How Deep is Your Eccentricity?
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Ah! Eccentricity! Well that's a different matter.
"I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not".
- Audrey Tautou.
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I used to have coloured plastic clothes pegs and when I hung washing out to dry the pegs on each garment had to match, in fact the pegs on each line of the rotary clothes line had to match
Now I use wooden pegs, problem solved
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^ I'm with you on the plastic clothes pegs Madame B!
When I put notes in my wallet, they all have to be the right way up with the Queen's head facing forward, ordered by denomination, smallest at the front, largest at the back.
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Well, that's just common sense.
Having to arrange bills that way every time I closed out in my multiple restaurant/retail jobs turned that particular eccentricity into a bone deep compulsion.
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Dishes. Can't stand dirty dishes in the sink. Socks. Always need to be paired with their match. My wife is the complete opposite and 'pairs' one with any other. I think this is what older couple who have been married a long time mean when they say marriage takes patience and sacrifice.
As far as clothes. Hangers do all face the same direction, it just makes more sense that way. I never let my button ups lay on the floor, always make sure they go on a hanger if they're not being worn or washed. I can't stand a stack of folded button ups (gotta be on hangers).
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Where to start?….....................
Loading the dishwasher, similar items of cutlery are grouped together making it easy when unloading and putting the cutlery back into the cutlery drawer. I am calling this one an "optimisation" trait.
Drives me nuts when when dissimilar drinking glasses are mixed up in the cupboard, they should of course be grouped together. Also pint glasses with printed logos, the logos all face the front of cupboard.
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… Loading the dishwasher, similar items of cutlery are grouped together making it easy when unloading and putting the cutlery back into the cutlery drawer. I am calling this one an "optimisation" trait.
Drives me nuts when when dissimilar drinking glasses are mixed up in the cupboard, they should of course be grouped together. Also pint glasses with printed logos, the logos all face the front of cupboard.
Of course … that's the least that could be done!
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= No, no & thrice NO!!!This is the correct way when you have toddlers who like to slap at the roll to watch it unspool. I'm told cats do the same thing.
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Inspired by the discussion re: how to lace up your sneakers here, I thought we should dedicate a thread to what really is all within us, otherwise we would not here here….
Come on let's hear it...
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I have serious «completionist» tendencies. If something exists in three iterations and I own two of them, I have to have the third, even though I don’t need it (or in some cases particularly like it).
This extends to music as well. Before streaming and downloading, if I liked a band/artist based on one or two albums I’d hunt down everything they’d ever done despite knowing much of it would be crap.
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Thread copycat ?! … identical topic (word for word)
--> https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7797.0
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Why would someone do this? I meant copy a thread?
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Of the numerous thousands of cds I have, I order them by style, genre, alphabetically, and chronologically. Genres are
early music,
baroque music,
classical music,
country blues,
Chicago blues,
60s r&b,
60s soul and funk,
70s soul and funk
80s soul and funk,
80s hip hop,
90s hip hop,
2000s hip hop,
60s garage rock
70s psyche rock and roll
English folk
Irish folk
Gaelic folk
80s nwbhm
80s glam/hair metal
80s death metal
90s death metal
2000s death metal
80s doom metal
90s doom metal
2000s doom metal
80s indie/'grunge/noise rock
90s indie
2000s indieA splattering of jazz, spoken word, bluegrass
People use terms like 'ocd' about my organisational tendencies…My response? Go tell the curator of the British Library that they are ocd
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