IF a chair or sofa have crumbs or nasty dark spots on it, I can't sit on it!

Ha! I thought I didn't have any of these "issues" until I sat here and read everyone else's, and I realized that I --

must put in my left earring before the right

must have the sheet and blanket tucked in at the foot of the bed

cannot stand food touching, although I have chilled out about this one a little (I can't stand it when people used to make fun of me and say that it all touches in your stomach -- well, duh, I can't taste it when it's there!)

can't eat the butt end of a pickle

retie my shoes until they feel equally tight or loose

I also have serious claustrophobia issues, so I prefer doors to be OPEN. I won't close the bathroom door at all if I'm home alone.

Edited to add: OMG, I forgot about the thing I obsess over *every* night -- my alarm clock. I set three alarms every night: my regular clock/radio, a battery operated alarm and a watch alarm. They are all set for different times. I check each alarm repeatedly before I can go to sleep, and I stress out about it every time. The clock/radio is the worst -- I check am/pm a million times, and I turn the radio on at least three times, to make sure the volume is MAD CRAZY LOUD. I am always terribly afraid of oversleeping, because when I was younger I overslept all the time. I used to have to locate alarm clocks throughout my room so I'd have to get up and find them to shut them off, but I would still oversleep. I'm better now, but I can still hit the snooze button for *hours* without even being aware that I'm doing it. But I am totally obsessed with my alarms. For real, if one of them didn't go off I would probably oversleep and miss work. That would be awful, and it's super important that I not oversleep because it takes me FOREVER to get ready in the morning (I am also one who doesn't like to leave home without makeup/hair/clothes reasonably perfect).

Wow.. I never noticed that people do these things that I do, but I'm in the study and I just asked around, and other people do it too!

*When I shave my legs, I ALWAYS start with the right side, no matter what. Also, when I'm in the shower, I do things in a certain order. I can skip something, but I can't do it out of order.

*I also do the gas thing. I hate it when it doesn't end in a 0.

*I can't eat fruit with bruises. If I find one in the middle, I'll throw it away and start all over. I also can't eat veggies that are even the tiniest bit wilted. maybe that's just ebing picky though.

*I used to have to have the ends of my blankets tucked under the end of the bed. But not the sides. Ever.

*I absolutely cannot stand it when the spines of my book are cracked. I won't buy a book if I can't find one with a perfect spine. The problem is that my mother always always always cracks the bindings. She borrows books and cracks them in front of me because she knows it gets to me. UGH!!

Coasters, DVDs, and My Closet!!
 

I am obsessed with coasters. I have a lot of wood furniture in my place and there are coasters all over my house. The office, the bedroom, the living room, etc.

My DVDs MUST be organized. They are all in alphabetical order and I freak when someone gets one out of place. I also have a database that has them listed by title, genre, star, and running time.

I'm also obsessed with my closet. All of my clothes and shoes are arranged by style, color, and fabric. For example all of my tops are hung together in this order:

1st: sleeveless, short sleeves, 3/4 lengths sleeves, then long sleeves.
2nd: In color order from light to dark.
3rd: Then in this order: vnecks, boat necks, turtle necks, etc.
4th: Fabric from light (silk, cotton, wool, etc)

(That's just tops. All of my clothes have a similar order.)

And I clean out my closet once a season. It usually takes me a few days to complete the task.

The one good thing about it is that it's fairly easy to get dressed.

ZA

I've never really told anyone about this, but I play the "catalog game." You know, when you get a new catalog (victoria's secret, j. crew, etc) and you go through each page and have to pick ONE THING to theoretically get, even if you don't like anything. Anyways, I have to touch the picture of the selected item. I can't just say in my head "I pick that sweater." I have to touch the picture with the full pad of my right index finger. I can't turn the page unless I feel that a full touch has occurred (don't ask me why), I get all freaked out.

I can't stand when my bare forearm touches the desk at school when I'm writing... it's always cold and it numbs the underside of my arm in this weird way that really bugs me. I always bring a sweater to class so I will have a layer between my arm and the desk, even in May.

I'm also anal about how I do the crossword puzzle. I feel like my day cannot begin until I've done the Washington Post puzzle... no other puzzle will do (not USA Today, nuh uh). It has to be done in black rolling-ball ink and in a certain print style... if I feel like I've gotten sloppy in filling in the boxes I will go buy another paper and redo it.

Okay, I know I'm weird. I also can't get in an unmade bed- used to drive my boyfriend crazy.

One of my sisters is legit OCD and also suffers from trichtillomania (complusive hair-pulling). She started when she was in thrid grade and pulled all her eyelashes out. She's on meds now to mediate her compulsions, but sometimes we catch her going after her eyelashes (she doesn't even realize she's doing it, and it doesn't hurt her, it just feels good).

