The weird things I do…confession time😉.

@Sueki44

I only like even numbers!

Funnily enough, I can't stand even numbers, everything has to be an odd number for me 😊

I can't go to bed at night until I stare at the fire alarms and wait for the little red flash, then I know they are working. I've got three of them, so it's a darned nuisance.
When I leave a key in a door, it has to be sitting vertically, not horizontally. No idea why!
I'm no longer really a believer in God, and yet whenever anything nice happens I always feel the need to say thank you to him.

On the days that I walk my dog round our village I count how many different species of wild flower are in bloom. This started in lockdown when we were not walking in other areas, and it was my way of looking forward to the summer. Each day the number of flowers increased so I knew summer was on it's way.

I also keep a spreadsheet of books I've read with a score out of 10 and a comment.

Crikey I'm sounding weird, so I won't tell you about my gardening lists. And before anyone mentions it, there is autism in my family.

I count everything, even peeling potatoes I count every piece. I have to end on an even number even if it means peeling where it’s already peeled. Pictures must be correctly hung, toilet roll hung the right way too. I have a mental list of end of the day checks and if I get into bed and suspect I missed one I have to get up and make sure.
There are three of us in the house and I have to hang washing on the line according to whose garment it is. I have to answer the phone if I know who is calling, even if I have just sat down to eat. I don’t like sweet things with a savoury dish or cold food with a hot dish My daughter does nothing I do and I have to fight myself not to rehang the washing at least, because she will be cross. I am far from OCD and don’t keep a particularly tidy house unless expecting visitors but some things just have to be done right🙄

Love the 100 weeds idea - although I think I’d have to allocate 10 points to brambles, & maybe to dandelions depending on the time of year

Toilet rolls yes, clothes pegs never, but I always score through the number against a crossword clue when it’s solved even though I’ve written the answer in the grid.

Blossoming

I have to colour match the clothes pegs when hanging washing out.

Me too, my husband thinks I’m crazy. And when he puts the washing out and uses mismatch pegs I have to change them. 😀

NotAGran55

I say ‘thank you’ to the hole-in- the-wall on the rare occasion I take out cash.

Me, too. Also, yes to colour coordinating clothes pegs and putting socks in pairs on the washing line.
Some years ago, one of my jobs was helping with music in a special school one morning a week. There were four ladies' toilets for the staff. One day, several ladies, including me, admitted that we always chose the same cubicle and if "our" cubicle was occupied we felt slightly disconcerted, even though they were all exactly the same. Ridiculous, really. Also, in regular meetings, people always sit in the same place. It’s as if it is an unwritten rule.

I identified with so many of these "tiny" eccentricities that I have decided I am definitely "normal". Thank you Gransnetters for the reassurance.

Me too with having the socks in pairs on the line. And I HAVE to have the clock in the sitting room half an hour fast, but not the clocks in other rooms.

First of all I put all socks together on the line followed by underwear then as the items go along they get longer 🤣🤣 towels at far end, and all have to be stainless steel pegs. There’s nowt as queer as folk !

I also every day make a list of things I have to do and cross off as I go along . My Dh if he sees the list will add at the top get up and at the bottom go to bed 🤣🤣

I'm another who has to match pegs to pegs and coordinate with the clothes. It got so ridiculous that I now have wooden pegs to avoid the issue. I also hang things together and towels, teatowels etc all round the same way. My rationale is that I'd have to sort them to put them away anyway so I'm saving time at the other end! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

Blossoming

I have to colour match the clothes pegs when hanging washing out.

That's not odd - it can't be because I do it too.

Blondiescot

Blossoming

I have to colour match the clothes pegs when hanging washing out.

I was just about to post the very same thing! Glad it's not just me!

And me! They had also to match the garment if possible. I have, however, recently switched to wooden pegs.
I count the words in a sentence or the letters in a word on my fingers, keeping repeating the exercise until it ends on my thumb.
My late friend had to have the zips on cushions on the bottom, and would get out of bed to check them if she hadn’t done it before retiring. She also had to have the volume on the television on a multiple of five.

To me there is nothing weird about cutlery having to be lined up. This was how I was taught to set a table - you had to be able to stand at the end of a table and see ever piece of culterly, crockery, glass etc in perfectly straight lines. Good restaurants still teach their staff this.

And my great-aunt who taught me to hang out washing would have made me take it down again and hang it up properly if all the articles of the same kind were not hung beside each other, socks paired up, all woollens in the shade and everything that was to be taken down sligthly damp to facilitate ironing hung on the same line. In her day clothes pegs were wooden, but had she lived to see plastic pegs of different colours I am certain she would have paired them up too!

I too can't bear pictures hanging squint, probably because another dear lady of my childhood insisted that a photo of anyone who had died that hung squint meant they were trying to tell you something.

My own weird habits? I reserve a saucepan for boiling milk in, use one washing up bowl for the washing up and another for cleaning vegetables and carry on long conversations with the cats,

Me too, I used to color match the clothes pins with the articles of clothing or sheets, pillowcases etcetra.

Now, I use wooden clothespins !

Many of the mentioned !!! I think women around the globe may share some of the same visuals.

We’ve only just had a television after twenty five gloriously quiet years. Did I really just get out of the chair and with two fingers to try to expand what was on the screen. I find myself doing it with magazines too. I go cat sitting ( for a hobby and because I LOVE cats) but why do I get so much satisfaction out of cleaning THEIR oven when I can barely do my own at home. Likewise with cleaning the shower. Water is such a luxury I can spend ages in there with a toothbrush and a bottle of THE Pink Stuff. (Not gin and angostura bitters…..) it’s a cleaning product I use in the shower. I also have a boiled egg for breakfast and never eat the white, only the yolk. My husband has eaten so many extra whites over the years.

Grannynise

Blossoming

I have to colour match the clothes pegs when hanging washing out.

That's not odd - it can't be because I do it too.

And me

too many to mention, one i was only talking about with a friend yesterday, why do i still go to church, when i don't believe in most of it?! working on it .......

I do nearly all of the above! I can't ask Alexa a question without saying thank you!

This one beats all of yours! There's a local waste collection company, here in Northumberland, called Sanders. When I'm driving around and I see one their wagons I have to say, "Under the name of Sanders!", which is where Winnie the Pooh lives. I don't know what will happen if I don't say it out loud, but I'm not risking it!
Ha! Beat that if you can!

I don’t like wooden clothes pegs, they mark the clothes. I’ll carry on colour matching my pretty soft touch pegs, which are also kind to my hands

I always put the date on any note (digital or handwritten) I write myself.

Thanks to you all, I feel so normal now!