Your Bizarre Rituals

[Sleepingmediocre]

I have a specific place where EVERYTHING has to go--for example, on my desk at work, the blotter pad has to be centered on the desk.  The stapler goes to the left of it, at a slight angle, and my pen and staple remover go to the right.  My coffee cup is in the top right-hand corner of the blotter pad.  My paper clip cup is in the top left-hand corner.  If any of this stuff gets moved too far out of position, I go quietly nuts until I can move it back.  (My co-workers have lots of fun teasing me with this.)  The odd thing is, I'm the same way about stuff at home, but I leave my house really really messy, so at home I'm usually quietly nuts about one thing or another all the time...

[hobish]

I have OCD and I am a checker. I can drive you nuts in two seconds flat. I'm also a organizer...things have to be where they go.
I have that thing about things matching also...

My best friend is like that. I on the other hand am pretty messy. One summer we both worked for a 4H camp and shared a 9x9 room - worse, i worked in the horse stables and she in the kitchen. We drove each other so crazy that by the end of the summer it was a small miracle we were still friends. We laugh about it now but both agree NeVeR AgAiN.

[Miss Misery]

If I re-tie one shoe, I have to re-tie the other, whether it needs it or not.

[megswsu]

I'll put one in for my DH. He has to tie his shoe laces three times. Why, I have no idea.

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn. And DH does this as well. Maybe that's why we work so well! 

[Ulla dances in a silly way]

I can't do "real" art with other people (beside Leo) in the room.

I also can't do any real art in my day clothes. I have to be in pajamas or in some state of undress. It's just wrong to express yourself in jeans 

-Ulla

[Nimblicity]

I can't let my fiance hang up the laundry to dry.  The laundry has to be hanging efficiently.  That means no huge gaps between the things, but they shouldn't be overlapping, either.  All the underwear together, all the dish towels together, and socks at the ends to fill in the left over space.  If he hangs up the clothes, I either can't go in the room, or I go in an rearrange everything.

[Bijou]

I'll put one in for my DH. He has to tie his shoe laces three times. Why, I have no idea.

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn. And DH does this as well. Maybe that's why we work so well! 

How do you keep track of which foot you had which sock on the last time you wore them so that you switch feet the next time you wear them?  I could never keep track of that.

[Bijou]

I'll put one in for my DH. He has to tie his shoe laces three times. Why, I have no idea.

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn. And DH does this as well. Maybe that's why we work so well! 

So you don't think I should go out and eat a pound of choclate to up my brain function, I was just kidding about your socks...

[VorFemme]

I spent some time this morning sorting out my fabric stash.  That includes pulling out plastic bins and refolding pieces so that the creases don't "set" from being in the same position too long. 

The fact that I found some fabrics that I had, er, forgotten I had meant that it was a rewarding morning.  Now to ask my  mother when she is sending the swimsuit pattern for the neices.  I need to do some "warm up" exercises before starting a major sewing session.  Sewing a couple of swimsuits for little girls is a good warm up, beats sewing for 12" tall dolls!

Sewing for small dolls is not a warm up excercise - it is hard work.  Try sewing together pieces of fabric not much smaller than coins (bodice) or paper money (gathered skirt) and see how you feel about dressing those durned fashion dolls.  Little girls or larger dolls are much easier to dress, due to the fabric pieces being easier to handle.

Maybe I should go sort through and "reorganize" the button stash next?  I like playing with my buttons - they pretty much stay where I leave them, as no one else in the house gets into my sewing room.  I recommend "girly colored" handles on your sewing tools - guys rarely are comfortable thinking they will be seen using mauve or pale blue scissors.  The ones that I really liked had blue flowers all over white background - think Delft pottery!

[alohomora]

I have a sick reverence when it comes to books.     I won't dog-ear a page, I won't write in the margins, and I won't use a highlighter or pen to mark in them (not even textbooks).

When I see someone fold down a page to mark their spot, it makes me want to run up to them with a bookmark.    

[Sleepingmediocre]

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn. And DH does this as well. Maybe that's why we work so well! 

Oh, thank goodness, I thought I was the only one!  Speaking of socks, I usually wear ONLY white socks, because otherwise I'd go crazy matching them to the outfits I wear (even though I normally wear boots, and my socks don't even show!)  I prefer Hanes brand socks, so they all say "Hanes" on the toe in pink stitching--the older socks say it in all caps, but on the newer ones, only the "H" is capitalized.  I will bend over backwards to avoid matching an all-caps sock with a capital-H-only sock.  Roomie used to think I was bonkers for doing this, but I actually have a non-quirky reason for this--the newer ones are padded, but the old ones aren't!

[Esther_bunny]

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn.

I do that, too! But really, it is smart to do that because then they all get equally worn (like you said).

[megswsu]

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I'll put one in for my DH. He has to tie his shoe laces three times. Why, I have no idea.

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn. And DH does this as well. Maybe that's why we work so well! 

How do you keep track of which foot you had which sock on the last time you wore them so that you switch feet the next time you wear them?  I could never keep track of that.

hee hee. I mean when I put my socks away, I'll put the newly clean ones in the back and move the others forward. If I can while folding, I try to match up individual socks w/each other, b/c sometimes you can tell which ones go together. And as someone else said, I make sure ALL my pairs are the same brand (which I keep simple--I buy them in pkgs from Target, that way they're all the same).

And I'm glad DH and I aren't the only ones!! Yea for quirkiness! 

[CutebutPsycho]

Another one for me....I rotate my socks and underwear so they're all "equally" worn.

I do that, too! But really, it is smart to do that because then they all get equally worn (like you said).

I used to do this also. But then, I realized that when they are equally worn, they all wear OUT at the same time!  Ya give and ya take I suppose.

[kathrynne]

Mild OCD runs in my family, and we all watch "Monk" and "As Good As It Gets" feeling very relieved we're not anywhere near that bad. My quirks were just that until the Graves' Disease hit. When my thyroid went out of whack it exaggerated many of them to nearly "Monk" levels, and not everything has gone back to my normal.

I can't run the dishwasher, washing machine or dryer without doing a critter count after the machine's door is closed for the last time. That often means heading up two flights of stairs to count critters and then back down to press "start." While in the grips of Graves' I found myself counting critters up to five times before starting a machine, and learned to understand how minor the problem was before.

I can't let DH leave for work in the morning without first having a three-way kiss session between him, me and the parrot (who sits on my shoulder, leans in and makes big "smacks." It's his favorite part of the day.), and then telling him to "Drive safely. Have a good day. We love you!" We greet DH each evening with another group kiss.

I grew up in an "ashtray in the sink" home, and Mom never backed out of the driveway without asking one of us to reassure her that we had also checked and the ashtray was in the sink. If nobody could confirm this, somebody had to run in and make sure. Over time, Mom has expanded this requirement so that now the ashtray must be in the sink with a little added water and another ashtray on top of it.