I've never really told anyone about this, but I play the "catalog game." You know, when you get a new catalog (victoria's secret, j. crew, etc) and you go through each page and have to pick ONE THING to theoretically get, even if you don't like anything. Anyways, I have to touch the picture of the selected item. I can't just say in my head "I pick that sweater." I have to touch the picture with the full pad of my right index finger. I can't turn the page unless I feel that a full touch has occurred (don't ask me why), I get all freaked out.

I can't stand when my bare forearm touches the desk at school when I'm writing... it's always cold and it numbs the underside of my arm in this weird way that really bugs me. I always bring a sweater to class so I will have a layer between my arm and the desk, even in May.

I'm also anal about how I do the crossword puzzle. I feel like my day cannot begin until I've done the Washington Post puzzle... no other puzzle will do (not USA Today, nuh uh). It has to be done in black rolling-ball ink and in a certain print style... if I feel like I've gotten sloppy in filling in the boxes I will go buy another paper and redo it.

Okay, I know I'm weird. I also can't get in an unmade bed- used to drive my boyfriend crazy.

One of my sisters is legit OCD and also suffers from trichtillomania (complusive hair-pulling). She started when she was in thrid grade and pulled all her eyelashes out. She's on meds now to mediate her compulsions, but sometimes we catch her going after her eyelashes (she doesn't even realize she's doing it, and it doesn't hurt her, it just feels good).

I wash each hand 100 times a day because they remind me of my grandmother. J/k.

When I was a little kid I had to do everything in opposites to make sure it was even. Like, if my right hand touched the wall walking to lunch, I had to walk across the hall so my left hand could touch the other wall.

This is such a great topic, i love hearing how everyone is so weird! ;)
Anyway, here is what I am obsessive compulsive about:

when i take a shower, i have to do everything in the same order

when i turn my car off, i have to make sure it is on 104 KRBE before turning it off, even though i might have been listening to another radio station

when im getting ready for bed, i have to look at this guardian angel i have in my room before turning off any of the lights, and then again i have to look at the angel before turning the t.v. off. So, in a way, the angel is the last thing i have to look at before falling asleep.

I have to sleep with socks, everyday of year, otherwise i cant sleep.

My food cannot touch, especially when we eat mashed potatoes and rice.... i know it sounds weird, those are both starches, and shouldnt even be in the same meal, but nonetheless, my mashed potatoes will be on the opposite side of the plate if i decide i want rice as well.

Besides taking a shower, i have to do everything else in order as well while getting ready in the morning.

When i set my alarm clock at night, i click the "radio" button on and off so many times to make sure it will turn on in the morning. However, i almost always wake up about 5 minutes before it goes off, no matter what time it is set on.

My DVDs are all in alphabetical order

When i use a public restroom, I will not use one that hasnt been flushed, and in the ones I do use, I always have to use toilet paper and clean the seat first, or just try my hardest to come close, but not really sit on it.

I dont like people sitting on my bed because then it gets messed up.

I wear the same jewelry everyday, if i add something one day, and my day goes really bad, I blame it on the jewelry and wont wear it again for a really long time. The same thing goes if it turns out to be a good day, then i will start wearing it more often.

There are days where i have to check if the stove is on before i leave for work even though i know i didnt use it.

Re: Coasters, DVDs, and My Closet!!
 

I've done the same thing with my closet, except I haven't sorted them by fabric (yet). I do, however, put them in ROYGBIV order (it makes sense to me). But within that order, its from light to dark. What makes it hard is my closet is too small for all my clothes, so I've taken over part of one of the master closets in my mom's room...

I have this urge, sometimes, to go out and buy a million hangers all the same so all of my clothes can hang on the same type of hanger.

Re: Re: Coasters, DVDs, and My Closet!!
 

I was thinking about doing that this weekend, LOL.

I'm always horrified when I get my stuff from the cleaners and they are on those wire hangers with the paper on them. As soon as I get them home, I immediately take the clothes off the wire hangers and run to the trash chute to throw them away. (And yes, I'm fully aware that I'm channeling mommy dearest).

ZA

God, I'm my mother's child and obsessive about so many odd things...

-routes-i have to drive the same way to work, home, etc.
-my alarm clock is one hour and ten minutes fast, and it HAS to be. I tell people who ask that it's to make me think in the morning to wake me up (doing the math to figure out what time it is) but really it's just a weird little thing.
-i have to spray on perfume as the last beauty routine-type thing I do
-i pluck my eyebrows first thing every morning
-i do the left side first-contacts, putting on pants, gloves, etc.
-i get on "good day" routines-if I have a good day, then the next day I try to do the same things again (i.e. if I stopped at Wendy's for lunch, then I will again, if I wore blue, then I'll wear something blue, etc)

Wow, I'm weird.

