What annoys you so much that you have to just reach out and change it?

[MrsPeacefrog]

I have these stupid little impulses that I must fix or else I feel all itchy! :lol:

I HAVE to always have the toilet roll with the sheets coming over the top, I ALWAYS have to change it over, no matter who's house I am in :blush:

I also have to tuck in peoples clothes tags, I literally can not handle seeing it sticking out :errr:

I know there are more but I will leave it for a bit later :heee:

FESS UP! What's your irrate?

[MrsPeacefrog]

Oh I remembered another one, I can not stand eating a breadroll that is split on one side only with the open side to the right, it has to be to the left :crazy:

Okay maybe I am admitting I am just weird :blush:

[marcy]

Pictures that aren't hung straight. I'll even adjust them at a friend's house, doctor's office waiting room, etc.

The opening of the pillow must be towards the outside of the bed, not the inside. I even turned DH's pillow around last night (before he was sleeping on it! :lol: )

[Cami]

My husband would undoubtedly provide a long list of things I'm anal about but I really can't think of anything. :snob: :lol:

[Jayne]

I am right there with you on the toilet paper roll Deb. I have been known to change it everywhere I go.

Dirty Kids (MINE) I hate it and will do all I can to get them changed and clean. I can't stand them having any dirt. (Ask Kara..I have a real problem :lol: )

[Barb]

I'm the same way with toilet paper. :nod:

I can't stand anything crooked, like if the coffee table is crooked, I must straighten it.

If even one of the mini blinds is facing the opposite direction from all the others, I must fix it.

I don't know if this fits here, but I can't sleep with the closet door open. :dunno:

[BonnieG]

Pants need to be folded a certain way...my Mom will try to help me fold clothes and she folds pants another way and I always have to go through and change the pants.

Also, if someone has magazines or books on their coffee tables, I need to arrange them like you would see them at a dr.'s office.

[Karri]

stuff that isn't folded to my standards :heee: now that my friends know about my strange habit, they hide their laundry baskets when i come over :lol:

[Darcy]

I'm another one with the toilet paper. It needs to go over and not under. :nod:

And I'm anal about how the kids' clothes should be arranged in their closets. :blush:

I'm sure there's more, but I'm not fully awake. :lol:

[gulp!]

I'm the same with toilet paper, but it must go UNDER, not over. And I limit myself to only doing this in my own house. :giggle:

My biggest one is that I cannot stand any open drawers or cabinets. I have to shut them.

[Brandi Jo]

another toilet paper freak :wavey:

I can't stand it when DH doesn't line up the cloth diapers according to color. white goes here, color goes there, etc.

[Barb]

That reminds me of another one, I like the disposable diapers stacked where the fold is facing out.

[Sandy]

I bitch slap anyone that touches my tags.

:rotflmao: JUST JOKING PEOPLE!!!!

Seriously, I can't think of anything that fits into this category. Not a single thing????? :loser: However, I have now learned that when Karri comes over to our house for a visit (and you WILL Karri, one day, I am going to make you come to MS to hang) I am leaving out all my laundry to be folded. :biggrin:

[Nichole]

Tags sticking out
Loose threads or hairs on someone's shirt
I will fix the toilet paper in our house, but itch to fix it in others' :lol:
Open drawers or cabinet/closet doors must be closed
Towels have to be folded just so
The dishwasher has to be loaded a certain way (and Brendon never does it right! :lol: )

Ok, I think I'd better stop. I'm scaring myself. :lol:

[Cami]

Oh yeah, cabinets and drawers. I can't understand why someone (DH) can open the cabinet, get out a glass, and not close the cabinet behind him. I think I've shut them at other people's houses too.

[Lynn]

I'm very picky about how Aaron's clothes are hung in his closet.

I also have to have all of my shirts hanging so the fronts are facing to the right of the closet. Keith's are all over the place and I switch a few everytime I go on his side of the closet. :giggle:
If a kitchen faucet is dripping I have to get up to move it to the center of the sink so I don't hear the rhythmic drip drip drip. That drives me nuts!

[Darcy]

The dishwasher has to be loaded a certain way (and Brendon never does it right! :lol: )

This is so me, except change Brendon for Phil. He never seems to maximize the space in the dishwasher. :lol:

[EricaW]

Another TP freak here, it must go over not under.
Cabinent doors and drawers must be closed.
The closet door must be closed to go to sleep.
The bed has to be made to my standards, which means I'm always the one making the bed. :lol:
The dishrag has to be hung over the side of the sink not the front.
The meat on my plate must be on the left hand side and any side dishes on the right.

