I must have...can't do without...can only...

[AlleyKat]

I have to have toilet paper roll over the top of the roll. If I encounter a roll that rolls under, I switch it around.

I have to have the toilet seat down when not in use.

I have to have honey and cream in non-herbal tea.

I won't leave the house unless my face and hair are "done".

I won't go to bed with earrings in.

I can't stop obsessing about moving anywhere on Cape Cod(with an ocean view of course!)

I can't stop thinking about my next trip to Disney!

I have to have toilet paper roll over the top of the roll. If I encounter a roll that rolls under, I switch it around.

I have to have the toilet seat down when not in use.

I have to make the bed every morning.

Must wear make-up everyday.

Must have chocolate in the house

must have cold food very cold and hot food very hot (and I have sensitive teeth )

must have towels hanging in the bathroom folded and hanging evenly

there are a lot more

Is there an echo in here?

I think I may have a Disboard twin!

 

[piglet50]

these are very interesting "preferences" as i like to call them

i am also a no bubbles in the sink girl. i have to rinse it out before and after use.

i also like for doors to be either closed completely or open completely

if anything is stacked, plates, towels, sheets, logs, etc. it has to be as straight and even as possible.

i don't freak out if these things aren't done by others (except for the bubbles) but if i am the one dealing with it, it has to be my way.

 

[Gabes_mommy]

I must have my "little pillow" to sleep with at night in addition to a 2nd pillow under my head. I use it as a body pillow when I sleep on my side.

I must have ice with my soda - even if the soda is already cold.

 

[Jennasis]

Lot's of interesting quirks here. Remember folks, we are looking for things you CANNOT DO WITHOUT. As in, if you can't have it "that" way, you cannot eat/drink it, can't sleep that way etc...

NOT looking for preferences. Looking for NEEDS.

And you guys are fascinating. The only thing I can come up with for myself is:

Hamburgers cannot have mustard on them. I will not eat them that way...at all.

Will not eat anything with fruit in it. In fact, I won't eat fruit...won't even touch a piece. Barf.

 

[ksumn1]

I have to have ice in my drink if it''s in a cup. I can drink from a can or water bottle without, but it it's in a cup it BETTER have ice (Except milk or juice)

I have to make sure the bedroom door and bathroom doors are shut or I won't sleep. If dh gets up, goes to the bathroom ans leaves the door open on the way back, I will get up and shut it or I can't sleep.

The paper has to be folded as it came, no one else can read it first, unfold it etc or I can't read it.

 

[pilesoflaundry]

Me too! The house has to be spotless when I leave (God forbid I have a wreck and get killed.... Can't have people coming in my house if it's not spotlessly clean, and I'm dead).

I HAVE to have lemon with my iced tea. Otherwise I'll just drink water.

I always tease dh I'm leaving the house a wreck and then if someone breaks in when we are gone they will leave thinking someone else was already there But I can't do it and clean like a mad woman before we leave.

Dh has to have ranch dressing when he eats chicken. Doesn't matter if there is some other spices or stuff on the chicken, he has to dip it in ranch dressing.

I don't have too many quirks but I'm sure there are some I am not thinking of.

I absolutely cannot sleep with a necklace on. I can handle hoop earrings or my rings but no studs and no necklace or bracelet. I don't take them on vacation because I lost some before taking them off at night in a hotel room.

I have to sleep with pj pants on or the blanket between my knees if I don't. I don't like my legs touching in my sleep.

I have to sleep with something over me. It can be a sheet, a blanket whatever even if it's too hot to breath I have to be covered.

 

[DizBelle]

Is this the disboards or a nuthouse?

 

[rszdtrvl]

When I scramble eggs for any reason (french toast, etc.) I MUST get the white umbilical cord thing out of the mixture. I will hunt for 5 minutes to make sure ALL of it is out, and even pick them off of the mixture as it is cooking if I miss some of it.

When I make the bed, everything has to be perfect. It takes me a while to make a bed with clean sheets. I do not, however, make the bed every day. Just when I put clean sheets on it. If I do not get the bed made to my liking, I will keep adjusting blankets, sheets, etc. until I am happy. This drives DH crazy at times, like when I ask for help making the bed (if he is in the room).

We must have waterproof mattress covers on all of the beds in the house.

