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)!

My wardrobe sliding doors must be completely shut at night otherwise the monster will get out.

-No bags on any part of bed
-No feet on pillows
-No socks in bed
-Washing dishes under running water (not using a washing up bowl)
-Underwear and socks washed seperately from other clothes
-No feet or shoes on tables or worksurfaces

I have that rule too but nothing outside can touch the bed at all or even the bedroom. No bags on the sofa, shoes and coats off at the door. We have 'house clothes' that we change into once we get home (pre covid), so wouldn't dream of sitting on my bed with clothes I wore outside! For me it's good housekeeping and hygiene.

I cringe at people who put a suitcase thats trod down all sorts on the bed!

No blue furniture or decorations in my house, nothing blue except obviously some rare pieces of clothes

I won't leave my seat at a musical or ballet until the orchestra has finished playing the post-curtain call number and I have applauded them. It's just rude to leave while musicians are still playing for you, and they never get the recognition they deserve.

Volume has to be on an even number.

I have to get up when the clock ends in a 0 or a 5, no other number is acceptable.

If I'm filling the car with fuel and the counter ticks over by 1p, I have to carry on until the next £5.

Fruit has different times that it's acceptable, e.g. bananas are a breakfast/snack fruit, but blueberries are only for breakfast, pears are a stand-alone snack fruit and pineapple is a dessert fruit.

No curtains left closed during the day.

I can only finish reading on a page with a ‘good’ number (adds up to 2,5 or 7. 17 is the best number but anything else adding up to 8 won’t do). Ditto for volume.
When I’m driving I imagine I am walking past lampposts (3 strides per lamppost) and the foot going past the lamppost has to be on the same side of the road. I hate it if there are two lampposts consecutively on the same side of the street because it messes the system.
If I’m reading I’ll add up the number of letters in the sentence and play around with them in my head based on how many letters are in each word. Again, I prefer them to add up to 2,5 or 7.
Think I’m looking for order in a chaotic world! 😂

Reading newspaper from the end…is it only me?

@isettled

Sweaty workout clothes cannot be washed with any other items at all.

Yessssss !!! Me too. Also wash them at 60

Going for a wee has to be the very last thing before I go to bed. If I see a stray cup of or the dishwasher or some
Misplaced items that I tend to then I have to go the bathroom again. If dh tries to talk to me after my loo break just before I go to bed I get really annoyed as I have to go to the loo again. It’s nuts

[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]
So was I lol.

@isettled
I used to houseshare with someone who didn't wash them separately and, I suspect, only on cool temps...when their washing was drying in the house you could smell the stale sweat. Even worse when they bought one of those indoor dryers that blasts hot air through them

@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!

This is mine. Separate sponges, cloths etc. for different uses.

Washing kitchen towels separately as well.

@Lndnmummy

Going for a wee has to be the very last thing before I go to bed. If I see a stray cup of or the dishwasher or some Misplaced items that I tend to then I have to go the bathroom again. If dh tries to talk to me after my loo break just before I go to bed I get really annoyed as I have to go to the loo again. It’s nuts

Same here. Now I'm in bed after going to the loo but I had to pick up my phone to edit my alarm and ended up on mumsnet on this particular thread reading your post! I have to go to the loo again now

I cannot have anything other than a person in the passenger seat while I'm driving. Handbag, shopping etc. must either go in the passenger foot well or on the backseat. Honestly I'd prefer no people there either but don't want to be seen as a total weirdo...

I must eat the least nice part of a meal first, working up to the nicest, so with a roast, for example, it'd be veg, then boiled potatoes, then roasties, then meat, then Yorkshire pud.

The baby's head must be pointing to the right when I'm changing or dressing her, despite the fact that this leaves my left (weaker) hand to do the bum-wiping.

A slightly niche one but when playing open-world games I never fast travel. Galloping around everywhere on Breath of the Wild and Skyrim is part of the charm for me.

@Birdcloud

Do you find these little rituals comforting or a bit irritating? I get a kick out of consciously fighting against rules and regs, even personally set ones Something about growing up in the sixties!

That’s the strange thing I’m quite rebellious most of the time. To the point a place I worked had a sign on the back of the toilet door saying “now wash your hands” and the little voice in my head every time I used it said “you can’t tell me what to do”. Obviously I did way my hands but that’s my reaction to rules so my own ones are a bit odd.

@PeacheyPeach

I hate doors being left open. Like a kitchen cupboard door or if an internal door is half way across the door frame so neither shut or open I have to move it, I can't stand it, I don't know how people work in the kitchen with draws and doors open !

I know it really boils my blood when hubby is cooking has kitchen cupboards open. I have to go and slam them shut. Still can't get through to him. Even if I'm at a friends house and she takes a plate out and leave the cupboard open. I'll go close it, which she mocks me for.

Surely I'm not the only one who has the volume at an odd number. I can't have things in even numbers.

@Naz2009

Surely I'm not the only one who has the volume at an odd number. I can't have things in even numbers.

I'm so pleased you said this! I was just reading in horror all the bizarre even number volume posts. They must always always be odd, but preferably prime numbers. I'll tolerate odd if necessary but prime is usual.

@EssentialHummus

I’m quite sure I give my kettle the equivalent of blue balls by always switching it off just before it boils. Can’t let it boil. Have to physically stop myself from doing the same to other people’s kettles.

Have “my” forks and (not that he knows it) giving DH the other ones.

Not letting the kettle boil fully and click off is so wrong!! I could not live with you!

Most other things in this thread I consider normal.

DH once placed a wash bag on the inside of the bed. I didn't react calmly. He often tells me I'm very weird.

@Lavendersquare

No clothes laid out on a unmade bed, this is a pet hate of mine DH doesn't make the bed but puts his work clothes out on it. I can't stand the crumpled duvet being under crisp fresh clothes!

DH has tried this while I'm still in the bed. I have been very tempted to kick his clothes onto the floor

I have to empty the dishwasher before the kettle boils in the morning. Not put away though. Even better when I am able to get coffee in the caffetiere and milk in the cup. Red letter day...

No walking and eating. I can't bear the idea of chomping on a burger or something whilst wandering down the road. I have to sit down to eat.

After I have a bath or shower I dry myself and put deodorant on but then put clean pyjamas on to make sure I am fully dry and my deodorant has dried.

I then do my hair etc whilst wearing my pyjamas and the get changed into clothes.

I can't stand trying to get dressed if slightly damp or if my hair makes my clothes wet. I hate going swimming for this reason.