[Cami]

:freak3: Freak award!!! :lol:

The meat on my plate must be on the left hand side and any side dishes on the right.

[Darcy]

I can't resist: why are most of us so anal about TP? :giggle: :bolt:

[Nichole]

:giggle: Good one!

[Silke]

Now is this a question for in-house or out-of-house?

At home
I like the dishwasher to be loaded a certain way
TP paper coming from top
anal about my kitchen arrangement. I can always tell when DH was in there.
I am sure there is more

Other homes
I see it, but I am not about to touch anything

[pam]

I can't resist: why are most of us so anal about TP? :giggle: :bolt:

Bwahaha! I think I've gotten over the urge to change toilet paper so that it goes over the top when I'm not at home. Not easy but I usually don't do it.

I've got to close closet doors before sleeping. It bugs me if they are even open a crack.

Open drawers & cabinet drawers bug me, too. I usually stick to fixing this at home only, though.

[MrsPeacefrog]

Oh, Stef: I am feeling itchy just imagining the toilet roll coming from under at your house! :errr: I think if I came to visit that would definatley have to be changed over :giggle:

OH the dishwasher is a good one! that is me too, Tony has started helping me with housework lately and he is HOPELESS at stacking the dishwasher, he can't fit in half of what I can, and I like things stacked a certain way and I feel all itchy watching him do it and it takes ALL of my willpower to bite my tongue. (I don't want to chastise because he will never help again if I do that!)

I also get really upset with the nappy packet is opened on the wrong end, Tony is constantly doing this! HELLO there are precut lines on the other side :loser: I just don't feel right while using that entire packet :blush:

Okay I agree Nichole, this thread is starting to scare me! :lol:

[Bridget]

JEEBUS - AND YOU ALL THINK *I* AM WEIRD?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

Bitches. :complain:

:lol:

I had a lot more of these before I had kids though. :lol:

I hate it when light fixtures are swinging. Like if someone bumps a lamp. It just makes me feel creeped out. :dunno: But I have to make. it. stop.

[LISA]

If I'm in the doc's office or even at the service station I have to straighten the magazines on the table, I also hate when I see cars that have a build up of snow between the tire and fenderwell, I have to kick the tire to get rid of it :lol: yes, I kick other people's tires :blush:

[Karly]

We have hanging blinds in our livingroom and one is broken. It just sort of hangs any way it wants to, and I'm constantly aligning it with the others. :crazy:

We have a door that slides into the wall that separates our shower area from the toilet area. Josh constantly leaves it open a bit and it makes me feel shut in so I have to close it all the way. This is the first thing I do every morning. :lol:

I have lots of the others you all have mentioned too. :heee:

[schwanda]

I've given up most of my anal behavior due to lack of time! It was hard for me at first but it was totally necessary.
Loose hairs bothers me enough to tell someone or remove it myself. And I try to tell people when they have something stuck in their teeth....

Amanda

[Clare]

I'm not really anal about stuff like that. The things that irritate me I can't reach out and change unfortunately.

I cannot stand people eating with their mouth open or
slapping gum :errr:
or whistling or humming or
biting fingernails or playing with hair.

[bunybomb]

I can't stand it when glasses are put away face down. I know people think dust collects in the glasses, but at our house, they aren't in there long enough to collect any dust. Aaaannnnddd, all the glasses must be lined up by type of glass. My daughter loves to put them away all mixed up....I think she doesn't it to drive me nuts.

The dishwasher is a big issue for me. No one does it correctly except me. :snob:

Condiments must be put away in the fridge door. NO EXCEPTIONS! My family puts the mustard and mayo on the big shelves and I can't stand it. :gah:

[Alysia]

My DH NEVER closes the top drawer of our dresser (it has his socks and underwear in it.) Drives me :crazy: ! I am always walking by and closing that thing after him!

[MrsPeacefrog]

Oh Becky, good one! I like glasses up as well, they are never there long enough to get dusty so I agree with you there!!

