Does anyone have any weird little nuances?

[Amaya]

Obsessive or compulsive behaviors?

Like naming your food before you eat it, washing your hands all the time, doing a ritual before/during watching sports, or only masturbates to clowns?


mine are:

1. I rotate my dishes so they wear the same
2. I only allow my children to wear their clothes 3 times before I sell them and buy them a new outfit
3. I have 60 pairs of jeans and rotate them so I wear them the equal amount of times

how's that for anal retentive and compulsive?

[Sal316]

1. Let's see......

It's kind of hard to think any of my habits as 'weird' because they seem so normal to me.. but let me think....

1) Obsessive about the kitchen floor. I must sweep/mop it atleast twice a day and more on weekends.
2) The oddest one is that all my personal hygiene stuff has to be in certain places in the bathroom.

But my biggest one has to be breath. I'm a mint/gum FREAK! I can never be caught without one or the other in my pocket.

:bounce:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. The alarm clock...

Before I lay down each night I have to check it 3 times in sets of threes and then once more for good measure.

But that's normal........isn't it???:crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly:

[Sal316]

4. I forgot about that one!

I do that too. Turn it off, turn it on... just to make sure it's set right.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. See there....how normal we are???

:toast: :toast:

[monkeyboy]

17. I do that

But not just with the alarm clock, but everything: 4 sets of 4, 3 sets of 4, and then 1. That's been the pattern ever since I can remember. There has to be a name for it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. As long as the name isn't crazy,I'm okay with it.

;)

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I now know more about you

than I ever wanted to.

My day job is psychology. I come here to escape this stuff. What sick impulse made me click on your thread anyway?

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Funny...psychology employee coming to DU Lounge to forget day job...

Oxymoron alert...
;)

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Gack.

I see your point.

[Raster]

6. honey, i don't have nuances, i have issues...

...and i have far more than national geographic

on edit: that's pretty AR/C

[markbark]

8. Well....

I am repulsed by anyone with the letter (R) after their name... :)
(e.g. Rick Santorum (R-Pa), Tom DeLay (R-Tx), Orrin Hatch (R-Ut) etc.)



--MAB

[whirlygigspin]

10. Pretzel binge

I go on a pretzel binge everytime I do something extremely
stupid in a gamble for re-election.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

9. Am, you sell your children?

do ya keep in touch?

[Amaya]

13. LOL

I haven't sold them yet. :hi:

[I AM SPARTACUS]

15. you rotate your dishes - sorta like this???

[FreeperSlayer]

11. I have just one

I have this crazy desire to wipe out hatred and intolorence.

[Um_Yeah]

12. I organize the money in my wallet

By denomination and then make them all face upright and front.

[DagmarK]

14. Nos. 2 and 3 don't qualify for compulsive.........

I sure hope your kids end up very wealthy so they can afford the lifestyle that you have created for them......and it is a GRAND CREATION of epic glutton-ridden proportions.

Whoa......... such waste.

I bet a lot of those clothes were sewn by child labor. Good that you are keeping the little chinese kids in work.

Can I ask? What year were you born? Did you not have any influence whatsover from anyone from the depression era????????

[inthecorneroverhere]

19. clothes

Well, I'm not the original poster, but I must admit that I see a lot of really close to brand-new stuff in thrift stores. Interestingly enough, the place where I saw the absolute most nice, practically new clothes in thrift stores was Texas.

My mom was born in 1925, and while she didn't have it as bad as some during the Depression, she was an influence on me. The Depression hit my mom hard enough so that she just totally freaked at the idea of investing in the stock market. She absolutely refused. Although she had voted Rep*ke for Reagan in the 1980s, in 1993, my mom had high hopes that national health care might get passed. I wish I could be optimistic on that issue but unfortunately I am very highly cynical, although I am very strongly in favor of a NHS.

Thrift stores have seen some used books of mine, but they practically never see any used clothes of mine - I wear 'em out. I have a couple of favorite shirts that I keep wearing while the cuffs and shoulders slowly go to fraying. Of course, they're blue denim shirts! Comfortable as anything!

[DagmarK]

25. Well, in the depression, goods were scarce as well as......

a lot of folks not having money to buy anything.

And during the wars that preceded and followed the depression......resources were very scarce. Then in the 50's there was the Korean War and people had to ration resources a bit (not as much as in WW2).

