Who rules the remote (of tv) in your house?

Can't watch tv unless its the news, have to spend al my time running errands, studying, looking after Claudia or posting stuff here =) Otherwise, we have over 5 tvs in the house cause we used to fight so much over it, with my parents here and all and when it was so boring in the breaks I got.

thays the best rule which u follow .in my house the remote is with me but i consider everybody watching the tv and give them atleast 5 minutes each to view what they want.Isnt it a gud idea of being gud and ruling tooo.....???wat say u?????

We do not have a rule. It depends on what is on, but usually my husband gets it first and when he cannot find anything he like, he will turn it over to me unless there is a hockey game, a comedy, MASH, a movie which he has seen already but which I have not, a show that he does not want to see although I want to see it, if he is not going to the computer room, if he is going to the computer room and wants to listen to the show but does not want me to change the channel. So the only time I get the remote is if he does not want to see the show and he does not mind if I turn it to the show I want to see.

lol great discussion, and great rule. well in my family its just me and my auntie so its pretty much "give me the remote" and you get it lol... otherwise if i dont like what shes watching i watch in my bedroom or watch shows online on sites like fanpop.com

In my house there is no remote control rules. If someone wants to watch some tv show we simply ask to change the channel. If we see that someone is watching something on television that we see is important, we don't even ask to change channel. I guess the only rule is to respect each other.

in our home, whoever opened the television set first he rules!!!!so next time ill try to come home early so i can watch the movie that i want...LOL

whoever gets to the television first! we have several tvs in the house, so the best one is the one my husband watches, as he likes the sports to big and loud, racing and anyother stupid guy show.. so i usually retreat to a quieter room, and watch what i want anyway.

no one really does. when there are a lot of good things on tv then we keep fighting and the lucky on e rules. if ther is nothing worthwhile then we keep passing thee remote to the other as it becomes bothersome to keep flipping the channels and not finding anythign worth watching!

Every one rule the remote control in my house becouse every one watch TV and every one have the right to rule it. or else.....

He rules the remote. He is bigger and he is faster and it is IMPORTANT to him, lol. No matter, I have Windows Media Center on my computer and can view whatever I want online. I love the captions because I can see and hear whatever he is watching while watching and reading the subtitles on my screen. Too kewl!

Generally, I think dad is the king... *wink* Since I was younger, dad has always had a command on the remote control. Good thing that at an early age, I have had my own television in my room so I didn't really had to compete with the remote control.

No hard or fast remote rule of ownership, whomever possesses it has temporary control. If there is a problem, I have final say; of course, knowing that this is the case, not many fights ensue. TV watching is pretty easy around my house.

Hi Bear, Saw this disucssion and wanted to share with you what goes on in our house! lol We never fight over it, well not to have it anyway. We fight about whos going to take it. I find myself making rules like the last person with it has it for the next 24 hours. LOL There is nothing on anymore, and all we do is sit and flip through the channels, and that gets boring. We basically play hot potato in our house with the remote control. Bay Lay Gray xx

well that would be the one and only.my son.he has inherited a 105 cm plasma t.v.i have to wait untill he is asleep to get to even touch the remote.well my daughter does not even get a look in and gives up asking,so we both take turns on the computer.cheers sue

Our home only consists of me my hubby and our 17 month old daughter, and hubby works midnights, so i get it whenever i want it, not like i watch much though, there is rarely anything worth watching on!! I used to watch leland on dog the bounty hunter, but that is off the air now. And i sometimes watch dr phill. . for fun:)

Haahahah...this is cool1 The one who rules the remote control of the tv in our house is the person who gets hold of it first. That has been a rule for us since we were kids. But now we do not fight over a tv remote anymore. We have three tvs in our house so there is nothing to fight over.

that's a good rule. it also means taht whoever wants to hog the TV has to come back home fast. in my household i'm not much of a tv fan and only recently got cable tv. so guess who gets run of the remote? ah well, not that i care very much. most times I'd rather curl up with a book and be a (book)worm than curl up on the couch and be a potato.

I have only one rule in my house for the remote. You touch my remote, I brake your fringers all the way to your sholder. LOL! Kidding. We have a room mate and the rule about my tv in the living room is that it is mine and Jay's tv and everyone dose not touch it. The roommate rents a room from us and he has a tv in his room and I feel that if for some reason if he breaks my tv or the $100 remote that he would not replace it. I am right about this because he has already broken one of my $100 remotes while he was house sitting when Jay and I want on vacation. He said that he did not break it. But the only problem with that is that he was the only one here or was to be the only one here. The other rule I have is no one in my house that I don't know when I am not here.

It depends on the time of the day. When it is cartoon schedules, my kids rules. When it primetime shows, it's me. But when my husband is around, he is and me alternatively.

I have 2 TVs. It's just me and the husband, so if he's watching some boring golf show or something, I'll go to the bedroom and watch the other TV. We don't have any rules as far as the usage goes. I ask him to leave it on in the mornings if he's the last to leave so my cats will have something to listen to, but that's about it.