[staceys73]

Your posts are making me feel so welcome here - I'm not the only one! I can't stand the TP coming from under the roll. I can't stand a blind being out of line. The dishwasher loading issue I'm working on - I'm trying to appreciate the help it represents. My husband *almost always* opens packages (diapers and crackers especially) on the opposite end from what is intended. This drives me crazy, although there is *nothing I can do about it*.

[Girlo]

Man, some of you are freaky!! :freak3:

I have a pretty short list of issues myself..... :snob: (I LOVE that smilie!)
- hairs/loose threads on other people's clothing
- tp must be over the top (but only at my house :lol: )
- DH loads the dishwasher wrong :lol:....and he thinks I load it wrong! We hate going in after each other and finishing it off. And don't get me started on my MIL!! Bless her heart though.....she insists on helping when she comes over and I can't bear to shoo her away.........

That's about it!! :)

[Girlo]

Oh.....I thought of something else!! And I'm going to admit that this makes me a super :freak3: :blush:.....and I ONLY do this to my DH.....

I can't stand to see big blackheads or whiteheads on him!! He doesn't get these real often, but I do find some good ones now and then....and I vanquish them immediately...and he likes it when I do it. :lol:

I also don't like seeing weird hairs on him - he gets them on his ears and there's one that grows just to the side of his nose. I HAVE to pluck them out. :lol: I even had a dream about a week ago that Paul let me wear his face so I could pluck out all his weird hairs and he wouldn't feel anything. :lol:

[Bridget]

I'mapimplesqueezeralso.

:shuffle:

[Melissa]

I'll change the TP in my own house, but not others. I can't think of what else I need to change.

[Jillian]

This is so me, except change Brendon for Phil. He never seems to maximize the space in the dishwasher. :lol:

My DH says this about me all the time...it's why he does the dishes now and not me!

[Bev]

stuff that isn't folded to my standards :heee: now that my friends know about my strange habit, they hide their laundry baskets when i come over :lol:
Can you come to my house? I can be your friend, and I will never hide my laundry baskets from you. It's not too far and you can stop and see Trish and the rest of the MI gals on the way. :)

[Bev]

I've given up most of my anal behavior due to lack of time! It was hard for me at first but it was totally necessary.

:gah: I tried to give you rep for this post because I think it is absolutely hilarious but I have to spread some around first. I have no time for that nonsense; I should be in bed already!

OH the dishwasher is a good one! that is me too, Tony has started helping me with housework lately and he is HOPELESS at stacking the dishwasher, he can't fit in half of what I can, and I like things stacked a certain way and I feel all itchy watching him do it and it takes ALL of my willpower to bite my tongue. (I don't want to chastise because he will never help again if I do that!)
I rearrange it all and add 700 more items and then I turn it on. I'm not sure Patrick knows how to turn it on. Or empty it. Graham likes to help me empty it so I do have some help. :)

Stef, if you recall I had a poll (http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29040&highlight=toilet+paper) about how toilet paper should be hanging of the roll, and I'm sorry to inform you that you are doing it incorrectly.

And here (http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9098&highlight=toilet+paper) is another poll with the same result.

[Stacey]

Drawers and cabinet doors must be closed. I'll get up from watching tv to go close a kitchen cabinet. It doesn't bother me if the pantry is open though. :dunno:

I don't think this totally applies, but a lot of these reminded me... The other day a guy came over to give us an estimate on doing work on the house. He and Brad walked out on to the back deck, and Brad smacked (very lightly, but still!) a mosquito on the guy's bald head. :lol2: He'd known the guy for a total of 1.5 minutes. :disbelief Yes, Brad is strange. He can do brash crap like that, and people just think he's great. That's a trait I lack for sure.

[Mrs. Shae]

TP must be top over ...

pillowcases open ends must face out of the bed ... and if there is only one seam on the pillow case ... it must face down ... if there is a seam on both sides ... the pillow is rotated from day to day ...

towels are on the bar with the label on the inside ... and in my bathroom where i control them ... the label is on the back of the front on M/W/F and on the front of the back the other days ...

all of my canned goods are *fronted* in the cabinets ...

start thinking Sleeping With The Enemy ... i can TOTALLY tell when someone has been in my house ... less that a month after meeting [now] hubby ... i came home to my condo and said that he *ate some chocolate* ... he was adamant that he did not [because he thought there was no way i would know] ... he put the three sided jar back on the counter *wrong* ...

our silverware drawer ... spoons/tablespoons share a tray ... but face a different direction ...

if there is time in a restaurant ... i will *re-do* their sugars ... to all face the same ...

i will refold towels or t-shirts that hubby or sil has folded ...

i wil re-arrange the dishwasher that hubby or sil has loaded ... to be *the right way* ...

hubby knows to let me *unload* the grocery cart ... becuase i do it *the right way* ... heck ... i even re-arrange the things he loads into it :lol:

he tells me that i put the Capital A in Anal :lol:

and i am sure there are many, many more ...

