Your house rules

[Geri]

Do you make visitors take their shoes off when they come in? Only allow food to be eaten in the kitchen? Confine your pets to certain areas only?

I don't allow smoking the house, or outdoor shoes on the sofa, but that's pretty much it.

Apparently the one about making visitors take their shoes off is fairly common though.

 

[weepiper]

The kids have to take their shoes off when they come in (because they can't be 100% trusted not to have trod in dogshit) but I wouldn't ever tell an adult to. No shoes on the sofa. No eating/drinking in the bedrooms. No smoking in the house. Think that's about it really.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

The house rules follow the excellent list of prohibitions devised by the parkie in Viz.

 

[twentythreedom]

Don't be a dick

 

[Fez909]

No smoking inside. That's it, I think.

 

[Saffy]

No ball games in the living room, this is frequently broken though.
No plates/bowls in the bedrooms.
Kids clear the table and stack dishwasher after dinner.
No smoking inside.

 

[Pingu]

the dogs live here.. its their home... you are just a visitor. don't like being around dogs? don't visit

 

[Geri]

The kids have to take their shoes off when they come in (because they can't be 100% trusted not to have trod in dogshit) but I wouldn't ever tell an adult to. No shoes on the sofa. No eating/drinking in the bedrooms. No smoking in the house. Think that's about it really.

I think if you have kids you may need to impose more rules than you would otherwise, unless you want to spend all your time cleaning up after them.

I used to go over to a friend's house after school sometimes and if we had biscuits we had to sit in the kitchen and eat them over a plate.

 

[cesare]

No smoking in bedrooms. Don't get me in trouble with landlord. Generally put things back where you found em. Nothing about shoes, though I wouldn't like it if outdoor shoes went on settee, I'd probably just say oi or something.

 

[DotCommunist]

my house is lawless, apart from the standard no nicking each others food thing and pull your weight with the housework.

I hold personally to not smoking weed in the house, a rule I would extend throughout if I had the authoritah.

 

[Thora]

I don't make visitors take shoes off but I'd rather they did. Wouldn't let anyone go upstairs with shoes on.

I don't have pets up if I did, I don't like animals on sofas, cats on tables or worktops or dogs upstairs.

No smoking.

 

[lizzieloo]

The dogs get shut away when we have toddler or baby type visitors and usually no smoking inside but that happens if we have a boozy gathering

 

[lizzieloo]

I'd rather a fair few of our visitors keep their shoes on

 

[weepiper]

I think if you have kids you may need to impose more rules than you would otherwise, unless you want to spend all your time cleaning up after them.

Oh I've just remembered another one, you can only tip out the lego onto a blanket, not directly onto the floor, for ease of tidying up purposes (thanks wiskey for that one )

 

[Geri]

I hold personally to not smoking weed in the house, a rule I would extend throughout if I had the authoritah.

Smoking weed bothers me less than people smoking fags. Although no weed has been smoked in the house for many years now, I wouldn't rule out smoking it again one day.

 

[spirals]

No smoking, that's about it.

 

[cdg]

Do you make visitors take their shoes off when they come in? Only allow food to be eaten in the kitchen? Confine your pets to certain areas only?

I don't allow smoking the house, or outdoor shoes non the sofa, but that's pretty much it.

Apparently the one about making visitors take their shoes off is fairly common though.

You have indoor only shoes?

 

[TruXta]

No smoking. Don't be a dick. No mucky shoes.

 

[kittyP]

Don't really have any.
I like guests to feel comfortable and if that means keeping there shoes on or oh I dunno, then so be it.
We just don't eat or smoke in our bedroom but it's only ever us in there. It's not a rule as such.

Don't be a dick is a good one.

Oh, one, no guests are allowed to do a line of ketamine just as they are leaving.
It really worries me and I feel responsible as it's my house they are leaving.
And I did once try and stop someone driving home when they were really drunk.
They are not really house rules though.

 

[Geri]

You have indoor only shoes?

Yeah, slippers.

 

[nagapie]

No smoking inside.
No food upstairs, because we are perpetually plagued with mice so have to limit their food sources.
Ice creams have to be eaten in the garden or while sitting on a towel, can't believe my child still obeys me on this one.

 

[wiskey]

Oh I've just remembered another one, you can only tip out the lego onto a blanket, not directly onto the floor, for ease of tidying up purposes (thanks wiskey for that one )

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and children remove shoes at the door*

*this works so well every time we go into a cafe my child removes his shoes

 

[ice-is-forming]

I don't have any... oh umm one I suppose, people I don't like don't get to come in and have to speak to me on the door step. Same goes for people i work with, no crossing the boundaries. tbf they're not meant to know where I live but small town etc..

 

[Frances Lengel]

No shoes in the front room - There's white bits on the rug. Dunno why anyone would want to keep their shoes on in the house anyway. I'm not arsed about smoking though. Mind you, I'm not that keen on people coming into my house TBH.

 

[Wilf]

Give me enough notice to construct an excuse that I'm not in.

 

[kittyP]

I don't have any... oh umm one I suppose, people I don't like don't get to come in and have to speak to me on the door step. Same goes for people i work with, no crossing the boundaries. tbf they're not meant to know where I live but small town etc..

I wish I had the strength to do this but I'm a push over and want to be friendly.
Thankfully it hardly ever happens as the front door is three floors down and I never answer the buzzer.
People I want to come over call when they are outside.

 

[Yelkcub]

No smoking. (I'd have a ten mile area around my house with this rule if I could)

 

[mentalchik]

don't have any

 

[Puddy_Tat]

no dogs, no smoking, no tories.

 

[cdg]

Only one - If you don't live here don't come here.