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[quote=Anonymous]My sister and BIL own a very cute, but old, drafty farmhouse.  They’ll grudgingly turn the thermostat up to 60 degrees when company comes.  They make a decent income, but are very frugal, which is fine.

What is more head scratching is that they also have a number of house rules, which make sense to them, but generally not to anyone else, since they don’t tell you the rules until you have broken them.  A few examples over the years:

1. They had a couch, more of a settee, which had recently developed a cracked leg.  They either didn’t sit on that side or used other furniture.  But they didn’t mention it to me.  Didn’t stack books under it as a temporary solution.  They weren’t in the room, I sat down on the “bad” side like I normally would and CRACK!, the leg snapped.  My BIL basically accused me of throwing myself down on it.  My sister said it wasn’t my fault, but her grumpy expression said otherwise.

2. In the winter, they tacked heavy blankets over a few of the interior doorways to conserve heat in the main part of the house.  But they used very small nails, the kind you use to hang paintings (didn’t realize this until after the transgression).  I pushed the blanket aside to enter the room and half of it ripped off the door frame.  Heavy sighs and rolled eyes.  Apparently, the “proper” way to enter was to gather up the blanket, pass it over my head, and let it drop behind me.

3. The last time my brother stayed with them, he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, went down the darkened hallway, and accidentally kicked a large bowl of water they put out for their elderly, half-blind dog—right in the middle of the hallway, because said dog liked to roam the house at night and this way, he had easy access to a drink upstairs along his journeys.  All well and good, but warn someone you are going to do that, or don’t be angry when a watery mess happens.

I’m happy to visit them, but stay overnight in a hotel.  Hotel for brother now too after the Water Bowl Incident of 2017  :lol:

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