My DH eats soup with a fork. Then drinks the liquid!

Eld, i do something similar with some of my beauty products to keep up with when I started a new one like mascara. I keep a post-it note list in the bathroom drawer of the date I opened a new mascara, my neck cream and tinted moisturizer (so i can get more before I run out), and when we changed the house water filter.

I used to work out problems in my head and 'in the air' with my fingers. I'm a retired engineer and things need to be balanced. So i also have been known to straighten pictures on the wall. Anything that looks off is, imo, off.

I don't like to receive just warm food when eating out either. Makes me suspect of it being fresh. Or good.

I believe i used to be more OCD than I am now, or have more quirks. Maybe getting older and more relaxed has made me that way. I could relate to many of the quirks you have shared, but just don't sweat the small stuff as much. I still have to fold the load of towels a certain way. DH still can't put all the cookware and kitchen tools back exactly they belong after 20+ years here. I eventually find them.

@bfenton .. is that prep so that you can get up, and get out the door before your body realizes what you're up to?😆

holy moly! reading all of these comments makes me realize just how MANY things i am obsessive about. thanks, everybody, now i think i need therapy!! 😂

" My DH eats soup with a fork. Then drinks the liquid! "

Funny, just yesterday we ate Thai bowls of soup and I used a fork to eat the main ingredients and used a straw to finish off the broth. For just about all other soups I use bread to finish it off.

Reminds me of another quirk, when ordering Miso soup I'll pick out the chunks of tofu, tophooey.

Vgkg, DH does not to this in public. Usually he will ask if I want finish it off.

Agree that the top sheet needs to be folded down ten inches over the blanket with the printed side showing face up there.

No problem with the top sheet as I don’t use one at home.

Is this a quirk? I'm not sure.

I must have a top sheet and it must be folded over the eiderdown blanket.

I don't know why.

I wash the down blanket cover once a week and wash the top sheet twice a week. You would figure that would be enough?!.

I must have my own sheets with me even to my sister's house who has the same setup. She has a down blanket with a cover on it and a top sheet. We have no idea where I got it from but that is my quirk.

I pack my own pillow when I travel 😀

I like an almost flat pillow, puffy pillows hurt my neck.

Milk in iced tea, not lemon.

Morz8, I am the same way about the bed being made. I also cannot go to sleep if there is a dirty dish in the sink. Everything has to be tidy before I go to bed.

And I have many more quirks, I'm sure. Just ask my husband.

This thread was really funny and it made me realize that I am OCD, etc. But it’s nice to know I am not alone. I do close to everything listed here. Soup with a fork? That one is up next. LOL I always blamed my quirks on being an anal retentive programmer but maybe my OCD made me a programmer 🤷‍♀️

My quirk is I mute the TV commercials.

Is muting commercials a quirk? Then we've been quirky for years. The mute button is the most used button on our remote.

We do that too!

I am muting them more than ever with the sappy music, begging for money with the speaker barely able to stop from crying.

Some quirks mentioned I find normal!

Every time when I park my car (whether in the garage at night or at the grocery store or where ever) I roll down the driver’s side window one inch.

On my daily walk on a particularly long and steep hill, when I’m almost done I count my steps starting at a mark on the sidewalk till I reach the top. I used to be able to ”finish with a flourish” with 31 steps but more recently it’s been 34 steps.

When eating toast, I eat off the bottom crust and then the crust up one side. Then I fold what’s left into a triangle and eat it. I don’t know why.

I cannot stand to have a cabinet door standing open.

A comment about tv remotes: DH and I had an aha! moment this year about remotes. We bought another one so we each have one!! What luxury! When he goes to sleep watching football with his remote tightly clenched in his hand, it’s no longer an issue!

We watch little TV content of the type that has commercials. *

But of the few we do, we use the "library" function of Youtube TV that, as I'm sure other streaming providers may have, allows you to set earmark programs to watch at another time. The programs aren't "recorded" for the user in a real sense per se. The system records all programs and then allows users to watch any so chosen at a later date.

By starting an hour-long program say 15 minutes after it starts, it provides a buffer to fast forward through commercials to miss them entirely. Not only are commercials avoided but programs can be watched in less time.

* - A recent email from Amazon said that some programs in their system would soon have commercials. No big deal.

When eating frosted mini wheats, they must all be frosted side up before adding the milk 🤷‍♀️ ALL of them! lol

We do the same thing Elmer.

Same here. Our TV watching is done at our convenience. Almost everything we watch has been recorded on preset timers.

I don’t keep score when I’m golfing and I never take a ’gimme’. I like to putt out.

I am loving these, and as stated before, I don't think a lot of these are quirks, but just preferences. Real OCD becomes turning a lite off and on a certain number of times, etc. I have a friend who cant eat anything on a stick, ice cream, corn dogs, etc. The idea of wood in her mouth makes her nauseous. I can't think of any glaring quirks I have, but I bet someone else could tell me many. LOL

I don’t do this very often any more as I’m not that picky about my housekeeping. At one time, when I had finished cleaning my house because company was coming, I would crouch down low to see how it looked for my shorter guests and stand on a small stepping stool to see what my taller guests would be viewing. I’d also view the rooms from different angles.

" I don’t keep score when I’m golfing and I never take a ’gimme’ "

If you don't keep score, every swing is a gimme or Mulligan.

