The weird things I do…confession time😉.

How can there be a right and wrong way to hang screen rolls?
I think having the loose end at the back is tidier.

winterwhite

How can there be a right and wrong way to hang screen rolls?
I think having the loose end at the back is tidier.

Toilet rolls? Professional cleaners/housekeepers etc will all tell you they're taught to hang them with the loose end hanging to the front.

Loose end of the loo roll at the front, otherwise you're scrabbling at the wall to get hold of the end...

Nothing in my house can be skew if (sp). Furniture, things on tables, papers and books on the coffee table. Pictures on the wall must be straight, floor mats… When I was still at work, papers on my desk had to be parallel to the edge. I probably overuse commas.

I do most of these these things! Cushions, pictures, clothes pegs, socks on the line, ironing in a certain order (ok so I don’t really do much ironing!), cutlery in the drawer and on it goes. Even the Hail Marys though it’s when a train passes! I like being weird/eccentric!

I always count the letters in the words on the TV screen. IE on Loose Women etc. I get really annoyed it they do not add up to multiples of 5!
I also have to straighten pictures on walls.
I also do not step on the raised paving slabs at traffic lights etc. They really hurt my left foot. I have nerve pain in my foot.
I also do loads of other weird things. I must have OCD (not diagnosed)!!
Glad it’s not just me!

Always make sure the washing up cloth and tea towel are clean and spread out to dry so little bacteria builds up.

Me too

I think the vast majority of you are afflicted with OCD.

Personally, I must screw toothpaste cap back on after using.
I’m sure there is more, but don’t want to remind myself of how silly I am.

Open drawers and cupboard doors are a no-no for me …. I’ll even get out of bed in middle of night if I see just one drawer even 1cm open….buts that’s it …nothing else!

I have to have the same colour clothes pegs on each item of washing, and preferably the colour should also match the article!!!! Cutlery all has to face the same way in the drawer, but apart from those, I’m quite normal - no, honest, I am!

Crooked pictures - when I lived in Singapore my amah would give a slight tilt to all the picture frames - so that the devils who sat on them would fall off and not bring me bad luck.......

Well had a good laugh at this thread. Some of you would have a fit looking at my washing line, every colour of pegs under the sun and just pegged out as it came out of the washing basket. Just another chore to be done and certainly don't have time for colour coding pegs!

I like to make words from from a word I see on an advert or book or use a big word to make as many words as I can. Is that odd? Personally keeps my brain active I think, must go out and get my washing and multi-coloured pegs in!

These are hilarious!

I’m with you winterwhite - but we certainly seem to be out of step with everyone else. 🤷‍♀️

Casdon

I time the housework. I hate doing it, and I use the Pomodoro method to motivate myself, 15 minutes loud music and a timer. However many cycles of this I need, I award myself a reward of some kind (chapter of my book, 10 minutes on Gransnet, coffee, or whatever at the end of every 15 minutes. I can’t bring myself to do it otherwise.
I also count the weeds I pull when I’m gardening. I spend hours outside, but I can’t go back in the house unless I’ve pulled 100 weeds every time.
I’ve never admitted these weirdnesses before.

The counting is not so weird! I do it too - pick up 10 things and put them where they belong. It helps with tidying!!
Ironing done - will go upstairs with a couple of DH's shirts to hang up each time I'm headed up the stairs. Going with more shirts is not an option!!
DH is a messy sod! Will pour himself a beer and leave the bottle and top on the side instead of straight into recycling. Same with dishwasher - I will put straight in ready to wash and he will leave them above the dishwasher. I have to lose them!!

sodapop

I have my cushions square on as well Sago
Need to have an extra book on my bedside table in case I finish the original one too quickly
I recently bought an electric toothbrush and now find myself closing my eyes when I clean my teeth- why ?
The dogs have to use the leads which match their collars, I don't like it when my husband doesn't bother.

Going to stop now, I'm sounding odd even to myself.

With you on the collar and lead issue!

Blondiescot

winterwhite

How can there be a right and wrong way to hang screen rolls?
I think having the loose end at the back is tidier.

Toilet rolls? Professional cleaners/housekeepers etc will all tell you they're taught to hang them with the loose end hanging to the front.

I agree. It drives me mad.

Oh dear! I think I am very odd - I don't do any of these things! Well, I do straighten the odd picture, but only in my own house. By the sound of it, many of you'd be appalled at the clothes pegs on my washing line - all higgledy piggledy ! OK by me so long as they keep the washing safely in place. But if any of you visit me, you are welcome to colour match pegs and clothes.......

I have to make a short phrase out of car number plates that I pass when I'm walking along the pavement - for example, YBD would be young brown dog! No proper names allowed and no repetitions on that particular session. My DD adds up the numbers on number plates and is quite unsettled if it comes to an odd number

On the rare occasion I use the tumble drier I count the items of clothing as I put them in, but I don’t count them as I take them out. 😳

Grannynannywanny

When I hang the washing on the line it’s not enough for all the socks to be hanging in a row. Each one is hung beside its partner .

Haha, me too.
I also make strange faces when I’m putting mascara on. I don’t drink water from an upstairs tap either. I fold my towels and sheets in a particular way and if DH folds them differently, I unfold them and re fold them my way.

I’d be in heaven Applegran, I’d have a whale of a time re-arranging your pegs

yogagran

I have to make a short phrase out of car number plates that I pass when I'm walking along the pavement - for example, YBD would be young brown dog! No proper names allowed and no repetitions on that particular session. My DD adds up the numbers on number plates and is quite unsettled if it comes to an odd number

I do something similar - but instead of a phrase, I make a word out of the letters on the number plate.

I don't think it is possible to put on mascara without pulling a funny face!