What's The Weirdest Rule Someone Had At Their House?

what are the strangest house rules you've seen in a person's house my mill has some major issues one there is a room just as you walk in the house that is completely off-limits it's vacuumed constantly and is a picturesque pink frilly sitting room pink carpets etc think dolls Umbridge my parents brought their dog over once who is a fantastic chill dog and she put a paw on the carpet and my mill almost had an aneurysm too when my husband was growing up he and his two brothers had one hour of screen time of day TV video games whatever one hour three one bath a week if you had more than that you got screamed that the brothers would end up showering at a friend's house I had to basically train my husband out of that one for if you had too much fun doing something they wouldn't let you do it anymore it made my husband very good at lying and also very obsessive about things he enjoyed or if you had too much fun in a weekend you weren't allowed to do something fun later in the weekend that is visiting a friend's house on Saturday wend allowed to do anything on Sunday except clean all do yard work at 5:00 not allowed to argue with parents mom has a personality disorder and constantly lies dad always backs her up she will lie about what the boys were doing and say they were breaking a rule when they weren't and they couldn't hug you but this rule is literally pinned to their wall six they have to get the parents cards for birthdays etc but the cards are not allowed to be handmade because it's cheap this rule persists seven have to take pictures every Sunday before going to church in the church outfits there are hundreds of pictures of this in the same spot in the house there are other rules I literally can't remember pick out of the piles of abuse my husband and his brothers have grown up very well-adjusted and sane based on this mess I had a friend growing up who wasn't allowed to plug anything in so basically anyone under 16 wasn't allowed to touch plugs at her house I think we were 10 and I was definitely allowed to plug and unplug things at my own home so this was really baffling to me growing up myself and often with other friends would do sleepovers at a buddy's house he was a bed-wetter and wore diapers to bed but we were cool with it never any teasing or anything his mother would demand that we all wear diapers to bed when sleeping over which was odd but it made our buddy even more uncomfortable about his situation poor dude would apologize constantly about the fact that we had to use them to you and your buddies were some good friends very cool neighbors house for breakfast they put powdered sugar and syrup on the table for waffles I thought oh yeah I only get syrup at my house and douse the waffles with powdered sugar I pick up the syrup we only use one or the other at this house the mom says I ate dry and tasteless powder sugar covered waffles the day you chose poorly my cousin's always had weird rules about which cups were acceptable to use for which beverages at their house I can't tell you how many times I would go to get a cup of water just to have one of them appear out of thin air beside me and scream thats a smoothie cup what are you doing or go to pour myself a cup of milk only to be berated for using a juice cup I've brought it up to my siblings and apparently it always made them really uncomfortable too and it's given us awesome degree of anxiety about using the kitchen at other people's houses whenever I went over to a friend's house I wasn't ever actually allowed inside instead we always hung out in a trailer that was parked right outside of his place and if we needed to use a bathroom the mother forced us to go in a bucket I live with my grandmother and our house has two bathrooms one bathroom is her bathroom exclusively and the other bathroom is everyone else's bathroom if you use her bathroom you're shunned from seeing her or being in her home for life my cousin and her three kids her great-grandchildren have been banned from seeing my grandmother ever again because we completely forgot to tell my cousin's ex-husband about the bathroom rule it's not a loss cousin and kids are better off without her straight-up freaking banished I babysat for a family that locked us in the house I called my dad and he said if I felt trapped I could throw a chair through a window and he'd cover it no questions asked never babysat for them again you had dad sounds like a wonderful man had a babysitter when I was about eight and my sister was five the rule was all day we had to sit on the stairs no couch no kitchen table nothing literally had to stay on the stairs the whole day which was pretty frickin uncomfortable even to my eight-year-old body and me and my sister were pretty well-behaved so we did it without much question when my mom would come pick us up and started talking for what seemed like forever of course we would get to sit on the couch only years later did I realize how weird and crappy that was I was probably 10 or 11 stayed all night with a new friend for the first time her family seemed normal we had fun got up the next morning fear all for in the kitchen at the table eating cereal together it's so wholesome her mom gets up prepares a bowl for me super nice of her I did it then try to be nice in return and pour my leftover milk down the sink mum stops me and hands me a partially full gallon