... you're outside at 6.30 in the morning cleaning off your mail box with windex. Good Lord! What is WRONG with me??? This is the kind of thing that we anal/ocd people do, folks. I just can't seem to help myself.
Every piece of currency in my wallet must be head up, in order by denomination, largest denomination in the rear to smallest in front. By serial number highest to lowest, in each denomination. There are other things, the one mentioned above just seems to be the worst.
I'm very organized... a place for everything and everything in it's place. But you two make me look like a slob! Really? Cleaning your mailbox? I haven't even cleaned my windows in years!
cherylad , I was so proud that we cleaned our window this Spring, for the first time in years. And yet in other ways I am anal..... Guess it's all in what you value.
I'm a bit like FBG with the notes in my purse. All have to be the right way up and in order by denomination but not by serial numbers - yet. I guess we all have things that make us seem anal but hey it could be so much worse. At least we're all being neat and tidy. :-D
I do the notes in the wallet thing also. Makes it so much handier to pay for stuff without fumbling through
I am a note writer. My dear ex father-in-law taught me that when I was about 21. Now you can fine organized notes all over the place. There may be one in the pantry for pantry work, and one in the bathroom. But there is a large one with shopping needs and jobs to do around the whole house for the next day. I almost never finish what is on that list. Today my day was ruined for I lost the big list. I was a disaster all day. I will find the dang thing. I mean itttt....
Haha Im glad I dont have to worry about our mailbox, we use a community box (about 9 mailboxes in one large square ) I guess the only thing Im anal about is my socks. When Im wearing them, there cant be ANY wrinkles, otherwise it will upset me and my day will be ruined until I fix it! I honestly cant understand people who put socks on and let them be loose and bunch up around the toes and just shove their shoes on. Drives me nuts And I also like having my money face the same way and upright.
Ronni, my mail box needs cleaned along with (I think) everything else around here. The garden takes top priority here. I do vacuum and do the dishes, but eat off the floor? I would most likely be outside eating off the garden.
I definitely do the money thing. If I am holding coins in my hand,I have to have them in order of size and all facing the same way. Strange how all have little things that we do!
I am ridiculously anal, but I don't do the money thing. It's fascinating to me that so many of you do! I do like the bills in my wallet to be in order of denomination, but half the time they're not, and sometimes they're even folded so that I'm not sure what is what. On the other hand, I am THAT person who, if I happen to open a box at the wrong end, I will studiously tape it back up again, turn it over, and open it from the correct end! I did that just last night as a matter of fact, with a box of crackers I opened upside down by mistake! I even have a tape dispenser sitting in my kitchen for just that purpose!
I have the solution! Nashville is only a few hours drive from St. Louis. You could come to my house and stay for a week. We have a guest room all set up. I will observe what you clean and if you are cleaning too much. It'll be great!
Well, all y'all, welcome to the ASG (Anal Syndrome Group)! My husband folds plastic bags from the grocery, etc. and places them in the pantry. I fold chicken feed bags and have them on a shelf near the barn garbage pail, to use as pail liners. We have the cat food tins in towers, no two kinds touching so Feliz doesn't get the same food twice, and we have Friday cleaning day, with once a month cleaning ceiling fans, another Friday is polish-the-silver day, and another Friday is cleaning windows. If it happens to rain on the window day our entire week is thrown into chaos! All the bills in my husband's wallet are sorted as to denomination. I have a two compartment wallet, with larger denominations in order, and one dollar bills and change in the other. Bip? Socks? Ours are sorted by size and color, rolled up, and placed in the drawer with the clean ones to the back and last week's laundered ones to the front. Don't ask about our underwear . . . .