Wow, I didn't even realize how many crazy little quirks I have until I read the rest of this thread!

Oh yeah I also have to read a magazine from front to back. I think it is because I am left handed, but I can never start from the beginnning of the magazine.

Great thread - glad to know that many of you share my quirks! (Food cannot touch, french fry ends, alphabetical cd's, several alarm clocks with different times in various places).

One of my major OC concerns that I have not seen is other people's FEET! I hate them! Can't stand to be touched by them, don't want any one else's feet anywhere near my body! Yuck!

OK, so I'm not the only one with this problem. The thing is that I don't worry for no reason. A lot of times the alarm goes off forever and I don't realize it. Sometimes I accidentally put it on PM instead of AM. And I've also just hit snooze repeatedly or just turned it off in a still asleep state. This has caused me a ton of problems and my roommates hate me because i not only blast 3 alarm clocks but have my computer play a CD every morning from across the room. I don't care though. I've gotten to the most important final in my undergrad courses late and gotten up late before work.

-Rudey
--The rest of you are a bunch of freaks for the crap you talk about. No I'm not joking. Not one bit.

Re: Re: Re: Coasters, DVDs, and My Closet!!
 

Because wire hangers are for poor people! LOL. Whenever I talk about the hanger thing my mom tells me that.

I'm also wierd about the alarms. I always check mine 5 or 6 times to make sure its correct.

My CDs are alphabetical, by category.

After my dad died, I really was OCD for awhile, and I compulsively checked the locks on the doors and windows in our house every night, multiple times, for about a period of 6 months. I'm sure it was some manifestation of something or another that I just wasn't dealing with. I couldn't sleep unless I had checked every door and window in the house and made sure it was locked. I was also afraid that the light wouldn't go off in the car (because the door wasn't closed or something) and I'd compulsively check it.

I make my bed within 10 second of getting out of it.

I have to fold my laundry as soon as it is done in the dryer.

All my shoes have to be together in the right way in my closet.

All my clothes have to be arranged perfectly in the closet.

I cant stand anything sticky on my hands. (like when you get jelly on you or whatever.)

I'll wash my hands about 15 times a day. At least hourly. I hate being covered with "public." Yet dirt doesnt bother me.

I wash ice. Yep, when I get it out of the freezer, I'll put it in the glass and rince it off before I put soda in the glass or whatever.

I dont use my gas guage in my truck. I use the odometer instead.

I always have to sleep in my own bed. If I hook up. I'll get up at 5 am to go home and sleep in my own bed for at least a few hours.

I am OCD about grammatical errors. I don't mind, in a forum like this, informal writing. But, all of us have at least attended one year of college--why are there so many spelling errors, failed subject-verb agreements, and other such error's? (That was on purpose!). It's frustrating! Bah!

The 's thing really gets to me too! 's is for POSSESSIVE. plain s is for plural. learn it, live it, love it. :p

I always have to have a pen with me. I feel somewhat lost and will always be checking my pocket if I dont' have one. The thing that sucks is that I lose pens like no other. I've probably gone through 30 so far this semester. I usually try to buy pens you can get refills for, but always forget and will throw the pen away if the ink is gone (if I manage to hold on to it for that long).

Other than that I can't think of anything big. I know this summer I was really OCD on checking that I hadn't lost my badge. It was in my backpack in a compartment that I never opened except to check that it was there. I was a camp counselor so I usually had my backpack with me. I would usually check after breakfast, when I started rotations, after rotations ended (like an hour and a half later), after lunch, whenever we went outside...all the time.

my mom does that to me too!!! i won't let her borrow a book bc she always breaks the binding!!! i am very ocd with my books, including text books. i will NEVER write in them or highlight them!!!! i will write my name on the inside cover, but not on the side. i don't like dog ears. and all of my books are in size order from tallest to shortest. i once organized my mom's books like that and the next time i came to visit, she had them all messed up! i yelled at her for not putting them back correctly. we just agreed that i would never reshelve her books. i don't even like being at the library and finding books out of order. i will fix an entire shelf if i have to as long as they are in order according to the dewey decimal system.

I HAVE to take a shower in the morning. I hate rolling out of bed and then walking to class. I have heard stories of my sisters just walking up 10 minutes before their class in the dorms and then walking over in their PJs. I had a Friday class and every morning i would wake up early and take shower.

Chapstick... if my lips aren't moisturized or if there is a hint of dryness, i am not happy

breath mints/gum/whatever... gotta have fresh breath... i probably brush my teeth at least 4 times a day.

