# Things you have in your house, but nobody else does. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548 "2005-12-29T05:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/41 "2005-12-29T23:43:17Z")
I have a monocular. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/42 "2005-12-30T00:09:11Z")
An Arizona Cardinals pennant. There are no other fans of the Cardinals! ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/43 "2005-12-30T00:25:46Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > I have a banjo! Me too! Also an accordian, two fiddles, a mandolin and those sticks that you flick together…are they called bones? I haven’t picked those up at all. Let’s see, what else…I have a naked-lady (well, they’re not all naked, most of them are more burlesque-clad) lampshade! And I do use it everyday, it being on our living room lamp and all. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/44 "2005-12-30T00:26:10Z")
A banana hook? I have a banana _hammock._ It’s very cool plus it’s so much fun to say. Kung Fu Hamster–check. (Why do I still have that? I keep trying to, uh, donate it.) I completely forgot the rotary phone, which during power outages is the only one that works. I have a ping-pong table. I consider this a regular everyday household item the way some people consider a TV a regular everyday household item (and I spend more time using it than I do watching TV). Anybody else have a ping-pong table? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/45 "2005-12-30T00:42:59Z")
Orange shag carpet in the side room, and orange countertops in the kitchen. Yes, my house was built in the 70s. It’ll come around again, I just know it! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/46 "2005-12-30T00:47:44Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > I’ve got one lever in my apartment, and I rarely see any anywhere else. I vastly prefer the buttons. Hmm. Seems to me that the levers work much better. Get the back of your hand, or arm close to it and sweep up and the lights come on. With the old buttons, you have to find it and push it in with a finger. If you just use the back of your hand to push on it, your hand (or elbow or arm) can block the off button from coming out. Maybe I’m missing something. Are you talking about ‘rocker’ switches? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/47 "2005-12-30T02:00:04Z")
I have several one-of-a-kind transit-related treasures, including a line map from Papineau station and a nameplate from Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke station, not to mention a “sample” bus stop plate showing lines that never actually coincide at a stop. I come by them honestly (they were given me by STM personnel) and I’m sure nobody else has them, certainly no other “civilians”. Besides that, up until recently I had a sort of dishrack rack, on which three drying racks were stacked (thrice as many dishes at once!) However it developed cockroaches and had to be disposed of. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/48 "2005-12-30T02:05:48Z")
[Moore Creations Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot statues.](http://www.mst3000.net/collection.htm) (scroll down to the bottom) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/49 "2005-12-30T02:39:22Z")
> [@RunSilent](#): > > Boom Box I got one. And mine gets _shortwave!_ Other things I have that nobody else does: Bass saxophone 1933 Century of Progress tray, bookmark, and tie bar 1:100 scale wood model of the [Dornier Do X](http://www.flyandrive.com/images/pilotstation/dornierdox02.jpg) PowerBook G4 connected to 21" plasma display [Deagan dinner chimes](http://www.nbcchimes.info/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/50 "2005-12-30T04:02:22Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > 1:100 scale wood model of the [Dornier Do X](http://www.flyandrive.com/images/pilotstation/dornierdox02.jpg) Cool. Needs more engines, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/51 "2005-12-30T12:50:46Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] > [@BMalion](#): > > I also have a bokken, axe and many swords and knives. /QUOTE] > Meh, everyone has weapons. But who has a pair of vambraces sitting next to their door? _raises hand_ lots of armor. oh, I just remembered, I have a kilt from the film **Rob Roy**. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/52 "2005-12-30T13:05:59Z")
I have a sauna. Which out there in the real world is probably not all that common, but is very common up here. I’ve rented apartments - icky student apartments, not fancy adult apartments - that had saunas in 'em here. That’s just one of the many advantages of living somewhere with a strong Finnish population 😃 I also have a cheese press. Now that’s not something you see every day! ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/53 "2005-12-30T15:18:12Z")
A real, previously working diving helmet. It was my FIL’s and he worked in that helmet for years. And the heavy shoes that go with it. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/54 "2005-12-30T17:18:52Z")
Well I’ll add my treasures… - 3000+ feet of CAT5e network cable ran throughtout my house to everyroom (and outside to my shed) - A 4 foot long florescent pink Sockeye salmon. It’s from the Adam’s River Sockeye run, they used these salmon as road markers. I acquired one. - A Wendy’s chicken burger sign in a cool octagonal frame. My friend acquired me this item a few years ago. MtM ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/55 "2005-12-30T17:39:09Z")
I have a gooseneck lamp that’s a **Bud Light.** The lamp head is a ceramic hand holding a ceramic Bud Light can. I have a metal Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. sign. I have a cordless drill that needs no batteries. It’s a very old geared crank drill. ---
**Author:** ![Plinth\_percher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@Plinth\_percher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plinth_percher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/56 "2005-12-30T18:17:16Z")
I have motion sensors for the lights in every room. I’ve done this in several houses since the 70’s (remember Carter and energy conservation?) Everyone else acts like I’m either a super cheapo freak or want a Jetsons future house. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/57 "2005-12-30T23:14:50Z")
I have an antique qynocologist exam table in my dining room. What can I say, it was free. I didn’t know what kind of doctor used it until I found the stirrups and a very antique looking diaphragm kit in the draws. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/58 "2005-12-31T05:51:02Z")
> [@MamaHen](#): > > I have one of those. I also have a boxing Rabbi puppet. Never met anyone else with one of those. I don’ t have a boxing Rabbi, but I do have a boxing [“Ghaleon”](http://www.water7.net/images/Ebay/lunar.jpg) (from the Lunar video game series). Betcha nobody else has one of those either. I also have a Klingon [batleth](http://www.loveleaf.net/ts/image/GRHK464STS.jpg) (similar but not quite the same as the pic–mine’s prettier. 🙂 ). It hangs on the wall in our stairway. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/59 "2006-01-01T13:20:27Z")
I have a coffee table in the living room that I built and I can say with complete certainty that no one else in the whole world has a coffee table that I built in their living room. Also I use it every day, since it doubles as my office and also as my footstool as I work at my laptop. It consists of a 40" x 40" frame with a hunk of Italian marble set in it. Originally the marble was supported by a base, but when kiddies came along, my wife said that no way were we going to have a hunk of marble sitting in the middle of our living room. The wooden frame has rounded corners instread of sharp edges. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548/60 "2006-01-01T13:32:23Z")
> [@](#): > > We have a banana holder You wear a speedo!!! :eek: 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-have-in-your-house-but-nobody-else-does/337548.md?page=4)