No couches allowed in missionary apartment?

I had a family member comment again to me that their mission didn’t allow missionaries to have couches in their apartment- both sisters and elders. This was fairly recent, within the last five years, in a southern US mission.

The thought was the MPs didn’t want missionaries to be lounging at home, they needed to be productive, so they had plastic or metal folding chairs to use instead. This was a mission rule that spanned several MPs

I still can’t get over the cruelty of this rule, one that the MPs didn’t follow but expected their missionaries to follow to increase the work. This missionary was offered a couch from a ward member who either pretended to not know the rule or just didn’t care but the missionary did not care anymore either, and wanted a couch and accepted it, knowing the APs had taken other couches away. The church owes the young missionaries so much for putting up with micromanaging MPs like these. Why do you think they’re leaving this church??!

What ridiculous rules did you have or know which were enforced?