This is kind of sad!

[lewdyan1]

I was just folding towels and although it has never bothered me before, I was worried when the tag was facing out! I think I need to stopped hanging out here, it is giving me new obsessions, just what I don't need!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I always have to have the tag on the inside!!!

 

[KAMommy]

I know how you feel about the boards affecting your life in weird ways, Dyan.

You see I LOVE makeup. Seriously, I have more lipstick than any one person could wear. Makeup has always been my "I'm depressed" purchase (it always fits, even on a fat day ). Anyway, I am in Target the other day, not feeling very good about the world in general and I head to the makeup...only to get sidetracked.....

Into the scrapbooking aisle!!!!! I cleared up my mini depression by buying STICKERS!!!!!

I might need to get out more!

 

[PrincessMommyof2]

Hurray for slightly OCD people! I CANNOT stand it when my DH puts a new roll of toilet paper on and the tab isn't to the outside! I just can't seem to train him!

 

[Downrivermama]

Wow, I'm not the only one who gets manic about the little things! I like my tags inside too. I hate to mow the lawn, but when I do it I have to make sure all the blades of grass are cut! This is getting scary...

 

[PrincessNancy96]

The tag has to be on the inside..not sticking out.. I'm so bad about this.. I have to fold it just right..and no tag.. and when you but them away.. the folded neat in needs to be facing out..so when you grabbed them you are grabbing the entire towel..
My kids and Dh on occassion will switch them all around and set mommy into a panic! They are in the living room laughing hysterically.. I'm on the hall throwing my hissy fit!

 

[ddavis860]

I can honestly say I don't have any household OCD...well, except for the TP roll has to be over the top. I have a way of folding the towels, DH does it different. You can tell who did that wash by looking at how the towels are folded in the linen closet. Will I refold so they all are the same? Ummm...NO! Will DH...you bet!

I tried to get him to fold them like I do in the beginning. The way I do it, you just take them out and they are tri-folded over the towel bar. With his, you have to refold. He wouldn't change his way, so I just refold them over the bar...which he then refolds again so they are in half over the bar...sheesh....

 

[StitchIsARedSoxFan]

Household OCDs are the worst. There is no sympathy...only mocking.
Yes, tags have to be on the inside...dishes have to go into the dishwasher a certain way...dress shirts have the ironed and starched just right (I am the ironer in the house so this is a fit I have with myself which makes it worse)...groceries go to their own space in the cabinet/refrigerator....Sorry, what were we talking about???

 

[jennyL]

I'm not overly concered with my towels but I have a huge obsession with the way clothes are placed on a hanger. All clothes must face the same direction and be hung properly. I tought my DH that very early on. I can always tell when company has been in my closet based on the way the clothes are hanging. LOL and yes my DH has an aunt who is a snooper. The last time she stayed with us half of my twin-sets were hung wrong. Needless to say she has never been to my house again.

I'm also big on the TP thing. It must be hung over the top and I will change it when I notice it the wrong way. I'm lucky that DH likes it over the top too but occasionally someone else changes a roll and I have to fix it.

 

[katelynsmommy2001]

I am not an overly domestic kinda gal, but if you want to get me into a tizzy, fold my towels wrong!! OH MY!! If DH folds them, I will have to refold!! You would think after 11 years of married life he'd figure it out!! Do you think he does it to torture me??? HHHMMMM!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'm not overly concered with my towels but I have a huge obsession with the way clothes are placed on a hanger. All clothes must face the same direction and be hung properly. I tought my DH that very early on. I can always tell when company has been in my closet based on the way the clothes are hanging. LOL and yes my DH has an aunt who is a snooper. The last time she stayed with us half of my twin-sets were hung wrong. Needless to say she has never been to my house again.

I'm also big on the TP thing. It must be hung over the top and I will change it when I notice it the wrong way. I'm lucky that DH likes it over the top too but occasionally someone else changes a roll and I have to fix it.

DH has to have his shirts hanging in the closet facing front-wards lightest to darkest solids, stripes, plaids and multicolored but the base color being in the right color group. Needless to say I never hang up his clothes.

TP and paper towel hang over the top here. Food cans must be facing forwards.

God I feel like I'm in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy. Remember how OCD Julia Roberts husband was in that movie with the food and towels?

 

[vanyel]

My dh has household ocd. I'm a bit more haphazard. But mess with my books, put them in the wrong bookshelf or on the wrong shelf and watch out

Seriously, does anyone know how to fold fitted sheets so that they look folded or is that a lost art?

 

[Soccermom-Cheri]

Household OCDs are the worst. There is no sympathy...only mocking.
Yes, tags have to be on the inside...dishes have to go into the dishwasher a certain way...dress shirts have the ironed and starched just right (I am the ironer in the house so this is a fit I have with myself which makes it worse)...groceries go to their own space in the cabinet/refrigerator....Sorry, what were we talking about???

The milk goes in the same place, right? It has it's own spot, not where the orange juice goes - where the milk goes for heaven's sake. And the vacuum hose (central vac with 10 foot hose) MUST be wound the right way. Honestly, isn't it obvious that things just work better this way?


(and yes, tags always inside and tp always over the top)

 

[saucymb]

Seriously, does anyone know how to fold fitted sheets so that they look folded or is that a lost art?

Yes, that is an art that has been passed down from generation to generation in my family...my mother taught me how to do it when I was about 5! It's too hard to explain, you just have to do it.

Tags definitely go on the inside of a towel, and the towel must be folded in half, then in thirds and stacked with all of the folds in the same direction. I guess I'm a little OCD about towels. And sheets and blankets. And DH's t-shirts. Oh, and the pantry as well.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

My towels are folded the same way, and the tags do NOT show!

 

[CACruisin']

OK, I have household OCD too. I didn't know it until I started reading this thread though! TP over the top, tags inside. Yes, milk on the left, OJ on the right, people, and eggs and dairy on shelf two, leftovers on shelf three ... If someone else has actually FOLDED a towel (or anything else for that matter!) I won't refold it. Clearly a miracle has just happened here, and I am not about to go messin' with it!

 

[ddavis860]

Tags definitely go on the inside of a towel, and the towel must be folded in half, then in thirds and stacked with all of the folds in the same direction. I guess I'm a little OCD about towels. And sheets and blankets. And DH's t-shirts. Oh, and the pantry as well.

OMG...that is how DH does it...this thread is just too funny!

and yes my DH has an aunt who is a snooper. The last time she stayed with us half of my twin-sets were hung wrong. Needless to say she has never been to my house again.

Wow, that's kind of creepy...guess she was trying them on or something...why else mess with the hangers? NOT COOL!