I have a strange little habit...

That’s not too bad at all. It’s said that if you have a sink that is near your toilet, your toothbrush has fecal matter on it. I actually do that as well.

My strange habit is that I use Germ-X on my hands each time I walk into a new room.

@KatetheGreat I am puzzled by your “I do that as well” statement as it seems to imply you keep your toothbrush in the vicinity of the toilet. Hmmm. As for the Germ-X thing, you can have too much of a good thing sometimes . . .

I have a need for “inventory” in that special OCD fashion. I have four identical bedspreads (because I really liked it and didn’t want to be disappointed when the first one or two wore out). One has worn out and now covers the couch in seasons when the backyard is really muddy (dogs after all), two are in current rotation, and one remains (pristine) in its box.

The multiple purchases of the same item makes sense. When I find a piece of clothing that fits well, I often buy the same item, but in different colors.

The toilet paper must roll over and not under. A friend used to laugh at me for switching it every time I visited her apartment.

@Kayak8 Just to clear that I don’t keep my toothbrush in a toilet, I do the exact same thing that @seazen_ does. I put it in Listerine.

@KatetheGreat I suspected as much but wanted to be really clear . . . . :)

I drink juice and soda out of jars. Mayonnaise jars, jelly jars, mason jars etc. I like mason jars the best. It’s habit I picked up from my mother. My cousin, my mother’s brother’s son posted a picture of himself on facebook drinking out a jar so I figured it was might be a family habit passed down the generations. I have glasses but if I
run out clean ones and I don’t feel like washing one I have no problem drinking out of jars. And if I drink something out of a jar or a glass and there’s still a reasonable amount of ice left, I put the jar in the freezer for next time. That habit I picked up from my dad. I don’t use them over and over again, just a few time. It’s can be kind of pretty sometimes like if the first time I used the glass

And also the tooth brush thing isn’t that weird, I don’t think. Every time you flush feces down the toilet the power of the flush actually disperses what is basically aerosol fecal matter up into the air in the bathroom and then when it falls, it can land on your toothbrush. It helps if you always flush with the seat lid down.

@lillycoyote I spend too much time using jars to hold water for paintings, so that could be deadly (or at least seriously undesirable) at my place . . .

@Kayak8 Yes, you always have the jars you drink out of or any used to store food separate from ones you use for other things. Safety First!

I know this is really bad for your sleeping pattern, but I go to sleep with the lights on. I don’t remember what caused me to start doing this, but it’s been almost a year and It’s kinda hard to get over it now.

Oh and if I go on public transit (trains, buses etc), I must get the window seat. I will not go onto a bus if all the window seats are taken (or if I have to stand up). I’ve been late because of this…

@naivete : I don’t think it’s too strange to sleep with a night light, but sleeping with the overhead light on would be too much for me.

My odd little habit is that I use the same glass all day long. I work at home and drink a lot of water and tea throughout the day, and since I have to wash my own dishes, I’ve gotten used to having the same glass all day. I am finicky enough that I don’t use the same glass more than 1 day. I do have a limit.

@KatetheGreat Six feet—that’s all it takes!

I do the same thing with the toilet paper as @Pied_Pfeffer. It has to roll over, not under. I have to brush my teeth at least five times a day. Sometimes it’s more, but at least five.

@Pied_Pfeffer/ @chyna
Over for me, too. So much easier. As of now, it’s under and really bothering me, but I am too lazy to fix it.

Over for me too. I even switch it at people’s houses – even if I am not going to use their bathroom again. They probably think I’m nuts. They would be correct.

@hawaii_jake
I sleep with the overhead light on ):

@hawaii_jake I use the same cup/glass all day as well. It may be used, but there is little to no chance of anything dangerous building up in that time period, especially if it is being constantly used.

@chyna My teeth get brushed two times a day. According to every dentist I’ve ever been to, it’s better to floss than brush. I’m afraid of pushing my gums up and exposing the soft parts/roots more than they already are.

I put knives in the dishwasher with the point side up. It keeps them from dulling and damaging the plastic bin. A roommate felt differently and that they should go point-down so he wouldn’t accidentally cut himself when removing dishes. It is the only disagreement we had in our 8 years in the same house.

@seazen_ I am so glad to hear you cop to changing the TP around at other folk’s homes (I do it too!).

You keep the bristles of the toothbrush in Listerine, or the handle??

Ever since reading about the toilet thing (my bathroom is tiny), I keep mine in a jar in the medicine cabinet. I also will not flush the toilet without the lid down but not all of my guests know about that one! I also disinfect my light switches and doorknobs kinda regularly. I, too, drink out of mason jars.

I hate flossing, too. But I do it before I go to bed because I find white teeth really important. It makes my gums bleed…that’s robably not good but I still do it—having yellow teeth is worse! I brush my teeth before and after I sleep.
Oh and I hate sleeping intotal darkness. It’s not that I’m afraid of the dark, it’s just that it makes it seem so weird. I could definitely sleep with lights on, but I prefer them off with the hall light on. @hawaii_jake the cup thing is a good idea, though, it’s one of those for-the-better obsessions in my opinion…I don’t think I’d have the time to do that, though.

@Pied_Pfeffer It doesn’t matter to me what a dentist says, I have to brush my teeth often, thus the words “strange little habit”.

@SamIAm The bristles. Actually, my bathroom is separate from my shower and bath.

