Archive through February 24, 2001
The ClubHouse: General Discussions - Jan -Apr. 2001: February:
Habits, Compulsions and Obsessions:
Archive through February 24, 2001
Mishamisha | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:19 pm  I sing along to any song I recognize on the radio. Whether I know the words or not. I'm addicted to sugar. Not kidding. If I woke up and had toast and milk for breakfast, and no Coke at work, I'd have a headache before lunch. (Ok, caffeine addict too.) I have lots of compulsions...I'll share those later. |
Spamgirl | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:23 pm  Uhm, I rearrange things in stores... like, if someone's put something in the wrong place, I put it back... for example, they had a sidewalk sale at the local mall - I went to the section that was selling casette tapes... I spent an hour rearranging them in alphabetical order... Obsession? Fish I also need things closed - toothpaste, shampoo, shower curtain, certain doors... |
Mishamisha | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:28 pm  I collect craft supplies. I get all excited about some new project, go out and find the perfect items, then don't start half the projects! I'm a year overdue on starting a mural for my Dad's model railroad. |
Azriel | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:29 pm  Oh Spam, I have that closed compulsion too. It makes me crazy when someone leaves a cabinet door open. |
Spamgirl | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:34 pm  ROFL MISHA you're creepy... i do the same thing - go to white rose, spend $100, do nothing and my dad loves MODEL RAILROADS TOO! in fact, i designed http://www.ghls.com/ for him (it's crappy, but they didn't pay me and his pals |
Azriel | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:34 pm  I have a strange obsession with office supplies. An office supply store is like a wonderland to me. Ooooohhhh colored paper clips...Ahhhhhh pretty paper....Mmmmmm fine point erasable pens....OOooOOOooo automatic pencils ~squeal~ flourescent divider tabs! |
Maire | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:39 pm  Az, my daughter is the same way! Its nuts! Her favorite things for christmas and b'day's are paper, pens, notebooks, paperclips, you name it! So strange. Hehe |
Spamgirl | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:43 pm  Oh, AZ! Business depot is heaven!!! I get the paper direct catalog every month... I love it when it arrives! BusinessDepot.com might as well be my homepage! ROFL you should see all the office crap I have |
Max | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 08:45 pm  Misha and Spam, We should get all our craft supplies together and open a store! I tend to use them eventually, but by then, of course, I've purchased many more! Azriel, I can relate to your office supply obsession, too. There are so many cool things and the creative possibilities for using them are endless. Plus there's the veiled promise that if I buy just the RIGHT combination of stuff, I'll finally be organized! Yeah, right! Oh, did I mention that my idea of organization is knowing which pile contains the item I want to find? Books are another area for me. I'm always ordering stuff from Amazon.com and if I actually go IN a bookstore, I could stay for days! In the habits area....well, I have lots of BAD ones. I keep trying to make myself hire a housekeeper because I tend to put cleaning as the absolute last thing on any priority list. Bottom line, though, I'm too embarassed to have someone come in and clean up after me! All those old tapes in my head about how women are supposed to be neatniks and I just am SO no that! My car is probably my biggest obsession right now, though. Summer is coming and with it lots of PT Cruiser Club events--people to meet, places to cruise! Gotta wash it every time I get the chance to have clear weather and a half hour or so. My friends think I'm nuts for not taking it through car washes instead. As much as I DON'T clean at home, I keep that car pretty much immaculate. Go figure. I'm really getting the urge to customize it, too, and that could be really dangerous to the old pocket-book!
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Noslonna | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 09:35 pm  Lists... endless lists of what to do, what to buy.. what to make... who is who... I have lists of things for years to come. I have categorized lists for everything. Now of course my lists are filed on my computer. If I say you are on my "spankin list" or in my "paranoid party file" I am not kidding. A phrase I say far too often is, "I will add it to my list." I think lists are one of my obsessions. However, office supplies is close to the top too. They are so wonderful for keeping track of lists. |
Leap | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 10:04 pm  Funny how so many of us are into office supplies. I love going to Office MAX and looking at the pens, post-its and anything in lots of colors. I have more post-its than I will ever use. I suppose my computer use is somewhat of a compulsion. I am on almost all day, every day and when I travel I go thru withdrawals if I don't bring a laptop or visit an internet cafe. I also am constantly buying books off of Amazon. I love to get new books. I have my own library that I visit to decide what to read. I eat in very defined ways. I order the same thing in each restaurant I frequent often. At the deli near my house, I always order chicken salad on a sesame bagel with a slice of cheddar cheese and no vegetables. This deli has tons of other selections, but once I pick the one thing I like somewhere I almost never change. Oh, and my cat is like my child.  |
Gail | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 10:21 pm  I am compulsive about wearing a seatbelt when I am in a car. I also will not leave my house without brushing my teeth. I am not a clean freak except for when it comes to computers. At work, every few months, I go around to every computer in the office (there's about 90 of them) and clean the monitors, mice and keyboards. A dirty keyboard drives me nuts, a dirty mouse is even worse. |
Spamgirl | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 10:30 pm  Lists... yeah, and I keep records... lots and lots of records and budgets... and control in general And organization! Especially on computers... if I'm on a computer that isn't organized, I find myself organizing it... and deleting things I probably shouldn't |