[MrsPeacefrog]

TP must be top over ...

pillowcases open ends must face out of the bed ... and if there is only one seam on the pillow case ... it must face down ... if there is a seam on both sides ... the pillow is rotated from day to day ...

towels are on the bar with the label on the inside ... and in my bathroom where i control them ... the label is on the back of the front on M/W/F and on the front of the back the other days ...

all of my canned goods are *fronted* in the cabinets ...

start thinking Sleeping With The Enemy ... i can TOTALLY tell when someone has been in my house ... less that a month after meeting [now] hubby ... i came home to my condo and said that he *ate some chocolate* ... he was adamant that he did not [because he thought there was no way i would know] ... he put the three sided jar back on the counter *wrong* ...

our silverware drawer ... spoons/tablespoons share a tray ... but face a different direction ...

if there is time in a restaurant ... i will *re-do* their sugars ... to all face the same ...

i will refold towels or t-shirts that hubby or sil has folded ...

i wil re-arrange the dishwasher that hubby or sil has loaded ... to be *the right way* ...

hubby knows to let me *unload* the grocery cart ... becuase i do it *the right way* ... heck ... i even re-arrange the things he loads into it :lol:

he tells me that i put the Capital A in Anal :lol:

and i am sure there are many, many more ...



Spread it out over a few posts, then you won't seem as neurotic! :lol2:

[Bev]

hubby knows to let me *unload* the grocery cart ... becuase i do it *the right way* ... heck ... i even re-arrange the things he loads into it :lol:


Lynn, I agree with Deb! :lol:

Well I agree there is a right way to unload the groceries (onto the 'conveyor belt' at the grocery store. Cold things together, meat together, veg/fruit together, etc. Then it gets packed properly. :nod: I use the big plastic bins not bags and it is much better to do it that way.

[MrsPeacefrog]

Oh I agree with you there with the shopping trolley, we have actually argued at the conveyeur belt cause I was trying to put certain things on and he was telling me I was wrong, and I refuse to believe that! My answer to him was that I used to be a check out chick, I know how to pack a bag! :lol: I was trained professionally! :giggle:

[marcy]

I also have to have all of my shirts hanging so the fronts are facing to the right of the closet.

For me, the fronts have to be to the left of the closet. I change them when DH puts them on the hangers.

[Bev]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lynn
I also have to have all of my shirts hanging so the fronts are facing to the right of the closet.



For me, the fronts have to be to the left of the closet. I change them when DH puts them on the hangers.

Isn't this related to 'handedness?' I'm right handed and like my openings to the left. My sister is left handed and likes her openings to the right.

What really drives me crazy is people who hook the hanger underneath the rod to hook it on. KWIM? HOW is that easy to do? And WHY would you do it. Take the hanger move it forward and voila! It's on. Easy on, easy off. It makes no sense to hook it around and under and fight with the damn thing to get it on and off the rod. :gah: I'm getting :mad: just thinking about it!

[Nichole]

Well I agree there is a right way to unload the groceries (onto the 'conveyor belt' at the grocery store. Cold things together, meat together, veg/fruit together, etc. Then it gets packed properly. :nod: I use the big plastic bins not bags and it is much better to do it that way.

YES! I intentionally unload things like that and it drives me bonkers when the checker/bagger don't bag them together. Hello McFly, there's a method to my madness! :mcfly:

[Barb]

At the grocery store I go to, there's a clerk who asks you to load things a certain way. She's a bit odd for me, so I avoid her like the plague. (Can you say control-freak?)

[bunybomb]

The sound of a fly! Why is that sound like nails on a chalkboard??? I chased a damn fly around like a lunatic this morning. It was upstairs in our bathroom so I had to chase it with a towel! If I didn't kill that sucka, I was going to slit my wrists.

