What behaviour/habits do you have that are slightly OCDish?

[rickyarbino]

whenever i play records first thing i do is spot where i can leave sleeves so i know which ones are for the right record for each deck

Is that really OCD though? Like that's entirely good for you.

[Marcus]

whenever i play records first thing i do is spot where i can leave sleeves so i know which ones are for the right record for each deck

Why not just put the sleeve under the turntable you are playing the tune on?

[scspkr99]

My itunes library has every tune with album art and is broken down to consistent genres, no variations of hip-hop there. I have all my CD's by genre and artist alphabetically and now I've got the shelf space for the 1200 or so books around the house they're next.

[dickman69]

oh yea my itunes & serato tunes are all perfect

that shit pisses me way off

[Sheff]

Nothing to do with you guys or anything you've said but it really annoys me when snotty teenagers are claiming to have OCD over everything

Just because an object isn't lined up perfectly or is asymmetrical etc doesn't mean your "ocd is going crazy rn" pussy bitch it just looks more aesthetically pleasing when it is an its natural




I can never ever let the kettle fully boil.. If i accidently let it boil fully where it switches itself off then i just wait ten minutes for it to cool down a little and reboil it to the correct temperature

[ultraspatial]

re: dish thing. i fucking hate doing dishes so bad. the sink is like a few inches too low, hence i get pretty bad back pains nearly every time i have to clean shit up. one time i couldn't be bothered so i just threw them away and got new ones. really considering getting disposable plastic ones
my last ex was fucking mental about the dishes tho. she kept arguing with me cause i wouldn't do the dishes whilst cooking

don't think the things posted are really ocdish tbh. more like habit/convenience/personal preference

as for shit i do, idk probably only the way i organize my music: genre >> artists & labels (depending on how much i got) >> if label by cat no, if artist usually in chronological order (unless it's electronic music, then it's more random tbh)

[mks]

When I was a kid, I had to do things 4 times or else I thought bad things would happen.

Thank goodness that stopped when I got older.

[nowaysj]

Me and you buddy!

When I drive through a green light without having waited for it, have to knock 3 times. If I miss the knock, I've got to wave it off, and knock three sets of three.

I'm OCD about everything, and I'm a slob. It is really hard.

But the fucking sponge... my wife and I are locked in a battle over the sponge. She will leave it wet, at the bottom of the sink, even in dirty dishes, I MUST have it on the counter washed out squeezed dry by the faucet. I can't stand having a mildewy sponge, and you wash something and your hands smell mildewy for hours, no matter how many times you wash them. Fuck that, fucking bitch.

And Ultra, I feel you re the low sink, life long ambition to live in a house that is built for a 6 plus footer (I guess a 2m+er). My parents house, it is ridiculous, the bathroom sink is just above my knees, washing your face is like washing in a creek or something. Who builds that shit?

[titchbit]

I definitely do the itunes thing. ever since i really started to download/buy 320s i put in cat # for everything under the "group" section. i have weird names for genres so everything will show up in the right smart playlists that i want it too (i use lots of smart playlists). i call 130 & deep house "uk garage" so it will show up with my uk garage stuff. for remixes & collabs, i always pick the artist that i have more tunes by and/or like better, and say the song is by that artist and put the other artist as "ft." eg "Las - Dem Break ft. Mikael" or "Coki - Badman Place ft. Busy Signal & Mavado." this way i dont have lots of annoying artists with 2, 3, 4, etc different names listed.

[titchbit]

i do some other weird things, but nothing that really effects my life. if i brush by something on my right shoulder, i then scratch my left shoulder to feel symmetrical (and any other part of my body). certain textures also creep me out kinda like the "nails on a chalk board" feeling but with many different textures, especially clothes.

there another one which is impossible to explain but i'll try anyway - sometimes when i'm walking around, i look at the ground around me and take various things & project lines from them at 45, 90, & 180 degree angles, and just imagine them. it's like a severe case of "don't step on the crack" syndrome lol, except i don't actually avoid stepping on them, i just picture them in my head. done it ever since i can remember. I still step on them freely (it would be impossible not to - there's just too many) and it doesn't bother me, but i definitely think about it a lot so it's a preoccupation. basically i think about all of the cracks or lines on the ground, edges of rugs or tiles, lines projected from the arms of chairs or desks or door frames, etc (at the aforementioned angles).

i do a similar thing when i'm driving - whenever there's a mailbox, fire hydrant, driveway, street sign, etc, i will imagine the car hovering off the ground for a second to avoid driving over the lines projected from the mailbox or whatever it is.

I don't think about it that often nowadays, maybe 5% of the time, but that's definitely enough for it to be kinda strange lol. used to think about it more often when i was younger.

[rockonin]

Before I go sleep I have to check the doors are locked, the gas is turned off, all appliances are switched off at the wall. Sometimes ill keep checking the door is locked two or three time even though I know its locked.

[jrkhnds]

I cannot leave a dirty kitchen overnight. Even if it's gone 1am on a weeknight, I have to wash the dishes and wipe down the work surfaces. The idea of coming down in the morning to dirty plates/surfaces is fucking disgusting.

this a thousand times. also, whenever a flatmate leaves something in the shared rooms (cup of tea/coffee in the bathroom is the classic one, with paperwork in the living room being a close second and receipts or flyers in the dining room as runner-ups) I could bash their head in. I pay rent for these spaces aswell, and when you're not in them for an extended period of time, try to hide your fucking existance. one of them works as a flight attendant; every time before she leaves to work she forgets to put her cup of coffee in the dishwasher. she leaves these cups in the most awkward places and I have no idea why. inside the wardrobe. next to the shower. on the balcony. as mentioned before, we even own a dishwasher. what the fuck.


nothing to do with ocd though. I just like shit to be clean.

[ehbes]

Left pocket is phone and ear buds. Right pocket is keys and wallet

[titchbit]

one of them works as a flight attendant; every time before she leaves to work she forgets to put her cup of coffee in the dishwasher. she leaves these cups in the most awkward places and I have no idea why. inside the wardrobe. next to the shower. on the balcony.

is she hot tho?

[titchbit]

Left pocket is phone and ear buds. Right pocket is keys and wallet

exactly this because you need keys in the right.

+ substances + ecig in left. fuck back pockets.

[jrkhnds]

nah she isn't. although I guess you should ask somebody who doesn't live with her. I don't really see her as a woman anymore; in my perception, she's an asexual being. like an amoeboid.

[nowaysj]

Wallet in back pocket, what is wrong with you people.

[rickyarbino]

Scared of getting pick pocketed.

I never used to put mine in my back pocket until the day I saw an episode of this show where former con-artists demonstrate street cons on the BBC (I can't remember what it was called). During the episode in question they demonstrated just how easy it is to get pickpocketed, and for reasons I can't identify, let alone explain, I've put it in my back pocket ever since.
Baffling pathology.

[sigbowls]

im ocd about not looking at the tv or flashing lights for a extended time and i cant have a needle in me. not sure if thats ocd or being a hippy.

[rickyarbino]

not sure it's either tbf.