Stay at Home Moms

Do you have a 'compulsive' habit?

I have a friend who has to wash her bed sheets every single day. Every. Single. Day. If her and her boyfriend have sex on the sheets before they go to bed, she strips them off to wash them. She has more bed sheets than I can even count.

I've asked her why she does this, because I only wash ours once a week, but she says she literally can't relax without knowing if it's done. This is the only "quirk" of hers, so it's not really an issue, just one of those things.

Do you have any habit like that?

The only thing I can think of for me is that I know I automatically lock my car when I get out of it by hitting the power button on the door, but I still feel the need to beep it as I'm walking away in the parking lot. If I don't hear it beep, I continue clicking the button until I do. I've been in a store before and thought "Did I hear it beep?" and can not continue shopping without sticking my head out the doors to hit the button again.

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Re: Do you have a 'compulsive' habit?

  • I clean my ears at least 3 times a day with q-tips I can't stand dirty ears. I clean the kids too, but not as often.
  • I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every. single. day.
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  • I'm OCD...I have a few. Things have to be lined up, facing the right direction, in color order, alphabetized, or whatever weird organizational system I've devised for them. I didn't get the cleaning OCD though, unfortunately, so my stuff is organized and dusty.

    I also rub my right index finger on my middle finger whenever I do anything involving left and right. It comes from me having trouble with left and right as a kid. Rather than do the "left hand makes an L" thing, which is really noticeable, I felt for the callous on my right middle finger that I have from writing too hard. I know directions now, but I still have to feel for it to make sure.
  • I have to use the "oldest" thing first, no matter what it is. When I put clean laundry away - towels, DH's t-shirts, my socks, whatever - I put the freshly laundered stuff under the stuff already in the drawer to make sure it doesn't get used first. I do that will food too of course but I even do it with stuff that's not necessary. I do it when I unload the dishwasher too - freshly washed silverware and dishes under/behind stuff already in the drawer and cabinet. I do it with EVERYTHING. I call it "rotating the stock". I used to work at a restaurant in high school and the term (and habit) just stuck... a little obsessively, I suppose.
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  • I'm OCD...I have a few. Things have to be lined up, facing the right direction, in color order, alphabetized, or whatever weird organizational system I've devised for them. I didn't get the cleaning OCD though, unfortunately, so my stuff is organized and dusty. I also rub my right index finger on my middle finger whenever I do anything involving left and right. It comes from me having trouble with left and right as a kid. Rather than do the "left hand makes an L" thing, which is really noticeable, I felt for the callous on my right middle finger that I have from writing too hard. I know directions now, but I still have to feel for it to make sure.
    I've been known to place my hand over my heart for the Pledge of Allegiance when I need to know which is right and which is left. I like your idea better.
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    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

    - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

    married on the sweetest day 10.20.12

     Chicken - 07.08.06 | Bubsy - 02.24.09 | Sunshine - 07.16.14


    I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. And all along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more.
  • Oh... I have another one. As a kid, when we would say our prayers, we always finished with "Amen. Love you, love you once again. Amen."

    I still mumble the "love you, love you" part after prayers.
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    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

    - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

    married on the sweetest day 10.20.12

     Chicken - 07.08.06 | Bubsy - 02.24.09 | Sunshine - 07.16.14


    I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. And all along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more.
  • KateMW said:
    I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every. single. day.
    I can't even wrap my head around this! How long, do you think? Like since you were a kid? If you go out for breakfast/lunch, do you still order the same thing?
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    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

    - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

    married on the sweetest day 10.20.12

     Chicken - 07.08.06 | Bubsy - 02.24.09 | Sunshine - 07.16.14


    I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. And all along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more.
  • MrsMuq said:

    Compulsively checking the door locks several times a night before bed. My H is worse though - he checks all the doors and windows, and the knobs on the stove, 3x every night.

    My DH used to open the door leading to the garage from the house, turn on the light to make sure the garage door was down, turn the light off, close the door almost completely, peek through the crack, open the door, turn the light on and check the garage door, turn the light off... over. And over. And over. Every night. I'm not even kidding, like 10 times. Made me freaking bonkers! I don't know what finally made him stop.
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  • KateMW said:
    I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every. single. day.
    I can't even wrap my head around this! How long, do you think? Like since you were a kid? If you go out for breakfast/lunch, do you still order the same thing?
    Oh I go out to breakfast and lunch, so it's something from two separate places. The breakfast thing is worse than the lunch thing. I can eat lunch different places and do, I just prefer it from this place. That started while I was pregnant with DS. The breakfast thing...I've been eating two bottoms of garlic bagels with light cream cheese and a can of Coke from this local bakery for 5 years or more. I've been eating there for 11 years but I used to have a different order.
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    I like to pull my hair, one by one, but I try not to do it. I do it if I'm nervous, though. And I used to do it a lot when I was studying for exams.
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  • Rink08Rink08 member
    edited May 2014
    I have OCD and our house is color coded by family member and room. For example, the bathrooms have their own colored towels and soaps, the kids each have a color that they use for the calendar/chore chart/cups/wash cloths/storage containers/baskets for various things, cleaning rags are also color coded by purpose.

