Inspired by someone else’s thread:
my family joke that I’m a germaphobe but I feel like I’m not, because I’m not constantly sanitising, washing my hands more than I need to ect. I’m not a clean freak either, mess gets left, dishes get left out sometimes ect.
However, I can’t stand reusing things like tea towels, bath towels, washing up sponges/rags.
it seems like such a waste since I know people use them more than a day or two.. but I have this thought that I’ve washed my hands, dried them, so have DH, DC maybe.. the tea towel gets damp and essentially left damp hanging on the hook or the oven handle.. just marinating in hand wash water.. so then it feels dirty after a day of using it.
washing up sponges, I can’t use one more than a day because using a cold wet sponge with some of its scouring side all scraped and used makes me feel ill. Microfibre type dish clothes the same, I hang it on the sink to ‘dry’ but it’s not dry the next day so just feels like it’s been marinating in stagnant water.. so in the wash it goes. My mum and my sister think I’m mental. I don’t use bath towels more than once before washing. It just feels unclean to me and I know it isn’t but I can’t shake the feeling.
unrelated to the above: I also get very irritated and snappy if plans change, if my idea of how our day is going to go.. doesn’t go that way. If I’m late for something I had plenty of time for, doesn’t happen often but when it does I feel terrible and flustered all day.
I absolutely cannot stand ‘sticky’ feelings on my body, not tacky like recently applied moisturiser/sun cream.. but like honey, jam type of sticky.. it makes me feel a genuine rage, like angry.. for no reason other than I hate the feeling of it.
could that be OCD or am I just an intolerant cow?