Silly things to do

[Kimblee]

You know the stuff you do, that you don't have a good reason for, and might not like to admit to but you do anyway?

Nothing nasty or unpleasant, just little, silly things you do that make you "you." (<<Seriously took about a minute to decide where that period went. Inside the quotes, outside the quotes? It looked weird outside the quotes.)

I:

• fold sugar packet papers, mint papers, well any small piece of paper I can make into a square into origami figures in resturaunts. Usually cranes, since I pretty much memorized that, but sometimes little hearts or hopping frogs. If its a frog then I am obligated to try and hop it into my friend's empty drink glass before we leave. If it falls on the floor I pick it up, but if it doesn't it just stays on the table when we leave. Once at a long meal (the place was crowded and service was slow) I left no fewer than eight cranes out of various materials on the table as we left. I feel bad since its kinda trash, but its trash that would have been there anyway, just now its folded and easier to toss out.
• collect the strings from feed bags. I used to claim I was gonna make a feed bag doily, but I hate joining when I crochet, so now I might knit something. Like a three foot strip of useless knitting out of useless string. Sometimes the string isn't white, its red or brown. I could knit a picture, except I'm not good and knitting. Maybe I ought to try embroidery.
• Remember the origami? I tried making 1000 cranes out of hershey miniture wrappers. I stopped at 43 when I ran out of papers and realized there was no way to get more easter colored wrappers. Then easter came by again and they changed the colors. I think that may just be an excuse. I hung all my cranes on a plastic evergreen strand at christmas tho.
• I paint my dog's nails sometimes. Because she's "sassy" and its cute. Then I forgot I painted them, they mostly chipped away and one day I freaked out because her nail is bleeding. But it wasn't, it was just red paint.

I'm surely not the only person with these kind of hobbies, right?

[SamiHami]

I have developed a bit of an obsession with glass jars. I cannot bring myself to throw them away; I'm convinced that I can find a good use for them. One rule though; they must have metal lids. If they are plastic I want nothing to do with them. My husband even got a local sandwich shop to give me two large, industrial size pickle jars! I still don't know what I'm going to do with them, but the possibilities are endless!

[Thipu1]

Gel pens.  I have them in every color made and love them dearly. 
I use them for crosswords and always have a variety of colors in my bag. 

[JennJenn68]

When I go into a restaurant that has the cutlery wrapped up in a cloth napkin (seems to be the standard for most places around here now) I have to unwrap the silverware and place it the "proper" way before I can even so much as take a sip of my drink.  (And my drink always has to be placed precisely in the right spot--to me, it's about a centimetre exactly north of the tip of the knife.)

The next one I can sort of understand because I used to work in a bookstore.  Whenever I go into any bookstore, I find myself "facing" the shelves and re-shelving misplaced books.  It doesn't matter what section I'm in; I'll do 'em all.  ('Twould be nice if I could be so exacting with our own book collection, but it's such a higgledy-piggledy assortment and it keeps multiplying at an exponential rate so we simply don't have enough shelf space and I can't keep up!  I've stopped buying books completely because of this... but, alas, DH has not, and as long as new aviation and railway books keep being released, I don't see this changing!)

[Thipu1]

Yes, JenJen 68. 

As a retired librarian I will do some tidying up of books on tables.  I do not go into the shelved books because I know that therein lies madness.  However, if I can neaten the tables of 'Local Authors' or 'New Paperback Releases', I will do so.  It just comes automatically to a librarian. 

[RiverSong]

If I see dirty dishes all piled up willy nilly by the sink (you know the ones in a precarious tower waiting for the last straw to fall crashing to the floor) I will re-stack them. It's safer and it gives more counter space for dirty dishes before you are forced to wash them.

[White Dragon]

collect the strings from feed bags. I used to claim I was gonna make a feed bag doily, but I hate joining when I crochet, so now I might knit something. Like a three foot strip of useless knitting out of useless string. Sometimes the string isn't white, its red or brown. I could knit a picture, except I'm not good and knitting. Maybe I ought to try embroidery.

Two words.
Spool knitting.
Takes no attention and no particular coordination.
Sit in front of the TV and use up your string.
Then use the result to make a rolled rug or some hot-pads for your table! 

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[Sirius]

I love notebooks, just not the regular sized ones.  Right now I have a pile of 5 inch by 7 inch ones on my desk, all except for the newest one full of shortcuts for my transcription shortcut program. 

[Bijou]

My husband and I stack our dishes when we are done eating at a restaurant.  I try to put the disposable items, like napkins, on a place separate from the regular silverware, etc.  The bus person could probably care less.   

[Bijou]

Probably not silly, but I keep a couple of sketchbooks next to my recliner chair and a jar of pencils, different kinds of pens (micro, fine tipped sharpies that don't smell), a little pencil sharpener, some erasers, and a bed pillow that I put on my lap to use as a drawing table.  I'm a constant doodler and this way I can look back at my doodles without having a ton of scraps of paper around.   I always doodled during meetings at work and the boss didn't seem to mind.  He knew, I guess, that this is how some people listen, and I was an active participator in the meetings so he knew I was 100% there.  He asked me if he could have one of my doodles after a meeting, once.

[Kimblee]

I have developed a bit of an obsession with glass jars. I cannot bring myself to throw them away; I'm convinced that I can find a good use for them. One rule though; they must have metal lids. If they are plastic I want nothing to do with them. My husband even got a local sandwich shop to give me two large, industrial size pickle jars! I still don't know what I'm going to do with them, but the possibilities are endless!

I love jars. I have no use for them but I adore them.

collect the strings from feed bags. I used to claim I was gonna make a feed bag doily, but I hate joining when I crochet, so now I might knit something. Like a three foot strip of useless knitting out of useless string. Sometimes the string isn't white, its red or brown. I could knit a picture, except I'm not good and knitting. Maybe I ought to try embroidery.

Two words.
Spool knitting.
Takes no attention and no particular coordination.
Sit in front of the TV and use up your string.
Then use the result to make a rolled rug or some hot-pads for your table! 

edited to fix quote tree

oooo.... good plan.

Now i need a spool.