sew_Tracy

I cannot stand any wrinkles in my sheets. If I were rich I would hire a maid to wash them and hang them dry and change them daily. Not one spec of dirt or crumbs. Yes, so we have an ancient cat who lives in our room with a litter box (not MY choice, she is DH's cat.) Guess what gets in the bed? Kitty litter! UGH!

I also hate wet bread. I even toast my hamburger and hot dog buns so the condiments won't sink in.

I have a favorite coffee mugs. I cannot drink out of a straight mug or a large one. They have to be small and tapered. If DH brings me a cup of coffee in a large or straight mug, I pour them into a more suitable mug.

My towels MUST be folded in thirds.

I hate for anyone else to fold my laundry.

I cannot sleep unless I have Vicks under my nose. Smells really bother me...see post about elderly cat and cat box.

I am terrified of static electricity.

Cat boxes gross me out.

I have a 20+ year old pillow I cannot sleep without.

I ignore the phone. Why do people have to call me? Don't they know I am busy and have no time for chit-chat?

So much more. Sure I am neurotic. I don't care. I am 52 in August and I will not take any more BS!

Jazzmyn

I have several light switches in a room also and they must be going the same way.

All the hangers in the closet must be going hook over rod.

All paper money must be facing the same way.....I used to be a bank teller and our cash drawers had to be nice and neat and the paper money going the same way. Drives me nuts when I get change from a cashier and the paper money is going every which way.

Does not bother me to have news papers stacked to the ceiling on the kitchen table, but when I worked my desk had to be cleared before I left for the day.....this drives my husband nuts...maybe that is why I do it...HA!!

I am sure there are a lot more that I can't think of right now.

BKrenning

I know many people who have almost all of the quirks listed above. Some of mine are just the way I was raised--no hats at the table, shirts are required at the table and no supper until the sink is empty. The last one drives my family crazy because I won't fix supper if the sink is full of dishes--we will all eat peanut butter sandwiches or someone else will fix supper. Most of my personal issues are food related--marshmallows, tapioca, rice pudding, malt-o-meal and cream of wheat, canned asparagus & pickled okra. The texture gags me. When I was younger, no food was allowed to touch another food on my plate or I wouldn't eat the parts that touched each other. I'm not quite as picky now but I still don't like it and will avoid letting my foods touch and I still tilt my plate to keep juices from flowing onto other food.

Hubby is much more anal than I. He has to have his "elbow" space at the table, puts the toilet paper on over the top and will gripe & grumble if we don't do it right, I still can't figure out the paper towel holder thing so I just deal with his grumbling over that one. He's sentimentally attached to an ugly vertical, wooden towel holder that just irritates the crap out of me so he should just count himself lucky that I bothered to put paper towels on it at all--LOL. He also has the bed wrinkle issue someone mentioned above. He's also very weird about his socks "matching", especially his black dress socks. I try to shade match them but when he's having a grumpy butt day, he'll go through them and double-check my shade matching skills. I will say that he has been mellowing over the years so those nit-picky things he does have become less & less frequent or he's learned to hide them from me which is ok, too--LOL!

auntpiggylpn

I have to do things in 3's. I will pump the lotion bottle three times, I will tap my credit card at the check out counter 3 times, I pat my dogs 3 times, you get the picture.. .

I also CANNOT stand it when someone touches me with their feet! Doesn't matter if it is bare or covered with a sock!

I cannot use a bathroom stall if I see the person before me come out of it.

Hate to sit in a chair that is warm from a strangers behind

Connie M.

Wow you guys all sound pretty normal to me. I have many of the same idiosyncracies, plus many of my own. I count things. I count steps as I go up and down them. I have the neatest junk drawer I've ever seen. Actually all of my cabinets and drawers are neat. I may have a mess elsewhere, but my cupboards are organized. I name my sewing machines, which I know many of you do, but I name my cars, appliances and sometimes even my plants. I am not as OCD as Monk, but I understand him way too much. My hubby said he is going to buy me the Tshirt that reads "I am CDO. It is like OCD, only the letters are alphabetical like they should be."

Quiltaddict

I don't think I have many quirky habits, but agree with this one 100%. Can't stand to see the paper going the other way, it's just WRONG!

moonrise

I can't stand talking on the phone, especially "small talk". Tell me what you want, then let's hang up. (This comes from a horrible job where I had to answer 9 incoming phone lines ... not simply routing them to the proper person, but actually handling all the calls, all by myself, and they were CONSTANTLY busy. Missing a call was not an option, and would result in a major chewing-out. )

I must drink through a straw. I don't like my mouth touching a glass, cup, or can. Eeeww.

I literally gag when I smell or taste lettuce, even the tiniest bit of it.

If I'm eating a piece of hard candy, I can't just let it melt. I have to chew it up. (Needless to say, I don't care for those unchewable Jolly Rancher candies! ROFL!) And if I'm eating a piece of peppermint candy, I'll sneeze almost every time.

I always lay out my lotion, deodorant, makeup, clothes, etc. before taking a shower. Afterwards, I put everything up one-by-one as I use it. Not sure why I do that. If I forget to lay something out, it annoys me.

I still wear the same scratched-up glasses I've worn for 20+ years, even though the prescription has changed twice, and even though I have two other perfectly good pairs. The old pair fits like a comfy old pair of tennis shoes.

My sleeves must come all the way down to my elbows, if not further. I can't stand for my flubbery upper arms to show even a peek.

Moonglow

I won't leave the house unless the beds are made and the dishes done.

I was a bank teller so have all my notes facing the one way. I hate wrinkled and dirty notes.

I'm fussy about where I park my car in a car park. When I'm driving my car the doors are always locked.

That's all I can think of now but I'm sure there are more.

ziegamomma

These don't sound like quirky habits. I think they are the right way to do things, especially since it is my way! And I'm not OCD, I am CDO because the letter should be in alphabetical order. LOL!!

Spuddy

My husband says I am the only one he knows who eats corn around the cob rather than across the cob. Lets take a poll to see how you ear yours. Thanks