Does anyone else have neurotic tendancies? And if so, what.

Week end six. Neurotic tendancies. Number 1

I have my chair at the table and no one else can sit at it. And yes, I had to tell people to move. Sigh.

 
Coffee cups. I will only use certain ones. And when I moved to MO

and stayed with my step-daughter, I had to go out and buy one.
I am not saying any more until someone else, hopefully, chimes in.

 
Number three. I have a coffee scoop that is decades old, and I always

put in the cup measuring drawer when we run out of coffee, and feel a little bit panicked until it goes into the new can of coffee.

 
I hate to throw away 50 cents worth of flour when I refresh my sourdough starter

 
I hate helping my mom at holidays because she drops dirty dishes and pans

in a sink of soapy water and I hate putting my hands in water with food particles floating around in it to wash dishes. Ick!

 
Think how the dishes feel!

And how can they be clean when they come out of that water??

Another one of my idiosyncrasies - dishes are only clean if they are washed in clean water; so yes, I wash them before I wash them.

 
Once when asked with which Big Bang character I most identified, I immediately replied, "Sheldon"

 
My wife's family taught me how to do dishes by hand and avoid the "pond of swill" issue.

Two sink basins. Dirty dishes in one side, and they have (HOPEFULLY) been soaked by whoever put them in there. The other side is empty and used for a rinse.

Small bowl sitting on the edge of the sink with water and a couple of squirts of dish soap dissolved in it. A sponge with a scrubbing pad on one side is dipped into the bowl and saturated with soapy liquid.

Dishes are soaped and scrubbed clean and placed into the second sink, where they are rinsed under running warm/hot water. I usually wait until the second sink is full and I wash the dishes in reverse order (small things first, plates and lids last) so the large plates and flat lids can go into the dish drainer first.

Saves water, soap and the dishes never sit in their own mess.

I married waaaaay outta my league.

Michael

 
When I rinse and stack dishes in the drain board, I'm particular about how they're stacked

I got for most amount of dishes in as small a space as possible. It comes from years of growing up and having to dry whatever I couldn't fit into the drainer smileys/smile.gif
When my husband does the dishes, he puts them in haphazardly and it's all I can to keep my mouth shut. I guess having a helper overrules the neurosis?

 
Parking WITHIN the white lines. This seems to be very old school as no one does it anymore smileys/frown.gif

 
Oh, and being ON TIME!!!! Major one with me. Again, no one cares anymore

about another person's time or inconvenience. I consider it rude and selfish. But again...the way of society I think *sigh*

OMG! I sound like my mother smileys/frown.gif

 
Dirty glass lenses. My boss never, ever cleaned his and you could hardly see his eyes

I would never hear a word he said because I was gritting my teeth, trying to avoid yanking them off his face and sterilizing them. When I would remark on it, he would take them off, look at them and laugh while running his fingers over both lenses....ugh!! It sure made me more aware of my own!

 
Sheldon is my favorite television character ever. I cannot imagine why. smileys/smile.gif

 
I am like that with the dishwasher. NO ONE ever loads it except me.

Now, unloading it, I could care less. Ugg. I think I need a Xanax.

 
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