How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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Scottish OCDI have a Scottish friend who would best be described as beyond anal retention when it comes to cleanliness. In fact, B doesn't poo very often because he's loathe to get his ringpiece dirty, as it would take at least half an hour to wipe, clean, bleach and shine.
Last summer, he had a lunchtime barbeque for ten or so people and this went on until about three in the morning. I end up pulling his flatmate and so stayed the night. We're woken at 7.30 by the frantic noise of cleaning from below.
It was a miracle that B had got any sleep at all - normally he'd sit on the edge of his seat, rivulets of sweat pouring down his face, gnashing his teeth and chewing his lip if one plate with a few crumbs was sitting in the sink. However, he'd managed to hold out until 7.30 without getting his rubber gloves on and having an orgy of cleaning. So, I'm lying there with this girl in a post-coital stupor and the vacuuming starts. Outside the window.
Yes, B was vaccuming the garden.
'What the f*** are you doing?'
'There's some dust and a couple of stones on the terrace.'
'That's because it's outside - it's the garden.'
'Well, I can't be doing with it. I won't have a dirty patio.'
I gave up. Trying to stop an OCDer from cleaning is like coming between a fat man and pies - just not worth the risk.
(, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 8:58, 1 reply)
i think you'll find this personactually had CDO , same symptoms but the initials are in the right order .
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horace wimp needs more than 49 characters to fully express hi, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 9:25,
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