What's your compulsive disorder?
Mine is folding empty crisp packets into a neat little triangle EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Drives the misses up the wall, sometimes I have to stuff it in my pocket and do it later.

What is it that you can't avoid doing?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 13:48, 11 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

^this
Actually it is this. Sometimes I eschew the triangles and make tetrahedrons out of them just for the variation.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 14:15, Reply)

It's
little tetrahedrons every time for me...
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 20:44, Reply)

cupboard doors and drawers
have to be completely shut

drives me insane. I'm tempted to install auto closers on the chest of drawers Mrs V and I share because she must be the worst culprit of leaving them open in the world!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 14:25, Reply)

When I was a student
the whole house of use used to do this.
After we had a couple of hundred we would sit on the sofa and throw them at the wall unit scoring points for objects hit.
A friend even made a website about crisp packet triangles.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 4 Sep 2008, 15:15, Reply)

i have loads of these...
...mostly involving things that must be lined up or straight

such as, whenever i'm on the train to work, i have to straighten the little clips that hold the fold-down tables in place.i have to do it stealthily, so no one thinks i'm a mental.

and the knobs on my oven at home... the indicator line on each of them has to be pointing upwards - they must match!

and after reading in a previous qotw about someone who orientates all their paper money the same way round... i now do this.

i think i'm losing it.
(secretsquirrel, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 15:18, Reply)

Oh God!
OK:

DVDs and CDs must be straight. In Alphabetical order. Although sometimes I panic and rip them out and change them in to order by Genre. Or by Artist, and then by release date, in the CD's.

I always wrap my earphones around my iPod. The wires have to be prefectly straight. If I mess up, even a little bit, I have to start again.

There are many more. It hurts my brain!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 15:47, Reply)

Washing up...

doesn't matter where I am, Home, Friends, Neighbours etc..

If I see dishes in the sink - they get washed.
I don't enjoy it in the slightest but I just have to do it.

Hence me being invited over to so called friends houses a lot.


(Kip, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 15:52, Reply)

My flatmate thinks I'm a mental

DiT, I do exactly that with my ipod & headphones.

As well as many other things that could be construed as mental by 'normal' folk.
( Moey, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 16:26, Reply)

I also have an arriving at work routine

which utilises to the maximum the time it takes to boot up with the time it takes to get a coffee then, the time it takes to log on to the systems with the time it takes for a satisfactory dump.

I could go on.

Still, at least I don't feel the need to end each of my posts with...

Cheers
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 16:47, Reply)

lol
Che that last point is a cracker ;)

Mine would be having to pee after taking a dump. Even if my body has nothing left to give. I will wait until more urine becomes available.


However knowing that in general people have some version of these obsessive disorders I try and go out my way to avoid getting into such habits.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 13:57, Reply)

Oh Gods...
I have so many of these. Among others:

- Alphabetizing things
- Organizing every computer I use into folders, sub folders, sub-sub folders...
- Cleaning the house.
- Making things equal... this is my biggest one. If I scratch one arm, I have to scratch the other.

And more ^^
(TuftyBee should have been working on, Tue 16 Sep 2008, 10:41, Reply)