I've come to the conclusion that I'm just lazy. Fold socks? They just get tossed into the drawer. I only by one kind/color so there is no need for trying to match them.
This is a story about 2 anal people. Like about 45 years ago, before we had anal people, I had a friend that would come over to my house every Tuesday and move my little wine rack from the angle on my breakfront, to squared in the corner. She would leave and I would put it back at a angle. We did that for months until I told my mother about how funny it was that she was going to come over and go right to my little wine rack. When she did as I predicted my mom and I broke out laughing. we had to tell my friend why we were laughing. She never did it again. That was fun while it lasted. But we weren't anal way back then.
OMG carolyn keiper...You had me rolling on the floor when I read this post. You are soooo funny. And I bet busier them I have been.
Thanks Barb. I just came in from the garden...been there all day. I picked 1 bu. beans, 3 bu.corn, 4 bu. tomatoes, watered and weeded the pole beans, picked 3 bu. apples, 6 pints of raspberries, (I did the peppers yesterday) for the market tomorrow and ran my daughter back and forth to school and college.I am tired and I really couldn't care much less than I already do about the dog hair and dirt in the house. I am getting a shower and going to bed. You all know that the dirt and crumbs and dust and clutter will either be there tomorrow or reappear tomorrow. Hmmm, I just don't worry too much about it.
Well. Socks, yeah. Always paired. No loose socks. And I, uh, have socks in two drawers. One draw is exclusively socks, and they're the socks I wear with my athletic shoes. The other drawer is partitioned and in the smaller section is my second set of socks. They're the thin socks I wear with shoes or boots other than the athletic shoes. Oh. I just remembered. I have a third sock section. It's the seasonal socks...you know, the Christmas/Halloween/Easter themed ones. Don't even TALK to me about underwear organization. *hangs head in shame
Well, I wasn't going to mention underwear, but Ronni brought the subject up. Underwear has to be folded a certain way. Originally, it was so shorts, panties, etc. would fit in our dresser drawers. When we changed dressers (about 40 years ago) we folded and still fold them the same, although the drawers are a different size than the originals. Once anally retentive, always anally retentive! I have never seen an Easter-themed pair of socks. Ronni, please post a picture!
Don't do that, be proud of what you do. That is a clean and useful thing to do. I buy hubby a group of like socks so if one wears out or gets lost I can mix and patch them. Sometimes, we joke, our socks disappear for a while. They get stuck in a shirt sleeve or fly out of the washer over to the side and lay on the floor till Friday cleaning day. Either way I save the oddie in a special place till the other one shows up. It works. We laugh when the hubby puts his work shirt on and finds a surprise in his hand when he puts his arm down the sleeve, sometimes a sock or my under ware. I grab the sock from his hand and say, "Enough vacationing for you. Now get back here with your partner and wait in line to be used again." If I through a single sock out and then found the mate I would be upset. That would be a waste and I don't like that.
Ronni...DO NOT hang your head in shame. Be thankful for your way of life. each of us is different and unique. I wasn't raised in an "eat off the floor house" (but, don't touch it if it fell on the floor house, God above only knows what was down there) but I could never live that way either. The kitchen floor gets a swipe and the carpet gets a vacuum almost every day. I WISH i was a little more anal.
These are my table cloths all hanging in size order, ironed, and there is a size label on each hook to tell me what size it is. Is that anal enough for ya all...
Oh boy.... now I don't feel just lazy but cheap! I have 2 tablecloths... an everyday one and a Christmas one. I will have to admit... like I said earlier... a place for everything and everything it's place. And I mean PERMANENTLY. Once an object has found the perfect spot, it shall not be moved... or else. I guess besides that, my only really anal "thing" is when it comes to the towels. They have to be folded and placed on the shelf in a certain way... like Martha Stewart would have it.
Okay I will admit I am "anal" a little bit, speaking of towels. I HATE the way kevin folds kitchen towels, but since he takes the time to do it occasionally I don't complain about it.... Barb, my eyes almost popped out of their socket when you said those were your table clothes. I thought they were long sleeved shirts at first glance. I have several table clothes....two for my tables at the farmers market, 1 for kevins table at his farmers market and ONE for my everyday kitchen table... Not too much to store.
This is fun. As I work through my day at the house I realize I may not vacuum my kitchen floor everyday but I do have a throw rug in front of the sink and one in front of the stove. I do shake them every night after the evening meal clean up. Things get so messy cooking that meal. Maybe that's not so anal...I don't know but it's fun thinking about these things. Even though, nowadays it's a flaw in us, I wouldn't change my analness at all. I like me with all my oddities. I even can laugh about the silly things I do.
Is "anal" really more about being organized than anything else? some of us must have the order within us not necessarily taught to us or enforced but it is just there? Some of us don't (that would be me, I think) maybe part of it is being taught how to do this and maybe for some it is a small thing that we can control when there are other things that overwhelm us and we have no control over?
