OK I will start with one of mine.. food on a plate.
I spend the first five minutes tidying the plate, some things must not touch and they all have to be in the right place, you should see me sort out peas and carrots. A gravy dribble has to be removed and I have a spare plate for what I call my dead things eg bones or other things that are not eaten, they have to leave the plate once the edible part is consumed.
A hamburger is murder, it has to be tidied inside and out before I can begin. Broken french fries and ones with sharp points or edges have to be eaten first as they spoil the look of the plate and oh boy if a french fry has a black mark on it,it is condemned and sent to the dead plate.
Heaven help the waiter who brings me a plate of food with ornamental dribble round the edge, oh and the modern presentation when everything is piled on top of one another, both those need a clean plate to even begin to start.
As you might guess I order a lot of things "on the side"
When it is all done I proceed to enjoy my meal,usually just as everyone else is starting dessert.. lets not go into that!!
Come on now own up, I am not the only nut out there,
XX Jeannine
im sure youre not the only nut! (although from what you just described.... :P) but you went and mentioned seeds,so now i cant think of anything else...gimme a sec!
How long have you got ? ;D ;D ;D
Now come on you didn't think we were gonna confess all on here did you? 8)
Two that immediately spring to mind; if I'm eating chicken, I can't eat the 'dark' parts, I have to separate them and put them on OHs plate (or if in a restaurant, onto a side plate) and I won't have a glass dried with a tea-towel if I'm about to use it, and I always smell them first. My OH says I'm a freak! :o ;D
I think my OCD is totally absorbed by seeds... no doubt my OH thinks otherwise... ;D
I hate touching hot food. Watching TV chefs touching the food and arranging it on a plate completely puts me off ever going to a restaurant. I also hate food mixed up. I like each type separate on the plate and no gravy. No stews or casseroles.
My oh has a washing up fetish he cannot do anything or go anywhere if there is washing up to be done.
But don't mention seeds, :P especially beans. :P
I always sniff my food and to the OH's annoyance the little un does it as well now. ;D ;D ;D
I plant seed varieties alphabetically, especially potatoes.... it's the only bit of my Asperger's symptoms I don't repress if I spot it, as long as you know the list of varieties you planted then you only need row markers..... it's odd cos I don't have OCD in anything else
I am terrible with not throwing bits and bobs away in case i will need it another time, i think i get it from my parents who were war kids and found a use for everything, it drives my hubbie up the wall and he secretly chucks things out when i am not looking. BUT....sometimes i do need something potentially useless i have kept and if it has been thrown, oh gosh i am stomping mad
At the allotments, I always wash and rinse cups before I use them. I don't like to use what someone else has washed because they might not have rinsed it, and might have dried it with a dirty tea-towel.
I don't think that counts as an obsession though, not after reading Jeannine's list!
Quote from: lottiedolly on December 23, 2009, 15:33:14
I am terrible with not throwing bits and bobs away in case i will need it another time,
Yep, my first one-hoarding. I can't throw away anything the girls have made me or their dad.
I found 6 bags of old clothes of theirs ranging from baby to present day (10 yrs!) when I was packing to move that I had to sort into-friends kids, charity shop, car boot, keep, before I could part with them.
I am a relentless 'checker'-iron, straighteners, oven, before I go out.
Food- Gosh, so many! No-egg white, dark chicken, fatty bits on meat, pork; especially sausages (xmas sausies in bacon the exception) NO processed foods such as hotdogs (I cried at Brownie camp when all there was for dinner was tinned hotdogs and blancmange-wouldn't you?!)
Although housework not my top priority I have to have the girls uniform and lunches, book-bags etc ready and the living room vacced before I can sit down to chill in the evening.
Hotels: I must wash every cup and glass in the room and generally give everything the once over - having been a chambermaid I can tell you that most rooms are cleaned with the use of one dirty, used guest towel.
I struggle with hotel food and generally avoid them at all costs.
The Garden: As long as the tools are clean and in the right place I'm pretty easy-going here! Just starting a seed cupboard as I found a lovely old cupboard at a car booty with loads of tiny drawers, so that'll be the start of a new obsession. ::)
Gosh, Emmy - I'd have had you down as a shoe girl :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Reading diaries. Like Pepys' etc.
Washing on line in strict unvarying order, understood only by me. Mugs lined up in cupboard with handles all in exactly the same direction. Towels folded double then in thirds before stacking. Plantpots stacked in even towers, black separate from red of course. How long have you all got?
I am a freak about clean hands, it all started when i was about 21, now it has taken over i cannot bear anyone to hand me a cuppa with the hands round the cup top where you drink :o :o :o if it happens i let the drink go cold so i do not have to drink it. Just clean hands touching any food is a must weird, i know but there you are. Rinsing a glass before i use it is another thing, WHAT am i really mad.
Oh dear, i must confess another i have to handle ANY toilet doors with a handfull of toilet roll in public places obsesive or what, just found out very recently my brother does the same with public loos. I wonder why something happen when we were young i wonder!!!
They say there is more out than there is in ;D ;D ;D.
All of the ornaments and things on my mantlepiece have to be in groups of 3 and in order of size. I always polish my living room anti-clockwise and the kitchen has to be cleaned in a certain order, with different products depending on which bit I'm cleaning.
Strangely the one thing I don't sort out or obsess about is my seeds, I tried organising them once and I couldn't find a d**n thing!!!
I have a thing about putting same colour pegs on an item when pegged on the line.