I constantly worry about heat being turned off, oven being turned off, etc. when we leave the house. There have been times when DH has had to turn around so I can check to make sure the door is locked, oven off, etc. while we were going somewhere. He tends to now check everything too, so if I second guess myself he can confirm that everything is off.

I eat my cupcakes by taking the bottom cake half off, and sticking it on the top half - like a cupcake sandwich with frosting in the middle. I do this because I cannot stand biting into this cake and getting frosting all over my mouth.

I am sure I have more quirks, but this is all I can think of at the moment.

 

[KimR]

I love this thread - it makes me feel almost normal.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I must have Thousand Island dressing on a Turkey Sandwich and a Taco Bowl.

I must have lite ranch dressing on a Chicken or Turkey Burger.

There must never ever be fruit (raisins or grapes) hidden in a meat or pasta salad. 50's Prime Time Cafe' chicken salad was not welcome.

My sheets must be folded neatly over the comforter/bedspread for me to sleep and my bed must be free of any sort of crumbs. When we got married DH started calling these the BED RULES But it's not really OCD, I am really allergic to our pets and I can see fur on a sheet, not the bed coverings so as long as the sheets are clean my face & eyes won't swell.

My tile floors and glass kitchen table top must be free of smudges or it bugs me. My kitchen table chairs must be pushed in or it bothers me. I just happen to think that when a main part of the house looks neat other kid messes will be forgiven by anyone stopping in to visit.

Oh, and I have my cabinets organized by product. This isn't an OCD thing exactly, it's just that if everything has a place I know if I'm running out or not. When I grew up my mother would have 10 cans of peas but nothing else because she'd forget what she had.... not a good system IMO.

PS_ I also worry about forgetting to turn off the stove &/or leaving the poor dog out. But this is more because I always have someone rushing me out the door when I walk out of my house than anything else. I mean, how can I be trusted to remember big stuff when my family gets me so worked up I can't remember to put the same 2 black boots on?

I'm mostly ok but certain little things do bug me. I guess we're all full of quirks, good to know I'm normal.

 

[focusondisney]

I do the same things with the grouping colors and eating the extras first!

Glad I'm not the only M&M's wierdo!!! But mine are 2 color pairs, not grouped to all one color! Like a red & blue, red & yellow, red & green, red & brown,etc with no repeats. Repeats are eaten first!! Like outcasts !!

I always tease dh I'm leaving the house a wreck and then if someone breaks in when we are gone they will leave thinking someone else was already there But I can't do it and clean like a mad woman before we leave.

I have to sleep with something over me. It can be a sheet, a blanket whatever even if it's too hot to breath I have to be covered.

I hear you on the cleaning!! I just can't leave unless the house looks like a museum!! And I forgot about the covers....not matter how hot it is, I MUST have at least a sheet over my bottom!! In case someone breaks in or sees in the window(second floor bedroom...that won't happen) they won't see my behind hanging out!!!!

=lfontaine;35388171]Is this the disboards or a nuthouse?[/QUOTE]

NUTHOUSE! Definately! And I'm sure a treasure trove for the TAG FAIRY!!!!

 

[NHdisneylover]

Lot's of interesting quirks here. Remember folks, we are looking for things you CANNOT DO WITHOUT. As in, if you can't have it "that" way, you cannot eat/drink it, can't sleep that way etc...

NOT looking for preferences. Looking for NEEDS.

And you guys are fascinating. The only thing I can come up with for myself is:

Hamburgers cannot have mustard on them. I will not eat them that way...at all.

Will not eat anything with fruit in it. In fact, I won't eat fruit...won't even touch a piece. Barf.

Well, one thing i forgot to post before is what you might call a "need." I cannot seem to put my right contact in first. The left HAS to go first and then the right. It tore the left once and wanted to put the right in before i went downstairs to get a replacement left and I flat out could not get the thing in my eye. Once I gave up and fetched the left and put it in the right went in just fine.

 

[cheermom1]

I forgot about one tomatoes!! i can't stand tomatoes I will NOT eat anything that has a tomato and if I forget to tell the waiter/waitress no tomatoes they have to take it back!!!

