Definitely couldn't be out after dark, not even in the garden or taking rubbish out. The door was locked the moment it started looking a bit dimpsy out there. Or if she walked past the front door at any point after about 3.45pm.
One thing a day - more like one thing in a week, if that. And could never be started until at least 9.30am, preferably 10am and must be back again by 1.30pm. Hospital appointments were only accepted during the 10.30-11.15 slot, because any earlier could mean not getting the second bus in time to sprint across the entire site to the clinic (and it was inconceivable to leave the house before 9.30am to catch an earlier first bus), later might mean leaving the hospital at the same time as people were coming home from work, which was apparently, a disaster that must be avoided at all costs.
Washing could only be done on a Saturday, no more than two loads, one white, one dark. Vacuuming (when it actually happened) was also only ever on a Saturday morning at around 9am, followed by washload #1 at 10am.
The fridge couldn't be opened fully. You had to slide your arm in to get the milk - to actually look at what was in cupboards, the fridge or freezer was an awful act for some reason.
Curtains weren't for pulling other than one set in the front room. They also couldn't have any fullness, purely the width of the window and not a single 1/32 of an inch more. This was enforced by hanging them on net curtain wire rather than a pole or track because that would involve drilling into the wall more than once on each side - presumably the wall would fall down or the windows explode if somebody made six to eight tiny drill holes in it.
Duvets were permitted to be washed in the bath once a year when there was a heatwave. If they were dirty before the heatwave or one never materialised, that was it until the following summer, you'd missed your chance (they were single size, lightweight wadding, so would have gone into the washing machine, except that washing anything other than clothes in the machine was utterly impossible to do without causing the machine to explode.
And thunderstorms. The television had to be switched off because the lightning would know there was a television aerial socket (no aerial connected) at the back of the set with power running through it and leap through the window to that, rather than any of the houses, trees or Churches with lightning conductors attached to them. If the phone rang (which it did about once every three months or so), if thunder had been heard in the distance, it was ignored because, again, the lightning would know you were on the phone and bypass all the other better earths to come through the stairs window and travel upward to get you. But having the radio on, plugged in and with a four foot high aerial sticking up into the air was absolutely fine. maybe God approved of Radio 4 and not the lunchtime showing of Neighbours.