Your house rules

[kittyP]

Why don't people like food in the bedrooms? I often go to bed early with a book and take a pasta bowl (cos you can fit more in without it sliding off) of tit bits in, cheese, ham, biscuits, olives, and bits and pieces. I'll even eat crisps in bed - total disegard for my own comfort.

Due to my past terrible insomnia I have to have good "sleep hygiene".
No TV or food in the bedroom.
It does help that both badgers and I are not eating or drinking in bed people. I can't get comfortable enough to eat or even have a cuppa. And I am mega clumsy so the bed would be covered in food and drink and our mattress was too expensive for that.

 

[quimcunx]

This is a tricky one.
I generally offer to make tea in my own and others homes. But I have been started at blankly when in someone else s house I have offered to get a brew on. I think some people think it's like you are making yourself too at home.
People are welcome to make tea at mine as well though.

I don't make nice tea. I do offer to make a drink for visitors but mostly if a friend comes round the rule is if you can find it you can have it. I don't always have a lot of food or refreshments in and I don't drink a cup of tea an hour so I just say to help themselves when it suits them.

 

[Firky]

Not at all

Go on, you know you want to...

Just had a bacon butty with 4 rashes of smoked bacon (Ayrshire - naturally) and a pint of milk.

 

[Epona]

My house rules are

1. Don't mess with/upset my cats
2. Don't mess with my books (you can look, but don't bend the spines back).

If I had nice carpets, there might be a third rule involving removal of footwear, but the flooring is in such a bad state that I actually advise visitors to leave their shoes on.

 

[EastEnder]

1) Smoking is mandatory.
2) Ketamine must be shared.
3) Shoes belong on feet.

 

[Dillinger4]

1) go away

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Shoes off.
No smoking inside.
The right rubbish goes in the right rubbish bin.

 

[Voley]

Just one. Fuck off and leave me alone.

 

[cdg]

I lived in my last place for a nearly a year and other than for sexual partners or family I never had one guest. It's a bit sad really.

 

[TruXta]

Are you forced outside for a J?

No force involved, I haven't smoked in the house for 7-8 years..

 

[seeformiles]

Our place only has a few (but somewhat specific) rules:

1) Shoes are fine indoors except for my mate A*** who seems to have a talent for stepping in all kinds of shite before he comes round.
2) No smoking tobacco indoors (you can stand in the kitchen with the door open if it's raining)
3) Weed can be smoked (on its own) in the back bedroom but this may be extended to the living room/dining room if several people over, if there's no kids about and everyone's pissed.
4) Try not to spill drinks over the front room rug - it was only bought a month ago and we've managed to keep it stain-free so far.

That's about it.

 

[bi0boy]

Don't ring the door bell unless you're the postie.

 

[aqua]

No smoking, no ketamine, touch aqua 's gin you'll die.

this, especially the gin bit

If you want to drink my booze, bring booze. You may help yourself to any of my booze, replacement booze doesn't have to be to the same standard as the booze of mine you're drinking, but I must never run out of booze due to the gluttony of others.

and this

and the cats aren't allowed in the kitchen. I prefer people take their shoes off when they come in but I don't enforce it - if people have been in the yard smoking and it's wet I do shout OI at them when they then try to walk up the carpeted stairs (cream carpet) with their shoes still on. I'm not sure how anyone would think it's OK to do that tbh (we have laminate flooring downstairs).

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway. Wearing shoes indoors is horrible.

 

[aqua]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway. Wearing shoes indoors is horrible.

especially with little kids around - why would you wear shoes that have been outside and walk all over the floor that a little kid is playing on each to their own I suppose

 

[Quartz]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway. Wearing shoes indoors is horrible.

It can be healthier. I had plantar fasciitis once and the doctor said to wear shoes as much as possible.

 

[seeformiles]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway. Wearing shoes indoors is horrible.

Depends on how smelly your guests' feet are (and if they have holes in their socks) - can avoid embarrassment!

 

[felixthecat]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway. Wearing shoes indoors is horrible.

Agreed. I wear shoes as little as possible and never indoors.

House rules? No smoking indoors, don't bully the cat, don't blame me if you bang your head on the doorframe - its not my fault you're tall.

 

[JimW]

No flash photography.
Don't feed the monkeys.

 

[Greebo]

I never understand why people want to keep their shoes on inside anyway.<snip>

Move to somewhere with a concrete floor and you'll see.

 

[bi0boy]

Move to somewhere with a concrete floor and you'll see.

Only if you don't get decent carpet underlay.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Move to somewhere with a concrete floor and you'll see.

This is why the world invented carpet.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If someone's still conscious then don't call them an ambulance without asking their permission first.

 

[Greebo]

Only if you don't get decent carpet underlay.

And there's the rub. Carpet went down when we couldn't afford underlay as well (there's a layer of newspaper under the carpet, but that's it). There was also less furniture in the flat as the time, so it was far easier to clear enough of the floor to at least carpet the middle of the living room. There's no room to get it clear enough to add underlay.

 

[Greebo]

This is why the world invented carpet.

Got carpet, can still get chilblains, see the above post.

 

[Balham]

No smoking, no animals.

 

[fractionMan]

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.

I never used to force people to take of their shoes on the boat, but most people did when I did. It was simply to keep all the towpath crud out off the floor though. forcing people to take off their shoes is a bit much imo.

The house is no smoking but that's about it for rules.

 

[Frances Lengel]

I lived in my last place for a nearly a year and other than for sexual partners or family I never had one guest. It's a bit sad really.

As long as there was no overlap between the two.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Depends on how smelly your guests' feet are (and if they have holes in their socks) - can avoid embarrassment!

I've made people wash their feet before now. Scruffy twats.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

This is a tricky one.
I generally offer to make tea in my own and others homes. But I have been started at blankly when in someone else s house I have offered to get a brew on. I think some people think it's like you are making yourself too at home.
People are welcome to make tea at mine as well though.

Do you ensure that they have adequate tea-making abilities first, though?

I would not want anyone who didn't understand the importance of warming the pot making tea here...