hall, but the shoe putting on takes so long, they disburse. I am almost fever pitch by time the goodbyes are through.

You absolutely do not start cooking another meal until you have emptied the dishwasher first!

Also forks and spoons up- knives down (in the dishwasher).

@ItsStillRaining

Never wear shoes in the house. People know i hate this so take them off but when they leave they get their shoes and bring them to the sofa to put them on and so walk through the house wearing them to leave. Or put them on at the door and walk back into living room to get their keys/bag. I then have to mop everywhere they walked.

Bags never go on the bed, work top, sofa etc. When guests come round and do this it drives me insane. Have to antibac everything the bag has touched.

Get changed into my indoor clothes when i get in and changed again to go back out. But when people come round they are sitting on the sofa with their outdoor clothes on still....makes me want to cry!

Basically having guests round is very traumatic.

@ItsStillRaining you’re my ideal housemate! I have covers on the sofa so when people come over I can wash them as soon as they leave so I feel comfortable sitting on my sofa again