  • edited May 2014
    I can't stand it when the counters in the kitchen are dirty. I clean them all day, like probably 6 times a day plus right before we go to bed. I always feel like they are dusty. Weird because the rest of my house *is* dusty and I never feel the need to clean it. eta: Usually I just use a wet towel, not actual cleaning supplies.

    I am weird about car safety. I won't open my garage door until everyone has their seatbelts on and the car doors are locked. Like I think someone is waiting to break in or something? I live in a suburb, it is stupid.
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    @joirish‌- haha. I'd probably never wear brown again!
  • @CeeBug‌ I'm the exact same way about peeing! It was really bad when ds2 was a newborn and took forever to bf. I didn't want to get stuck having to pee while he was nursing, so I went as soon as he was ready to eat.

    My husband will not wear any clothing that is the color black. He insists that it feels different on his skin.

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  • I can not and will not cook dinner in a messy kitchen. Like, not one thing can be out of place. Not. One. Thing. Even the floors have to be clean.

    I also lock our car doors when the kids and I are in it like 5 or 6 times before we leave the driveway. Then I try to lock them again when we're at a stop light. I guess I'm afraid of a serial killer climbing in our car?
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  • Thought of a couple more. I smell my food if it's something new. I'm not subtle about it, either...I put it to my nose and take a big whiff. My dad does the same thing.

    I also have to wash myself in a certain, specific order in the shower.
  • Thought of a couple more. I smell my food if it's something new. I'm not subtle about it, either...I put it to my nose and take a big whiff. My dad does the same thing.

    I also have to wash myself in a certain, specific order in the shower.



    Oh I have done the shower thing for years. Same order every single shower. I can not and will not mix it up.
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  • Thought of a couple more. I smell my food if it's something new. I'm not subtle about it, either...I put it to my nose and take a big whiff. My dad does the same thing. I also have to wash myself in a certain, specific order in the shower.
    Oh I have done the shower thing for years. Same order every single shower. I can not and will not mix it up.
    My husband does that. He also dries off in a specific order because we use the same towel for at least two showers. He says he doesn't want to accidentally wipe his face with the part he used to wipe his butt the day before...
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    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

    - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

    married on the sweetest day 10.20.12

     Chicken - 07.08.06 | Bubsy - 02.24.09 | Sunshine - 07.16.14


    I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. And all along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more.
  • Everything has to go in a certain place in the dishwasher. I am usually the one putting stuff away anyways, but I can always tell when DH puts something away because it's not in it's 'place'.

    As I clean, I wash off every single dish I used to prep my food. After I eat, I clean stuff off immediately and put it away.

    I also shower the same way for every shower.

    I don't drink water out of glasses. I can if I'm out in public, but at home I only drink out of my water bottle specifically. If it's any other beverage other than a water bottle, I can drink it out of a glass.

    After I'm done with a tab, I always close it out. I'll open a bunch, read through, and close it. I go over to DH's computer and his got 20 tabs open. It makes me want to shut his firefox down.

    I know I have a lot more, I just cant think of any right now. DH complains about them frequently so you'd think I'd be able to remember ;)
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    I wash my hands A LOT.  Like before and after everything.  
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  • Woah, you guys are weird!   ;) 

    I don't know that I actually have any....I like to change up routines so they don't get...well...too routine. 

    DH is a crazy paranoid person though so he'll check all of our locks multiple times before bed and our bedroom door HAS to be shut and locked at night.  That'll stop once we take the side off of DS's crib, but for now I just accept it.
  • I can't go to bed if the house isn't tidied up and if the kitchen is messy.

    I shower in the same order every time.

    I rotate all of our clothes, towels, linens, beverages, food, etc.

    I have cleaning ocd but am working on that because it started to be the root of too many arguments.
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  • This whole post makes me feel like I'm not totally alone. ha
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  • I can not and will not cook dinner in a messy kitchen. Like, not one thing can be out of place. Not. One. Thing. Even the floors have to be clean. I also lock our car doors when the kids and I are in it like 5 or 6 times before we leave the driveway. Then I try to lock them again when we're at a stop light. I guess I'm afraid of a serial killer climbing in our car?
    Shoot....we'd never eat around here!! I also like to cook in a clean kitchen, but I can't wash floors every day.....

