What's considered normal in your home but weird in others?

[Funfire240]

My Mom used to always make Blueberry muffins when we had spaghetti. I carried on the tradition without ever questioning it. After about 10 years of marriage my spouse finally asked why I made them when we had spaghetti. It was as if there was a glitch in the matrix. I didn’t have an answer and was the first time it ever occurred to me that it was an odd pairing.

This sounds like my house! My DH said to me muffins are for breakfast and do not go with spaghetti. To this day they are my favorite foods but not together anymore

 

[Kae]

My Mom used to always make Blueberry muffins when we had spaghetti. I carried on the tradition without ever questioning it. After about 10 years of marriage my spouse finally asked why I made them when we had spaghetti. It was as if there was a glitch in the matrix. I didn’t have an answer and was the first time it ever occurred to me that it was an odd pairing.

My mom always made Baked beans with tacos. Blueberry muffins were with pork chops.

 

[disneychrista]

Vegan baked good (cookies, cakes, etc).

 

[CdnCarrie]

The shoes debate has come up many times before. I think it’s climate based.
if you live in say North Dakota you probably wear bootsfrom late October to early March. You’re not going to wear winter boots in the house. Dirty, wet, too hot and clunky.
people in Florida or North Carolina probably do wear sandals or runners in the house.

I think wearing pjs once is weird. I wear my pjs 2-3 times.

 

[Heather07438]

Towels only get used 1x then they get washed

Yep. We have stacks of thin white towels so a bunch fit in the wash together and they can get some bleach once in a while.

We don't regularly lock our doors.

 

[Kae]

Butter on the counter and some times jelly, Shoes in the house, toilet paper i just grab and put on the roll, Towels washed on mondays, PJ's once since menopause

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My dining room table is for show. It's an old solid wood table that is too fragile to use. It belonged to my grandma and grandpa, passed down to my mom and then passed down to me. But when we were looking at house plans I had to make sure we still had a dining room still.

We do have a kitchen table but like someone else mentioned we only eat there when we have guests.

 

[TLSnell1981]

first, you’re a monster. Shame shame shame

Shoes off (or I’ll give you bootie covers) but I grew up this way and so did everybody I know. But everybody tells me it’s not common here in the US

Towels only get used 1x then they get washed

I'm the same way with towels. Don't care if they are only used to dry off a clean body. I just can't use them twice.

 

[1GoldenSun]

I have another one. I hate using a dishwasher and wash all my dishes by hand, so I use my dishwasher for storage. It used to be where I kept my tools, but now that DH has a section of the garage set up as a work area with a tool bench I keep my seldom-used kitchen items in there.

Occasionally a guest in our home will try to put their used glass in our dishwasher and ask if the coffee bean grinder is supposed to be in there.

 

[cruisefortibet]

A lot of things mentioned aren't weird at all and we do them too.

One weird thing about our home is, there are Lego sets on display EVERYWHERE. Other than the bathrooms and laundry room, you will find lego used as decoration in every room in the house.

I wish this was my house. My sons legos are in every room, on every floor, but are not on display because he likes to tear them down and rebuild them constantly. My feet!

 

[prairie_girl]

A lot of things mentioned aren't weird at all and we do them too.

One weird thing about our home is, there are Lego sets on display EVERYWHERE. Other than the bathrooms and laundry room, you will find lego used as decoration in every room in the house.

I have a $300 light sabre in my living room. I feel your pain..

My family had a dinner casserole dish we called China, the name came from my father’s side of the family. It wasn’t until I grew up and moved out that I learned the rest of the world called it Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie. There are varying reasons for the origin of the name but it originated in Quebec, as did my father’s family.

As far as the house coat/duster, my grandmother wore one and called it her house dress and it was not a bathrobe. She would wash and put on all of her underthings and then the house dress on top. It was what she wore at home. If she had to go out or had company coming, she would take off the house dress and put on a “regular dress”.

My mom wore a bathrobe but she called it a dressing gown.

The shoes debate has come up many times before. I think it’s climate based.
if you live in say North Dakota you probably wear bootsfrom late October to early March. You’re not going to wear winter boots in the house. Dirty, wet, too hot and clunky.
people in Florida or North Carolina probably do wear sandals or runners in the house.

