OCDs

...it drives me mad that my wife will, say, have a bowl of Weetabix before rushing out to work and then leave it on the bench to mature for a day before sticking it straight into the dishwasher.

Andrew, how does toast have to be made? Please let it not involve allowing a knife with toastcrumbs on anywhere near the butter.

I can't think of any irrational OCD things. Just things I don't like, for rational reasons:-
Animals in houses.
Fog lights on a clear day
The Daily Mail.

People that wear their watch one the right (ie not left) wrist annoy me the most......

my favourite number is 17 if your interested

Try being left-handed for a while...

As left handers are the spawn of the devil, I'll pass thanks.

Thanks, you've just reminded me of another one of my OCDs

As I know there are a few people on here who are good with dogs...

We've had our collie-cross pup for about 6 months now and she's fitted into our house well. Her and youngest son have been best friends/partners in crime since the day she arrived and all it well, other than she seems to have reached a chewing phase, which I believe is quite common in adolescent dogs.

It's only a problem when she's left alone or at night, when she's locked in the kitchen with our other dog. She's working her way through the chair in the kitchen, but that's expendable, and we put everything else out of reach, the only issue is dog beds.

She absolutely shreds any bed she's given (or any that the other dog is given, for that matter), rendering them ruined within a couple of days.

We leave her with plenty of toys, but unless their something she can destroy she's not really interested. She'll play with a Kong or the ball she has providing that they've got food hidden inside them, but she's a bright dog and has worked out how to pin them down and get the food quickly.

Something like a hide bone will keep her entertained, but she can get through one in under an hour. Similarly she likes carrots and apples, but they're gone in minutes.

Tennis balls and the like are treated with complete disinterest.

Anybody got anything else we can try? We really don't want to be forking out for a new dog bed once a week.

And breathe.

My other OCDs are:
- When I'm cooking I have to have two sheets of kitchen paper to putting peelings and other rubbish on, so I can lift the whole thing up and drop it in the bin when I'm finished.

Everything in my cars must be switched off before the engine, I can't leave a heater fan turned on.

In my kitchen, I want things put back where they came from. It doesn't go there. It goes here. I don't care if it is more sensible for it to go there. It goes here.

[Bread knife (although not part of the set) should go in the knife block.

Socks have to be folded a particular way. My socks, anyway. I don't care what you do with yours.

I told Laura that I consider this grounds for divorce.

- My socks have to match not just by style/colour, but also by 'feel'.

- I do most of the cooking in our household. The kitchen must be spotless before I start and I frequently clean as I go and I like it to be very tidy before I sit down to eat.

- The television/radio volume must be set to a multiple of 5. 21 and 13 are exceptions to this rule.

- Just about everything that Laura does around the house, with a few exceptions, has to be redone in secret. She doesn't necessarily complete tasks in an incorrect manner, she just doesn't do them *my* way.

Oh god, where to begin?

I would just like to note that I don't consider myself a superstitious person; I don't believe that anything detrimental will happen if I don't do the things I list below. I can't explain why I have to do them, but I get an uncomfortable feeling if I don't (some more so than others).

Volume - TV, car radio, computer, etc. Always has to be on a round number (normally a multiple of 10). Having volume set on 21 or 37, for example, is just not on.

Seatbelt - Goes on before I start the engine, even if I'm just moving the car from in front of the house to the garage.

Routine - Drumming is a good example here. I have an electric drum kit and have to hit/play each individual drum/cymbal in a certain order before commencing with a song or beat.
I also have set routines in rugby. When kicking at goal I have a set pattern which I follow in the build up to striking the ball (although every kicker does this as consistency increases your %).

Cleaning - This is probably my worst one. In my last house I had a pretty big kitchen. One day I was doing the washing up from the night before (even though we had dishwasher ) and afterwards, I wiped down the kitchen worktops. I then noticed that some of the tiles were a bit dirty behind the hob so I gave them a good clean as well. This lead me to cleaning all the tiles above the worktops. I then moved onto the doors of the kitchen cupboards (as they were those gloss white affairs and now looked dirty in comparison to the tiles). In the end I had cleaned everything; inside and out of all cupboards (including taking everything out), inside and out of fridge freezer, oven (using Oven Pride, it was like new ), dishwasher, washing machine (including the soap drawer and filter), behind all the appliances, windows and the tiled floor (scrubbed on my hands and knees.

I think I might need help.

No, no, no, no.

Why would you put a non-matching anything in a set of matching things?

I don't know how the world is still turning.

Having an even number of Weetabix left.

Much to my annoyance MrsWishy and MiniWishy only have 1 1/2 Weetabix when they occasionally have it for breakfast which leaves a half left in the packet. Even once it's been done again I still get left with an odd number and takes 4 such portions to be eaten before the count is even again. It wouldn't be so bad if they both ate Weetabix every day as at least I wouldn't ever see any halves and every other day there would be an even number left but they only have it once in a blue moon. This means it usually takes ages for normality to be restored.

I have been known to throw good Weetabix in the bin in order to restore parity.

Oh Ali, lets not let this come between us. We can work through this.

Well-deserved points for consistency there ali, also for development - can't wait so see how the treatment pans out in another 3 and a bit years.

Plastic bottles that aren't *quite* strong enough, that bend and twist when you try to grip them.