Do you have throw rugs that walk?

[baby_bear]

I have mutiple throw rugs around my condo. The ones on the wall to wall carpet - if they are not secured by furniture on top of them - all migrate east. They move several inches in a single day or half a day, regardless of their orientation (east-west, north-south, etc.)
They all end up against the first obstacle that stops them from moving farther east, like a wall, or a sofa.

Is that weird, or is a function of the carpet itself? The rugs on tile don't do it.

Every day I have to move the rugs back to where they started. It's like a conspiracy....

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[LastKnight]

1. wait, youre joking right?

that is quite possibly the oddest thing ive heard.

maybe pets/kids/whatever?

[baby_bear]

7. Nope

Not joking. No kids. One 16 yr old cat.

Next question, please...

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[Jersey Devil]

2. You need to invite kids over to throw up on them

After a couple of yaks from kids the rugs stiffen up and won't move again.

[baby_bear]

9. gee thanks, jersey devil

I'd rather have rugs that walk, if it's just the same to you!

:hi:

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[Odonata]

3. Do you have any pets?

I come home every day to a new re-arrangement of rugs and furniture. And three very cute noses!

[baby_bear]

8. a 16 yr old cat who only sleeps

and he sleeps on a chair, not on rugs.

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[Benhurst]

4. Hmmm. Has your building been inspected? NT

[trof]

5. Yep.

When I walk on them.

[baby_bear]

10. Do they all walk in the same direction?

I have one runner that runs north-south along the back of my sofa. It always ends up having moved 4 inches east to the sofa, but I walk both directions on it (i.e., north and south).

It's always straight, too.

weird.

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[Gato Moteado]

6. my rugs don't walk.......

....they go sliding rapidly across the floor when my dog runs around the apartment. sometimes she gets a running start and jumps on them and rides them across the room. and i have a bokara runner in the hall that gets all bunched up on one end when she goes tearing thru.

i need to get the pads under them to hold them in place better.

[baby_bear]

12. Maybe it's the nap of the carpet?

I don't have any dogs, so the only thing I can think of is carpet nap, although there is no obvious one.

Time for X-Files reruns.

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[Gato Moteado]

13. i have kilims and regular persian type carpets.....

my dog can rearrange either.

[Democracy White]

11. Maybe you're on a slant...

The condo could be laying on a slant that is making your carpets move.

Dee

[baby_bear]

14. I thought about that too

But why would only the throw rugs on the wall to wall carpet walk, but not those on linoleum?

twilight zone time....

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[BikeWriter]

15. It's a natural migration like Lemmings...

They eventually leap from cliffs. :(