I think wearing pjs once is weird. I wear my pjs 2-3 times.

Even in the summer, shoes come off at the door here. If someone came over and asked to keep their shoes on, of course I’d say it was ok, but it’s not the norm.

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

A separate refrigerator for beer and soft drinks only.

 

[TLSnell1981]

A separate refrigerator for beer and soft drinks only.

That's not normal?

 

[LSUmiss]

1. I do not care at all which way my toilet paper goes. I couldn’t even tell you which way it currently is hanging right now.

2. Not at home, but when I grocery shop I pile my groceries onto the conveyer belt in a certain order: square items, round items, bagged items, breads, eggs, not food-items.

3. We have no closet doors in our house. We ripped them all out to make our rooms bigger. We use armoires etc... to hang our clothes. I like it so much better!

4. I can’t go to bed with any dishes in the sink or a dirty kitchen whatsoever.

5. Where I live people don’t usually ask us to remove shoes. We don’t wear shoes in our house, but I would never ask guests to remove theirs.

6. We don’t use our dining room table. I don’t want my kids to ruin it. We eat elsewhere in the house.

I do 4-6 too. We do have a breakfast table though & it’s just 3 of us so we usually eat there.

 

[LSUmiss]

The lip of the cup holds liquid whether that be whatever was last drank or the soapy water used to wash the throw away cup- just saying. I can see rinsing it out maybe for the day but he was using them for weeks until they cracked. Don't get me started on the disposable utensils

I have another one:
- Bread, cookies, snacks in the microwave as if it were a storage place. I have an aunt that doesn't use her over so she stores food in there. What the what.
We do that with cookies or cake or anything we think we need to hide from DS. He’s 2, so sometimes it’s easier to hide it than to fight about it.
One of my trees is still up but it's now a Valentine's Day tree. I plan to keep it going with each holiday and season this year.

 

[SirDuff]

I work in TV and a major part of the job is making sure captioning is working....and if captions are not on at home I start to get panic attacks.....nice to know someone out there is making it worth it

I am hard-of-hearing (mild/moderate). I always use closed captioning (even if I could increase the volume to hear easily, I now just find it heard without).

My current annoyance is Netflix. It's great for English language shows, but clearly the people who do the closed captioning and people who do the dubbing are not the same people and not working off the same script. The general concept is the same but the words are different enough to be really annoying.


On topic:

I'm a shoes off inside kind of person. Since I'm home so much more now, I ended up getting slippers with hard soles because I was getting heel pain.

 

[tzolkin]

The shoes debate has come up many times before. I think it’s climate based.
if you live in say North Dakota you probably wear bootsfrom late October to early March. You’re not going to wear winter boots in the house. Dirty, wet, too hot and clunky.
people in Florida or North Carolina probably do wear sandals or runners in the house.

I think it's true that it's more common in certain climates (although I grew up in FL and we were NEVER allowed to set foot in the house with shoes on). Of course it makes sense that you wouldn't wear dirty winter boots in the house, but everyone I know that has a "no shoes" house it still applies even if they are wearing flip flops in the summer.

My parents both grew up in the same area of NY, but my mom had a strict "no shoes" family and my dad's family always had shoes on. Ironically, my dad grew up on a farm so you would think they would have been more likely to not wear shoes. If they were wearing super dirty boots, they would come in through the basement and put on their regular shoes before coming upstairs into the house.

 

[slo]

Saying grace/prayer before we eat - when either of my girls has/had a friend over it’s so obvious that they don’t do this at home.

Not starting to eat until everyone is sitting at the table. Again, I’m basing this on my girls friends. When they are over they start eating the second they get their food and never wait.

 

[easyas123]

We don't regularly lock our doors.

We are bad about this as well-

 

[slo]

I have another one......

My girls always had chores and their friends never did.
Ive even had parents tell me they don’t believe in chores because their kids are only young once and they have the rest of their lives to do chores.
My older DD used to really give me a hard time about doing chores, but now she has literally thanked me because adapting to living in her own home isn’t so hard because many chores she’s already used to doing and is part of her normal life.