What things are you a complete weirdo about?

[GordyMatthewson]

I'm really weird about laundry. I genuinely love it. In my glory hole, I have a liquor cupboard type arrangement but for laundry products. I get genuinely excited when there's a big spill or when its bed change day and I have to do laundry. DP and I watched a TV programme once about domestic labour which said women tend to do the 'dirty jobs' even when domestic labour is fairly equally split. DP started making a conscious effort to do the laundry. I warned him off on pain of death 😂

I'm also really weird about buying plants. I love browsing for plants but I get huge anxiety whenever it comes to actually making a decision and buying them. I get all overwhelmed with worries about them dying or looking shit. It's not at all about fear of wasting money on them, I have no idea what it is. Garden centres are like an out-of-body experience for me: I am so calm when browsing around all the lovely things and then a nervous wreck when it comes to actually picking some plants up.

I'm otherwise a completely normal, functioning, rational, professional woman. At work, I'm unflappable and I have a generally pretty relaxed outlook on life. But washing and plants send me a bit bonkers.

What are you weird about?

People who drink tea /coffee in the 'wrong' cup...

People who do up the top button on their polo shirt. I don’t know why it weirds me out but it just looks peculiar & a bit silly - including on kids.

I’m fully aware that IABU on this.

Having the TV on anything that doesn't end in 5 or 0.

It literally makes me feel itchy and I can't stop thinking about it.

I can always tell as well.

lol...I don't drink out of any other cup in our home except mine.
All of the guy's cups are stoneware ; heavy, thick-rimmed and clunky as heck!
Tea really does taste better in a china cup, funnily enough though, coffee, especially instant, tastes okay-ish in a clunky stoneware mug!
I also love hanging the washing outside on the clothesline.
I never use the dryer, even in the winter when the clothes freeze solid in contorted shapes on the line.

Books. I don't want a brand new hardback - I really dislike them. I want a soft, used paperback that has been read lots of times, by lots of people - but NOT one that is falling apart and losing pages.

I don't want a Kindle. I like my worn paperback books. There is a comfort in holding them and reading from them.

I always have to have the TV volume on an even number. I get twitchy if it isn't.

I remember my mum hanging pairs of jeans on the line in freezing weather, bringing them indoors and them standing up by themselves because they were frozen solid.

I hate drinking out of anything other than bone china. Can’t bear pottery or thick china mugs. If I have to I’ll sip at the drink out of politeness but won’t finish it.

I get anxious if I don’t have a napkin/kitchen roll/tissue to wipe lips and sticky fingers on when I’m out.

I colour code my wardrobe!

Im sure I’ve got other stupidly comforting foibles but can’t think for a minute!

I hear you on this - my monthly WoB delivery is heaven for this exact reason.

I got Waterstones vouchers for my birthday and flip flopped for ages on what to buy because I don't really like new shiny books. I've got Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's new book arriving in hard back - I might have to drop it in the bath to make it feel more homely before I get down to it properly!

While my DH wraps my presents, I like to be in the room. (I am blindfolded, because otherwise I would certainly try to look at them!) I find the sound of this very comforting, knowing that he’s preparing something special for me right under my nose. I feel cheated if he wraps one without me there!

Mugs here as well. I have three mugs from which I will drink normal tea; I have a similar number (but entirely different) of mugs for herbal tea.
However, it's stationery where I am "probably a bit nuts". Pencils have to be super sharp, and therefore sharpened during use! Propelling pencils are my friend because of this strangeness.

This officially bonkers and absolutely adorable 😍

In my glory hole, I have a liquor cupboard type arrangement but for laundry products.

In where?! 😆😆

I’m so pleased you said that as I was really wondering if I was the only person thinking the same thing 😆

That’s the most self-obsessed thing I think I’ve ever heard. But also quite sweet

a hundred years ago, a glory hole was a special cupboard or boxroom

It’s quite different now!

The cups I use change over the course of a day. In the morning a big cafe au lait type of affair, then a smaller cup for the next coffee, if I drink coffee in the afternoon it's a different cup again. If it's tea it has to be bone china.
I can only sit on a particular seat in the living room, if someone unwittingly sits on it I stand in the middle of the room utterly paralysed.
Washing has to be hung on the line in a particular order, it takes ages but it has to be done correctly, I swap and change and faff on until it feels "right".

Agree with this, it just looks wrong. Also top button done up on shirts if they're not wearing a tie - just wrong.

Not really something I do….more a ‘just me’ thing.

I thought everyone was the same until I spoke about it and I was called an utter weirdo !!!

when I count in my head, numbers are colours and shapes, I'm pretty number blind anyway….a bit like dyslexia but with numbers.

for example, 1 is a white circle, 2 is a dark blue rectangle, 3 is a yellow triangle, and so on, and then multiples when you get into double figures etc.

yes I’m weird, but evidently, it is a ‘thing!!!’

YES!!!! Not just me!

I'm neurodivergent so honestly there are a lot of things people would find weird about me 😂

I have a rodent themed Pokémon card collection. I don't like others touching it. I change the order around every now and then, so sometimes they're in collection order, sometimes numerical, sometimes order of favourites...sounds lame but it gives me joy 😁

I'm also a huge board game nerd. I own tons. I log every single play on an app to track my stats, and I create spreadsheets of my faves in certain categories, ones I want to buy, etc. My boxes and their contents are all super organised!

Ex mod here .we always had the top button done up on Fred Perry polo shirts.

my mum did that too @JohnTheRevelator ,👖 then I did with my kids, sending them into shrieks of laughter 😂

Isn’t that a MOD look ? Gavin in G & S wears his polo shirts like that.