How much are you like the "Sleeping with the enemy" towel guy??

[Charade]

On a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being downright scary about having straight towels. 1 being "who gives a ^*)*&".

Oh, and let's not forget about not having the tags exposed...

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Hand towels hang off of towel rings, so straight is not much of an issue. But the tag showing would give me a stroke.

 

[Charade]

Hand towels hang off of towel rings, so straight is not much of an issue. But the tag showing would give me a stroke.

I just can't bring myself to cutting them off. It's an ugly dilemma.

 

[olena]

Hand towels hang off of towel rings, so straight is not much of an issue. But the tag showing would give me a stroke.

I second that.

 

[chyam]

Your asking someone whose cat food cans all line up and everything has to be straight....can I say compulsive???? oh yes my canned goods are all lined up and facing front also!!!

 

[froggygrrrl]

Sure, I definitely prefer to have the towels lined up nice and neat, and I'll straighten them if I'm around, but it wouldn't ruin my day if they weren't. However, if the labels on cans/jars/products aren't facing front, there's gonna be a problem. Even the cans of Diet Coke that go into the fridge need to be lined up like delicious little soldiers!

 

[froggygrrrl]

Your asking someone whose cat food cans all line up and everything has to be straight....can I say compulsive???? oh yes my canned goods are all lined up and facing front also!!!

We must have been posting at the same time. Great minds think alike!

 

[breezy1077]

Ummm, I'm pretty OCD about most stuff. DH says I'm OCD-by-proxy....I have the problem, but I make him do the work.

 

[breezy1077]

Oooo, I can relate to the cans. And my dollar bills have to face the same way. And my bed can only be made a certain way or I can't sleep. And I have to fluff my pillow a certain way b4 bed - DH teased me one time and kept "de-fluffing" my pillow with his finger, I kept starting the routine over again just to have him "de-fluff" again. After 5 minutes or so, we were both laughing, but I had to fluff one last time or I wouldn't be able to sleep.

I know...my poor hubby!

 

[disney4us2002]

Not really about towels per se, although they better not be left on the floor!

I do have other "quirks", as my dh calls them. I like my dishes just so in the cabinets. I want the biggest glasses/cups in the rear and smaller ones in the front. The utencils have to be organized so that spatulas are together, plastic-coated utencils are together, and metal utencils are together. My pantry is organized by shelves. All drink-related foods are together, cans and dinner stuff together, baking items together, and then snacks & cereals together.

I believe I'm about a 5. I read this question to dh and asked if he thought I was a 5 - he's still laughing!

I guess I'm between a 7 and 8 on a 1-10 chart.

 

[Corryn]

I say I'm a 7, but I think DH and DD's would say I'm a 10!

Let me tell you, before I was married with kids, I think I would say that I would be a 9, but being me and living with a DH and DD who don't mind throwing their dirty clothes on the side of the bed and then *gasp* stepping on them when they get out of the bed in the morning has taught me a lot of patience and I've "Lowered My Standards"

In fact, really the only way I achieve any sort of sanity is by *CLEANING*.

I have one obsession that I've been stuck with my whole life. If my sheets and covers are not straight when I get into bed at night, I will freak. One night when DD was about 5, she got into bed and she started to cry. I went in to scold her and to tell her to just knock it off and I asked her what her problem was, she said "my sheets aren't straight". I Swear to you, I never uttered anything of the sort and it blew my mind to see that my daughter has the same obsession as I do! So right away I told her I understood and we remade her bed with all the covers tucked in just the right way and she went right to sleep
My DH also gets mad because before we leave the house I have to "fluff" everything - the pillows on the couch, the towels in the bathroom, the placemats on the table and the chair pads.....It really bothers him, but I've told him time and again that If I Don't Do This It Makes Me Upset!
Now I'm learning all about this in nursing school and if someone has an obsessive compulsive disorder that's not hurting anyone, like counting or making sure the door's locked 10 times before retiring to bed (I make sure 3 times, that's my number, 3) to just let them go through the motions because stopping them from doing so gives them great anxiety.

(big exhale) Okay... I am normal....I am normal....I am normal....

 

[Corryn]

Oooo, I can relate to the cans. And my dollar bills have to face the same way. And my bed can only be made a certain way or I can't sleep. And I have to fluff my pillow a certain way b4 bed - DH teased me one time and kept "de-fluffing" my pillow with his finger, I kept starting the routine over again just to have him "de-fluff" again. After 5 minutes or so, we were both laughing, but I had to fluff one last time or I wouldn't be able to sleep.

I know...my poor hubby!

Breezy, that's funny! I was typing mine out while you had just posted yours - we've "got" the same thing!

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Ummm, I'm pretty OCD about most stuff. DH says I'm OCD-by-proxy....I have the problem, but I make him do the work.

I think that could be said of me too. I giggled out loud at that.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I have always felt some shame when watching that part of his lunacy...because I share it. The towels have to be folded in half (but not all the way in half, the side with the tag has to be about an inch higher so it doesn't hang down), then in half again (even this time) and then into thirds.

They are then put in the closet with the backs facing the back of the closet. Even though the tag wouldn't show, it would make me batty just knowing it was hanging out like that.

There's a whole other procedure for hanging various towels on various racks.

BUT I do not require other people to keep up this insanity...and I certainly don't wish to pass it along to my kids. I just do it all myself. I do fix it after they've done it wrong, though.

All my cans face forward so that I can see what the hell they are. But they don't have to be supermarket perfect.

And I love it when Julia calls 911 and says that she just killed him. I like that movie a lot, even though I always hang my head over the towel thing.

 

[rentayenta]

Great question! I would say I am a 7 but not really about the towels. I am a total case when it comes to my floors though. Even a crumb and I am sweeping and Swiffering.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

I'm definitely a 1. Life's too short to worry about little things like that.

 

[Michelle67]

I voted a 1 because I couldn't possibly care less about the towels, except that it drives me bananas when my kids drop them on the floor right under the towel rack.

After reading the responses, though...maybe I'm just a little farther up the scale. My pantry is pretty organized and I do prefer the can labels facing forward, but don't care if they are straight and even. I agree with the poster who likes the large cups in back and the small ones up front, and I have a set of cobalt blue beer glasses and a set of tall Coke glasses, and I like those to all be together instead of willy-nilly on the shelf. I'm pretty picky about how my dishwasher is loaded, so I gave up on having either of my daughters load it (I make them unload instead, and they better get those glasses right ). I also have three ceramic vase/jar things on my counter for large utensils and there are certain ones that I want in each. I'm completely rabid about my CDs being put back in their cases (scratches make me crazy), and they are alphabetized so I can find them. So...I dunno, maybe I'm a three or four or something.

And my husband and I have different obsessions about the toothpaste and we drive each other nuts. I may or may not put the cap back on when I am finished with it, and he is a middle squeezer. He has jokingly said that if we ever get divorced it will be over the stupid toothpaste.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

I'm definitely a 1. Life's too short to worry about little things like that.

Amen.

Really, I had no idea that so many people are obsessed with perfection in their homes. I'm really glad I'm not married to anyone like that..

 

[Cantw8]

He seems like quite a keeper to me