What are you obsessive or compulsive about?

[Krafty]

Whenever I put on a sweater, I always make sure the strings are both at even length.

I have a sick obession with asian women. Never dated one or spoken to a women in about a month but I love em.

 

[iBlue]

I start to get anxious if the DVR has less than 30% capacity left. My mother in law has carried her hoarding tendencies to her DVR and things get randomly deleted! *eye-twitch*

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Turns out I'm weird about germs. Not the "I carry sanitizer" but just the general idea of germs. I also wash my hands chronically when handling raw meat. If I even think something like the dish towel was touched it goes in the wash immediately. I will go through a roll of paper towels in 2 days if I've been cooking a lot. I won't ever wipe a counter down with the dish sponge, ever. Don't let me see you do it either.

I don't like when cupboard doors, drawers or pantry doors are left open. There is no reason for it. Closet doors are similar but somehow my office closet doors are always open.

I can't sleep in a messy bed, I don't get why there is toothpaste on the mirror and in the sink, and I don't like it when I see people wash their clothes with towels.

I would bet my life that there are way more that make me impossible to be around but that is it off the top of my head.

ALL of these! Though sometimes I'll use a sponge on a countertop if it's a mess that I think will clean better with a sponge but I replace my sponges every other day and usually wipe up after the sponge with a paper towel and disinfectant.

My most contradictory and irritating habit is that I bite my nails. I'm neurotic about germs and yet bite my nails! I hate it but I can't seem to shake the habit. I will never put my hands anywhere near my face if I've touched anything outside of my home though. When I'm out I'll try to touch as little as possible. Standing on the train I'll usually just balance myself rather than touch the germ bars. Things like that.

I have a few others that I don't want to talk about on a google-indexed forum.

Oh and my iPhone is tit-shined probably 50 times a day. Say no to fingerprints!

 

[arkitect]

Arranging open windows on my desktop so they line up neatly (I can't emphasise that enough). I know I could get a piece of software to do that, but it is so much more fun moving them pixel by f***g pixel myself.

I do like my iTunes music neatly indexed and duplicates are regularly hunted out and destroyed — one time with disastrous consequences.

Other than that?
I like our kitchen knives arranged by size and use — magnetic strips along the wall. My husband OTOH just sticks them back where there is a space. Not that I'd start an argument about that of course.

 

[toolbox]

hmmm were to begin!

1. No one touches the track pad / keyboard / screen on any of my macs
2. I will not go to sleep unless every door is checked and locked
3. Shower every morning / before bed
4. Ensure my iPhone is next to my bedside table when i go to bed.
5. Hands are washed before any food
6. Before i leave for work in the morning i make sure before i walk out i know were my cat is in the house as he has managed to claw his way out before!
7. Everything is off at the wall unless it is in use.

 

[JAllen77]

I'm very OCD about using my computer and various devices with grubby hands. No food grease or other filth can get near them.

 

[rdowns]

Damn, you people have some issues, except for iBlue's tit-shining her iPhone numerous times a day.

 

[GoCubsGo]

ALL of these! Though sometimes I'll use a sponge on a countertop if it's a mess that I think will clean better with a sponge but I replace my sponges every other day and usually wipe up after the sponge with a paper towel and disinfectant.

In fairness, I will scrub if I have to with a Mr. Clean Kitchen Sponge then go back over with paper towels and Fantastic Antibacterial. I'm convinced that only Fantastic works.

When leaving the house, I get to the bottom of the path before turning back to check I've locked the door. If I'm with Mrs Cake, I'll then ask her to confirm that I did indeed lock it.

When I check the door I'll usually pretend that I'm checking something through the window, so the neighbours don't think I'm daft or owt. This probably doesn't work.

I was thinking this morning that I do the same thing. I check, re-check then ask if I'm with anyone. Recently I drove all the way past Chapel Hill (a fair 20 mile distance) before I turned around and came back to check the door.

Damn, you people have some issues, except for iBlue's tit-shining her iPhone numerous times a day.

That's why you love some of us.

 

[MorphingDragon]

CABLES!!!

and people using Comic Sans

 

[bartelby]

There's something wrong with me. I can't think of a single thing I'm obsessive/compulsive about.

 

[rdowns]

I just thought of one. I'll drive away from home and then wonder if I closed the garage door. I can't tell you how many times I've driven around the block to make sure it was closed.

 

[bartelby]

I just thought of one. I'll drive away from home and then wonder if I closed the garage door. I can't tell you how many times I've driven around the block to make sure it was closed.

And you're obsession with wanting to be part of a crowd...

 

[Tomorrow]

My most contradictory and irritating habit is that I bite my nails.

I used to do that, horribly. Having a toothpick in my mouth helped me break the habit.

I have a few others that I don't want to talk about on a google-indexed forum.

There's always PM's...just sayin'.

Oh and my iPhone is tit-shined probably 50 times a day. Say no to fingerprints!

Okay, I'm adding iPhone to my list.

 

[Yumunum]

When i was a kid i had a clinical case of OCD, of course i had no idea what it was at the time and i just thought i was a freak. Luckily, somehow i grew out of it without anyone ever really noticing it, i hid it well. It wasn't until many years later that i finally learned about the condition i had as a kid. At the time i thought i was the only one.

I understand, man... I was messed up as a kid. OCD totally screwed me up. Ugh, I hate thinking about it.

 

[ericrwalker]

Time. Be more than 10 minutes late and we will have serious problems.

I agree, since I am usually about 10 minutes early. I feel like 10 minutes late is like 20 minutes late. If I am running late, you will receive a call from me. I don't get it. If we agreed on eight o'clock, it is just that, it's not the time you leave your house.

 

[t0rr3s]

Nothing really. Unless you switch my fan off or prevent me from getting my coffee. Which triggers me into a little maiming frenzy.

 

[ericrwalker]

I have a sick obession with asian women. Never dated one or spoken to a women in about a month but I love em.

LOL, I've had that since I started liking girls. I grew up in a small town, mostly white. Didn't know any Asians. Later joined the military, lived in Korea and Japan. Was like heaven. I have dated 3 Asian girls (none were American) all of them were long relationships, ended up married to the last one.

Some of them hate that fact that some guys like Asians. I don't see that any different than someone who likes redheads, blondes or midgets. Everyone has a preference for some characteristic.

 

[h1r0ll3r]

Arriving early - I usually arrive at least 15 minutes early for whatever the occasion is.

Smudges on screens - whether it be TV, iPhone, MacBook, etc, can't stand to see even one smudge or fingerprint on there.

Labels - Probably the oddest of them all. I rip labels off everything. Not a huge thing but when it comes to things like bottles of Motrin or anything else that has an expiration date on it, I'm pretty much screwed.

 

[heehee]

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Arriving early.

Do not have any unread emails in any of my mailbox folders.

My monitor / tv can't have marks/fingerprints.

 

[lewis82]

Among many:

-setting thermostats only on an even-numbered temperature

I do the same with the TV volume, it must be either an even number or a multiple of 5. Nothing else, and I particularly hate when it's a prime number.

 

[jsolares]

Not sure if OCD but i really really hate having someone behind me watching over my shoulder when i'm using a computer, really really hate it.

I also don't like other people using my keyboards specially if they have greasy hands, i wipe my fingers or wash my hand if i catch myself touching my forehead which gets kind of greasy specially at the end of the day, sometimes i wipe my forehead with a tissue, but mostly i just try not to touch my forehead :S, i really hate those oily smudges on black keyboards