to eat a pea because I feel sorry for it.

[SlightlyJaded]

I have just eaten a cherry tomato that I didn't really want (last one, bit bruised and squishy) because I 'felt sorry for it' and thought it would be sad if it didn't get eaten like it's friends...

I often do this with peas as well.

And other small pieces of food

I try to tell myself that it's ridiculous "Jaded it's just food, it doesn't have feelings FFS"

But still I find myself adding the manky mushroom to the risotto so it doesn't feel left out.

Anyone?

My DP insists doors, etc have bitten her when she catches a finger, etc in them and tells them off for biting her. I now do the same and insist she must have been nasty to said door, etc to have got bitten.

mathanxiety that is a hilarious and so cute picture

:o @ TheCrunchUnderFoot!!!

My dp came home from work one day, to find a Xmas card on the shelf with a photo on the front of a man & woman, grinning.

Dp "Who is that from?"

Me "Paul & Claire"

Dp " Who are they?"

Me "I have no idea.
Its for the previous owners, there arn't any sender details.

We cant forward it as have no address so they will have to sit there & have Xmas with us"

I couldnt bear to throw them in the bin, after surviving the journey!

So UANBU!

OMG cant beleive i just saw that, this is me all over, i only leave food in twos, so they have company ( or eat the last one even if its forced down) i cant leave odd numbers in case one feels left out. If i drop a crisp or nut or something smilar i have to drop another to keep it company. So releived that i,m not on my own. I also thank cash machines and car park machines!

I KNOW it's bad form to resurrect a Zombie thread, especially when it is one you started yourself, but I was talking about this to someone last night who thought I was mad and couldn't believe that anyone would worry about a pea being lonely or a new soft toy being put with an older one who can 'show him the ropes', so I came back for reassurance and realised that the thread was actually brilliant. (Other people's contributions rather than mine)

So for those who missed it first time round.

You're not mad. I do this. And I'm definitely NOT mad! much

I'm glad you did resurrect it I have read through nodding along, I now know its not just me!!!

I'm exactly the same, in fact I used to collect my apple cores as I felt like I was abandoning them by throwing them away and then I buried them altogether. Now I eat the cores lol. But I always worry about my soft toys and food, I also feel sorry for treas if they get cut down.

Trees

My God, I, and my sisters do this

Can vividly remember my mum cutting potatoes for tea and leaving a handful, and my sister's pitiful 'Aww, don't leave them out, they'll have been cut for nothing'

Weirdos

it's not a zombie thread if it's your own thread .

I do this too. and sympathetically select the wonkiest carrot in sainsburys because I don't want it to left over and abandoned .

Ha! I thought this was just me being soft in the head.

I'm glad you resurrected it.

I have have an upright wooden chest with two compartments. The lower one has doors in the side. But I rarely open the top because the door is on the top and has huge piles of crap on it.

In the upper bit are lots of childhood soft toys - plus a few I bought as an adult . They are all sitting and placed so their faces look up if possible. They have friends to sit next to too.

I've just gone and looked at them after about two years because of this thread. I've left the lid open for a while so they can see out. It always makes me sad to close it and consign them to the dark but I can't have soft toys dotted around my house if I am to maintain the fantasy that I am a woman to be reckoned with.

They've got each other though.

Oh, there is one that's escaped the dark - a plush bat with wraparound wings that fasten with a press stud. He's clipped to the bed. My husband gave him to me for my 40th

My soft duck and OH's teddy bear sit cuddled together on the bed in case they get lonely when we're out. I have just been in my daughter's room and made sure the Slientnight Hippo had his little duck with him. :)

I used to sort my daughter's bookcase so all the Noddy books were together, all the Thomas The Tank together, you get the picture?

Since first starting this thread, we have developed a family 'tradition' of getting all the soft toys that 'sadly won't be able to join us on holiday this year' and putting them in a circle on a picnic blanket whilst we are away. So that they get to have a good time too.

There was also so much debate about which toys could come that the DC now have a rota although I believe that some toys have queue jumped and others been twice in a row

DH won't have a single key on a key ring as it will have nobody to jangle with and keys apparently love to jangle and might feel sad if there only role in life was to serve the function of unlocking a door.

*their
I've nearly made myself cry with that typo

We're all bonkers! Love it! I scraped out the last sweet corn from the pan and ate it last night as I was loading the dishwasher as I didn't want it to go in the bin, on its own. IT seemed such a shame that this single sweet corn should be binned when the others had such a noble end together (in DS's stomach).

See? Bonkers

I nearly cried this morning because I was thinking about my old car. He was tiny and bright red and lovely but he had to go because he wasn't big enough once I had had baby DD. He was replaced with big fat useful black car who I am polite to but don't love in the same way. When I sold him I told him I loved him and I would never forget him and to be good for his new owners. His little round eyes looked all sad when he was driven away (even though they had not changed in any way at all, obviously).

In my defence I am 24wks pg and incredibly hormonal.

Slientnight Hippo had his little duck with him.

A friend who was huge was married to a tiny woman and he bought her the Slumberland hippo and duck.

limited

oops didn't notice my typo until you posted that!

I can spell SILENT, honestly!

When I empty out tins of kidney beans or anything of that ilk, I can't leave anything in the bottom because I'm worried they'll be lonely and sad without their comrades. DH insists it's deeply abnormal and unhinged, but I can't stop even if I wanted to (which I don't; what kind of awful person leaves a solitary bean in the pot to be lonely and lost in the recycling bin?).

Oh no, I wasn't trying to correct you MumToFourCats.

I didn't notice that. Your post just reminded me of them. He said he even had the hippo's blue and white stripey pyjamas.

Gosh, there are others even more unhinged like me!

My contribution is that when I load the dishwasher I put all the forks together at one end of the cutlery holder and all the knives together at the other end. On the odd day when I have too many forks and space at the knife end, I always think the one or two forks that have to go with the knives are being very brave.

I could no more split socks up on the airer than I could fly in the air.