How anal retentive are you?

[RyanH]

You know, if you really think about it, pocket protectors are quite functional aren't they......you can keep a wide variety of writing utensils at hand, wherever you go, and you won't ruin your clothes in the process.

In my view, some of these bags that you see many guys carrying on the streets, are just as nerdy.

 

[danielson]

In my view, some of these bags that you see many guys carrying on the streets, are just as nerdy.

lol

depends on the age i guess....

ive seen revenge of the nerds btw

 

[musclebrains]

Ugh. What a distressing thread. I live with an OCD. Most highly obsessive/compulsive types cannot maintain their obsession with order. Thus my partner alphabetizes the cat food, saves every envelope of soy sauce from takeout Chinese restaurants, has 20,000 entries in his Quicken program -- but, because he has such a compulsion to save everything, ultimately can't maintain order in his environment.

His most annoying habit for years was carrying a pocket computer. At the close of every dinner, he'd whip it out to calculate everyone's cost down to the penny. An anal-explosive friend, in a rage one day, took it out of his hands and buried it in mashed potatoes.

I have no compulsion to organize. I have a library of several thousand books, and it's the most organized thing I have. My closet looks like a rag bin. I learned to live with myself years ago by always having a maid.

 

[vixenbabe]

1)Soup cans in aphla order in the pantry!

2)Must have a perfect path in the plush carpet when using the sweeper. The lines gotta be right or the whole damn thing has to be re-done. Carpet Fen Shi maybe?

3)The "in box" on my desk MUST be in line with corner of desk at all times.. If ya put shit in the in box ya had better not be messing with the box and get it off center.

I could go on and on..Can somebody say NUTCASE?

I love order and neatness....Drive peeps crazy at times with my order theories.

 

[Warik]

Warik, I'm sure you can top this.

You sure as hell better be sure I can.

Here are some examples of my "anal retentiveness."

Closet:
* Sweaters or long-sleeved non-dress shirts must go on the shelf folded nicely.
* Not-wear-so-often clothes goes on the extreme left.
* Ties hung neatly on a hanger next to my suit.
* Then come dress shirts.
* Then short-sleeved collar shirts.
* Then nice shirts.
* Then jeans, black first.
* Blue jeans
* Khakis
* Dress pants, in order of quality.
* Belts hung nicely on a hanger.
* Shoes in their individual anti-dust bags neatly arranged within their original boxes on the bottom of the closet.

Bookcase:
* Miscellaneous products neatly stored on the top shelf.
* Contact lens lotion, shaving gel, hairspray, gel, razor, etc.
* My He-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Macgyver episode tapes sorted in order by series and individual episode volumes along next shelf.

Dresser:
* Colognes and deoderant neatly arranged on glass structure.
* Comb, brush, tissues, watch, wallet, and cellphone spread out (neatly of course) along dresser surface.

Desk - Others' disasters, Warik's castle
* It's neat. It's fucking neat. Absolutely awesome. Not a single thing out of place. My girl comes over and uses my phone, and I immediately return it to the stand... she uses a pen, I put it back on the desk organizer (in its proper slot... nice pens go to the left, whatever pens on the right).

You want more extreme? I ask my mom not to hang my clothes. Just dump it on my bed, mom. I'll take care of it. Don't you know that blue jeans are supposed to go to the right, not within, or to the left, of the black jeans? What about sweaters? How dare you hang a sweater!!! That will stretch the top out and make it look silly.

Also let's talk about my new fish tank. I have all of the cables tied together along the whole lines with one of those garbage bag twisty things, so that they don't get all over the place inside the stand's cabinet. I also have small pieces of old towels rubberbanded to the cables so that water does not drip down and get into the electrical socket.

Shit, back to my room again. Approximately 1ft to my right and 1 1/2 down is my filing drawer, the drawer which contains two file folders - one for Visa, one for American Express - which contain all of the receipts for credit card purchases I have made in the current billing cycle, rubberbanded together in chronological order. What happens to receipts once the bill is paid, you ask? Why, they are placed, in chronological order after having checked off the items on the statement, one by one, into 2 file folders (again, one for Visa, and one for American Express) and stored in the filing box in my closet. A hardcopy record of every purchase I've made in the last, oh, 12-24 months with a credit card is safely tucked away in my closet.

What else...? Hmm... Oh, I've also been downloading episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are conveniently stored in:

\My Documents\My Movies\Star Trek - The Next Generation\Season <X>\[Star Trek TNG (S<Y>-E<Z>)] <Title>.avi

Beat that.

Oh... and I squeeze from the back of the toothpaste.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

I took all the time to type that and no one is going to say shit? Nice.

-Warik

 

[RyanH]

This is Warik's view of what HEAVEN is like:

 

[musclebrains]

Ugh. At one point I hired a "professional organizer." I paid this woman several thousand dollars to put my life in order. She failed to tell me that I would have to sit around with her and decide what goes, what stays, blah blah blah. BAsically, she was a $3,000 babysitter and then, of course, I was stuck with myself to maintain the organization.

 

[Warik]

This is Warik's view of what HEAVEN is like:

A walk-in closet? OMG... hardon

 

[RyanH]

Ugh. At one point I hired a "professional organizer." I paid this woman several thousand dollars to put my life in order. She failed to tell me that I would have to sit around with her and decide what goes, what stays, blah blah blah. BAsically, she was a $3,000 babysitter and then, of course, I was stuck with myself to maintain the organization.

LOL.....I can see that.....the baggering of "does this stay, does this go, what's this, do you know where" would test my patience more than just doing it myself.

p.s. Brains----the Apparel mart party new year's eve.....SUCKED.