Misslibra | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 10:56 pm  Well I can't stand for anything being on my computer desktop. It drives me nuts to have anything but my recycle bin, my computer and network neighborhood on my desktop. If I download something it must be installed right away so I can hurry up and delete the file. I have a thing about my email to. I can't stand for mail to pile up in any of the boxes, even my delete box. I bet I have the cleaness email around these here parts. LOL I also have a thing about getting things done. If I know I have something that is important, well even the not so important stuff, that I need to do. I have to get on it done right away or else it's going to nag the hell out of me. I to have a thing about neatness in my house. I can't stand to see something moved and then not be put back in place. I have a friend who is sweet as she can be but she is a slob. Her house stays a mess. I found myself cleaning up when ever I go to her house, because I can't stand to sit around a messy house even if I'm visiting. It got so bad until I had to stop visiting her all together. She tells me all the time I miss our visits, and when are you going to come visit me again. In the back of my mind I'm thinking yeah right you want your house clean again. LOL  |
Noslonna | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 11:06 pm  Oh dear MLibra, you have reminded me of my obsession for things in their place. I can tell if something has been moved a couple inches. I arrange my house and cupboards etc the way I want and with a housefull of kids it makes me crazy sometimes when things are moved! Perhaps this is why I have another obsession with NOT having very many knick knacks or dust collectors. I like things to look very uncluttered and simple. However, I don't include collections of "things" lining shelves or walls as clutter. Those are treasures of course. (and another obsession) |
Misslibra | Friday, February 23, 2001 - 11:12 pm  Nos, good point I'm the same way about having a lot of stuff around that will need dusting. The more knick knacks you have the more work you make for yourself. Sure they are cute and all of that but I can do without them myself.  |
Soeur | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 01:16 am  post-its ~double sigh~ I really like the ones that are like mini tabs (they come in a small black plastic dispenser). I have some in my desk at work and am very selective about using them. If I have something I like then I tend to keep it and not use it (like fancy unopened soaps, etc). I love the feeling of having new socks in my drawer. As long as there are lots of socks there then I feel rich. (am I weird or does everyone love having an ample supply of nice socks?) I love finding out that my foibles are common to humanity and don't reflect a bent or twisted psyche I love having books I really want to read sit by my bedside unopened (there is a big stack there that as we speak). Buttered toast. If I make two slices then I keep going back and making more until I force myself to stop. (It tastes better when the slices are cut on the diagonal) I am totally with Gail on the tooth brushing. I really dislike mispronouncing people's names and keep repeating them over and over and over in my mind self-correcting to the point that I forget which version was wrong in the first place. It has been a year since I have spun any fleece and there are washed, shorn, sorted fleeces from a number of breeds of sheep and exotic animals wrapped in sheets and stuffed in closets and under beds throughout the house. Tomorrow I promise I'll start a new project. I have about 6 unfinished sweaters in bags around the house, separated from their instructions and making me feel guilty when I look at them. (does anyone else feel twinges of guilt when they come across unfinished craft projects?). I give almost everything I make away and so if you came to my house you would never know that I spin, knit, paint, cross stitch, etc. When I get interested in something I (used to) buy up tons of supplies. Visiting Ottawa I came a cross a store called the Cross Stitch Cupboard, it sells thousands of patterns, kits and has clubs, classes and a monthly newsletter. I bought a shopping bag full of patterns and a couple of hundred DMC yarns. Now, whenever the mailing list comes in the mail I cringe...
oh! yes...clipart!  |
Cammie | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 05:23 am  I cannot stand to have junk laying around. I get a strange amount of pleasure from cleaning out drawers and throwing away useless stuff. Junk mail goes right in the garbage. The minute the kids grow out of a piece of clothing, it goes in a bag for Goodwill. My socks HAVE to match my shirt. I need a good book at all times. MissL, I share your email obsession. |
Guruchaz | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 09:04 am  I have overwhelming obsession to create the strangest threads on messageboards. In fact, I have an overwhelming obsession with checking this messageboard multiple times per day. Actually, all my obsessions and compulsions stem from this messageboard.
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Mishamisha | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 11:30 am  Nearly 10 years ago, I lost a beautiful beaded earring. I wanted to buy a replacement, but couldn't find one anywhere. While on a trip to Victoria, BC, I discovered this wonderful bead shop. My (brilliant) husband says "why don't you just find out how to make earrings, then you can always make what you need?" Heh. The rest is history. Over the next 5 years or so I spent roughly $2000 on beads, beading tools, wire, cord, books, classes etc. I did make a lot of earrings, bracelets, necklaces, beaded votive candle holders, Christmas ornaments and even one outrageous purse, but somehow lost my passion. It seems funny now when I remember how it was impossible for me to pass a bead store without going in. Looking for that "perfect" color of seed beed to finish/complement a piece, spending all day going from store to store, pouring over bins of beads and jewelry findings. <sigh> I was truly obsessed. |
Soeur | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 11:56 am  Mish - it really can be a slippery slope can't it?  |
Twiggyish | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 01:45 pm  Soeur, I have that obsession, too. I make it a point to learn names and then remember small facts about people. With 4 classes, that is a lot of people to remember. It bothers me when I can't come up with a name to a face. I am a double checker when it comes to turning things off. If I think the iron is still on, I will go back and double check. I was told a lot of people have this obsession. |
Mishamisha | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 01:47 pm  Nod Twiggy. Now I just unplug the damn things! |
Soeur | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 01:53 pm  You know Twigs, it occurred to me the other day that everyone has addictive personlity traits. Our habits and attachments form and pattern behaviour. At times I have joked to my husband that I'd like to take a vacation from being myself. Getting older, I am finding a lot more balance and also the ability to delight in the things described in this folder. Hey, checking the iron four times just ensures peace of mind on the trip in to work If I could only taper off on checking TVCH for new messages... |
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, February 24, 2001 - 04:46 pm  Oh Gail I hate dirty mice too, but dirty rats are even worse. |
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