I think I’m like a few folk on here; liking stuff around the house, especially the kitchen, to be ordered and put away properly. Loading the dishwasher is a great example of knowing how everything best fits and not being able to relax if it’s ‘wrong’.
But do you have something little that you let go unordered or do differently each time? Just for the little thrill of it not being the same? Is it slightly petty to see if anyone else in the house notices?
For me it’s this cutlery hanger. Double-sided but I love to have mismatching sides and, when presented with a completely clear side to load from the dishwasher, will just do the 4 items in any order I fancy - crazy eh?
Time to confess your little moments of disordered chaos…
Cutlery hanger - now there's a thing I never knew existed!! 🤣
How very orderly! 😀
I would like for my house to be orderly. It's not, it's an utter tip. Mainly cause no one in the house (myself included) seems capable of putting anything away properly or to do any amount of cleaning and tidying. We also buy too much crap.
I have a Land Cruiser
Oh man, this one time, I didn't line my valves up to the tyre logo.
Whoa, that was a crazy 5 minutes.
I live alone. And I do not hang my knives and forks out to dry.
I'm not very good with routine, so I prefer to things differently all the time.
Put the left Knee Pad on first. Spent the whole ride convinced I'd angered the riding gods and would be banished to the local hospital via a handy hedge.
Never again.
My house is not orderly. All the horizontal surfaces are well used for ad-hoc storage.... but that's not planned. Eg I built a timber window seat with integral cat bed, a slot for unsorted incoming shopping, foam covers and topped with cushions. Nice. Now it looks like a combination of a builders merchant yard, garden centre, work filing dump, hazardous chemical store and some bike stuff because it's near the back door. I can just see one cushion poking out from under the crap. No chance of actually sitting on it.
I would like to let a bit of order into my life.
The fact that OP thinks what he does is so normal that everyone else does it too is quite telling I think 😉
The whole house, but not the garage.
Leave the toilet seat up. Everyone needs a little danger and anarchy in their life.
Not stopping for the security guard when something in my shopping sets off the alarm on the way out.
I'm either totally in order or a complete ****ing mess, no in between!
I'd love a properly organised garage/work bench, but every time I tidy it it just ends a shit tip again. Can't bloody find anything!
My shed was my oasis of calm when the kids were younger. Only place in the house not festooned with the detritus of two young hooligans. And it was where the beer was kept. Now they've left, other than having to vacuum the downstairs at least once every day because of the worlds sheddiest retriever, the house is at a tidy level that is within both our tolerances.
Still when we're expecting visitors, we still attempt to go full show-home. I have no idea why this is.
Also sometimes I'll use a cr@ppy old allen key that turned up with some flat pack furniture for some bike related maintenance. I can feel the Wera set glaring on reproachfully 🙂
I once saw a sticker on a lamp post for the Federation of Anarchists, which made me smile. Imagine being the poor sod who's got to try and run the AGM...
Not as funny as the narcoleptics meeting. They had to have two members taking the minutes because one would always fall asleep. Possibly the funniest (and saddest) thing I have ever seen on TV. To be fair the sufferers were more than comfortable with the obvious humour, despite it being an awful condition. Nap Attack is on YouTube.
Cutlery hanger - now there's a thing I never knew existed!! 🤣
How very orderly! 😀
It's like an EDC for the kitchen. The good shit is in a drawer and is properly sorted - I'm not a complete pervert!
the grout between the tiles and the worktop needs a bit of attention
I know...20 year old kitchen that I should care about more.
The fact that OP thinks what he does is so normal that everyone else does it too is quite telling I think
I'm the most normal person I know - everyone else is really weird. That's a cold hard fact I'm afraid 😉
It's like an EDC for the kitchen. The good shit is in a drawer and is properly sorted - I'm not a complete pervert!
This thread will make you twitch! Plenty of kitchen drawer action!... 😀
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/unspoken-battles-with-your-other-half/
I don't want to wee on your anarchist chips but, surely that cutlery hanger is perfectly ordered? Whichever way around you turn it, the tools are ordered the same (L-R) knife, fork, dessert spoon, tea spoon.
Sometimes when the other half goes away, I'll send her a picture of the lounge, into which I've photoshopped my mtb/motorbike.
Once or twice, it's not been photoshopped! 😳 (The mtb at least)
I don't want to wee on your anarchist chips but, surely that cutlery hanger is perfectly ordered? Whichever way around you turn it, the tools are ordered the same (L-R) knife, fork, dessert spoon, tea spoon.
I know! After I posted it I realised. My chips are really soggy with well-ordered non-anarchy piss. I am ashamed and this whole thread is a sham.
I sometimes pop to the bins in just my socks! When I feel really daring, I leave the front door open and hope the wind doesnt blow it shut and lock me out*. Yep, I live on the edge 😉
* Locked out means going around the back to the key box.
Sometimes...
When I want to feel like a real bad boy...
I do sock, shoe, sock, shoe rather than the normal sock, sock, shoe, shoe.
OMG I feel like a total psychopath but sometimes you must let the animal inside out.
There I have confessed.
Holidays.
Some people can plan trips months or years in advance.
