to ask if you have any odd habits?

[SarfEasticatedMumma]

I love pulling out bristly eyebrow hairs and tickling my upper lip with the end of it. That's really weird isn't. Please join in and make me feel better about myself...

I pick, bite and rip the skin around my nails, my thumbs are the worst. They look horrible and even worse after a bath.

I also occasionally use my nose stud to poke through my old lip piercing which pushes out moisturiser, foundation, old skin etc and then smell it...

I am disgusting.

Amper!!!! That nose stud/lip piercing will take some beating!! That stuff stinks!!!!!

ollie I do that as well. I blow on any food I use cutlery for, including breakfast cereal

I used to pick the skin around my fingers and also on the soles of my feet, till they were raw and scabby. And I have grown out of it...in due course. I found that having professional manicures and pedicures really helped and using lots of moisturiser when I really want to pick...much harder to pick at moisturised skin.

For years I was ashamed of my hands and feet and now I love showing them off. Keep faith - it can be done!

I'm going to try and grow my eyelashes back properly. I think I've rarely had a full set since I started doing it at about 9 years old and I'm mid 40s now!

lala you have no idea how happy I am to read that. I thought it was just me!

I do a strange tuneless hum when I remember something embarrassing. I've tried explaining it to people before who just look at me like I'm crazy. I'm so happy you do it too!

Yay! Not just me then! I've no idea when it started but I even do it in meetings at work. My dh laughs because I'll often miaow whilst we are watching something on TV and he'll ask what I did that was embarrassing

I'm also a lip picker! And I pick at often non existent spots on the back of my ears, back, shoulders, etc. And I hold hands with my feet iyswim?

I do a sort of grunting noise when I remember something embarrassing. I've noticed my husband look over when I do it, but he hasn't mentioned it. Probably thinks I'm going mad!

LaLa and iLoveFlop I am in kinks at your embarrassment hums

I play with sellotape - I wind it round and round to keep it sticky and touch my fingers on the sticky. It's massively stress relieving and I've only ever met one other person who understands!!

I sniff sponges, lick concrete and like to eat sand! all perfectly normal and
makes me very easy to buy presents for.

I stroke the inside wrist of my cardigan with my ring finger, Im not sure why. Its only my left side and its only my work cardigan. Bloody annoyed at myself as I give my DP stick for lusting over a well pressed corner on a pillowcase ( ie. I will be talking to him and he isn't listening, just concentrating on fiddling) and now I've started!

I chew sponges! My mouth is watering just thinking about it! Big jumbo yellow car sponges!! When I'm in a chemist or boots or something my mouth waters as I obviously associate it with sponges!! Yum!! (I don't swallow) I've done it since I was about 4

Sponges?! Boak....I can't even touch the feckers, that's actually making my teeth hurt....shudders.

I am a sporn addict anything and everything I can squeeze I will.

What's sporn?

It's spot porn/enjoyment of squeezing spots.

When I'm nervous I rub my thumb really hard on my fingertips and it makes me look like I have a tremor.
I have long hair and will sit and randomly put little plaits in it, take them out and start all over again.
I pull my lip when I'm thinking and don't realise I'm doing it till I've pinched it so hard it hurts.
The cushions and pillows on my bed have to be put on the right way or I can't cope looking at it - but only if the bed has fresh sheets. Once they've been on a few days it stops bothering me.
DH thinks I'm odd for always keeping my pajamas under my pillow. I think it's sensible.

I like cutting my nails too short and then rubbing my newly oversensitive fingers on things to make them do that weird hurty feeling.

I also like grating my tongue on my top teeth.

I tap my nails on everything, I also remove the smeg out of piercing holes but I don't smell it, that is rank lol.
I pick spots without fear of scars because that is what exfoliating and peels are made for.

I only half peel off the foil lid on pot noodles because you can close them after you pour in the water and i think they cook better. I do a similar thing with the peely bits on biscuit packets, you turn them upside and put them in the pack and it means no stale biscuits. I like washing my hands in really hot water.
I also plait my hair prolifically and I like to make a mustache with it.
I rub my nails on the pads of my fingers and also press them into my hands.
I hold my boobies randomly too, sometimes I don't even notice I'm doing it.

Blow bubbles under water in the bath.
Satisfies the ancient amphibious part of my brain I think!

I do the mustache thing too Roses!

I do an embarrassment noise too. Or I'll say something random out loud. I think I'm trying to distract myself.

Were an interesting bunch aren't we.