Are you a "straightener outer"?

[Pooh67_68]

Are we related?

I am the same way, I'll even straighten the magazines in the doctors office.

I am but not to the point of "sleeping with the enemy" or "As good as it gets" OCD levels but if I see a crooked picture, I straighten it out. Even if it's not mine! I hate crooked towels on the towel rack. My dfi's family leaves them in heap. Ugh! We keep a box of wipes on the toilet tank top. If it's crooked, I straighten it out. Sometimes I straighten out piles of papers or other things but not everything.

 

[cardaway]

The worst to me is crooked pictures. I will straighten these in other people's homes.

The best experience was getting caught by somebody, and then he tells me I didn't get it level. Turns out there was a reason most of the pictures in their house were off. Him.

As a joke gift I got him pocket sized level, the same one I use at home.

 

[Tiggeroo]

yep bordering on ocd. There are times I feel it actually bothers my sleep if I didn't put something back.

 

[drag n' fly]

I am but not to the point of "sleeping with the enemy" or "As good as it gets" OCD levels but if I see a crooked picture, I straighten it out. Even if it's not mine! I hate crooked towels on the towel rack. My dfi's family leaves them in heap. Ugh! We keep a box of wipes on the toilet tank top. If it's crooked, I straighten it out. Sometimes I straighten out piles of papers or other things but not everything.

OMG I have come home! Thank you for letting me know I am not the only one!

 

[DVCLiz]

Lord, yes. I have lots of piles of clutter, and they can be thrown around any old way, but the pictures must be straight, and the stack of magazines on my coffee table must be arranged exactly so. Sometimes I'll straighten something and my daughter will walk by and flick it with her finger, just to watch and see what I do. I almost always wait until she leaves the room so I can straighten it again, and a few minutes later I always hear, "Mom!!!! You straightened!"

I think I could easily become OCD if I weren't equally lazy. I have the desire to be a complete neat freak but I'm lousy on the actual follow through...

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I am a "straightener outer." Not so much with pictures as, we don't have many on the walls. Except the family room in the basement and they are screwed perfecty straight to the wall by my perfectionist husband.

I more or less straighten everything else out. I cannot leave the house in the morning unless beds are made and bathroom counter is free of clutter and just buffed free of toothpaste, water marks, fingerprints... It. Feels. So. Good.

I also cannot stand a dirty car on the inside. I vacuum crumbs and dirt from my car upholstry at least once a week.

I get worse every year. My current obsession is wiping the tile/tub with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser before I get out, every day. LOVE that Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. I hope they never stop making those. I'll have to buy them all up and only give them to the Magic Eraser Worthy.

 

[Chicago526]

Not really. But twisted telephone cords drive me NUTS!