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What things are you a complete weirdo about?

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GordyMatthewson · 30/06/2025 16:59

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?

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Roystonv · 03/07/2025 05:50

To settle/be happy I have to sit in a certain place if we are out for a meal; back to wall looking out is the aim. Dc and dh know this and always wait for me to choose. If driving a regular route to visit dc and there are different exits to choose from I have to take the first one even if slower otherwise I feel I am not showing my love for them, that I don't care about them as I am ignoring this first exit to get to them.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 03/07/2025 06:02

I can’t sit with my back to the door in a restaurant.

I have to cross my 7s - if I don’t, I get almost itchy with anxiety.

When addressing an envelope, I always put a little underlined ‘To’ in the top left hand corner. I thought this was normal until DH pointed it out as a quirk of mine.

I judge people who order lattes and cappuccinos after dinner. Only a little bit, and I try really hard not to. But I do.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 03/07/2025 06:06

DrJackDaniels · 02/07/2025 13:31

I don’t let anyone touch the dishwasher as I have to stack it in a specific way.

I can’t have my food touching other food and have to eat each item in a specific order from least favourite to favourite

I have to use a specific knife and fork to eat with and also only use certain mugs for tea.

I also love laying on my side with my arm in the air and trying to balance my arm into the shoulder socket. Sometimes I get the balance just right and can stay in that position for ages and fear that the slightest breeze or movement will ruin it and make my arm fall 🤣

Am I the only one who is now lying with her arm in the air?

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GordyMatthewson · 03/07/2025 09:41

Wheezygonzalez · 02/07/2025 23:17

I have to have lip balms with me at all times. I hate the feeling of my lips bring dry and it’s such a compulsion that once I was in work without a lip balm and I felt so put out and was in such a grump all day.

I have a lip balm now in each handbag, in the car, in my bedside table drawer, in my work locker and in my desk drawer.

I do this too. Every bag and coat I own has a lip balm in it. I'd never thought about it being weird but now I write it down.... 😒

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TheKeeperOfTissues · 03/07/2025 09:48

@Catsandcannedbeans Its good to know im not alone 😂
threads like these make me normal (for a while)

StarlightLady · 03/07/2025 09:52

Having matching bra and knickers.

MyDogHumpsThings · 03/07/2025 09:59

Allthesnowallthetime · 30/06/2025 22:10

If I am walking with someone they have to be on my right hand side. Just feels wrong otherwise.

This becomes a problem when I walk with someone who also needs the other person to walk on their right hand side.

Same, but the left hand side! It feels very uncomfortable to walk and talk and turn my head to the right, but totally comfortable doing it on the left.

IAmNeverThePerson · 03/07/2025 10:33

GordyMatthewson · 30/06/2025 20:08

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

My mother uses the phrase like that. She was in hospital recently and kept saying to me “can you look in my glory hole for <whatever it was>”. Loudly because she didn’t have her hearing aids in.

In the end I had to explain that the phrase had more than one meaning and no I wasn’t explain it to her but cupboards under the stairs was a better term to be using in public. Mortifying.

StarlightLady · 03/07/2025 10:56

IAmNeverThePerson · 03/07/2025 10:33

My mother uses the phrase like that. She was in hospital recently and kept saying to me “can you look in my glory hole for <whatever it was>”. Loudly because she didn’t have her hearing aids in.

In the end I had to explain that the phrase had more than one meaning and no I wasn’t explain it to her but cupboards under the stairs was a better term to be using in public. Mortifying.

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Wheezygonzalez · 03/07/2025 11:30

GordyMatthewson · 03/07/2025 09:41

I do this too. Every bag and coat I own has a lip balm in it. I'd never thought about it being weird but now I write it down.... 😒

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I just can’t concentrate properly if my lips are dry 😂 or are they just my emotional support lip balms? Either way I’m happy!

I also don’t think it’s weird but other people seem to have started to notice they are always part of meetings 😄

Differentforgirls · 03/07/2025 11:42

BlueEyedBogWitch · 03/07/2025 06:06

Am I the only one who is now lying with her arm in the air?

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Natsku · 03/07/2025 11:59

BlueEyedBogWitch · 03/07/2025 06:02

I can’t sit with my back to the door in a restaurant.

I have to cross my 7s - if I don’t, I get almost itchy with anxiety.

When addressing an envelope, I always put a little underlined ‘To’ in the top left hand corner. I thought this was normal until DH pointed it out as a quirk of mine.

I judge people who order lattes and cappuccinos after dinner. Only a little bit, and I try really hard not to. But I do.

7s definitely have to be crossed, and wish everyone did because it makes it so much clearer what is a 7 and what is a 1. In my workplace its mandatory to cross 7s so no one is confused what number it is!

Tryonemoretime · 03/07/2025 15:19

And I always take some loo roll in my handbag since desperately needing a loo (IBS) when out and the loo didn't have any!

tobee · 03/07/2025 20:28

I only like my age if it's an even number or ends in a 5. I'm currently 57 and this is not good. Plus 57 seems miles older than 56. I was mid 50s. Then the next day I was late 50s.

tobee · 03/07/2025 20:31

Oh and people have to cut cheese the right way. This is left over from my mum. If you have a triangle shaped Brie for example, it was to be sliced into a long thin slice. Not the other way. Not short slices. It's rude to do it the other way and so the next person comes to an ugly stump of cheese with rind.

tobee · 03/07/2025 20:50

Definitely agree @Countrylife2002 . I think it's miserly to not have it over. And it looks wrong.

GameOfJones · 04/07/2025 09:44

I agree with @Coxy1234 that I have to have a little bit of everything on my fork. My DH is autistic and the opposite, he has to eat everything separately. The other day we had a ploughmans and he ate the coleslaw on its own which gave me the heebie jeebies....at least put some ham or cheese with it!

Coxy1234 · 04/07/2025 10:01

I'm glad I'm not the only one @GameOfJones I've never known anyone else who does that, lol. My fil used to eat one thing at a time - weirdo 🙃🤪

Snakebite61 · 04/07/2025 11:19

Hatty65 · 30/06/2025 17:27

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.

Agree with you wholeheartedly.

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