[Cami]

It used to drive me nuts too when I'd go to so much trouble to unload groceries in an organized way only to have the bagger chitchatting with a friend and not pay any attention to how he was bagging! :nono:

You have to bag your own groceries at the stores around here so I can be as OCD as I want. :)

[Michal]

I always have to have the TP hanging from the underside of the roll, it just looks neater.

I fold everything a certain way, load the dishes a certain way, but this is more out of habit than being anal. If, however Dh decides to load the DW and nothing is rinsed and dishes are blocking each other so they will not be cleaned properly then yes, I will go back and redo it.

[Missy&Maggie]

I feel so much better reading this thread. :lol:

I don't care about the way the toilet paper roll goes but the stuff that bugs me:

Van is constantly leaving his dresser drawers a teeny tiny bit open. Drives me crazy and I have to shut them all.

The kitchen cabinets must be shut correctly -- we have side by side cabinets that have a lip on one cabinet so that it only shuts correctly one way and Van shuts the glassware cabinet wrong all the time.

White spots on the bathroom mirror must be banished immediately!

Towels must be folded correctly in the linen closet, and must hang symmetrically on the rung. That is the only one I will fix at someone else's house -- I can't stand seeing a hand towel hung all willy-nilly. :blush:

[Mrs. Shae]

That is the only one I will fix at someone else's house -- I can't stand seeing a hand towel hung all willy-nilly. :blush:

you are not alone :blush:

[gulp!]

Oh, Stef: I am feeling itchy just imagining the toilet roll coming from under at your house! :errr: I think if I came to visit that would definatley have to be changed over :giggle:

Deb, we'd constantly be trying to distract each other to run in and switch it. :lol: "Hey Deb! Look over there! :whistle: "

[gulp!]

I just thought of another one. The currency in my wallet MUST be all facing the same way, and organized by dollar amount on the bill, with the smallest denomination up front. DH just jams his money into his wallet, and I'm constantly taking it out and reorganizing it.

[Mrs. Shae]

i keep my money the same way ...

just thought of another ... my clothes in my closet are grouped by type [short sleeve shirt, long sleeve shirt, etc] ... and then by color from white to black ...

[Bev]

O.K. I forgot something I do and it is super weird

I order my money by the serial number on the bills :freak3:
You either have too much time on your hands or too much money. Or both :lol:

[Mrs. Shae]

O.K. I forgot something I do and it is super weird

I order my money by the serial number on the bills :freak3:

wtf ... :lol:

[MrsPeacefrog]

Ok, if I was behind you at the drive thru and had to wait for you to arrange your bills via serial number I think you would be getting rear ended :lol2:

:lol2: Stef, between my competitive nature and my TP neurotic issues it could be a pretty eventful evening! I will give you one hint though, serve me some wine and all my cares for TP will wash away :awink:


Okay now we need to revisit the check out chick. Let's move on from the packing order and discuss the quantity in a bag! now I can get seriously frustrated and I ALWAYS start unpacking bags and rearranging infront of her when she puts like 6 bottles of soft drink in one bag, then 1 in another! WTF is that? :gah: even it out people!!

[MrsPeacefrog]

Nope, not accepting that! you put it out there, no back pedaling! :lol2:

Anyway this is what OUAL is for, when you are done with your house work and other duties, you come on here, way more fun that organising currency via serial number :nod:

:freak3:

[mama]

Check out chick: They will put two bags to hold the eggs and one for three glass bottles of lemonade. I've lost a few lemonades in my garage

[MrsPeacefrog]

Please, don't let me stop you, I can't talk, I compulsively change peoples toilet paper rolls around, who has the worst habit :scratch:

[Bev]

Enough. I will no longer rearrange bills by their serial number. I promise
:liar:

Whatever keeps you sane, Begona! So since I know nothing about you, are you currently in the US or still in Europe? How many kids do you have and their names and ages, please. :)

[Cami]

Okay now we need to revisit the check out chick. Let's move on from the packing order and discuss the quantity in a bag! now I can get seriously frustrated and I ALWAYS start unpacking bags and rearranging infront of her when she puts like 6 bottles of soft drink in one bag, then 1 in another! WTF is that? :gah: even it out people!!

I hate that! And why do all baggers around the world pack like that? It's not as if you go to grocery bagging school and learn to make the bags all weigh unequal. I was a bagger at Kroger (although this was pre-plastic bag days) but I packed my paper bags very evenly. You wouldn't have been frustrated with me, Deb. :)