 

[Luv2Scrap]

Metal utensils must never, ever, EVER touch a metal pan. I do not own a single metal utensil, and if I happen to be at someone else's house and they start using a metal utensil in a metal pan, I am out of that room before metal hits metal - usually with my hands over my ears and screaming "LA LA LA LA LA" as I go!


Edited to add, this caused me some real distress when we went to Hoop-de-doo and WCC. Metal plate, metal silverware... UGH!

 

[luvmy3]

I thought of another one of mine last night. I cannot sleep under just a sheet. I need to be covered with a blanket that has weight to it or else I can't fall asleep.

 

[cheermom1]

I thought of another one of mine last night. I cannot sleep under just a sheet. I need to be covered with a blanket that has weight to it or else I can't fall asleep.

LOL me too I also can't sleep unless the covers a straight..my dh gets so dang mad at me, he will take the covers off of him and they are wadded up between us and I will fix them and cover him back up b/c they are not straight, he will be burning up and I don't care

 

[mumto3girls]

I love these. I have many quirks, but not too many are absolute. I think the only thing that is absolutely essential, is that even in the hottest of weather I must have at least a sheet, and preferably a blanket, on most of my torso-I often have my feet sticking out.

My other strong preferences are to sleep with DH on my right rather than my left and to have closet and cabinet door shut, drawers shut and chairs pushed in--looks so much neater. I also often sort snack type food--chips/pretzels--eating broken ones first and m&m's--sort by color and eat the smallest groups first.

I also like my clothes to be arranged in the closet by length of sleeve for shirts and then by color and then pants by length--capri vs long and then color within that group etc.

I also like my house totally clean and all laundry done prior to going on vacation and any holidays--even if the holiday is not being held in my home.

I was much fussier before I had three kids. Now I would go crazy if I was as fussy as I was then. My oldest and my DH are challenged when it comes to closing doors and drawers and I am constantly following behind them closing things. Imagine if I was picky about a bunch of other things--there wouldn't be time for anything truly important!

 

[onelilspark]

I can't go down (or up) an escalator if I'm on the left or if I don't have my right hand free. I had to go down an escalator once (in recent memory) on the left...I somehow got on the wrong side and there was a bunch of people behind me. I had a mini-panic attack until someone grabbed my right arm and said, "step." Embarassing? Oh yes.

I cannot splash water on my face, watching anyone else do it makes me feel uneasy.

I can't eat something with brown mustard. It's yellow (and in rare cases honey mustard) or nothing.

I always sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door. Never noticed it before, but my boyfriend pointed out while we were on vacation that I flip-flopped the side of the bed I was on. I don't sleep well if I'm on the "other" side.

...I have many more quirks, but these are the "needs."

 

[Jennasis]

I can't go down (or up) an escalator if I'm on the left or if I don't have my right hand free. I had to go down an escalator once (in recent memory) on the left...I somehow got on the wrong side and there was a bunch of people behind me. I had a mini-panic attack until someone grabbed my right arm and said, "step." Embarassing? Oh yes.

I cannot splash water on my face, watching anyone else do it makes me feel uneasy.

I can't eat something with brown mustard. It's yellow (and in rare cases honey mustard) or nothing.

I always sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door. Never noticed it before, but my boyfriend pointed out while we were on vacation that I flip-flopped the side of the bed I was on. I don't sleep well if I'm on the "other" side.

...I have many more quirks, but these are the "needs."

I'm having a hard time with this visual...if you are on the left side of the escalator, you would hold the railing with your left hand, no? And your RIGHT hand would be free.

If you stood on the RIGHT side of the escalator you would have to hold with your right hand, right? Or do you have to stand on the right side and reach across your body with your leftarm to hold the railing with your left hand??

 

[onelilspark]

I'm having a hard time with this visual...if you are on the left side of the escalator, you would hold the railing with your left hand, no? And your RIGHT hand would be free.

If you stood on the RIGHT side of the escalator you would have to hold with your right hand, right? Or do you have to stand on the right side and reach across your body with your leftarm to hold the railing with your left hand??

I can't go down on the left hand side no matter what. So I'm always on the right. If the right hand isn't free (closest to the handrail) I'll take the stairs or find an elevator. For example, if I'm shopping and talking on the phone, I'll switch hands that my phone is in so I can use the escalator. If I can't just switch hands that I'm holding stuff in (so my right hand is free) then I find another way down.