Anybody have any weird habits.

[breeze]

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.

zebra>that is funny

As a child my parents were amazed that I had to clean incessantly between my toes before I went too bed for the night

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I'm a spelling obsessive too, ks. You're not alone!

I run the cold tap for ages before I will drink any of it and have to rinse the glass in the running water three times before I use it. I am also a bit of a freak when it comes to washing my hands. I had to stop myself in my late teens as I was starting to go down the route of 'I've just touched that door handle that everyone else has touched I will have to wash my hands' and even worse 'I have just washed my hands but I have turned off the tap and the tap could be dirty, I suppose I should wash my hands again', I did manage to stop myself thankfully.

Hmmm, maybe I should have changed my name for this post, I sound like a fruit-cake!

Arghhhh, sorry Corbin, but it is soooooooo wasteful to dry washing in the drier. Most of mine goes in for 10 minutes when it's fully dry, just to get the creases out/soften the nappies.

We are destroying the environment we depend on, and it;s thoughtless, needless things like that which make a huge difference

I have changed my name for this thread but had to put in my weird habit, (dh called it weird but I don't), I'm 30 and still sleep with a special pillow case wrapped round my hand, but it has to be pink and made of pure cotton. When I was in hospital for 2 weeks after having ds I didn't sleep once until dh brough it in for me. I was also prone to panic attacks and the only thing that calmed me down was my pillow case. NO-ONE dare touch it, not even dh to wash it.

I used to do things in fours, and then fours of fours! Like Demented, I realised how mad this was, so managed to make myself stop. I think it was a being in control/comfort thing. I also run the cold tap for ages before filling a glass, except I beat you Demented, because I rinse the glass 5 times...

Anyway, I'm off to get into my straightjacket for the night!

Chinchilla, I had no idea anyone else did that. I had to do everything in fours years ago. Even blink!

Then just when I weaned myself off that, it became fives! Thankfully I have no problems with it anymore but I did think I must be a weird kind of child.

I'm still a bit weird! Oh well, that's what makes us interesting isn't it! I have so many odd habits that I would be locked up if I told you them all. Let's just say that I am a constant source of amusement to dh

Embarrassed, don't panic, I used to sleep with my Snoopy every night, even after dh (dp then) appeared until one night he screeched what the fk is this, I'm not sharing you with a f**g soft toy and Snoopy hit the wall at high speed. He's relented a bit since and when I was trying to be tough and send him to the kennel in the sky, he thought I ought to keep him 'just in case' - of what I'm not sure !

I was just reading this, thinking, funny, I don't seem to have any wierd habits at all ? but now I've just thought of one. Although I'll hang as much washing as possible out at every opportunity (the rest goes on a rack inside ? we don't have a dryer anais, btw, I'm totally with you on that one ) I'll never EVER put my own knickers out on the line ? the neighbours might see them. Dh's, fine. Ds's, also fine. Mine absolutely not. No idea why ? perhaps it's something about ?hanging out your dirty laundry? (for all you am psychologists out there) They're NOT dirty, BTW

Twink and Embarrassed- you hang right on to Snoopy and the pillow case.

I feel a bit off kilter if I don't sit on the left hand side of the bus at the window seat. I also like to walk on the left hand pavement if possible. I think it's because I'm a socialist but it may be that I'm fooling myself and need sectioning... Funnily enough one of my sons has a preference for holding my left hand and gets antsy if his less discriminating (in this respect only) twin brother unwittingly gets to it first. Go figure.

I still sleep with soft toys (I am 32) DP has bought me 4 Gund bears. I cuddle three of them at night and he has the other one. I even took onwe of them inot hospital when dd was born.

These are funny! My clothes washing habits are errm, irregular to say the least, I detest putting clothes in the machine and taking them out and hanging them up. IKWYM about the knickers on the line thing though, I've always (well, not that I've done it that often but still) felt faintly embarrassed at the neighbours - and we're overlooked by a lot of them - seeing my underwear. Not that it's horrible or anything. Must be something our mothers instilled in us?!!

