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I was just thinking about weird living-together rules and guidelines that Mr. Snow and I have developed over the years. For example:
1. The person driving the car gets the front cup holder and radio control.
2. If you're on your laptop in the living room, you don't get to control the remote.
Do you have weird couple rules/guidelines? I'd love to hear some!
The person driving definitely gets to pick the music (and control the air temp)!
The person who cooks dinner packs the lunches for the next day :)
We have the same rules! The front cupholder is more for ease of reach than anything though.
We also do not play Monopoly together at all as a rule.
Haha, those are good rules!
1. When we're on a long road trip, I always drive last b/c I'm better at staying awake. It's pretty much an unspoken rule.
2. Whoever cooks the other person has to do the dishes (though sometimes this isn't enforced!).
3. Whenever college football is on, the Dude gets the tv(s). Any other time, I have dibs. :)
1. same as you, if you're on the laptop you do not get the remote
2. things must be deleted together on the DV-R
3. he feeds the cat, I feed the dog(never discussed..just kinda happened)
Can't think of anything else but I know we've got more!
Hahaha,
@mouse- We have similar football rules. Mr Snow gets Sundays and Monday Night Football. Otherwise, I get the TV for the most part. I like football, so this works out well.
@soonerpsych- Oooh, no Monopoly b/c of competitiveness? (I get so goofily angry when Mr. Snow beats me at chess and Monopoly... "I didn't even want to play anyway b/c you always prey on my lack of skill" and other ridiculous things that aren't true. Mr. Snow just laughs and charges me another 1200 dollars for landing on his hotel property.)
@Mimosa- The DVR one is REALLY good.
@mouse: we match on 2 and 3! except he gets the tv more often because of College Football, Hockey, and College Basketball.... which leads me to reading quite a bit!
@snow - Yeah no Monopoly for the lack of niceness. He even admits it, but he tends to make deals with everyone but me (and plenty of deals include "I'll only trade if you don't trade with her"!). But we can play plenty of other games, I don't know what the problem gets to be in Monopoly...
We totally do the driver gets the front cup holder too!
Also @mouse - opposite for us on #1: Mr. Guinea Pig always drives when it's late because I fall asleep so easily!
After dinner, one of us does the dishes and one of us takes the dog out.
I let him have the TV most of the time, but I always get to watch Lost, House, The Office and Glee.
When we're vegging out, I always get the sofa and he always gets the loveseat.
1) Whoever does the cooking gets help with the dishes and clean-up.
2) Whoever goes to bed first at night makes sure the other person wakes up on time in the morning.
3) Whoever goes in the kitchen first in the a.m. puts on the pot of coffee.
We have a couple of those!
1. One activity at a time. If you're on your laptop, no tv remote!
2. Ask before you go #2 in the bathroom in case the other person has to #1
3. You cut/separate/divide, I choose which portion I get
4. You cook, I do the dishes.
5. The driver gets the radio, but the passenger gets the climate control
6. The passenger is the official navigator! Map out, figuring out where we're going!
We have a no pooping in front of each other rule. THANK GOODNESS! hehe
1. We have a chart to keep track of who took out the dog last/most. So if you have less checks it's your turn to take them out. We used to bicker about this a lot.
2. If we both watch a series, we don't watch the dvr'd show without the other person.
3. I feed the dogs breakfast, he feeds them dinner.
I'm sure we have more, but those are the ones that come to mind.
If there is a show we are both interested in, we watch together or Tivo it so we can watch together later.
I give the dog a bone before I leave for work, he gives the cat treats before he leaves
The passenger figures out what to listen to on the radio (there are very few fights over this, we like pretty much all the same music)
This is all I can think of at the moment
Haha, I like this post.
Our Rules:
* Front cup holder to whoever is driving.
* We do not play Risk, together. I swear one time we almost broke up over this game.
* No episodes of Lost or The Office are to be watched if the other is not present.
