What Rules Did You Have Growing Up That Were Ridiculous? (r/AskReddit)

serious what was a rule in your household growing up that was actually totally ridiculous one of the foster homes I lived in had a rule where nobody was allowed in the house unless the adults were home so sometimes I'd have to sit on the porch from the time school got out around 2:30 p.m. until like 8 p.m. when the foster parents got home from work sometimes even later even during winter my stepmother had a similar rule which only applied to me I wasn't allowed to be in the house if my father wasn't home my brother and stepbrothers didn't have to follow any such rule it really sucked during extreme weather we were not allowed to talk during dinner my dad just wanted to focus on eating if you farted out loud you were grounded to the bathroom until you could poop I thought thus was pretty normal until a friend of mine was over and questioned it my dad's big rule was don't bleed on the rug it was obviously just a way to discard the bangs and bumps off kids horsing around he would hear a smash from the other room then silence then call out just don't bleed on the rug one time my brother cut himself he was pretty young maybe 7 or 8 and my dad came in with wide eyes and said you bled on the rug bleeding brother didn't get the dad joke and thought his life was completely over started crying hysterically desk elation backfired after years of buildup no drinks at the dinner table my mom would make gigantic portions that says four times the size of a regular meal and force us to eat every bite we often feel sick afterwards which was great because that's when we had to do our chores later found out that she had an eating disorder and gave us quadruple portions so she didn't feel bad for eating a regular sized meal not our house it's in my grandma's house no whistling if you whistled you were calling for the devil to come got to add a whistle to my shopping list along with nightshade bat bones and pencil led we were never allowed to be alone we had to be in our parents eyeline at all times and we weren't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission even when I was 18 everyone had to go to bed when mom felt sleepy and she often felt sleepy at 7 p.m. also no TV cartoons my dad had the same rule that everyone had to go to bed before he did he and I both have bad problems sleeping so I can see his point that he wouldn't want me running around making noise no phone calls ever we could not call anyone and no one could call us not even another kids parent to say they would be late for carpool or whatever phone calls from your boss at work no work wants you to come early no you cannot talk to them don't call again we weren't allowed to hang posters on the wall even with a nice poster tax stuff that doesn't leave any marks my parents were obsessed with preserving the resale value of the house I had the girl room and my brother had the boy room my room was painted pink a color I never liked as a kid even when I was very young and my brothers was baseball-themed brother could have framed baseball posters if my mom approved them I was only allowed Monet's water lilies also framed because it was the only art my mom liked that went with the pink color theme they've lived in that house for almost 30 years and have no intention of ever moving how strict and often I would get grounded grounded at my house meant something different than what others people's grounded meant when I got grounded I could do absolutely nothing wake up got sit at the kitchen table read a pre-chosen book all day that I had no interest in go to bed I was once grounded for six months because of a day also the insane amount of yard work I was made to do every weekend was yard work from morning until night then back to forced reading until bed my brother once got grounded and had to write out the whole Bible he left the house before he ever finished also I once got grounded because my Stedman thought I was worshipping Satan because she found my diary strategy guide I then had to throw away all of my CDs in the book and gang whenever my dad came home from work my sister and I had to go in our rooms for the rest of the day except for when we needed to use the bathroom or eat dinner because my dad would need to relax and couldn't do that with his children around even just sitting on the couch reading a book or playing quietly with toys bothered him too much and would make him yell at us to leave ah childhood we had to be quiet when we drove through Chicago because impro was filming there I'm guessing it was because I was being too noisy or my parents were trying to concentrate on the directions but I can't believe I bought into that for yours so you know how when you don't like the taste of something as a child you start gagging well my mom's rule was a few gagged and threw up you had to eat the throw-up I'll never forget her shoving thrown up boiled Brussels sprouts covered in stomach vile down my throat because I couldn't keep them down at dinner oh my god this is sick your mom is sick it wasn't the rule itself that was ridiculous it was the fact that it was the only rule don't set the house on fire that was it I could do whatever the Frick I wanted as long as the house wasn't a pile of ashes when my parents got home flood the sucker for me it was that Disney films were almost completely banned I was allowed to watch Mickey Mouse my mom felt that they were too saccharine and that I should not be lied to about the future we actually all sat down as a family when I was about five to watch Mulan then we'd the poem while my mom explained the differences joke's on her though I watched Pocahontas at a sleepover although this does mean that I have not seen the Lang King Cinderella etc there were crazier ones but the rule of no eating after 4 p.m. as it might ruin our dinner was the most annoying unfortunately we didn't get home from school until after 4:00 so whatever paltry sum of food from the school cafeteria was going to have to be find until 7:00 p.m. because that's when dad like to have dinner I'd get headaches a lot when I was hungry so