I've finally beaten (metaphorically) my OH into submission and last year we got on a plane to Italy with nothing but 2 nights in an apartment and a return flight 10 days later about 400miles away booked. We spent more time in the places we liked, were never late for a train because we hadn't booked them, stayed late in tourist spots after the crowds had gone because we had no plans for later (and knew when the local bus was not the daytrip coach), and generally had a great if slightly chaotic time.
There was one 2 hour blip in the whole trip where I got off the train somewhere I thought we should go, and ended up wandering around for an hour then waiting for the next train.
I once saw a sticker on a lamp post for the Federation of Anarchists, which made me smile. Imagine being the poor sod who's got to try and run the AGM...
I used to be in an anarchist group many moons ago. You'd be stunned (or possibly not) how organised and hierarchical it all was.
I grab the bally and go for a blap on the e bike🥷 bwaarp whiirr
My kitchen table looks like an explosion at Office Depot. Actually, so does the desk in my work room, but with more screens.
At least my bathroom only looks like someone turbocharged a tumble dryer and then opened the door.
Not stopping for the security guard when something in my shopping sets off the alarm on the way out.
I've always wondered what would happen if they tried to stop you or check your bags and you refused. They don't have any actual powers beyond an official-looking jumper, do they?
Some people can plan trips months or years in advance.
I've finally beaten (metaphorically) my OH into submission and last year we got on a plane to Italy with nothing but 2 nights in an apartment and a return flight 10 days later about 400miles away booked.
This was my ex. We couldn't go anywhere without her not just having a Plan B but a Plan Most Of The Alphabet. After she left me I took myself off to the USA with almost nothing planned, deliberately, and it was liberating. I was literally sat in the airport car park with Google Maps going "right, where shall I go today?"
Of the two things I had actually planned, both went wrong. I had tickets for the Foo Fighters, the gig was cancelled; and I was planning on meeting an old friend and taking her to the nearby Six Flags theme park, on the day were going to go the weather turned absolutely biblical and they closed the park.
Planning is wholly overrated. 😁
OK, as I think we're all in a safe space, sometimes [looks aghast, shuffles nervously], just sometimes, I, erm, start to shave on the left-hand side of my face. In my defence, in the privacy of my own home, I sometimes feel like being edgy. Now I feel like a deviant...
#prayfordoor
Not stopping for the security guard when something in my shopping sets off the alarm on the way out.
I've always wondered what would happen if they tried to stop you or check your bags and you refused. They don't have any actual powers beyond an official-looking jumper, do they?
I can answer this - I've left the supermarket with tags still on bottles many times (because the staff have not removed them at the checkout, not because im a thief) ive never stopped for an alarm, just kept walking - and ive never once been stopped by a security guard.
I made a sandwich this morning and while spreading I noticed the bread was upside down (ie with the top crust on the side closest to me).
I considered turning it around... and didn't.
I do sock, shoe, sock, shoe rather than the normal sock, sock, shoe, shoe.
Aaargh you maniac! It's making me twitch just thinking about it.
I made a sandwich this morning and while spreading I noticed the bread was upside down (ie with the top crust on the side closest to me).
I considered turning it around... and didn't.
Did the slices align when made into a sandwich though!? This is the only way to prepare a sandwich properly... 😀
My clothes.
I have a lovely wardrobe all to myself. But what I actually store all my clothes in, is a laundry basket next to my wardrobe. Once a month (maybe) I'll get my arse in gear, fold stuff, hang stuff.... but as soon as the next load of laundry is washed and dried, it all goes in the (clean) laundry basket next to my wardrobe.
Yet some things have a "place" and I will lose my sh1t if (some) things aren't where they should be. Cutlery drawer - knife fork spoon. That order.
Not sure if this should be here or in the 'unspoken battles thread'....
My wife turns the volume to even numbers, so I started only using prime numbers, a bit of a gap between 7-11 and 13-17 but otherwise it works surprisingly well. 😀
OK, as I think we're all in a safe space, sometimes [looks aghast, shuffles nervously], just sometimes, I, erm, start to shave on the left-hand side of my face. In my defence, in the privacy of my own home, I sometimes feel like being edgy. Now I feel like a deviant...
Interesting. I've done this all my life, but I'm left-handed.
I can answer this - I've left the supermarket with tags still on bottles many times (because the staff have not removed them at the checkout, not because im a thief) ive never stopped for an alarm, just kept walking - and ive never once been stopped by a security guard.
I wasn't musing as to whether they would - I'd usually turn back just to be nice but I too have walked out thinking "well, this is clearly a 'you' problem" depending on how ornery I was feeling at a particular moment - rather, I was asking whether they could.
The shoe sock shoe sock thing. Do you carry your socks to the door? Or do you tread a streets worth dog shit and friday night vomit back to the dressing room while you go and put the next sock on?
Sorry, "dressing room"? Where do you live, Balmoral?
I have two kids and a job where I’m surrounded by egotistical morons who want things, but don’t really have the intelligence to articulate exactly what those things are. I’m full to bursting with all the anarchy I can take.
a job where I’m surrounded by egotistical morons who want things, but don’t really have the intelligence to articulate exactly what those things are.
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