jug no need to waste pour it in the cereal milk jug I vividly ale recall how nauseated I was when I realized the milk I had just consumed was recycled never went back my friend's mom was a huge germaphobe so she kept bottles of hand sanitizer and a stack of napkins by the door and you had to use them before entering the house if you didn't she'd close the door in your face also she required anyone who wanted to pet her dog your cat you had to brush them before and after to help diminish any harmful human toxins do not contaminate any with your toxins human they all shared a towel after showering like one towel for everyone for one or two days when I visited I asked where the towels were so I could shower after the pool they looked at me like I had two heads explained the towel sharing situation because you are clean when you dry off so it's still clean yeah mister friends dad I don't want to dry my face after you've dried your balls on it a client of mine has three full bathrooms in their house for a family of four they all shower in the master bathroom even the two teenagers who have a fully functioning shower next to their bedrooms it's so weird to me and it's not because they don't want to clean them that's my job my friend's mom wouldn't let you have a drink at the dinner table because she didn't want you to fill up on water and not finish your food it didn't matter what it was or if you choked no liquid until after dinner she would also make you eat everything or she would save it for you to finish later or just wouldn't let you leave the table until you were done I'm a medic so we go into people's homes every day we had the cardiac arrest so we were working a man and the wife was having a fit about the mess we were making yes there was some garbage from the pads needles meds but we put all of it into our jump bag she was screaming at us about it I told her that her husband was very sick and we were doing everything we could to help she said she didn't care if he died as long as we didn't make a mess I wonder what could have possibly made the man so stressed that he had a heart attack I was yelled for quickly blurting out the question to a 200-dollar Jeopardy answer apparently they played the game quietly individually tallying scores no problem I was handed a pen and paper and I played their game I think I am doing pretty well after Jeopardy in double jeopardy eyeing everyone else I wanted to impress them with my vast knowledge and high score I wager all of my money in Final Jeopardy because it's a category I am familiar in back from commercial soon as Trebek finished on so they all yell out what they thought was question apparently it's only the first person to yell out correct question in Final Jeopardy that is her wager counts psychos I would have discerned them if they weren't family funny how this is all as the complete reverse of how normal jeopardy is played this dude that managed local bands had a rule that only vegetarians could poop in his toilet find somewhere else to poop if you eat meat sink it is then my friend's mother absolutely refuses to let guests pour their own drinks not just insisting let me pour that for you but will actually get mad if you do it yourself this doesn't apply to food II I get the poisoning and dragging stuff is mostly jokes but tbh sea lettuce watch my grandparents had a very specific order that food should be eaten we are a big English family and tea would be served at 5:00 p.m. or so after lunch at 1:00 p.m. plates and dishes would be placed on the dining room table all at once but could only be consumed in the correct order sandwiches first then sausage rolls assorted savories then sweet foods it's only so strange because after my generation 16 of us my grandmother now couldn't give less of a crap and all the rules are out of the window especially for great-grandchildren and our spouses we're just pretty bitter that we would get such a telling-off for eating a sausage roll before a sandwich since now apparently you can have chocolate biscuits before 2 p.m. anarchy had a friend that had to go to bed at 7 p.m. every night because that was the bedtime for his younger siblings he was 14 his mom would flip out if he tried to stay awake any longer that mother was seeing every single cartoon before school for sure I was in a foster home from ages 5 to 7 they were religious and the rules were as follows women couldn't cut their hair wear short sleeves after 5 years of age could only wear dresses and nightgowns even when swimming on vacation and nobody could enter the home if wearing shorts pants were fine the upside was the whole family ate dinner together every night and there was always dessert as a kid coming from a home where food was not a plenty I thought it was wonderful I've stayed in touch over the years and went throw the mom's 80th birthday party last summer lots of people were there in shorts so the rules have obviously been relaxed over the years one daughter even had hair a little below her shoulders so that rule isn't enforced either I'm guessing they were Pentecostal so a few years back I was at a party and a homeowner had a list of house rules are a chalkboard but the one that sort of made me doublet ache was overnight guests are asked not to masturbate I was a little confused I mean nobody wants to think of someone else jerking it in their home in their sheets but that seems a little weird was there