I always have to sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door, wherever I am. And I have to do my morning routine in the same order or it doesn't feel right: wash my face, blow my nose, clean my teeth and put moisturiser on in exactly that order. It feels really strange if I do any of them out of order.

Anais,

Just chalk it up to us wasteful, thoughtless, over-consuming, SUV-driving, war-mongering Americans.

At least I can say I don't drive an SUV!

Where I live it is not practical to hang washing outside, as it is constantly raining and cold. I suppose I could hang it on clothes-horses inside and wait two or three days for dry pants

I wish that mumsnet had a delete function. I hope everyone realizes that my preceding post was meant in a joking and good-natured manner. Coming back and reading it later it strikes me as touchy and defensive which I didn't intend!

I don't think any of this is weird. We're simply well-balanced women with a deep sense of logic, order and harmony. Personally I'm with the "Same Colour Peg Brigade" though we can't hang stuff outside here (same problem as Corbin - the climate means you have to use a drier or sent stuff to the laundry). My personal habits are :

• folding the towels the same way, with folds facing forwards, similar/like colours together
• putting sheets and pillowcases from the same sets on the beds & making sure the pillows are the right way round
• removing extraneous bits of packaging(ie if you're 80% of the way down a packet of crisps/pasta/frozen peas, tie up packet near the bottom and neatly cut off the rest
• making sure CD/book/video titles all face the same way (keeping sets together)
• making sure the plastic film over a bowl/plate etc is pulled taut!

Now I'm writing this maybe I am weird! It's a wonder DH puts up with me. ;-)

Reading the other posts I have come up with some more.

As well as the others I do not hang my undies out on the line. Saying that Both my neighbours hang washing up and I have never looked for pants on their line, maybe the odd fashion gaff, saying that if they look at my line they would come to the conclusion that I don't wear any.

I also have to sleep with a special pillow. I actually have to sleep with it sort of under my belly. It started when I was pregnant and can't sleep well without it. My DH threw a fit once when I wanted to take it abroad on holiday. The scary thing is, it has a name......Peter, why am I admitting this (no coffee yet so not awake), must post again on how addicted to mumsnet are you.

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Don't worry, Corbin

I use my dryer part of the washer-dryer extensively too. Got the house on the market at the moment so can't have drying clothes out during the day, only over night. Use an airer over night by a heating vent for most things and only tumble dry nappies and things that I would otherwise iron. (best thing about tumble dryers - no ironing, yay!) That means no huge ironing piles or wet clothes hanging around in the spare room while people come to view the house!

Having seen Breez's coment about not looking for underpants on her neighbours line makes me realise I must sound like a wierdo for mentioning my ex-neighbours huge ones. I wish to clarify that they were on a single line washing line which hung all the washing in a line just above the fence/shrubbery - you couldn't miss them!! I may have weird habits but staring at freshly washed underpants isn't one of them

I can't think that I have any weird habits although I'm sure dp can come up with a few. Dp on the other hand is Sleeping with the Enemy guy, I don't unpack the shopping as I put the things in the fridge and freezer on the 'wrong' shelves (ie I just shove them on wherever there's a space), all labels on tins etc have to be facing forwards and everything has to be in a straight line. We once emptied the fridge for beer when friends came over for the rugby and dp spent 10 minutes making sure all the bottles were facing the right way. We used to go and turn them round just to wind him up. His uncle is even worse as all tins, spices etc have to also be in alphabetical order. Trouble is ds is showing the same tendencies. All toys have to be lined up in a straight line. In Asda the other week he had all the Pooh bears and Tiggers in a straight line and when this kid came and moved one he told him off. Help I'm living with nutters.

Reading all this it seems I'm not the only one who kind of related to Jack Nicholson in "As good as it gets" ...
Maybe we're all obsessive compulsive...