I usually had a headache most of the day what's really funny is that each other's three kids had mentioned to our mother independently as adults that it was a crazy rule not getting to eat after school and she denied having such a strict enforcement to each other's adults usually forget the little things that scar ass like how you forced your children to starve don't talk to dad and mom I always thought that TV shows were making it up that there were parents who talk to their kids without yelling and cussing they used to tell me there were no such families it was all just TV we weren't allowed to play video games during the school year so the nurses n64 were nicely boxed and stored nine months each year however we could watch TV all day long without a problem I can't play Mario but I can watch telenovelas awesome when my older brother was growing up until he turned about 14 he was never allowed to own wear black t-shirts that was probably when my mother was at her most super Christian stage and thought that the color black was satanic of course she doesn't care anymore she's honestly a wonderful mother and we all laugh about it now as adults I was the only one in the house not allowed to wear black I was really depressed at 13 and my parents said I could only weigh happy colors looking back I understand why they did it but I think my bro and sis should have had the same rule as well but this was also the mother who chained the fridge shut when my sister was overweight instead of you know talking to her and helping I had a 10:00 p.m. bedtime from age 16 until I moved out I turned 18 and July and moved out in August the only exception was if I had work I got grounded for a week because I was up reading five years later my then 13 year old sister came home falling down drunk around midnight my mom was mad but my dad just laughed no punishment being the eldest sucked sometimes everyone has to put an ornament on the tree or else the house will blow up I love my father when I started to go through puberty my mom wouldn't let me out of the car to go to school until I caked a lot of makeup on me I was also very tomboy nothing wrong with that and I also didn't like wearing makeup at the age of 12 totally nothing wrong with that many reasons why I was totally against it but if I did and she would start having screaming fits at me in the parking lot and that would be really embarrassing so I usually didn't put up a fight one day I went to the bathroom immediately after she dropped me off and washed all the makeup and went to sit in the gym where everyone waited for school to start that's when I realized the degree of how messed up she made me look every day a friend of mine immediately pointed out how great I look without and how I usually wear too much makeup they never mentioned it before I told them how my mom was making wear insane amounts of makeup and they didn't believe me this is so strange to me because I was never allowed to wear any makeup at all when I lived at home for religious reasons I would sneak mascara to school and put it on then take it off before going home I also wasn't allowed to wear my hair down had to be braided in a ponytail any jewelry or pants father gave my mother a cordless phone for Christmas when using it we had to sit next to the wall socket not walk around because it's cordless advantages were her gift and her benefit only that sounds like dad trolling we weren't allowed to watch Spongebob because apparently spongebob was the devil my parents were ridiculously strict Catholics I still don't see how they could think negatively about the charm striped sweater song and Gary the snail we had to ask before we started playing with a new toy and we didn't usually get to play with more than one type of toy at a time for example we couldn't play with legis and Barbies at the same time I wasn't allowed to bring my boyfriend upstairs when I was in high school but I was allowed to bring him to our fully finished basement with a relatively soundproof door including a bedroom maybe my parents figured we were going to freak anyways so send us to the part of the house where they couldn't hear it I got grounded one time and my punishment was I had to wear the neck shirts to school I didn't understand why I was about ten years old and my dad said you'll see why which I now understand to mean that his intent was for me to be ostracized by appearing gay joke's on him because sixteen years later v-necks are in and being gay is totally cool there was a kid at my high school that always wore v-necks he was totally straight but he rocked that look I was always a bit jealous of his fashion sense I wasn't allowed to trick-or-treat I wasn't either because of Satan you can't have a friend spend the night because you're a lesbian and you la pay them and then their parents will sue me my grandmother is a see we weren't allowed to say what I'm not joking my mother would lash out if we said it she was pretty weird my mum had a book called turmoil in the toy box written by this utter nutcase Christian guy who saw Satan and practically every toy of the 80s so not allowed to control dolls because there's no such thing as luck and wishing not allowed to watch or read the x-men cartoons comics or watch TMNT because no such thing as mutants they're not of God was allowed to own Barbie dolls but not Cabbage Patch dolls or Care Bears I don't even know why Barbie was a cape of the others weren't Rainbow Brite was bad because the rainbow should be reserved for the Noah's Ark story boy did she have her eyes opened when we accidentally stopped to watch Mardi Gras in Nick back in 1995 not realizing what it was till topless ladies were walking right past us she's fine now she just grew up in a super religious family in a small town so she had some really weird ideas she relaxed a ton as we got older but from ages 1-8 dish for me those were the rules but not really a rule but when I was about 10 we moved to some barn house in the backwoods of Maine my parents had just divorced and my new stepmom was a real B she convinced my dad to put my bedroom into the Attic so that she could have