an incident that incited this stayed with a neighbor during a family emergency estranged grandparent was deathly ill far away in parents had to make some oh crap arrangements for child care neighbor had five kids the dad had a one tub of water for the family rule this was in a bathtub with a shower and when a normal water bill for a large family would be under $40 a month so I still don't get why dead would base then mom then eldest two youngest guests last the water was cold dark with muck and had a greasy film of skin cells on it by my turn I was six or seven and tried to refuse but they shouted at me and I gave in I gagged the whole time seriously freaky mark you nasty but swamp water douchebag went to a friend's house well-to-do kind of family straight-laced all that crap the dad came home and started practicing saxophone in the front room when I asked a question my friend told me to shut up and that nobody is allowed to make any noise while his dad practiced saxophone but just as this short conversation was exchanged his dad burst through the door and told us all to shut the Frick up cos whispering really put him off his saxophone playing his son my friend started to cry his dad played for three more hours we just sat in silence cos this was before mobile phones and I couldn't get collected until later that afternoon I was asked not to tell anyone else at school but enough people had been and experienced what I had experienced so everyone knew not to disturb this kid's dad when he's playing his saxophone my friend's mom was convinced that vomit corroded the pipes and could cause them to burst so we had to go puke outside if we were sick she wouldn't actually let us into the house she threw a housewarming party and we were all excited about attending but instead she herded us all into her garage and locked us in there there was a door in the garage that led into the kitchen that she would only unlock if someone wanted the bathroom but she would then escort the person to the toilet and stand outside the door until they were done take them back to the garage and lock the door again the garage was empty as well not even so much as a deck chair or box to sit on the guests did not stay long I left in under an hour in the rest not long after she was offended after she put so much effort into having us over , she was offended after she put so much effort into having us over you should have said a housewarming party implies we would be in the house when I was probably seven or so there was a kid down the block I think he lived with his grandparents who were weirdly strict with water no using the hose to playing during a time of sprinklers and water balloons to beat summer heat and I think remembering him saying he'd have to pay $1 for a cup of water they now work at Nestle trying to control all water in Africa my dad had a strict rule no music with words I'm still wondering how Beethoven's 9th ended play Joe Satriani and John 5 constantly for him my cousin's house when I was a kid there was a no reading during the day rule I was a bookish kid terrified of my mad uncle so I just went along with it my step grandmother does not let anyone under 16 once she considers children sit on her furniture they have to sit on the floor it should be noted that this rule didn't apply to her biological grandchildren come up behind her and whisper in her ear when you die we're going to donate all your furniture to a daycare not sure if it counts as a house rule but I had a good friend whose family didn't drink anything while eating meals they were convinced drinking something right after chewing food would crack their teeth so I'd always be the only one with a beverage at dinner anytime I was over at their house and we would go outside and play I would have to knock on the door each time to come back in even if I had been there for a while or if I had just walked in with their kid their mother kept tabs on exactly how much I ate or drank while I was there and expected me to work for whatever they had given me I had accidentally left something by the door and I realized after I got a few steps away from their porch so I just opened the door and reached him to grab it her mother grabbed my arm and jerked me back into the house and screamed how I was a guest of their house and that I was to always knock before entering how I was a rude child she didn't care that I was just there and what I grabbed was mine etcetera I had known this woman my entire life we lived in the same neighborhood she knew all of my extended family and treated me like I was some stranger that was my last day playing over there I once had a sleepover party at a Christian girl's house in elementary they had random pieces of duct tape on the floor in the hallway and if I remember correctly we had to jump step over them because at when knives were dropped kinda like a superstition except I didn't get it and it still makes no sense to me to this day I grew up in Mexico my school had a lot of exchange programs abroad so in ninth grade I went to Boston I stayed with a guy from the HS and his dad pretty weird family but the strangest thing was that his father told me that I could not flush pancakes in the toilet he literally meant pancakes it was not a euphemism because I asked his son about it and he said yeah there was an incident once there should be a subreddit dedicated to explaining why that's a rule for oddball