I know I've shared mine...I can't stand to know something is lost and not be able to find it. It drives me absolutely BATTY until I can find whatever is lost...so much so that even if I'm in bed and think of a place the lost item MIGHT be, I'll jump up out of bed and go look for it again!

What's yours?

I have so many....Sometimes I think I may have a mild case of O.C.D.
One of the things, the one that my DH thinks is the most strange, is that I like everything to be in even numbers. One morning while attempting to make scrambled eggs I was finishing up a few eggs from the old carton before I started on the new one. Anyway, I was getting frustrated because I couldn't get an even number of eggs in the bowl and also an even number of eggs left in the new carton, because I had used eggs from the old carton....Kind of strange and confusing....But yeah, one of the many. I am slightly neurotic

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Boo to you from our crew!

That's one of mine...I have so many!! Another one is having things on the counter...whether it's the kitchen counter or bathroom counter...it's drives me batty!! My kitchen counter is a catch-all for everything and as soon as I clean it off...it's full again. I also can't sit comfortably on the couch to watch TV if something is on the floor, whether its a pillow or a blanket because one of the kids was just laying there, if they get up, I have to pick it up right away...even if they are coming back.

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"Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake!" - ANONYMOUS

Quirks??? I don't have any quirks

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I don't think I had this quirk until I came to Mommysavers. Some of you had mentioned that you can't go to sleep with your closet door open in your bedrooms.

I can't do it now either.

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I can't stand the sound of balloons popping!!! The kids will always hold one near me and squeeze it hard and i leave the room! I can't even handle that popping noise those tubes of refrigerator biscuits make when you untwist them i have to hold them as far away from me as possible!! I don't like fireworks, i'm probably the only one on the 4th of july wearing safety ear muffs!! It's quite the funny sight.

Oh, I thought of another one...I hate anything with strings...coats, helium balloons, yo-yo's, pull toys, long strands of beads, etc. My palms get sweaty and my stomach gets queasy just thinking about them...I have no idea why.

Well, DH calls me Monk, from the TV show of course! I am a little, okay maybe a lot, OCD. I don't know, maybe I should honestly talk to my dr, but I don't feel it has any effect on my daily life, so I guess I don't think it's bad. I count things. I can tell you how many tiles were on each wall of my Gramma's bathroom--and break it down by color! I always want things to be in even numbers, or at least have some pattern. I would have been fine w/ the egg carton if I'd had a multiple of 3 eggs left, because I know I use 3 in a cake. It makes me crazy when he helps load the dishwasher then I go to add to it, because we don't put everything in there the same way, and I want it all the same way. My pantry looks more neatly lined up than the grocery store shelves, too...that makes him crazy! I like everything in order and neat.

The only other thing that dh always mentions is I always get on people for using their teeth to open stuff or chewing on pen caps and such...tearing a package open or prying something open, it makes me nuts! But I think that's because my mom always got on us for it! I can't do anything like that with my teeth, it just makes my teeth hurt thinking of it!

I HATE stickers and tape! It makes me nauseous! Band Aids too! I don't even let my kids play with stickers and if they get one from somewhere I tell them to throw it away and heaven forbid if I find one on something! I start gagging and if I HAVE to touch it to throw it away I get it by my nails and RUN to the nearest trash can! EEWWWW!!! I have always been like that too...even as a kid I would get mad if a teacher put a sticker on my paper! Grossed me out!

Oh and dead things! If there is say a dead fly and it touches something like the windowsill I won't touch the bug or even the sill after the fly has been removed(by my dh of course)! I can't stand funerals(who can) or anything dead!

Another part of the dead thing is I'm TERRIFIED of stuffed animals...like the real ones not like a toy! I can't get near if someone has one on a wall or anything! They stare at you...blah! A friend of mine chased me with a boar head when we were younger and I ran into the front yard and cried!

I think that is all for now! I'm sure I can think of some others!

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satwood: Guess if I ever came to one of your kids' birthday parties I'd better use a gift bag, huh?