What's Your OCD?

I wash my hands frequently. Don't like to see people touch a door handle at a bar or restaurant then they don't wash their hands. Yeah, you could bring some hand santizer with you, but hand washing is better.

I frequently check the doors to see if they are locked before going to bed...even if I have checked 5 minutes prior. Keys on my key rings have to go from smallest to largest and all have the teeth pointing the same direction.

I am a picture straightener, I will do it at restaurants, stores, doctors offices, etc. There is a restaurant here in town that I can't eat at because they have the pictures fastened to the walls and they are crooked. I know because I tried to straighten them and it bugged me so much I couldn't stay.

I have all my movie DVD's arranged in alphabetical order, and all TV series are together and alphabatized. My friends will rearrange them when they are over and then call and tell me while I am at work because they know it will drive me nuts until I can get home and fix it.

Cabinets, drawers & closets must be closed - I have 4 kids that constantly leave these things open.

Things need to be perfectly parallel or perpendicular. When I lay out my yoga mat, I will not use it until it is perfectly parallel with my couch. If I look down and see that it has shifted, I stop what I'm doing and line it back up. Crooked pictures on walls drive me insane. I cannot even fall asleep if I feel like I'm crooked on my bed.

I have to put down things on my left side. Ex. 1 at the computer if I have a drink, or holding my cellphone, anything, I have to set it down on the left side. Ex. 2 when I'm walking, going up stairs ect. my left foot has to go first. If I walk over a sidewalk crack my left foot has to go over it, not my right foot. Someone told me this is probably ocd, at home if I don't finish finish a water bottle, I leave it open, and forget about it until the next day, the next day I won't finish it. You can't make me drink it if it's been left open. :embarassed:

Wearing my HRM when working out. I HAVE TO, otherwise in my head, the workout didn't count. lol.

Also brushing my teeth the second I wake up, Doing the supermarket shopping AFTER the fruit market (can never do the supermarket first or it feels unnatural, lol), needing to eat proats every morning and always needing to work out 5 days a week.

K i'm a bit crazy, lol

1) My shirts have to be hung according to sleeve length starting with sleeveless and working up to a long sleeve.
2) If I'm walking next to someone I have to be on their left side
3) My cutlery and drink are always to my right
4) I can't sleep facing doors or closets, I need to be facing the wall
5) I always use the left burners on my stove unless I absolutely have to use the right ones
6) I enter the shower the same way I entered, never opposing sides
7) If I light a candle it has to be dead centre on my coffee table or it feels out of place and untidy
8) I only eat one food item at a time starting with the smallest and working my way up to the biggest portion
9) My towels have to be stacked by size, if one sticks out of the pile uneven I will take it out and reposition it in the pile.
10) When grocery shopping I have to start to the left, work my way across the back then up and down each aisle until I'm back to where I've begun and I'm ready for checkout!
11) My money has to be sorted in my wallet according to value smallest to largest, all bills have to be faces forward and upright.

Stack loose change face up and in size order. Always make sure place / drink mats are parrallel with the edge of the table.

I can't handle having things askew or in the wrong places in my kitchen cabinets. All the spice jars (identical) must be facing perfectly forward. The handles to my measuring cups go to the right. Bowls need to be aligned within their stack. Coffee cups, travel mugs, and water bottles must stay in their rows and are not allowed to co-mingle. Drives me nuts when hubby puts things out of place!

I can't handle having things askew or in the wrong places in my kitchen cabinets. All the spice jars (identical) must be facing perfectly forward. The handles to my measuring cups go to the right. Bowls need to be aligned within their stack. Coffee cups, travel mugs, and water bottles must stay in their rows and are not allowed to co-mingle. Drives me nuts when hubby puts things out of place!

I find this so HOT lol

I have listened to the same song at least once a day since November 13,1976.
13,388 days in a row.

If i missed a day, id probably cease to exist.

Lists. I love lists.

They compensate for my crappy memory.

I have listened to the same song at least once a day since November 13,1976.
13,388 days in a row.

If i missed a day, id probably cease to exist.

I am really curious about what this song is.

I count when I run, walk, jog, bike, swim, etc., but only when I'm alone. Sometimes I want to slap myself and say STOP IT! I just can't help it. I count steps jogged, pedals turned, tiles on the floor, stairs, cars, whatever is around. Sadly, I know that 20 right legged, pedals on my bike equals 1 tenth of a mile. The average basement stairs have 11-12 steps. 11 steps running equals 1 'dot' on my treadmill progress around the fake track. It takes 302 steps to get up my favorite hill while trail running/hiking. Blah blah blah. I know it doesn't bother anyone since I do it in my head when I'm alone, but it does annoy me sometimes. It bothers me even more if I randomly stop counting then have to start up again. Ugh!

I do this when I swim. I don't count laps, I count arm strokes. Makes me nuts. But I can't seem to stop.