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Do all men wear their clothes in strict rotation or just my dh?

26 replies

SybilBeddows · 09/05/2011 17:42

shirts are put at the right end of the rail and he always takes them from the extreme left, thus achieving perfect rotation.

when he buys new shirts he doesn't start wearing them immediately, he saves them up until old ones have been thrown away so he always has the same number on the rail.

weird or normal?

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TheOriginalFAB · 09/05/2011 17:43

Organised.

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SybilBeddows · 09/05/2011 17:55

weird-organised or normal-organised?

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TheOriginalFAB · 09/05/2011 18:33

Does it really matter?

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SybilBeddows · 09/05/2011 18:34

I'm curious.

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Naoko · 09/05/2011 18:50

I'd probably go with 'weird but harmless', in and of itself.

Leverkusen · 09/05/2011 18:54

Mine has a rotation too.

Bizarre

TheFarSide · 09/05/2011 23:34

Have you tried switching the shirts around, maybe adding or subtracting one, to see what happens?

bejeezus · 09/05/2011 23:45

id be a bit freaked out

and also tempted to mess up the order all the time

ViolaTricolor · 09/05/2011 23:48

Is every day the same, then? He doesn't have smarter shirts for some occasions? What happens at the weekend? Is that built into the rotation?

PigletJohn · 09/05/2011 23:49

he'd be cross that you won't let him live how he wants to live.

Same as you'd be.

I wear my business suits in rotation, so obviously I have to have the corresponding ties and shirts. Suits and shoes are better left to rest between wearings.

queenbathsheba · 09/05/2011 23:50

I once went out with a guy who lined up all his tins and packets in the cupboards. His whole house was eerily tidy and neat. He turned out to be controlling and obsessive.

bejeezus · 09/05/2011 23:53

its like 'Sleeping with the Enemy'

befuzzled · 10/05/2011 00:01

Hmmmm if he is ok in other respects then I would call it a slightly disturbing quirk and ignore it (after having messed with it a bit to see what happens, have you really never done this?!?!).

However, I worked for someone like this and every day he wore the same shirt ie every Monday pink, Tuesday purple check, Wednesday blue checked, Thursday pale blue ( don't know what Fridays shirt was as don't work Fridays but I know he was the only one not to observer dress down Friday). He is without a doubt the most humourless, unnecessarily obnoxious sociopath I have ever come across. In your position I would be a bit worried.

Actually though, you have given me a good idea, I'm going to suggest to my old colleagues to spill ink or something over the purple check one (the worse one, made him look like a gorilla) and see what he turns up in the next tuesday.

bejeezus · 10/05/2011 00:05

do gorillas wear purple checks?

befuzzled · 10/05/2011 00:08

I think it was just that it was tighter than the others ( slim fit ) and he was really fat and barrel chested but with skinny legs and big arms so it made him look like one.

TrillianAstra · 10/05/2011 00:12

I'd say it's just your DH but as it turns out my DP is the only man on the planet who doesn't take 30 minutes to do a poo so who knows what is "normal"?

TrillianAstra · 10/05/2011 00:13

I am with TheFarSide, if you move the blue checked shirt from position 1 to position 3 will he seek it out or just blindly wear whatever is in position 1?

bejeezus · 10/05/2011 00:14

lol--he sounds lush befuzzled!

queenbathsheba · 10/05/2011 00:15

befuzzled, he probably buys two of the same and has a spare one in reserve.

befuzzled · 10/05/2011 00:23

No doubt. He also has his monthly supermarket shop in an excel spreadsheet which he prints out once a month and takes home for his partner to go and buy. Weirdo.

So which do we think would be better? Blindly wears what's in position 1 or seeks out the moved one? I am thinking blindly goes for position 1 as this may just indicate extreme tidiness, rather than weird fetish about wearing shirts in a certain order,

TheFarSide · 10/05/2011 14:53
queenbathsheba · 10/05/2011 14:56

I've just printed mine off, off to the shops now.

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SybilBeddows · 10/05/2011 15:15

I don't think he'd notice if I moved one actually. I think the whole point is so he never has to think about it.
He is extremely organised and has a weird inability to see something if it's a few inches out of place or in any way different from usual, so he sometimes won't find something because I put it back next to where it's supposed to be. And we have had words in the past about him complaining there wasn't any salad (for instance) when in fact it was there in the right place in a paper bag instead of a plastic one.

Befuzzled - apart from his not liking Excel, he would LOVE to give me a printed out shopping list for me to get.

I don't have a problem with any of this, it's fine. He is the one that has had to do all the compromising because he has had to get used to me putting things back in the wrong place, whereas it's no skin off my nose if he puts things back in the right place, obviously.

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Sarsaparilllla · 10/05/2011 16:28

I'd just be pleased he hung his shirts up tbh

RedGreenBlue · 10/05/2011 16:41

If you swapped the order of just a couple of shirts around, would he notice?

If not - he's just organised and can't be doing with thinking about what he's wearing each day.

If yes - he's very organised to the point of being slightly weird but not that bad

If yes and he'd react by banging his head with his fists and shouting "AL! AL!" - he's Dustin Hoffman