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Growing up successful a household family means you whitethorn person experienced immoderate absorbing traditions and habits, adjacent if you didn't recognize it erstwhile you were little. So erstwhile we asked the BuzzFeed Community: "What’s thing that was mean successful your household but shocked you erstwhile you realized different families didn’t bash it?" truthful galore radical shared their idiosyncratic experiences below:
1. "Our household had 1 tiny solid adjacent to the room descend that the full household drank h2o from each time long. My ma would lavation it each night."
—Anonymous, 65, Los Angeles
2. "Letting our dogs lick the dishes earlier we enactment them successful the dishwasher!"
3. "At dinner, we passed our plates alternatively of food, and everyone served each other. Dad ever carved the meat. Never saw that astatine anyone else’s house. It was rather large astatine ample vacation gatherings."
—Anonymous
4. "My parents didn’t propulsion nutrient scraps into the trash; they stored them successful the freezer until trash day. One day, I started mentioning this to idiosyncratic else, and my sister chopped maine disconnected and aboriginal was like, 'We don’t archer radical we bash that.' I inactive support nutrient successful my freezer until I instrumentality retired the trash to minimize smells!"
5. "Periodically, portion eating dinner, my Dad would prime up his h2o solid and propulsion it astatine 1 of us, usually hitting full-face! Then each of the household would commencement a monolithic h2o battle, moving for spigots and chasing each different done the house. We would often tally extracurricular successful warmer weather. Lots of laughing and screaming, and dogs chasing america and barking. All our friends wanted to beryllium invited to dinner! You conscionable ne'er knew erstwhile my Dad was going to propulsion his solid of water! We inactive speech astir those h2o battles…"
—Anonymous, 73, Annapolis, MD
6. "In my family, we had a nighttime sock basket, each oregon immoderate were mismatched. We had to slumber successful them each night, past enactment them successful the laundry basket. I was astir 10 erstwhile I was allowed to slumber implicit my friend's house. I asked her ma wherever the slumber sock handbasket was. She didn’t cognize what I was talking about! First clip I didn’t slumber successful socks!"
7. "We had endowment shows successful the garage. We utilized the backmost partition arsenic the stage, and the store doorway would unfastened up, and that would beryllium our curtain to the assemblage successful the driveway."
—Anonymous, 63, California
8. "We lived successful a tiny house, and we weren’t allowed to spell successful the surviving room. My dada had bought fancy, Victorian-looking furniture, and we were ne'er allowed to beryllium connected it but astatine Christmas oregon erstwhile we had company. The bulk of our lives were spent successful the room oregon our bedroom. We had a small TV successful the room that we had to beryllium astir the array to watch."
9. "My dada was obsessed with aerial circulation successful the house. Bathroom doorway and country doors ever unfastened unless the country is successful progressive use. He adjacent wanted america to slumber with the doors open, but that was a no-go erstwhile we were tweens."
10. "I was ne'er allowed to spell into my parents' bedroom; adjacent arsenic an adult, I had to basal successful the doorway to speech to them."
11. "We were lone allowed 1 solid of beverage and warned not to 'wash down our food' with it. Not a occupation for me, arsenic I disliked beverage and inactive do, seventy years later. Also, we were not allowed to chopped the abdominous disconnected my meat."
—Anonymous
12. "One of my dad's friends from assemblage mislaid his occupation and apartment, making him efficaciously homeless. My dad, being a bro, fto him enactment astatine our spot for astir a period truthful helium could get his beingness together. So, each night, we would wide retired and marque a small furniture for him connected our couch. I called him 'the sofa sleeper,' and I didn't truly recognize wherefore helium was there. I thought helium slept connected the sofa truthful it would beryllium lukewarm erstwhile I ticker TV and devour cereal successful the morning. This was close astir erstwhile schoolhouse started for me, and I thought everyone conscionable had 'couch sleepers.' I deliberation I shocked a teacher telling her astir this, and recovered out, no, it is not mean to person your dad's buddies sleeping connected your sofa to support it warm, lol."
13. "As a kid (5-14), my dada would marque a 'tofu pickle crockery sandwich' (try saying that 5 times fast), which was diced pickles, mayonnaise, mustard, different spices, and mushed up uncooked tofu successful a sandwich. No 1 I’ve ever met had heard of it, but it’s amazing. I conscionable thought it was a mean dish."
14. "While I was increasing up, our household of 5 ate a home-cooked meal each nighttime astatine 5:30 p.m., together, astir the eating country table. As we got older, we recovered retired that compartment phones weren’t allowed astatine said table, and by golly, you amended beryllium acceptable to devour astatine 5:30. My ma cooked astir of the time, and my dada wanted each of america to bask it portion it was inactive blistery disconnected the stove. I didn’t admit it then, but now, I cognize it isn’t wholly normal. Now, 20+ years later, our household of five, positive 3 further spouses and 10 grandchildren, inactive gets unneurotic erstwhile a period for household meal nighttime astatine my parents' house. Our household is uncommonly close-knit, and I americium beyond grateful for our household clip astir the meal table."
15. "Having eggs implicit casual and eating each of the ovum whites portion leaving the yolk afloat intact. Then pouring syrup implicit the yolk and downing it successful 1 bite. Everyone successful my household (aside from my dad) did this. It wasn’t until a fewer friends and I went to Denny’s 1 night, and they were each weirded retired erstwhile I did this. Found retired aboriginal that my oldest member did it archetypal to gross retired my dad, who HATES eggs. Then we each conscionable started doing it conscionable to ticker my dada squirm."
—Anonymous, 49, Missouri
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