*Whoever wakes up last makes the bed. (This is my favorite rule)
Ha, we have similar rules to a lot of you. You can't be on the laptop and hog the tv. Or as we say, "can't do both." The driver controls the radio, and this is important because we have very different tastes in music. I always get the final say in movie choices because I'm picky.
We don't have rules discussed, but more just division of things naturally, but nothing is followed all the time,...
-He throws out the trash, I empty the dishwasher
-If one person cooks, the other cleans
-We each do our own laundry
-The door is always closed to the bathroom if the toilet is being used (we don't even pee in front of each other)
-He drives most of the time, but passenger controls the music
Mr.D just said that because I didn't help with the dishes I couldn't have a bite if his ice cream. I guess that's a rule for us now! ;)
Weird couple rule:
His farting is okay as long as we aren't in bed and sharing covers. Any other time he can be as manly and loud as he wants to be.
If we are in the same room and he has to fart (and he knows it's coming), he has to go in the other room to "take care of it" so I don't have to suffer through the.... uh... "aftershock." Aaaaaaaand I now pray that he will never find this post, hehe.
HA! Sarah, I didn't even see your comment when I wrote mine... I didn't know others had farting rules :)
- He puts the dog up every night
- I generally cook/clean, but he puts up leftovers/throws stuff away
- He cleans out the fridge, 'cause it grosses me out
- If we're not sleeping together, we ALWAYS talk on the phone right before bed, and we always say I love you & goodbye twice. Like...bye ... pause...bye again. It's really random, but we've always done it!
!. Whoever gets into bed last has to cover the other person and turn out the light.
2. We have to take turns picking dinner cuz neither one of us can decide.
this is so funny. I can't believe all the different "rules" that we all have. We have several that are unspoken but just kind of happen
he always opens my bottled water or soda, I always get the table set
I clean the litter box, he feeds the cats
who ever is in bed last turns off the lights!
and finally, we always kiss and say I love you before bed. And NEVER will go to bed angry at eachother
Oh I love this post!
* If you're using the bathroom, the door is CLOSED!
* He takes out the trash
* He texts me as soon as he gets home after visiting me
* No cellphones at dinner, they're either off or on silent and NOT on the table
* If he's watching a movie I don't like or don't feel like watching, I get to ignore it and play on... well, WB (cause lets face it, that's where I normally am)
1) Go poop in the guest bathroom. Don't stink up "our" bathroom.
2) I clean up after the kitties. Always. DH doesn't do cat poo
3) Rams games have #1 priority. That's why we have tivo.
4) If you want silence/want to change the channel while someone's watching the tv, go to the other room. Or ask very nicely.
5) Don't leave wrappers everywhere (drives him nutso bananas)
6) If you're picking up frozen custard for yourself, you BETTER DAMN WELL get some for the other person.
Obviously #6 is muy importante =]
i cook, he does dishes.
whoever gets up first lets the dog out
i am primarily responsible for making sure the dog gets fed/has someone home to let him out, he is primarily responsible for making sure the cats get fed and the litterbox is taken care of
We also just make a lot of deals. He can get a new tv if I can get another dog. I'll take care of making beds every week and keeping the kitchen clean if he'll clean the bathrooms. We're always bargaining. Tonight we made a bet about how much our cart load of stuff at target was going to cost. Whoever was farther away from actual cost has to plan our valentines day date. (for the record, it was 25 more than he thought and 60 more than i thought-- so although i technically lost we both actually lost heh)
I cook, he cleans the dishes
I do laundry, he takes out the trash
He always drives. Always. And I am the dj.
There are many more, but I have to put on my thinking cap!
Oooh, I thought of another one:
When deciding where to go for dinner, if one person suggests and the other vetoes, then the vetoer has to make the next suggestion. We're sticklers on this.
If we're both in front of the telly, I won't watch my stupid MTV/VH1/Top Model marathon shows and he won't watch his boring military channel shows.
MissDW -
She's probably talking about the St. Louis Rams pro football team.
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