Exactly Elmer! I say that ’gimmes’ are for folks who can’t putt. I can’t golf very well, no matter how much I practice but I enjoy it. Competition can be a real pain in enjoying life. There are plenty of other areas in life where to keep score, and in my life golf isn’t one of them.

Hearing the plunk in the cup is very satisfying to me. Plus good for the waistline.

edited I just talked with my husband and he said I was a very good golfer! 💕I guess I didn’t know that as I don’t keep score. 🙂

Roxsol, you made me smile with your crouching and standing on a step stool.

Years back when I had my old kitchen with the fridge that wasn’t built in, a very tall neighbor once commented at how clean the top of my fridge was!

eld, it is amazing how others see the physical world. When I’m on the floor playing with my dog, it doesn’t look like my house at all!

👍🏻For your fridge.

Summersrhythm, does this mean you have to sleep with your bedroom lights on?

Still laughing at katlan’s frosted mini wheats. I’ll never look at them the same way again. 🤣

I have candle lights in the windows, but the drpas are closed.

This could be a good "Smile today" lol

Reading these made me realize I'm not as crazy as I thought. In a good way...lol. Good thread. Keep it going.

We've used about half of a 26 ounce box of iodized salt since I wrote 01/15/23 on the top of the box. I can't think of anything else I've monitored.

I think 'counting' is an attempt to impose a sense of control as well as a means of combating boredom. Do you want to know how many holes are in each acoustic tile in the ceiling of my doctor's examining room? How many tiles? How many tiles/holes, total?

DH and I have an unspoken disagreement that involves our individual astigmatisms and whether two pictures in our front hall are level with one another. I 'nudge'. He 'nudges'.

Chisue, I like knowing how long things last, but it's not like I do anything with the information.

I like a dash of cayenne pepper in my coffee.

And, I really hate having a stinky garbage can. So, I freeze potentially ”stinky garbage”. No, I don’t freeze diapers or doog poop! Those just get wrapped in an extra ”poop” bag. I freeze ” juicy” meat and fish packaging, and throw away the frozen bundles on our designated garbage day. I rinse egg shells before I put them in the trash, so no ned to freeze those. South Texas Summers can bring on some really raunchy garbage!

I find myself counting at times - steps as I'm walking up a hill (but not as I walk on a flat section) or (as this past fall) as I pick up the locust seed pods, or pulling a bunch of weeds in a cluster - things like that. It's as if I am trying to document my accomplishment LOL! but I immediately forget the number.

I also can't go to sleep if I've left the closet doors (bifold) ajar.

I may be slow in getting around to a chore, such as straightening shelves, or cleaning the spare room, but once I start, then it has to be completely done before I stop - all the shelves or the entire room dusted, straightened, blinds wiped, vacuumed.

Counting seems to be fairly common.

Raee, I also have to my closet doors shut when I’m ready to go to sleep.

Hounds, where did youlearn to put cayenne pepper in coffee?

I like to buy roses and other plants, trees in pairs. If I like a piece of clothing very much, I'd buy more than one for backups.

Raee, you reminded me about closets. Ever since reading the Stephen King short story, The Boogeyman, I haven't been able to sleep in a room with the closet door cracked open. It either has to be wide open or completely shut. I read that story in high school, a very long time ago.

Summersrythm, I do the same. i especially get back ups with sneakers and shoes because it’s hard for me to find comfortable shoes fir my small wide high arched feet!

Glad to hear that eld6161. I love red shoes, boots, I collected many red ones the same kind. It's hard to find pink shoes and boots. I only have 2 pairs pink hiking boots for riding scooters. What's your favorite brand for sneakers?

Self flushing toilets creep me out. I carry a few mini post-its in my purse so I can cover up the sensor. I remove it as I exit the stall. I exit quickly. LOL

Re: cayenne

No clue! Just saw it sitting there one day and decided to add a dash to my coffee.

We also freeze the físh carcasses until trash day. DH likes to fish,so we eat it fairly often. I frequently have a sticky note on my garbage can that says "fish" so I don't forget.

Another quirk of mine that AOK’s post made me think of: I freak out and scream when seeing a dead mouse in a mousetrap. Very strange as I grew up a tomboy. These days I have no problem picking up live tarantulas around here and carrying them off to a safe place. Spiders never scare me. Neither do snakes, bobcats, coyotes, or live mice! But, my Hubs has to deal with all dead mice. Last Spring he got the lame idea of putting them in sandwich bags and secretly storing them in our garage’s upright freezer until trash day to keep the smell down. He didn’t tell me, so you can imagine my screams when I thought I was pulling frozen bratwursts out one afternoon! That ended that! But, our adult daughter, who is a clinical mental health therapist, finally helped me realize the why behind this quirk. I’ve always hated killing anything, even flies. Our kids were never allowed to kill bugs, even ants. I always try to get all bugs and mice, etc. out of our home alive. She says that it’s the guilt I feel at knowing I caused their untimely death that triggers my reactions. She and DH want to help desensitize me, but I’m still working up enough courage to try that!! 😵 😵‍💫

My DH thinks it’s because I come from a long history of Quakers, although I’m not a Quaker myself and didn’t grow up as one. That its in the blood😂. Strange quirk, though!

Lynn, to me being upset about a mouse in a trap is perfectly logical.

I use the Victor catch and release. DH is fine with the sticky traps. we did that once.

Never, ever again.

After 30 years, I realized I can’t use my basement as a pantry!

Eld, thank you!