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Anybody have any weird habits.

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breeze · 22/02/2003 09:52

Just thought I would start this thread, as my DH always take the mickey out of me for when I am hanging out my washing, I always have to have the same colour peg on the same item. I didn't
actually realise this until it was pointed out. Am I the only one who does things like this.

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eidsvold · 22/02/2003 09:53

oh no breeze - my mother also likes to co ordinate her pegs with her clothes when hanging the washing out.

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breeze · 22/02/2003 09:56

My friend actually bought me a pressie once. A pack of the same colour pegs.

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mum2boy · 22/02/2003 10:46

Breeze that's almost as good as my mother buying me a pair of scissors for Christmas once...

SoupDragon · 22/02/2003 12:01

We've got 3 different sets of cutlery (not all complete) and I can't bear it if I get a knife & fork that don't match!

ANGELMOTHER · 22/02/2003 12:16

I have a few strange ones I have to admit..

  • I do not like crisp packets being opened upside down.
  • Dishes have to be washed in a certain order..glasses first, pots last etc and cutlery stashed handle down.

I could go on but you'd all think I was nuts

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breeze · 22/02/2003 13:09

Starting to feel more normal.

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janh · 22/02/2003 16:25

Seals on jars, tubs of margarine etc have to be removed completely - not even a tiny scrap left. Does that qualify as weird?

sobernow · 22/02/2003 17:09

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jessi · 22/02/2003 19:28

You are not alone breeze. I have to hang my washing out on the line in a very particular way. Its very effective as you make everything dry really fast (its a kind of wind sock effect), however, when my helpful mil offers to hang out my washing I really break into a sweat. Tragic eh? I used to let her and suffer, but now the control freak in me has taken over and I have confessed quietly that I cannot let her do it any longer.

Hilary · 22/02/2003 20:16

I am funny about the way I hang washing too. I can't really desribe it but everything needs to be hung as I would do it or I can't cope. If, on a very rare occasion, dh offers to do it, I either refuse him or let him do it and have to go and change it all when he has finished!

janh · 22/02/2003 22:10

Another laundry control freak here, hilary and jessi (and breeze) - I don't exactly have a particular way of doing it but I can't let anybody help either. I think it's jessi's windsock thing - everything has to be hanging loose and facing wind (spend many confused minutes wetting finger and holding it up to see where wind is coming from - we are surrounded by buildings so it's hard to tell unless there is a gale!)

Can't finish with bottles, jars or tubes unless they are EMPTY either. Shampoo/conditioner etc has to be rinsed out into one huge mixed-up bottle for emergencies - peanut butter has to be scraped out down to the last smidgen - toothpaste has to be flattened and squeezed up from the bottom about ten times before I'll give up. I don't think it's meanness - just hate waste!

Hilary · 22/02/2003 22:18

The windsock thing sounds great but for me everything has to be hung up neatly and precisely as I never iron so things have to be as flat as possible! Silly, aren't we?

janh · 22/02/2003 22:29

Silly? Not ironing? I don't think so, Hilary! I do that too - frantic violent flapping and some tugging along seams to get out as much creasing as possible before pegging out. (I don't iron either, you understand! My family has got used to it.)

Blowy days are the best. Hot days get stuff dry quicker but it ends up with more creasing.

It must be nice to be really rich and have someone to do all that stuff for you though - don't you think?

MandyD · 22/02/2003 22:30

I was thinking this the other day as I hung the washing on the indoor airer by the bathroom radiator...DS's socks always go on the top front right, DP boxers top back, my socks second row back, DP socks second row front left, DS vests bottom row front, my pants on the end on the right, DS pants on the end at the left, all other space to be taken up by DS pyjamas!! I've been doing it this way for nearly a year and I think I'd freak if someone else did it a different way! Certify me now!!

