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?

Putting petrol in the car - it has to land on exactly £20 and if I go over, it’s then up to £25 or £30. I don’t count litres, I count pounds.

I got into trouble for over filling the tank and it spilling out with that one

To add to the polo shirt top button, I’d like to add having the collar stood up.

Also neurodivergent and same but what sprang to mind was I have to (more like really want to) categorise everything from best to worst: items, pictures, names, tv shows/characters and even people 🫣

Drives my DH a bit nuts but he still does it with me.

Sleeveless shirts on men. Even small boys. I made my sons so freaked out about it that to this day they have never worn one, even as adults. Oh, and chewing gum. I have never had a piece of gum (it was forbidden as a child) and as far as I know my sons have not either. Or, at least they know not to chew it in front of me. LOL

Oh Im completely the opposite! I have to have a brand new hardback .One that I can crack open and breathe in that new book smell…

My other oddities are:
Cannot have plants in the house. Living things in dirt?? No thanks
Cant bear to have an empty mug on my bedside table when I go to sleep..have to take it through to the kitchen. But..I also have to take a cuppa to bed!
Doesnt happen much now Im pretty cashless, but I had to empty my purse of coppers as soon as I came in
Cant sit in a room with any doors open.
Cant have the big light on
Must eat the crust off sandwiches first

Eating Weetabix. The bowl must fit a biscuit or two perfectly flat, not to big, not too deep. Milk must be ice cold, and there's a window of eating time... I must be able to suck the milk through the crispy biscuit. Once it turns to sludge I completely loose interest.

I also only eat Alpen out of a tea cup.

Porridge has to have a lake of cold milk on top to eat the hot porridge through.

I think I'm some sort of serial cereal obsessive.

Glory hole = Cupboard under the stairs. What else? Bloody filthy mares 🤣

You and my DP would get on. He collects Sandslash and Sandshrew cards. No-one's permitted within 10m of said cards.

Drinking water from a mug - I don’t know why but it makes me want to gag every time! Has to be an actual glass or clear plastic container (coloured is ok) otherwise I will retch! Have no clue why I feel this way!

Squares!!! Anywhere but especially in houses. I’m talking tiles, flooring etc. think I’ve got an aversion to right angles. Every room in my house has something in the corners. There’s no place for squares in a modern society!!!

A lot of my preferences surround getting food and drink to cool down because I really, really hate burning my mouth, even slightly.

I hate it when plates are warmed up to keep food hot.

I cut everything up asap so it all cools down faster.

I drink tea out of a thick mug as it cools down quicker than bone china.

Three button Fred Perry polo .. always had top button done up.
It was a thing long before Gavin and Stacey.

I’m weirdly strange about tempting myself with buying stuff. So…I go into a shopping centre or go to a busy high street, visit various shops there, look at all the lovely clothes and shoes, handbags and jewellery, and feel tempted by certain stuff but don’t buy them because basically I have enough of everything at home. When I come out of these shops empty handed, I feel proud of myself for not giving in to material temptation and congratulate myself on being mentally disciplined 😆
Lately I’ve become a big fan of the Marie Kondo minimalist lifestyle and working hard on it.

Driving routes here: I always take a 'round trip' rather than going the same way home as I went to a location. There are about 4 different routes to my nearest big town where I work, and I'll always go there on one and come back on another - same with going to my mum's/dad's etc. I've no idea why, it just feels 'right'! Obviously I don't do this if it's a motorway/long trip/where there's only one sensible route and the other would take an hour longer, but if there are only 5 minutes in it, I'll do it two different ways. DH has picked it up too and he's forever inventing new ways for us to get somewhere (even if they're very silly, like down a side street) to follow the 'rules'.

Ooh hard agree on some of these - complete outrage at others! I too hate the top button fastened on polo shirts/shirts, but I NEVER dry my washing outside - it goes on the airer or radiator - so it doesn’t get bugs from outside on it. Also much prefer nice ‘clean’ new books to old/used - less ‘germs’ (this one stems from getting a library book with book lice when I was a child). Also on bug theme (!) no, no, no to house plants - pots of dirt with bugs in all around the house? No thank you. And as for Weetabix - it’s got to be stodgy and claggy, and there needs to be at least four!

Tea towels. I have a dishwasher. People use them to dry their hands or brush crumbs and I always think eww dirty now. I am not a clean freak at all, so this is just me being weird. Don’t own one.

People that speak on their mobile phones in public places on loud speaker.

You win this one mate - foible of the year that one, lol.

I've just had a long day of traveling for work and currently lying on the bed in my hotel room and this made me laugh out loud 😆

Why on earth do you only eat alpen from a tea cup?? 😊

An item on the line to dry absolutely must have the same coloured pegs. I have 4 different colours and they are never mixed on one garment. Doesn't matter if the one next to it has different coloured pegs - as long as those on the same garment are the same colour.

Bangs gavel.

I totally get this. There’s something about that first bite of just the right Weetabix crunch and ice cold milk - perfect. If it’s around long enough to go soggy, then it goes in the bin.

Everyone I’ve mentioned it to in real life thinks my present wrapping foible is weird, but we love it. I enjoy hearing the wrapping almost as much as I enjoy opening them on the day itself. Some people have said “why not just turn your back?” I can’t do that, the temptation to flick my head round is too great, so I have to be blindfolded.

I can only wear bamboo socks - other socks feel disgusting to me

@ElCorazon I too feel happy if I leave a shop empty handed. If I see something I like, I try to find it online. When I went on a French exchange in Paris in 1997, the mum told me not to buy anything, but to tell her, and she’d find it cheaper. And online shopping was quite new then.