stuff like this pictures videos et Cie would be very encouraged my parents for what it's worth made me guilt Abed at 7 p.m. every night from the age of 4 until the age of 16 because I had to share a room with my kid brother to this day I also have to go to bed at 10 p.m. when I visit then because I have to walk through their bedroom to get to mine it's an old house another weird rule they have is about bins but most people have at least a separate bin in their kitchen in their bathroom right maybe a few more all over the house just in case right wrong my parents keep just the one single men in the center of the kitchen dining room and the bin bag has changed once a week at the most I think they maybe just can't be asked to go round collecting bins and so this is their god-awful solution having a period in that house was a barrel of laughs let me tell you from the ripe old age of 11 announcing to the entire house excuse me coming through used sanitary pad ready to go in the bin here out of the way dudes these days as an adult when I visit I make a huge deal out of it until they realise how good it is and give me a bin for the bathroom it has a 12 you know this was the most embarrassing awkward crap ever not to mention when we had guests round they would be sat in the goddamn dining room and I would be forced to shamefully walk past them into the kitchen used pad in hand to use the bin that was some trauma right there Frick my current house has two bins in every room my best friend's parents did this too you would think the mom would think about that especially having a teenage daughter and another dad just started her period in the home I landed a summer babysitting job when I was 15 or 16 and got yelled at because I took cheetah's Doritos and pretzels and put them all in the same Bowl they were snack sized bags and I'd eaten the whole bowl full but there must have been crumb evidence for Sherlock mom she said we don't mix our food in this house and then she fired me soon after because she said she wasn't comfortable with me doing stuff like that around her kids little did she know that you were ahead of the curve and had created do-it-yourself munchies you are never to touch the dining table with your hands or arms however slightly or briefly you are to sit straight up on furniture you will never put your feet up sit sideways or lay down you will absolutely never nap on the couch you may sleep in your bedroom at night and that is it I don't like visiting my aunt's house very much no speaking about what was essentially a whispered volume girlfriend's father considered loud talking what the rest of us considered normal volume talking to be trashy sounds like Milford man I once had a friend's mom tell me we sit down to pee in this house I guess I get it and it would have made sense other than I'm a girl how the heck did she think I took a leak standing up proud and giving a stereotypical superhero stance kids parents had surveillance cameras in every room including their kids bedrooms any time we were in a room without a parent the surveillance camera had to be on there were men at times I'd walk into the kitchen after being in the game room or my friend's bedroom and see the TV on streaming surveillance from the room I was just in it even streamed sound a friend of mine got kicked out of the house because he jokingly put a napkin over one of the cameras there were also times where if one of the said something the parents didn't like while the cameras were on they never told us when they were turned on either a parent would burst into the room and yell at us for saying something they didn't like freaking nuts that family that's when you stopped addressing their parents his big brother tailed this one couple weeks ago but me and a buddy got roped in to help a cousin move she basically sat on her fat butt all day just pointing and snorting out orders anyway we we getting ready to leave so my buddy was washing up and we were telling some of the other family by when this beef lips apparently she took the time to hang up the towels in the bathroom during us moving so my buddy used them to dry his hands but noooooo you can't users those are decorative only how dare he not only did she not even tell anyone this rule she assumed all households were this way she didn't even put usable towels in the bathroom yet I'll never understand the logic of keeping star like that purely for decoration once when I was eight or nine I went to a friend's house and we were playing board games on the floor while her parents sat on the couch nearby as I leaned over to reach something I farted nothing loud nothing obnoxious well crazy mum is like what was that excuse me what the absolute heck was that who did that I'm sorry my name but we do not fart in this house I'm sitting there like oh ha ha just waiting for her to break character and laugh or something nope she then just left the room and didn't come back friends dad took me home later so basically their family house rule was just not to fart humans fart all the time I can't imagine how they could actually not fart they must be in constant pain you have been visited by the wealth wrath subscribe in 12 seconds and he will share his wealth with you like and subscribing magnificent person [Music]

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Length: 22min 6sec (1326 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 22 2020