Chinchilla · 22/02/2003 22:43

Janh - You need one of those thin scraper things from Lakeland. They are brilliant for getting all the stuff out of jars, even tall ones! A motto of my family's is 'Seems a shame to waste it'!

janh · 22/02/2003 22:47

Thanks, Chinchilla, I'll order one! (I have the brochure here but a friend and I are supposed to be visiting the shop "soon"; probably be far quicker to get one from the brochure - could be years before we get there.)

Glad I'm not the only one who can't waste things!

bea · 22/02/2003 22:55

i knnew there were more of us out there... control freaks at the washing line...

have to hang all white together, t shirts together etc...
dd clothes goes at a certain point of the line... towels and duvet covers have to be at the back of the line...
smallies at the front (have two washing lines) ...
have been known to unpegging and repegging when things don't look right!!!

dh thinks i'm mad and has now decided that it isn't worth asking should he peg out as he knows i will go out there and tut tut and then re peg!!!

does this make any sense...??? it's a little late for me!!!

Demented · 23/02/2003 00:35

I get edgy about the dishwasher, it has to be stacked in a certain way if anyone else loaded it I like to check it before it is switched on and rearrange anything that it not right (old dishwasher broke a couple of weeks ago mind you and even I am still trying to get to grips with the new one).

I also have a thing about the sink. I like to wash it with hot water and bleach immediately after any meat it washed in it (and I mean immediately) and I can't stand it if DH takes the washing up out of the sink and leaves it on the worktop at the side, have been known to totally blow my fuse about this.

I'm sure there must be more, I'll have a think!

Corbin · 23/02/2003 00:52

I am strange about dishwashers too. I don't have one anymore, but everything had to be in just so or I wouldn't be able to handle it. DH marvels at the volume of dishes I can get into dishwasher racks, and I've tried to explain that it's only because I'm doing it the right way that it all fits ::wink:: I used to follow him up and rearrange it before he turned it on, I couldn't help it.

I am so surprised to see so many people hang up washing! Perhaps it is just that I live in the US, but I don't know a single person who hangs up the majority of the washing. I hang up a few things that can't go through the dryer, but other than that forget it! Throw it in the dryer and forget about it!

SoupDragon · 23/02/2003 07:35

I'm a dishwasher control freak too but I'm getting a grip on myself, slowly.

Pegging out washing: I have to put all my underwear on the inside bit of our roatry line. I can't bear the thought of flaunting them to the neighbours! This is a hang up from when we lived next to 2 elderly never-married brothers & 1 sister and I used to marvel at the enormous (I mean HUGE) underpants that were on the line. I started to hang my knickers so they were hidden soon after!

It's bizarre how picky I can be with some things but be so lax about others.

zebra · 23/02/2003 07:38

I can't think in the mornings until I get my bra on; is that weird?

bea · 23/02/2003 08:04

Corbin - ooo! there is nothing better then a reall y sunny warm blowy day... to look out your window and see a lovely line of washing flapping in the wind (all arranged in the proper order.... of course!!!!)

Alibubbles · 23/02/2003 12:54

Oh dear, I better sign up for the 'Load the dishwasher correctly" support group!!

GeorginaA · 23/02/2003 13:08

Me too - I can't stand having the cutlery all mixed up in the dishwasher. The knives have to be in one section, the spoons another, the forks another etc. Dh I'm sure mixes them up deliberately just to wind me up :P

PamT · 23/02/2003 13:32

Its not just me then! I don't mind where the washing goes - its just a case of fitting it on the line and getting it dried but I do need to use the right pegs and they have to be a matching pair for each item and I have 4 different types of pegs - each suitable for different types of laundry a well as different colours.

The dishwasher is also a niggle of mine - it has to be loaded correctly or I feel the need to go back and rearrange it all. I've also got into the habit of rinsing everything out before it goes in the dishwasher - mainly because it doesn't come clean otherwise but dh just bungs it in or leaves it by the sink for the 'dishwasher fairy' to deal with.

The wardrobe has to have all the coathangers pointing the same way too.