Basically.....people ...whether rich or poor...used their stuff up and didn't waste. It was the way things were done. In fact, I think the gluttonous waste didn't hit our country until the 1970s with all that plastic and disposable stuff.

But what you found with depression and war era folks was, like my grandparents, was they gave SHOES as presents. Always SHOES. You could wear a tattered shirt for a long time, but without proper SHOES, you couldn't do much. You can't go into a field and work it without proper footwear.

But the poster doesn't donate her stuff...she SELLS her kids' clothes. I can't imagine she gets much...unless she goes through a consignment shop. And I would imagine the clothes are required to be the height of fashion and quality as well.

I am going to take a stab and say this poster was born.......late 70's or after. Definitely joined the world of consumerism during the 80s -- during the egregious BMW yuppie era and the raping of the HUD system and the savings and loans.....

Just a guess.

I don't want to be rude......but she should be very secretive about this practice.....from SHAME. I am appalled.

[foxy]

29. I beg to differ

I am absolutely thankful to people like the original poster. I am an unemployed/student/single parent of three and it is near impossible to be able to make it with out people that are able to afford the luxury of brand name clothes monthly. Then the children get tired of the style and want something new--therefore parent sells "old" clothes and then goes and buys more new clothes. Makes since to me but that might just be my nuance.

[wtmusic]

16. And you drink Cabernet while wearing towels

don't forget that one.

[inthecorneroverhere]

18. my little compulsions

My little compulsive things are:

1. The thingy with the alarm clock. Mine's a double-check.
2. Keeping the utensils really, really clean when cooking, especially cooking meat. I rinse (no soap, just water) the spoon or knife or whatever between stirrings if it's meat involved, and _definitely_ rinse it right after I use it to put the raw meat in the pan.
3. Chocolate!!!!!!!
4. Keeping my clothes and most other stuff until they totally wear out or I give it (usually knicknacks, not clothes) to someone else as a gift. I trade books out really easily, since I get almost all my books used from library sales and the like, but I hang on to my other stuff.
5. Gotta wash my hands before I eat.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. My car clock must be at least 15 minutes fast...

This keeps me appropriately freaked if I cut things too close when I have a gig.

The clocks in my house, however, are always set to the correct time.

[tjdee]

21. I tried setting them ahead...

I used to do that, during high school I think, but it never worked for me, because I KNEW they were 10 minutes fast and I never forgot it.

So, now I just set the time correctly.

Hmm. Maybe I should get someone else to change my clocks and not tell me.

[TEXASYANKEE]

38. Close.

I have my bedroom alarm clock set 30 minutes fast. (30 minutes is how long it takes me to get ready to go to work.) I started this a long time ago, first it was 5 minutes fast and then 10 minutes fast, but 30 minutes works perfectly for me. I don't know why it works for me, it just does.

[Lady President]

22. Almost should tell you this one

because I think you might want to add it to your collection:
I have exactly 50 pairs of dress shoes (tennis shoes, boots, and flip-flops don't count). I keep them in identical tupperware containers with a label on each describing the shoe (i.e. black dyed pump, black pointed-toe, black square vamp, etc.) Whenever I get a new pair, I discard a pair~ 50 is the constant number. Boots, tennis shoes, and casual sandals are in large under the bed type crates, labeled of course.

I won't even get into the organization of the rest of my clothes. It would take pages to explain.

[whirlygigspin]

23. shoes

Just wondering...why don't you keep your shoes in the boxes
that they came in?

They are already labeled and would save you a lot of cash on
tupperwear.

[Lady President]

27. TONS of reasons

Okay, not really, but there are few in my mind.

1. I change the labels when I get new shoes, so I only had to buy the containers once which in the long run wasn't very expensive.
2. The containers nest better than boxes keeping my closet neater.
3. The original shoebox is always confusing. It's easier for me to recognize 'tan loafers' instead of something like 'toffee cimbali.'

(And, the tubberware boxes are cuter.) I think I need therapy.

[DagmarK]

31. Plastic will take 1000s of years before it stops impacting the environment

Cardboard disintegrates and gets reused in the environment (though the dye and chemicals to produce them is awfully tough on the environment).

I am sorry, this thread has me overblown with incredulity - the waste -- the environmental impacts of "nuances" -- the lack of mindfulness as to one's impact on the earth.

