Reddit Asks the Question: 'What’s Something You Thought Every Family Did but It Turns Out It Was Only Yours?'

By Jessie Wallace | reddit | August 15, 2025

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Families can be funny things. We’ve covered this topic with a similar thread before, but it’s fascinating how families can develop their own little rituals and methods that might seem completely logical to them while seeming aberrant and wacky to those looking in from the outside. Reddit had this topic on its mind the other day again when it asked the question: ‘What’s a household ‘hack’ you thought everyone did … until you found out it’s just your weird family?’ Some of the answers are objectively genius, while others are…less so. You can check out the full thread here but below are some highlights:

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