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I didn't have too many weird rules, but my mom was pretty anal about some things. Not allowed to leave your toothbrush out of the cupboard or drawer because when you flush the toilet it spreads germs, not allowed to touch the shower curtain before washing your hands even if you're about to have a shower (fancy white one), etc. etc. CLEAN FREAK! lol

Also, I was a straight A student so my parents had this rule with me that I could have a lot of flexibility as long as I kept my grades up. If I didn't feel like going to school one day I didn't have to go. If I wanted to drink I was allowed in moderation. If I got a a B, however, well I was on lock down. No friends, no phone, no computer, and driven to and from school for a month. lol.

It all worked out in the end. I think I'm pretty well-rounded...most of the time!

Edit: Oh the bird thing reminded me of something! My grandmother wouldn't allow me to have anything with butterflys on it...especially not for your hair. I guess when my uncle was young his girlfriend was abducted and later found murdered (sad, I know)...she was wearing a butterfly in her hair. Superstitious grandma!

@CorgiTales: I can totally relate. I had 98% in my English 12 class (the highest of anyone), but my teacher threatened to fail me because I had a 42% attendance rate! I didn't get failed in the end either.

Oh just thought of something else. Once when I was 5 and again when I was 9 I had two separate scary encounters with men trying to abduct me (must have been because I was a chatty little blonde?). When I was 9 the man tried to pull myself and my little cousin into a van....we got away, but because of this my mom was nuts about me getting abducted. I had a "secret" word that to this day only my mom, dad and I know. My mom would check and re-check all the doors and windows at night. I had to go to the bathroom with my dad at public places unitl I was 9 and even after that my mom would make my dad stand outside public washrooms directly outside the door until I was like 14. People must have thought my poor dad was a creeper. I also had to attend countless self-defence courses and my mom would always make me aware of meeting points and escape routes at new locations. Better safe than sorry I guess...it did get old by the time I was in my teens though!

@moderndaisy: Same thing here! No MTV allowed, even when I was home from college on breaks.

The really strange rule we had was you had to wear socks or shoes when you were downstairs in the main living areas. If you were barefoot you had to put 25 cents in the jar.

@CorgiTales: the simpsons was banned in my parents house and i think still is. my mom hates that show.

my mom came up with a rule about television that i thought was pretty clever....my brother and i could only watch tv shows that we both agreed on (she knew that we agreed on NOTHING). it limited our tv viewing to american gladiators, yan can cook, and caprial's cafe (the latter two were cooking shows on PBS in the 80s).

there was no soda kept in our house before i was in high school (at which point my brother had already gone off to college). we could drink it out of the house but not in the house. my parents were kind of strict but i don't think many of their rules would be classified as weird...mostly the standard strict parent rules.

We had the weirdest rules when it came to TV too. We were each given like 20 poker chips (each kid had their own color, and there were 3 kids) and everytime we watched a 30 minute show each week we had to give away one of our chips. How ever many chips you had left at the end of the week resulted in how much allowance you got! Each chip equalled 25 cents. So If I only had 8 chips left I got $2 in allowance that week.

I hated that damn rule! I look back now and laugh and think WTF?! FH laughs too, he thinks my family is crazy because his was soooooo laid back.

My dad said that we weren't allowed to drink coffee until the second half of seventh grade. Why? That was his mom's rule when he was growing up! It always made me laugh, because I think it's silly.

My mom wouldn't let us (me, my sister and my brother) have video games that connected to the TV. We could only have hand held ones, like the GameBoy.

Also, she wouldn't let us have toy guns at all, ever (with the exception of water guns).

I don't think the last two are that weird though-- they kind of make sense.

I'm glad to hear all parents are weird!!  :)  In my family, we weren't allowed to have soda or ketchup unless we were at a restaurant or it was a holiday.  The big one was no playing in the house.  If we wanted to play with our friends, we had to do it outside, unless it was raining.  No shaved legs until middle school, and definately no tight and/or revealing clothing, like bra straps or midriff showing.  We were allowed to watch Married with Children and The Simpsons, though.  They were pretty lax about tv, since I had siblings quite a bit older than me.

My mom took the "under 17" part of the R-rated movie warnings very, very literally. I remember we had a big fight one time because I wanted to see some action movie with my friends that was rated R. I was, like, 15 1/2, and she absolutely refused, because I wasn't 17. Hahaha!

I'm the oldest, so in general my parents were much, much stricter with me than my younger sister and brother. I would get punished for things like getting a B- or not doing my laundry quickly enough. I MAY still be a little bitter about the shit my brother got away with six years later, hahaha.