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Quirky house rules prompted by bitter experience

336 replies

KERALA1 · 26/06/2017 08:54

No under 8s allowed to use cling film (rendered unusable)

Windows always to be closed when you go out for day however high up you are (pigeon lays egg in bedroom drama)

Cheap feather boas not allowed in house (purple feathers everywhere for weeks)

OP posts:
garmsfresh · 26/06/2017 10:20

Do not change my radio stations on all 5 of my radios . No one is to put coffee cups on my decks except me .

MissisBee · 26/06/2017 10:22

Sanscollier I'm wondering what the pastry case and custard were doing upstairs to begin with Smile

smitti · 26/06/2017 10:22

No attempting to carry several duvets and a clothes airer down the stairs at the same time.

Andrewofgg · 26/06/2017 10:22

No talking while MIL is interrupting.

VladmirsPoutine · 26/06/2017 10:24

Tennis is not an indoor sport.

UnbornMortificado · 26/06/2017 10:25

No taking photos of people while they sleep (DD age 3 not DH I should add)

SukiPutTheEarlGreyOn · 26/06/2017 10:25

DC are teens so ours are: always stay in the kitchen when frying bacon (instituted after the wandering-off-to-send-a -'quick'-message-to-friend-and-forgetting-hob's-on incident); no midnight microwave popcorn making during a sleepover. Ever.Again (new microwave needed); all DIY advocado facemasks are to be cleared out of the fridge within 2 days of making (don't ask), cups in rooms are to be brought to the dishwasher before they become part of a bio-hazard experiment rather than after; no, the dog does not want to be instagrammed in any more baby clothes; desist from sending secret snap chat vids of your mum dancing in the kitchen even if your friends do comment that it's 'ironically iconic'

Hellothereitsme · 26/06/2017 10:29

No taking MY iPhone charger - find your own one.

No skateboarding or football in the house.

No snowboarding down the stairs.

user1497888420 · 26/06/2017 10:30

Large upstairs windows must always remain closed as cat likes to think she can trot out onto the roof above the porch and then panic ensues when she starts slipping down

Cats must descend stairs ahead of humans (nearly broke my neck when one ran from behind me under my feet)

Bottom desk drawer must be left empty (as big 7kg scaredy cat gets inside the closed drawer to hide every time the window man visits or there's a siren, no matter how distant)

FlorisApple · 26/06/2017 10:31

No tickling before bedtime. It's the law.

YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 10:48

No felt tip pens or nail varnish in the living room (cream carpets and grey sofas)

Stand on the fourth tile back from the sink when brushing teeth (to reduce mirror splattage)

Me and DH's computers are not to be touched, nor are my shoes

In keeping with House of Commons etiquette, you can't call anyone a liar, and me and DH must be referred to as Mr Speaker or Madam Deputy Speaker when asking for something extravagant

(It's also funny to call each other that at parent's nights and the like to embarrass our eldest Grin)

Princecharlesfirstwife · 26/06/2017 10:49

No sitting on the loo after fake tanning your backside (rule applies only to dd1)

silkpyjamasallday · 26/06/2017 10:50

DD is too little for her to cause much havoc, its DP that needs houserules.

No practicing MMA kicks and punches on my antique rugs (he has ripped two of them doing twist kicks and such, they had survived almost a century in tact until he moved in with me Angry)

No football/ball games in the house

No pissing with the toilet seat down no matter how good you think your aim is I am the one who ends up having to have a shower because I've sat in someone's piss (this was our former lodger who was eventually kicked out because I couldn't take being covered in his urine on a daily basis)

No one is allowed to use my nice face masks or oils. DP wastes them by using half a bottle in one go and doing it all wrong. I hide them when we have guests Blush

Ceic · 26/06/2017 10:56

Unless your name is on the list, you are not to open new packets of cereal.

glitterglitters · 26/06/2017 10:57

No Sweet Home Alabama or My Sherona to be played in this house.

Coca Cola must not be stored in the fridge.

No poohing in the downstairs toilet.

BabsGanoush · 26/06/2017 10:57

No talking while MIL is interrupting. Grin Grin Grin

Goldmandra · 26/06/2017 10:58

Curtains must be opened as soon as you are dressed or if you were the one that closed them in the downstairs rooms. The neighbour came over late afternoon concerned that someone had died Blush

No yellow car (hitting) games when I am around.

No knuckle cracking in my earshot.

If you open the bathroom window in winter, set the specially purchased timer on the landing for 5 mins, otherwise we heat the rest of the world for hours before anyone realises.

Take the logs from the top of the pile, not the front or they fall on the dog.

The headphones and charger on my bedside table must never be borrowed.

The dog isn't allowed to sleep on the third stair down (she is the same colour as the carpet).

The person on dog-poo picking duty has to bag and bin it, not flick it into the flower bed.

Shoes off in the porch after DH walked CV joint grease onto the hall carpet for the second time, just four weeks after the insurance company had replaced it due to the first time Angry

No more than two episodes of Dr Who on the living room TV per night and I think that is far too generous.

IHeartDodo · 26/06/2017 11:04

In our house we have: No cats in the bathroom.
(1. they drink from the toilet, 2. the stupid one will jump out the window, and 3. the other one is black and her hair makes it look like pubes are just sprinkled everywhere!)

At my Parents' house we had: No singing after 9pm, or in the kitchen. No Balloons near mum (she really hates them - in the car they had to go in the boot, under something).

HunterofStars · 26/06/2017 11:05

No sleeping naked on my sofa. Do not mark the songs you don't like on my laptop to 1 star and think I won't notice. In fact do not touch my laptop at all. Do not use my expensive shower gel gift sets, when there is a bottle of shower gel next to the bath.

allegretto · 26/06/2017 11:11

No playing maraccas in the lounge. (Overenthusiastic playing broke our tv screen).

purpleprincess24 · 26/06/2017 11:23

Do not use the oven when pissed!

DS (who's 25 ffs) got in at 2am, put pizza in the oven, went to lie down for 30 seconds .... cue DH going into the kitchen at 8am and the pizza was still in the oven !!!! One if the few occasions since they've been adults when I've gone mental at him!

YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 11:28

No playing maraccas in the lounge. (Overenthusiastic playing broke our tv screen).

Grin
YesMadamDeputySpeaker · 26/06/2017 11:30

When guests are coming over, please do not take my bras out and hook over every doorhandle in the house. Especially if I'm unaware until said guests arrive.

MrsMarigold · 26/06/2017 11:37

No walking and eating.

No eating anywhere except the kitchen.

No hanging on the banisters and looking down or chucking stuff, we have a very tall central staircase and it's my worst nightmare that someone could fall and get impaled on the coat stand.

For boys: flip and flush the loo.

IDismyname · 26/06/2017 11:38

No un-plugging of my phone/ipad charger.

I may, just may, have covered it in pink neon tape and written MUM all over it.

(Seems to have worked so far)

Secondly, if it ain't written in my diary - it ain't going to happen -especially if it involves me in any way...

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