QotD: House Rules

May 11, 2007 at 4:22 PM
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What were the main household rules when you were growing up? What are the rules in your own house now?
Brought to you by the movie Georgia Rule.

Being an only child for the first nine years of my life, rules weren't really an issue with us. I just kind of did what I wanted, and if it was wrong I'd hear about it. Maybe then it became an "unspoken rule." I don't know why that's in quotes.

There were some loose rules:

No watching "You Can't Do That on Television"
No boys upstairs, ever.
You don't have to eat it all, but at least drink the glass of milk.
Shirts couldn't be so high, or pants so low, as to show stomach.

That's all I can think of. As for rules in the house now, I don't know if there are any. We usually try to take our shoes off at the door, and that's about it. Oh, no feeding food to the kitties that isn't kitty food. I break that one sometimes....

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Hahaha! Sorry. You don't know me, but your story is just like my daughters. She was an only for the first 9 years too and there weren't really any rules, per se, but the unspoken ones that she couldn't watch anything scary her clothes had to cover her etc.
Rules now are we do take our shoes off at the door but we moved and where we live it's necessary. Kitty gets what kitty wants within reason, ;-)
Take care. Sorry to jump on here like this.

Why are you sorry? That what comments are for! Thanks for reading, and I'm glad someone else spoils their kitties :)

How could your parents not let you watch YCDTOT? Think about how much earlier in life you could have been exposed to Alanis! That could have changed EVERYTHING. :)

I am not an only child. I have four other siblings. There were rules, oh yes, lots of them.

1) T.V. was limited to one hour on weeknights. And only shows my dad approved of were allowed (usually Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, All in the Family, CHiPs, The Waltons, Fantasy Island, etc. but NEVER The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, Good Times, etc.)

2) Laundry day was Wednesday. My Mom washed all the bed linens on this day, but you had to take the sheets off the bed yourself, or they wouldn't get washed. (I usually went months without fresh sheets.)

3) Regardless of any plans I may have made, my Dad would pre-empt those by telling me at 6am Saturday morning that I had to get up and mow the lawn. We had a big yard, so this was always an all day job.

4) In High School, my curfew was 10:00pm, no exceptions. It never occured to me to rebel and sneak out of the house. Needless to say, I never experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show in it's best format.

5) Getting a car at age 16 was allowed, provided you had the money to buy one and the income to insure and maintain it. Otherwise, it was the bike or the bus. I biked and bussed it 'til I was 18.

6) If Mom loaned me money, Dad was never to know about it.

7) If I saw Dad in the backyard smoking a cigar, Mom was never to know about it.

And the list could go on... Geez, this kinda makes my parents seem weird. But I love them both and have no regrets of my childhood and it's strange set of rules.

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Your rules are a lot like ours... esp. no shoes in the house. Mom is a stickler about that one.

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I didn't have a curfew in high school. Conveniently, I also didn't have a life :)

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