Okay, I'm just starting to get like this...this girl that I'm kinda liking right now is like you about chapstick, and whenever she pulls it out, she asks if I want some and I always say yes...I had to dig out my carmex and start carrying it with me when she's not around!

I never realized I had so many little quirks until I read this.

I am seriously a slob, but I know where everything is, and if someone cleans my room, I get mad because they move things. I must know where every little pen, etc... is.

I have to have my shoes of equal tightness when tied.

I wash my hands after I touch coins because I hate the smell of metal money.

I have to set four alarms, there are two on my alarm clock, one is buzzer, the other radio, and the are set ten minutes apart with the snooze set to five minutes, and five minutes after that the TV is set to go on, then finally the cell phone. I check over and over, and I am so afraid of being late, I wake up three hours before my class, and leave an hour before and wait outside in the hall for an hour so I am not late. It's so annoying, but if I don't do it I get nervous because I think I'd be late and miss it.

I have to peel the cheese off of my pizza and eat it with just sauce.

I used to do this thing when I was little that if I would touch something with my right foot, I would have to go back and step on it with my other foot. So if I stepped on a crack, I'd have to have equal crack touchage on each foot. Also I'd make bets with myself, and say "If I don't jump over these two cracks then I won't get an A on my test."

The room must be dark when I go to sleep, and I have to have something (my baby blankie :) ) covering my eyes and nose, but not my mouth when I sleep.

I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT drink out of plastic cups, they must be glass because I can "taste" what has previously been in the glasses if they are plastic. They smell or something. The exception if if it's like a new disposible cup like at a bar, but I still don't like it. I can't drink like McDonald's pop out of straw either because it goes through the plastic, and "distorts the taste" for me.

I used to have this thing that if I would think about something bad, then I would have to knock on wood three times and with both hands for it not to happen.

I must check and count my money before I buy something even if I know I have enough.

I use the odometer on my car to tell when I need gas.

Have to check and make my headlights are off.

When I take tests, I go over and over, and do all of the problems again and again.

I always check and double check what time stuff is, even if I know when it is.

Nitpicky about grammar.

I have to drive 5 miles under the posted speed limit at all times.

I have this weird thing that I do that when I am thinking about someone (ex: my hot professor) and I walk by him, I have to repeat the words of this certain Barenaked Ladies song over and over in my head so I won't think about it in case something would happen, and I would be thinking about it, and for some reason I accidentally blurt it out and he would know and be able to tell that I think he's fine. Like he can read my thoughts or something, but I have this weird thing where I think I'd accidentally blurt stuff out that I'm thinking. It's not like I have Tourettes or anything, and I've never done anything like that, but it's just weird. It's like I think people know that I am thinking about them...

I am absolutely meticulous about setting the VCR, when I program it, I have to set it for ten minutes before the show starts, and ten minutes after the time ends. All my clocks, and my watches are 5-10 mintues ahead so I'm not late too. But I check the VCR programing like 10 times to see if its right, and then I feel so nervous if I'm not home, and it's recording because I'm paranoid it isn't working, but I've never messed up, when I lived at home, I used to set all three VCR's in case one or two failed, so I'd have backup... I'm addicted to ER, so I can never miss it.

By the way, I don't really have OCD or anything, just my little quirks. ;) Not really crazy or anything, and these things never happen all at once, so it's not like they consume my life, even though this post is REALLY LONG!:rolleyes:

hahahha. Yeah, I just got into a HUGE argument with a client. Her postcard was to read, "Call us to schedule an appointment." She thought we misspelled 'to'. She thought it was supposed to be, "Call us too schedule an appointment." I told the hooker that too pretty much always ment also. But she didnt beleve me.


Anyway. I love PAtsy Cline, but you pretty much have to be in the mood for her.


Graduation rocked. I didnt go tho. 4 ceremomies. I watched it on cable.

Sean, I find you shady. If I had a wife or girlfriend, I'd watch her like a hawk around you. Phucking be a man. Keep your grubby paws offf your friends girlfriends. Allls us know the game you play.

I so got called out late style tonite. Yeah, at a party and this chick goes, "Hey, I know you. I say, yeah, my name is Steve Garrison, (my standard alias). She says, no, I know you from '94. I dated Jaston Winters. I remember you when you lived in the house." (our HC sold our house in 95. Its been so long... I am now on the HC., lol) Anyway, I am laughing my ass off about the fake ass alis and got called out on it. SHIT, I cant remember what I had for dinner last night and this hookah remembers my name and face from 1994?!?!?. WTF?!?!? Is this crap????

I have cousins I dont rmemeber and I have hookahs knowin me from back when. Make me feel like ass.

Anyway, thought I's share that with you all.