What rituals or habits do you have which may seem odd to others?

Some of these have made me chuckle, but I too have my foibles. Certain mugs for tea and a special one for coffee. I always take a glass of water to bed but I have to rinse it out three times before filling it.
If the vertical blinds aren't straight I have to get up and straighten them. When I wear socks it's always right foot on first.
I'm sure there are others I haven't remembered.

DanniRae I do that with the baked beans too, also because they get stuck in sink plug hole!

I hate my hot drinks in any thick mug - always has to be fine bone china at home. My DM would never use a mug, always a teacup and saucer.

Too many to mention all but certainly the wardrobes habits and washing line practices listed here. I tour the house several times a day making sure everything is in its place...DH leaves random objects about drives me potty.

Getting my clothes laid out for work the next day before I go to bed.

Open the windows before I go to sleep. Can't sleep unless I do.

Don't have many really.

I'm the one who leaves random items around the house and my OH rounds them up and puts them away but asks me questions about them first because sometimes there is order in my chaos and I don't like it being messed with .

I'm too scatty to have rituals!

I am sure I have loads. I am continually making lists in my head and try and remember them by the first letter. If possible I edit the items on a shopping list so they all start with the same letter, sometimes using, say, a brand name or another language.

When I take tablets out of a blister pack I snip off the empty bit to keep the remaining strip neat

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I have to close all cupboard doors before I can go to bed

I have loads of habits similar to those already mentioned. Such as different mugs and glasses for different drinks. Clothes in wardrobe arranged in different colours. I put everything ready for next days breakfast the night before. Get up at the same time every morning and watch Breakfast on TV whist having my breakfast then finish showering and dressing just as my help arrives. Bed change Monday, tops and skirts Tuesday, towels Thursdays, beauty treatments hair, nails etc, Sundays.

Bone china mugs with white inside
Matching clothes pegs
Make the bed before lunch and/or leaving the house
Pyjamas on after dinner before sitting down to watch TV
Dogs get breakfast before me
Read book, Guardian, some puzzles before getting up
Skim pool for flies, mice, frogs before getting in

Danni I do that with the blister packs. Did you know you can now recycle them in a bin in Superdrug?

I thought I was the only oddball who uses pegs to match the colour of the clothes I am hanging out! I even bought a pack of neutral ones for the more unusual colours I have in my wardrobe.
It takes a bit longer to hangout the washing but it makes me happy to see it so why not?

Have to get next day’s clothes out before going to bed, can’t think in the morning. DH pairs same mugs up in the cupboard and we have to get a matching pair out, makes me laugh.

Shysal Only use even numbers on volume buttons

I only use odd numbers and go up or down in threes!

I never read today’s newspaper until tomorrow. (Worried about having no paper to read if I am up to date). There must be some sort of logic there somewhere.
On the plus side I use wooden clothes pegs so don’t have to worry about colour co-ordination.

I live alone. I have TOO MANY clothes but not enough for three wardrobes. Yet I use all three, carefully co ordinated by colour type. Red/rusts/beiges/ golds in one. Patterns and animal prints in another. All the rest-mainly grey/blacks/greens/ blues in the one left and all carefully arranged by type. I can have dilemmas eg: a block colour with a trim of a different colour. First world problems; I am a sad individual!

When I use a towel the label end must be away from me and when I hang it up the label must be at the back, completely out of sight. Any folded towels must have the bigger folds at the front with no corners poking out.

Before I leave the house for anything (even if just to post a letter) the washing up must be completed and on the drainer as I hate to return to a sink full. 'Clear the decks' as it were.

I put my knitting on the side table always, having learned that it's not a good idea to leave it on the floor - a clumsy clot like me will step on it and I have the scars to show for it.

I always check that any seat on the bus is dry before I sit down - having sat on a puddle caused by a spilt child's soft drink once - I don't wish to repeat that experience.

I'm sure I have more.

CDs in Alpha order by artist, ditto books on shelf, same as others on here with pegs, cant leave house until everything is tidy, (never leave washing up in sink), clothes in order by colour. Knickers folded and placed into 2 lines in drawer and use them by going down one line then the other in order. Plan meals a week ahead every Tuesday so shopping can be ordered on line... I could go on but!!

Having certain mugs makes sense if you put them in the dishwasher after use. However, I always use the same three mugs for my first coffee of the day and, I confess, if all three are in the dishwasher which hasn't been run (mine has to be full), I get one of them out and wash it!

I think the socks and shoes thing must stem from the earliest conditioning of which, left or right, your parent put on you first when you were little. It confuses children if I'm helping them as I'm left handed and often expect them to start with the 'wrong' shoe or sock, so perhaps there's a handedness element there too.

Can't go to bed unless I've - dried up and put away all the washing up and set out the breakfast things for the morning;
- said 'Goodnight' to the cat';
- and checked all the doors, lights and windows.

Other than mainly putting shoe on left foot first no. Not sure why I do I used to have an even number thing but am breaking myself of that.

Me too for the pegs two matching and then contrasting or complementing the item hung. We also have different mugs for tea coffee hot chocolate and Christmas ones.

I thought I was the only person who needed to have matching pegs - not matching the clothes but matching each other on each item pegged.

I also cannot bear pegs left out on the washing line. It drives me nuts.

Same as a lot of other people:

China cup - no coloured insides.
No water in mugs - in a glass please.
Cutting used blisters off blister packs
I have recently sorted my clothes by items and then in colour sequence (rainbow)
I have teaspoons and sundae spoons in one section of the cutlery tray. The teaspoons must face one way and the longer sundae spoons the other way

I am sure I could think of more.