People have been sharing the house rules they hated as kids but swear by as adults – 17 restrictions that made sense all along
10.
‘Letting your roomies/partner/parent/know if you are staying out later than planned, or text when you get home it’s just like a safety thing’
-Prior_Mall4261
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‘Finish a bag/box of something (cookies, chips, cereal, etc) before opening a new one. We have hundreds of half empty containers in our cabinets and I can’t seem to train my family into having only one open at a time.’
-totally_italian
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‘My mother made sure my siblings and I could survive in the adult world. She made sure we could cook (basic recipes), do laundry, balance a checkbook (always hates that job), iron clothes and basic hand sewing.
These skills also helped when I was in the military. I would iron uniforms for personnel inspections. Charged $15 per uniform (it was mid-80s).
I re-attached a button for someone and they thought I was a sorcerer or something.’
-Bring_me_a_bucket
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‘My parents used to hate it when us kids would yell out across the house for them. Just hollering, “MOOOOOM!!” and expecting them to yell back, or come to you. That was reserved for emergencies; if you needed to ask a question you get off your butt and go find the person you need to talk to.
Now as an adult, when I’m at other people’s homes and they are yelling from various rooms at each other it feels so aggressive, haha. If I’m asking you how many hotdogs you want on the BBQ for dinner I just go find you in the basement, I don’t scream, “BRIAN!!! HOW MANY HOT DOGS DO YOU WANT?? HOT DOGS. HOW MANY. DID YOU SAY THREE? I CAN’T HEAR YOU”’
-cosmic-blondie
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‘No shoes in the house. As a person with allergies, totally get this now’
-profnhmama
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‘No food or snacks in bedrooms – tracking down dishes is annoying and it helps keep the house clean’
-Nameisnotmine
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‘Notebooks, computers, diaries, etc. Are all sacred and not to be gone through. Can’t say I hated that one, but most people thought it was weird. You could leave your deepest secret on the coffee table, and nobody would touch it. I am the youngest of four kids. Nobody’s diary ever got read, my sketchbooks were left alone, computer accounts were not shared.’
-awfulmcnofilter
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‘I used to think it was stupid that my mom deep-cleaned the house before guests came (esp. my paternal grandparents, her in-laws). I said “it’s kind of like lying, right? Like pretending that the house looks like this all the time?” She kept a super clean house as it was and my dad had a rule against things being left on surfaces such as the coffee table or kitchen table, so I thought she was just being dramatic and stressing herself out for no reason.
I definitely realize the benefit of a pre-guest clean now.
Last year, my husband and I hosted Christmas, and I was literally cleaning for the entire week up until an hour before they arrived.’
-spaghettifiasco
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