    I'm a compulsive high-lighter. When I make my to-do lists I have to highlight different types of tasks in a different color (pink if it's a chore, yellow if it's a random to-do, green if it's a work task etc.) And if I'm using high-lighters for work, I rotate which ones I use by the day....like today is pink highlighter day.
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  • i too wash everything in a certain order in the shower.

    dishwasher - yes there IS a right & wrong way to do it.

    folding & putting away wash cloths & bath towels - they need to have the side w/ all the ends pointed towards the back of the linen closet so you can easily see to grab one towel. if you've got a bunch of single layers pointed at you, who knows what's what and it's all chaos.

    paper napkins - same as towels.

    i lock the glass storm door every time i come inside. i've locked DH out as he's walking in behind me. there's a reason though, one time the dogs barked at a solicitor, crashed into the door, popped it open, & cornered him on our porch. so it's habit now.

    i try to use the same locker every time at the gym (more superstition than habit maybe.)

    i fold & then wrap my towel around the handle on the treadmill the exact same way every time.


  • I have to shower, shave, blow dry and curl my hair every day. I wake up before everyone else just to make sure it happens. If, by some crazy happenstance, I don't get the chance I will do that routine right before going to bed. The odds of me going all day without managing to do my routine are very slim. I was the crazy chick with blow dryer and curling iron in her bag for the hospital when I delivered my kids. I can think of a handful of times it has happened in the last 10 years.

    If I don't get the shower, shave, etc. I will get a headache or be very aggravated all day.

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    DH has to wear 2 pairs of socks everyday, even in the summer. It has to be a pair of white cotton socks with a heavier sock over top.  

  • nowababy said:

    This post makes me feel dirty and messy.

    Haha same here!!! I like things clean but I am lazy too... Laziness wins over the desire to clean 9.5 times out of ten :)

  • rachie1019rachie1019 member
    edited May 2014

    i too wash everything in a certain order in the shower.

    dishwasher - yes there IS a right & wrong way to do it.

    folding & putting away wash cloths & bath towels - they need to have the side w/ all the ends pointed towards the back of the linen closet so you can easily see to grab one towel. if you've got a bunch of single layers pointed at you, who knows what's what and it's all chaos.

    paper napkins - same as towels.

    i lock the glass storm door every time i come inside. i've locked DH out as he's walking in behind me. there's a reason though, one time the dogs barked at a solicitor, crashed into the door, popped it open, & cornered him on our porch. so it's habit now.

    i try to use the same locker every time at the gym (more superstition than habit maybe.)

    i fold & then wrap my towel around the handle on the treadmill the exact same way every time.


    The locker thing reminds me of another one... When I put gas in my car, I have to go to THE same pump every.single.time. (I always go to Sam's Club's gas station). One time my Mom was with me and every pump was free BUT mine. There are probably 20 pumps there. I waited!! And called the cute teeny bopper a b*tch for taking my pump. My Mom was like, WTF is wrong with you??

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  • +MeganS+ said:

    I can't go to bed if the house isn't tidied up and if the kitchen is messy.

    I shower in the same order every time.

    I rotate all of our clothes, towels, linens, beverages, food, etc.

    I have cleaning ocd but am working on that because it started to be the root of too many arguments.

    I absolutely *refuse* to go to bed with a messy kitchen. Refuse! In fact (as stated above) I won't cook or bake in a messy kitchen, and I really can't fully enjoy my dinner unless my kitchen is clean. I do lots of dishes as I go. That was after dinner I just wash our plates but cooking dishes are done. Weird? Normal?

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  • auroraloo said:
    This whole post makes me feel like I'm not totally alone. ha
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    compulsive pregnancy? (had to, sorry ;) )
    I legit lol'd.
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  • I can't eat leftovers if they have been in fridge for more than a day. I always think they are bad no matter what they are. Good thing DH will eat them.
  • Mrs.Hizzo said:
    I got nothin'. I'm horribly lackadaisical about pretty much everything in my life.
    This. I do nothing in this thread, or anything remotely close!
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  • Who are these people who *don't* shower in the same order every day? Even if you're not compulsive about it, doesn't muscle memory just take over?

    Mine: when I was working, I had five different pen colors for the days of the week. That way I could page through my notes looking for the thing I wrote about the meeting on Wednesday (green ink). To me that just seems useful and organized, but maybe that's what makes it weird?
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  • Leftie22 said:
    My house is by no means tidy, especially now that we have two kids, but I HATE when there are blankets on the couch. I'll fold them and put them away ASAP, even if the rest of the house is a disaster. It also drives me crazy when DH hangs his jacket on the bannister.
    I do the blanket thing. I also hate when the kids throw their jackets on the back of the dining room chairs. The entire house could be covered in dust, toys and crap, but I will fix those damn couch cushions before I touch anything else, too.
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    “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

    - J.M. Barrie Peter Pan

    married on the sweetest day 10.20.12

     Chicken - 07.08.06 | Bubsy - 02.24.09 | Sunshine - 07.16.14


    I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. And all along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more.
  • I cut my toenails really really short. I don't even think I have a pinky toe nail.


    This too.

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  • Does an untreated compulsive eating disorder count? Kiddingnotkidding?

    I feel like an alien reading this thread. A really filthy, disgusting alien.

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    I can't stand writing in any color ink other than black. I don't like to use pencils either. That's all I got.
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