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)!

Water in glasses or water bottles. Not mugs. Mugs are for hot drinks only.

If I make a sandwich containing meat and salad, I usually butter one slice of bread and put mayonnaise on the other.

The salad has to be on the mayonnaise side. It is Wrong to have butter against lettuce.

Sometimes I get it wrong because I haven't planned ahead properly. Then I take the sandwich apart and reassemble it correctly.

@kiksta that's because you don't want a mouthful of escaped tea leaves. Even if you use bags now!! Or someone taught you that.

@TheCatTiger incorrect. They must all be at an odd, preferably prime number. I'm imagining the stress of watching tv at your house! 😱😆

Right shoe on first
No new shoes on the sides anywhere
Nothing gets put in the sheets!
I have a special knife and fork
I hate my worktops having unnecessary stuff put on them.
Nothing left on the stairs

I don't associate with a single one of these 😳
I love cold drinks out of mugs, especially milk!

Oh! Knives and forks must be a matching pair.
I hate eating at pils because they don't have any matching cutlery! Their knives and forks are from different sets... why?!

If I make a spelling error while typing, I must get rid of everything I've typed up to a point where the previous words make sense as a stand-alone sentence. An example would be "He said he would go to France" - if I mistyped 'France', I would have to delete everything until it read "He said he would go". I can then carry on typing the rest of the sentence.

Really not sure where this came from - quite inconvenient if I'm under a time constraint!

Can't drink water from the bathroom tap.

@Pearlywunzel

I have to make sure all our kitchen light switches are facing the same way. Some lights are controlled by the switch at the back door and also by the switch at the hallway door, and I run back through the dark kitchen to switch them off so they all line up properly.

I eat Giant choc buttons in pairs with the flat sides together (so they are comfortable to suck). If an odd one is left at the end, I have to give it to someone else because I don't like to eat an individual one.

All the baked beans must be removed from the tin, so they can fulfil their destiny.

If I buy a teddy and it comes in a plastic bag, I have to leave the top open so he can breathe.

If I'm crossing a road with DS, we sing the Abney and Teal theme if there's an island in the middle of the road.

Always eat toast or sandwiches from the bottom of the slice first.

Cold puddings have to be eaten with a teaspoon.

All just common sense really!

Does that mean you eat the crusts first 😱😱😱

Never walk past a funeral directors. I'll cross the road and walk on the other side of the pavement and then cross back over.

I forgot to do this once and panic called my grandma and parents to check they were ok

No matter how late you are, you CANNOT leave the breakfast dishes on the breakfast table and leave the house.

You must at the least move them to the worktop above the dishwasher and wipe the table.

Hell would freeze over before I came home at night to old weetabix and curdling milk left over from morning.

Well, some of these are sensible, some are harmless, others sound plain life-limiting
Some might be as a result of things that used to be sensible, eg not drinking from the bathroom, dating back to the days when there might have been lead pipes or because of the open tank in the loft, if you realise why when things change, eg you get a new boiler which does not need a header tank, you can think differently, and start drinking from your bathroom tap, but maybe remembering when you visit someone with a header tank.

Other things - my mam would only drink hot drinks from a cup with a saucer, maybe it seemed more genteel, maybe preference. Pretty harmless. Nowadays many people have really pale coloured carpets, is that behind how common it is to ask people to take off their shoes. Pretty sensible to remove dirty shoes or dirty work clothes before entering your own home. But if visiting someone it would be nice if you were offered some slippers when it is cold, and as I'm getting older actually putting them on or off standing up is not easy, so might be nice if a little stool was provided to make it easier to get back up
Probably my oddity is no peacock feathers in the house, which I kept quiet about, after all, you don't often come across peacock feathers in my neck of , this was from my grandmother whose forebears were from Humbershide, eventually my daughter bought something with bits of feather on, and she cut them off before she brought them in. She'd got it from a family she was friendly with, an English family, in case it is relevant.

I've realised I take my bra off before taking my t shirt off when getting into PJs. I take it off under my t shirt? For no reason!

@Mellonsprite

The washing must be hung out with matching pegs, and pegs the same colour of the item, or a colour that contrast nicely. So odd pegs on 1 item or a pink T-shirt with red pegs would be a complete no-no.

You are my kindred spirit. I wish I was married to you and not my husband who is a complete savage when hanging out washing

@Nearly47

I think other are the weird ones on this but I don't eat standing up. Must sit down. Even for an ice-cream cone.

This is an excellent rule and helps maintain weight. If you haven't got time to sit and eat you don't eat. Unfortunately working from home means I have a lot of time to sit and eat biscuits.