36 Jaw-Dropping Home Surprises That Defy Explanation Revealed by Strangers
Krebs__cycle:
I wasn’t sure what my nightmare was going to be about tonight. Thanks for clearing that up for me…
Chickens and roosters strutting around the house like they owned the place.
horseface312:
Ugh, the way my chickens s**t all over the yard, I would NOT want them in my house.
But what might surprise you is that some research has shown the most orderly people have the messiest sock drawers. “The explanation for this would be that they are more concerned with prioritizing and organizing more important parts of their lives,” explains Fancy Pants.
People who keep their Christmas decorations (including the tree) up all year round, or much longer than the Christmas season (like starting in October and not taking them down until several weeks after the New Year).
We also had neighbors who replaced all their floors (even upstairs) with tile because their dogs peed everywhere and they were tired of replacing the carpeting every other year. Why they couldn’t housetrain the dogs or get rid of them, I have no idea.
Exes family smoked cigarettes in their home, I smoke too, but never inside – but alright, their house, they can smoke in it if they want… But the weird part was they used their carpeted floor as a giant ashtray.
Hessalam:
Smoking inside is okay, my family does it. But holy s**t, a dirty floor like that would cause my feet to shrivel into my legs, my legs into my body, and so on until I cease to exist.
I went over to a friend’s house after school, and other than a door for the bathroom there wasn’t a single door hung in the house. His mother told me that if you’re behind a closed door you’re doing something secret and there there were no secrets in her house.
She would also randomly search his room for ‘secrets’. It wasn’t uncommon for him to come home and find all his clothes turned inside out and thrown into the hallway, and all his stuff also searched, examined, and thrown into the hallway. When he got home from school he was expected to have it all put away in an hour. What wasn’t put away when the timer went off was thrown away.
“Our homes are an amalgam of our choices and behaviours that accumulate over time,” explains psychologist and research scientist, Dr Linda Papadopoulos. “The fact that you have a special area for muddy wellies may attest to your family being an active one, and that old crochet blanket that covers the chair in your bedroom may be there because it reminds you of summers you used to spend at your grandma’s home.”
This was back in high school. My friend’s older brother had slippers made from his beloved dead dog’s hide with the fur still attached. I thought she was joking at first but she was perfectly serious and I realized that’s exactly what they looked like — they were definitely not fake fur slippers.
In grade 6 (age 11 or 12) I went for a sleepover at my new friends house. He and his family had just immigrated to Western Canada from Manchester or Bolton England; they were what you might call ‘working class’.
As soon as I get there his toothy mother comes into his room with a pen and a notepad and casually asks us what we will have from the liquor store.
We must have ordered about $50 worth of alcohol between us. That night we just got absolutely trashed on rum & cokes playing Super Nintendo in his basement like it was completely normal. I remember jumping on the trampoline at probably 2 or 3 in the morning while his father BBQ’d sausages for us to eat. His parents otherwise sat in their living room smoking and watching TV all night without a care in the world for the stumbling pre-teens downstairs. At regular intervals his mother would come down with snacks and treats
“If you think of a teen’s room for example, their space is often very much a declaration of identity, from the posters and music collections on display to the fact that there are clothes all over the place,” the expert writes, adding that the tean’s message is clear:
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