@seazen_ As they should be. I think most new houses are being built that way.

Do you mean your shower and toilet are separate from your sink?
Mine is…I have my sink and the washer and dryer in the first area, then the toilet and bathtub after that. There’s no door between the two groups, though, just a walkway—the walls come in and make a door-sized ingress. My apartment is pretty old, though.

I used to sometimes turn the toilet paper over in other people’s houses, to roll over the top because that is the right way but apparently my Aunt is an under-roller and she mentioned that one of the aides, she has a severely disabled daughter, my cousin, well, the aide was always changing the toilet paper to roll over and she thought that was pretty rude, to do that in someone else’s house and it really is so I don’t do it any more.

@dxs I mean I have a room for a bathroom, and a room for shower/bathtub.

Bathroom = w.c.

well that’s just plain weird…

@dxs Not really, they are building new houses where the toilet is separate from the sink and tub/shower. Sometimes it is in a closed in area.

@chyna Doesn’t a water closet inclue a sink, too, though? Or, I guess sometimes it can/cant…@seazen_ didn’t mention a sink, so I assumed it was with the toilet.

I have not seem the toilet area included with a sink in the new houses.

Mine is a toilet plus sink in one room.

@chyna I like architecture, and am conidering it as a career. For what I’ve seen, it’s usually the sink separate, then the toilet/shower.
Water closets very commonly have just a sink and toilet, too. I’ve never seen the shower separated like what @seazen_ says, hence the ”well that’s just plain weird” comment.

I don’t know why I feel I have to clarify this: I have two bathrooms. One is a shower/bath with sink and cabinet. Very large and roomy. A bathroom if you will. I have another little room with only a toilet and sink.

ZEN OUT

I still suck my fingers. I’m 21. Shhhh!!

Firstly, the toilet paper rolls under, so your filthy, germ ridden hands only touch the paper you want and far from the roll. I close my toilet when I flush and refuse to think that poo chunks are flying 4’ thru the air to my tooth brush. I use the drinking glass on my bedside table too long and, if I’m eating the same thing for lunch and dinner, the same plate,too.

@Pied_Pfeffer One argument in eight years, now that is very impressive. I wouldn’t want to start another but I thought of this story when I read about your dishwasher disagreement.

Slight change of pace here, I invariably carry a Sherlock Holmes style magnifying glass about my person. One never knows when one may encounter a hospitable dwarf when going about one’s daily business. Charming little cherubs, it’s polite to maintain eye contact when one is interacting with a perfect stranger, don’t you think? This message was brought to you by patronising bastards inc ;¬}

I have a desk drawer at work that is stocked to survive a natural disaster – first aid kit, sewing kit, six types of pain relievers, antibiotic ointment, a finger splint, cold medication, dental floss, disposable toothbrushes, a leatherman tool, screwdriver set, magnet, bungee cords, oatmeal, 2 cans of soup, two shelf stable meals, condiments, seasoned salt, soy sauce, wasabi packets, chopsticks, 3 sets of silverware, two bowls, an extra coffee cup. And an extra pair of underwear and socks. Forgot to add the role of duct tape to the list.

@BarnacleBill Look again my drawer has a razor and shaving cream. LOL

@BarnacleBill—I used to be like that. Not anymore. But I can appreciate it, however, you might want to check the expiration date on the stuff in the first aid kit, six types of pain relievers, antibiotic ointment, cold medication, oatmeal, 2 cans of soup and condiments, soy sauce and wasabi packets. Some expire faster than others.

Medication and ointments should be double checked – and condiments like mayo and such – if you can’t see an expiry date – toss – and get some more at McWhatever next time you’re there. Not worth the stomache ache.

I pop most of the joints in my body except for my neck. I don’t want to screw that up anymore – hand and feet knuckles, wrists, ankles, knees, shoulder, spine, hips, and sternum. It’s only strange because I look strange doing it, especially my knees lol.
I also make a weird squinting face when I’m concentrating.

I always sniff the the liquid I’m about to drink. Don’t really know why.

It’s smart to do that.

I can’t sit with my back to the door. When I go out with friends, I almost literally race them to the table so I can grab the safe seat with a view of the entrances. Maybe I was an Old West gambler in a former incarnation.

Or a savvy spy.

I furrow my brow too much and am already getting a wrinkle there. ITS JUST MY FACE.

What’s really funny about the medications is that I rarely have a headache. People come over all the time to bum an ibuprophen or something else, and then complain because I don’t have the kind of pain med they want. Beggars can’t be choosers. But I do try to oblige others.

I do this thing with my tongue (curl it and bite it) whenever I pet animals. I never knew, but a friend pointed it out last year, and my mother confirmed that I did it as a kid. Now I’m aware of it, and after a recent cat-filled weekend with lots of snuggling, my tongue hurt and there were marks on it from the biting.
Another friend hypothesized that I have to do it so I won’t lick the animals. :)

@faye
It’s the fecal bacteria in the air (supposedly) that gets to the toothbrush.

I’m reacting to all the fuss about fecal material in the air. My goodness. We’ve come a long way from what my grandma would say, “You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die, so don’t worry about it.” I assume you never kiss because the mouth is one of the most unsanitary places anywhere. And sex must be out of the question. There was a list of occupations that God might or might not have. One was that God could not have been a engineer. An engineer would never build a playground in the middle of a waste disposal plant. Well. you have to do what you have to do.