Oh, our parents have failed us miserably.

50 plastic (thick plastic) tubs for shoes.

I won't come back to the thread.....but when the earth is totally FUCKED when you kids get older and you have to explain it to your kids and grandchildren, you can say, "but we had a damned great time polluting the earth!"

ICK

And please...REFRAIN from making comments about Bush's BLOOD FOR OIL WAR! Do you people realize that plastic is made from petrochemicals? That 50 tubs to house shoes you really don't need creates the DEMAND for oil? That perhaps if you reduce the demand for petrochemicals that maybe the OIL INDUSTRY wouldn't need to kill 10s of 1000s of people and rape our country right and left? Why? Because if the demand is greatly reduced, they won't make as much MONEY and the greed and ruthlessness implemented to make that money would be moot.

Oh, we have so much blood on our individual hands.

THINK PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! THINK about what you are doing. You may as well drive a hummer or other gas guzzler cause you are contributing to the problem just as much as the guy with the huge SUV.

Our country is totally addicted to petrochemicals and it ain't just for gasoline for our cars. Not to mention the gluttony in consumerism. I am astounded....just astounded to see such that DUers actually live just like your average self-entitled bush-worshipper.

[Lady President]

36. Hmmm

You'll insult me, but not come back to the thread? Okay.

I'm hoping that your post was meant to express concern on waste in general, not just me. I haven't posted enough for you to really have any opinion of me one way or the other. For the record I do recycle, I drive a Civic, not a SUV, and I am far from mindless.

And, saying my parents failed me is complete foolishness at best.

In case anyone ever wonders again why there are so many registered members, but so few who post, this is the reason. This was intended to be a lighthearted thread and instead it became nasty. I'll return to just lurking. I appreciate the links and articles, but I don't need the nastiness

[HEyHEY]

24. AMong many

I may sometimes look at something, then look again, and again and again and again. As if it isn't going to be there, or somehow has changed since I last looked at it.

There's other stuff too, I can be hooked on one little thing (usually a negative thing) and think about it non-stop for days until it drives me nuts. I've gotten better lately, but still I am thinking of going to a shrink about it.

[NightTrain]

26. I like my CDs...

...with the label turned right-side-up when I place them back in their cases.

[StaggerLee]

30. I over-rinse

When I wash dishes I rinse them about 33% more than needed...occasionally 50% more.

I do the same thing when I take a shower- (no- I don't take the the dishes in with me but maybe I should. I wouldn't waste as much water)

[northzax]

32. really quite disturbing

<and I'm not sure I believe you>

but I am sure glad that I have nothing THAT quirky or obsessive about myself. damn, you need retail therapy.

oh, I guess I have one thing, I insist on having stuff in mostly random order. I actually have pains when I try to alphebetize things. strange.

[commander bunnypants]

33. ok ok-I am not embarresed

1. I must have a fan on 24/7

2. I prefer to brush my teeth in the shower

3. I always make sure where sebastian cattbutt is before I go to sleep.

4. I keep mouth wash in my car. Ummm Underpants

5. I must have five pillows to sleep


DEMMAN

[arwalden]

34. I Only Use A Bar Of Soap ONCE...

... then throw it away.

I lock the door FIVE times before going to bed.

I don't step on cracks in sidewalks.

[TEXASYANKEE]

37. Jack?

Jack Nicholson, is that you?

[Zephyrbird]

39. uhmmm do these qualify?

my ice cubes have to be exactly even, so when I fill the trays I rock the tray back and forth to make sure the water is even.

My alarm clock is always set 2 hours 41 minutes fast, my car clock is set 4 minutes fast and never changes in DST. Weird thing with time. To top it off, I have an internal clock in my brain that is always five minutes or so off the time. :shrug:

[kayell]

40. My food has to be in the right position on the plate

rice on the left, saucy things on the right. I have to check the weather last thing at night and first thing in the morning. People touching my monitor screen make me have a minor nervous breakdown.

[SiouxJ]

41. I never touch the salt shaker

in a restaurant. I saw a 60 Minutes or something where they analyzed the gunk on a public salt shaker and it was so disgusting that it gave me this weird quirk. If I have to use it, I grab it with a napkin. Same with menus. I always go wash my hands after touching the menu. Just call me Howard Hughes ;-) .