Normal ? or OCD?

I agree with ab.

OCD is a distressing condition that can prevent sufferers living a normal life. Being neat, tidy and organised is just that. I'm the same as you - i like my bed/house/surroundings a certain way and i can't relax properly unless things are just so. I don't see anything wrong with it. I'm a bit uptight maybe, but who cares?

What really bugs me is getting in at the end of the day to find things not as I would like.

Some obsessive tendancies are common. It's only a disorder (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) when it significantly interfers with personal, occupational or social life.

Fussy is the word.

My duvet is pulled up, pillow plonked down that's my bed making when I had three small children it probably never got made so now is a BIG improvement no one to see it but me no desire to have it perfect just functional

Only my son can make my 6' bed as well if not better than me. I hate scruffy beds ..... Bit like having beautiful garden borders withou the lawn being mowed.

I'm definitely OCD!!! Even my clothes are colour coordinated in the wardrobe. The kitchen cupboards are a little messy because OH uses them.

I like OCD .....

Have just read other replies. Ok I'm not OCD just fussy about having a clean and tidy home.

I hang the duvet out of the window when the weather is good. If the rest of the town think I'm eccentric, that's their problem, not mine. It smells lovely and fresh when it comes in - why shouldn't I?

Kacee I hate to break this to you but spiders can get in any old where!

I do make my bed when I get up & put my throw over as cat likes to sleep on my bed during the day. Combination of cat with dirty paws & white bedding is not good.

I hate housework & can leave most jobs except washing up, once a day before I go to bed, bathroom is cleaned several times a week & kitchen surfaces wiped down. Hoovering gets done when I feel like & dusting when it suddenly annoys me.

I do like certain items in the right place but I wouldn't jump up straight away to put it right.

Um I am diagnosed with mild OCD so I guess things like this are normal to me. I like order and yes I like the bed made when I get out of it. I always tidy it up after hubby gets up too if he hasn't done it properly. I like the kitchen neat and tidy and well the whole house really. Just basics kept on top of each day

Merlot, ?? I had a dog who used to jump on the bed just when I was making it or trying to change it!!

My eldest son used to do that then bounce up and down and laugh tee-hee - drove me mad!

I have a fixation with certain numbers. For example if I'm tidying up I'll put 5 (or 9, or 11 or 19 or 23) things away in each room depending on the need. Or I'll practise the piano for any of those number of minutes, or do exercise repetitions 5, 9, 11, 19 or 23 times depending on the kind of exercise.

They are all prime numbers, but there are other prime numbers which don't interest me at all.

Yes, I'm clearly bonkers!

Grannyguitar how do you fix it? Do you partially close the window on it (I have visions of a duvet bowling around the street wrapping itself around an unsuspecting dog!!)

It's a bit OCD to be so fussy about your bed, but harmless. Whatever it takes to get us through the day, as long as it doesn't harm others, then it's o.k.

I do wish that people hadn't told me certain superstitions as I get very anxious if the rules are broken, even by other people.

Jalima*, I'm a bit concerned about the duvet-out-of-the-window thing as well. What about the state of the brickwork (or whatever) and the risk of bird poo?

I think they do this on the Continent

At least if I remember rightly from reading Heidi when I was about 9.

I remember watching a tv programme a while back and Fiona Bruce saying she couldn't see the point of cushions on beds - where do you put them when you want to go to sleep, just a load of faff etc! I'm with her I'm afraid. It does sound a bit OCD - unless you're trying to sell your house, of course!
I fold back the duvet, plump the pillows and get out in the world!

I too hang out the washing in a certain order. Also I have coloured plastic clothes pegs. They have to be in a certain order on the line when I put the washing out. So a yellow peg can't be next to another yellow, but it can be diagonally opposite a yellow peg on the same item. They need to be evenly interspersed with the other three colours..... erm, I think this is normal (for me, anyway)

It's not so much the bed - I air well then tidy up and make later on - it's the sofa cushions and throw (which is needed to hide a mark where I tried to scrub a spill off). DH make a total pigs breakfast of them even if he only sits down for five minutes! He'll even work his way from one end to the other to make a thorough job of it!

When we lived in Holland all the local people on our estate hung their duvets out of the windows. You could tell where we Brits lived! Our bedding stayed firmly on the bed!

Some confuse OCD with superstitions

I'm with ninathenana duvet folded back ready to be pulled back up at bedtime. Only deviation is if we have guests who might peek or visit our bedroom for something

I certainly don't hover, or even hoover every day. I like housework to be done but preferably not by me. Just had DGC staying (2y 9 m, girl and boy) Had a big (for me) tidy/clean before, but it didn't last long and I don't care.