Dont have any idea where it camr from though LOL :-\
Gill
Oh I just love it, what have I started here!!
I can relate to so many of your "bothers" too but I must admit the coloured peg one was new to me,, now then who always opens a sandwich before they bite it.. hands up NOW!!
Best laugh I have had all day.. oh no , that is wrong as this is very serious stuff.
Oh yes and who also has Sleeping With The Enemy" cupboards for their groceries..dare you....
XX Jeannine
Food - am very fussy, processed or school dinner-type food turns my stomach. Dislike most English food, fortunately this isnt so much of an issue as it was in the 70s!
And I make loads of lists. Have 4 separate xmas lists going at the mo: things to buy, things to bring, things to do, presents and cards... If anyone wants a ready-made list of things to take camping in every conceivable weather scenario, I'm your gal!
I have a thing about putting same colour pegs on an item when pegged on the line.
Guilty as charged there Cefer... ::)
haha I'm with lewic on this one. I have to make lists for everything! So bad when I'm doing a major clean i make a list in order of what I'm going to do first even write in the coffee breaks. Mad i know and takes me twice as long it takes about an hour to get the list right!
plus it doesn't matter what I'm writting if i make a mistake i have to start again !
On a school night kids are fed then bathed as i clean the kitchen and wash the dishes PJ's on then i do the lunch box's pack their bags and get out all there clothes for the following morning. Then i arrange it in a nice pile bag at the back trousers jumper shirt pants socks in a neat pile, shoes directly in front on the floor. I know bit OTT you should see the stress if I'm running behind. Then i tuck the little kids up in bed at 7.30 the eldest gets to stay up to 8.15 we normally have a cuddle and a cuppa together ;D
My sister is the worst she smells everything its like an obsession and i mean everythin I'm chuckling at the thought of something she did on a trip to London that I'll never forget :P
I have a thing with picture on walls.....well...not just pictures, but mirrors, frames...just about anything that is hanging a wall. I cant sit in a room looking at wonky pictures....I have to straighten them, even if its someone elses house!
Also.....Cups! I cant handle people who lie cups down own thier plate/saucer when its empty...I have to stand it back up!
Wow, I'm feeling more normal by the minute!! ;D
I'm pretty ritual free, I do like the dishwasher loaded in a set way though, it drives me mad if it isn't done 'properly'.
I'm also a bit sensitive to 'atmospheres' in certain places, churches seem to be the worst but certain houses have been known to start me off and I just can't go in them. It can be pretty inconvenient, I was once in Poland and was taken on a special trip to see a Cathedral with a famous golden altar, and couldn't get over the threashold...... :-\ My OH jokes I must have been a witch in a previous life... ::)
A bit like Saddad I can't put red pegs on the washing line. ??? ;D ;D ;D
Er..ok..I have another! Washing up-got to be-glasses first, cups, cutlery, plates and bowls, then pots and pans. Everything must be rinsed with hot water-no bubbles left. I can't even watch anyone wash up who doesn't do it like this!!!!
To be honest though-it's common flippin' sense.
ok, i always smell cups and glasses before using them and i cant use them if they have been stood in the cupboard with the lip downwards. ironing used to have to iron everything pants and socks included, even everything out of the tumble drier, even been known to take stuff out of the wardrobe etc and re iron it, not so bad now
cutlery has to be sorted in correct little insets in the drawer cant have spoons and knives etc mixed
always look inside a sandwich before eating it, always salute a magpie and throw spilt salt over my shoulder
well that will do for starters
won't read an email if it's been printed off. Even if it's waved in front of my face I say forward it to me. Anyway, have you noticed that if you print off an email joke, it instantly fails to be funny ???
Im with EMMY on the pots same routine as me but i also have a set bagging procedure when shopping i place items on the belt as i want to pack them and the items have to go in the right bag ( wife just plonks things in any bag and then i have to rearrange them). I also have a thing for rearranging the sauce sachets in pubs i have to put them all the right way up and sorted into types of sauces this drives my son mad and he mixes them up again but i cant leave them mixed up i have to sort them again. ;D
This is a wonderful thread - for all the wrong / right reasons ;D
Sadly I can't think of anything to fess up to! As I seem to do the exact opposite of what people are writing about, oh well I'll get me thinking cap on.....
Quote from: hippydave on December 28, 2009, 09:53:17
i also have a set bagging procedure when shopping i place items on the belt as i want to pack them and the items have to go in the right bag ( wife just plonks things in any bag and then i have to rearrange them).
Graah! That's what my OH does!! I'm not allowed to pack anything more complicated than the cereal!
And yes, the sauces. Sigh.
A few years ago I attended a series of courses on working with children who have autism and aspergers. At the end of the course a few people put their hands up and said to the tutor (or facilitator as we are supposed to call them ::)) they thought they might be autistic. She laughed and said that gets said every time and we all have elements of it. ;D
Likewise I have to pack the shopping my way, at Tesco's when they ask if you need any help packing I grab my bags for life and fend off any of these so called helpers. Same with the soap suds, I have to wash off the suds, but with cold water. ;D ;D ;D
There is one.
If I see a little curly hair stuck to a bar of soap it makes me feel sick and I can not use it.
Quote from: PurpleHeather on December 29, 2009, 14:22:38
If I see a little curly hair stuck to a bar of soap it makes me feel sick and I can not use it.
Eeeuw! Don't get me started!!!!! That's not an odd obsession PH-that's just common decency!