a computer room inside the actual house where it was air conditioned and heated unlike the attic and I'm not talking about some nice attic a book writer might use as their office I'm talking like the Attic from the movie sinister it was big with nothing in it but my bed and alone dresser toy box the Attic had holes in the ceiling windows and cobwebs everywhere which they didn't clean poor insulation so cold as heck in the winter also before this I had been sharing a bunker with my sister so when I moved to the Attic instead of buying me a new bed they got me a camping cot to sleep on at that age I had trouble sleeping without a light on so I was 10 on the only source of light in the Attic a hanging bulb with one of those pull switches she find out and took the light bulb away I wish I could make this up but sadly my imagination isn't that good she was just really evil and had my dad totally wrapped around her finger because some might consider her decent-looking my parents were very strict about chocolate what makes it seem ridiculous now is the amount of non chocolate sweets we would eat that are just as bad for you as chocolate but my parents didn't see it that way one thing in particular that stands out is that if they got Dunkin Donuts coffee in the morning we all got donuts but no chocolate as if a glazed or vanilla cream donut is somehow better for you my mom made me take off my shirt to eat at the table until I was like 14 I am a girl we had to say grace before each meal I found out later on that my parents were both atheists does that make any freaking sense washing your hands and the kitchen sink was a cardinal sin and washing should happen in the bathroom only I still can't figure that one out my dad said this one all the time but no one ever Honnold that rule today even he washes his hands in the kitchen sink now single male child and I was never allowed to have a door to my bedroom closed day or night freak that for so many reasons had to go to bed at 8 p.m. until I was 16 no exceptions after 16 I had to be in bed if I could stay up and watch TV just couldn't leave my room it was so my dad could smoke pot and not be caught I had to take my pills I'll explain my mother took me to doctors starting at about age six and told them I had symptoms I didn't have things like acting out not being able to focus etcetera I'll cut it way short but I will say it escalated quite a bit and by the time I was 18 I took 22 pills each day and had more than a handful of psychiatric hospital visits under my belt moved in with my dad when I was 18 and immediately stopped taking the pills I'm a normal functioning guy with no mental illness seems hard to believe it was so long ago be like kinda regard coming off the pills as the start of my life and I don't remember much before then haven't spoken with my mother since and have no contact with my siblings it's kinda sad but I'm quite literally not the person they grew up with we were only allowed to shower bathe every other day at the most according to my husband and his siblings they were only allotted one shower a week growing up he used to get up in the middle of the night and sneak showers he also grew up to be a major obsessive clean freak the remaining siblings are all dirt balls no noise while eating dinner if our fork or knife scraped the plate or our spoon clanked on the bowl they took it away eating peas or soup was especially rough no eating after 9:00 even if you were starving or sick we would sneak up at night and wait for our parents to fall asleep and try to eat them but if we got caught they took everything that didn't require cooking into their bedroom and we never saw it again can't be on the phone longer than five minutes or they would unplug the cord from the wall also we had to use the phone into the same room with our parents present no alone time on the phone not being allowed to make a mess with the wrapping paper on presents or ripping too much or else we yelled at open it from the corners there is no need to tear it one present at a time one person at a time took over two hours to open gifts at Christmas we had to find someplace to go every single weekend we were not allowed to be at home because it was my parents break time we spent a lot of time at our grandparents and had friends if we stayed at home and couldn't find anywhere to go or were sick home from school even we had to spend the entire day s in our room and were only allowed out for bathroom and meals we couldn't walk around in our night gowns or pajama pants neither me my sister or my brother because it was inappropriate and indecent in the summer we would even get in trouble for sleeping in our rooms when it was like 90 degrees in our underwear like in our own bed only no Hall light on on night lights of any kind even as young children my stepfather was the only one allowed in the recliner and if my mom was sitting on the couch the kids had to sit on the floor and give her the entire thing to herself absolutely no talking in the car period like even on six hours car rides not even to ask a question no noise whatsoever no laughing like ever if my siblings or even my mother were caught laughing by my stepdad he told us to knock it off and stop acting up if we kept it up we got sent to our rooms we were not allowed to eat any of my stepdads junk food or cereal he would flip crap if we even had say one out of an entire box of Twinkies yet he never bought us any and would purposely bait us to get in trouble by leaving a box of them on the table or counter for weeks and counted them every time he came home from work only one box of cereal was allowed open at any given time my stepdad would inspect the cereal boxes daily and if more than two were open he would take the second one into his room and we would never see it again at my grandmother's house if a bottle of alcohol was opened it was to be finished it's apparently a Russian thing you've been visited by the Bush Papa boot nose for 10 years good luck and cuddles if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 19min 5sec (1145 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019