What's a bad habit that you've been trying to break for years?
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January 29th, 2009
I admit I am one of those individuals who abuse a Q-TIP, inserting it in the ear-canal further than it should ever have been designed to venture. The sensation is great, and addictive. I have been addicted to this habit on and off again over the years. Some days are good, some are bad. Would you care to share your bad habit(s), or what you consider to be a bad habit (others may find it to be a good habit)?
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Bad sleeping habit, procrastination, being an idiot, masturbation. There are more but i shall stop here.
@mea05key: You’ve named some of my other bad habits too! Thanks for your answer.
Smoking, over plucking my eyebrows, biting my nails, procrastinating, going to bed with makeup on, sleeping with my contacts in, shall I continue? Haha I’m horrible.
Plucking white weird hairs, sleeping in contacts, procrastinating, spending too much time on the internet…
Oh, I forgot one: going to bed without brushing my teeth. Yes, very gross. I’ve been forced to overcome that habit recently though (gums fermenting)
@elijahsuicide: Yes, please continue. It’s helping me make my own list larger.
Biting my nails I really hate it and sometimes don’t even notice when I am doing it. I have tried all the tricks. I think I will try hipnosis next.
this is weird but I have a bad habit of NEEDING my underwear, bra, and socks to match.
I bite the inside of my cheek all the time. When I was younger, my dentist told me that it could become a problem, but I still do it. So hard to stop!
Compulsively answering Fluther questi…AHHHH, Dammit!
@Emdean1 ; have you tried acrylic nails? It worked for me.
compulsive shoe & purse shopping
@bythebay: I liked your answer so much, I made it into a question. Shopping was a baaaad habit for me, but it died down as I had to tighten my purse doh!
OK, a non-joke answer.
I am a terrible procrastinator.
I’m good with deadlines, but if it’s a task or project without an actual deadline – it never gets done.
Oh gosh, i get off on medium build women with curvy legs and dimpled smiles wearing shorts or med. Length skirts. Darn it I am such a freak :-(.
Procrastination by masturbation!!
I see a pattern emerging!
This thread is taking a dark turn….unrated
oh forget a weirder habit of mine, getting off when women sniff their hands or fingers, I am so weird….
but now I m working on my lesser weird but expensive habit with cellphones.
@lphone35: I’m sorry. I can’t give you lurve. I would like to, but…smells her own fingers
Shredding my cuticles. Bad.
I recently stopped biting my nails, and I really need to stop going to sleep with my glasses on… I keep losing them D:
twirling my hair.
letting the car’s gas tank get to where the empty light is on (lazy about getting gas).
I play online way too much and I have a peanut M&M’s monkey on my back.
@SuperMouse I just finished a bag of peanut M&M’s!!
I’m a part time nail biter, and I hate it. for some odd reason, I don’t do it in the summer, so by August, I have long beautiful nails.. odd huh?
Used to be most if not all mentioned above plus then some, I , rather Jesus saved me from all that and I’m now free.
Plucking my eyelashes (it’s called trichotillomania).
And procrastination, casual sex, and eating raisinettes.
I have a real problem being awesome all the time.
for real…my mom told me so
I solved the not brushing my teeth bad habit. I now wear dentures. I look at the other things I do that might be considered as bad habits as unique personality quirks. :-)
Smoking. Correcting people. Not sleeping. Procrastination. Popping pimples. Oh, there are many!
i am also a procrastinator, but figure this won’t change. (that’s a good attitude, isn’t it?)
Shooting my dirty clothes into the laundry bin with my best hook shot. Drives the wife crazy, even though I seldom miss.
Wasting time with iPhone apps.
@steelmarket If I can ask, who does the clothes? – you or the wife?
Both, plus a teenage son. Sometimes no one. Can get complicated. Laundry. Complicated. Sad commentary….
But my hook shot is legendary.
@steelmarket Well I say, if you’re doing your fair share of the laundry (and your hook shot is as amazing as you say) – then you should shoot to your heart’s desire.
@steelmarket, I figured out how to uncomplicate laundry, especially when the kids were teenagers. In our house, everyone is responsible for their OWN laundry. When the kids were home they even had their designated color towel so they couldn’t steal someone elses clean one.
Oh yeah, I correct people all the time and it drives them crazy! And I never get to sleep before midnight. yawn
Judi, we operate under the same basic setup, but with our crazy schedules we each end up doing laundry for all at some time – or all letting it slide!
@Judi I have color coded the towels too. I don’t want any of them to use mine!
@judi & Dandy: I must also confess to the color coded towel scenario!
Adult on adult porn and masturbation are not bad habits and should not be treated as they are. My worst bad habit is skipping days at the gym and eating things later than I should.
Is strangling people that annoy you considered a bad habit? I don’t do it yet, but I am thinking of starting. :-)
I think murder may be a bad habit. Best not to start at all.
@Siren why is it that all the fun things are illegal or fattening? Doesn’t seem fair.
@evelyns_pet_zebra: No answer. I agree. I think slaughtering someone once would get all my worldly frustrations out with one wack.
Do assassins have normal blood pressure levels?
My laziness and procrastination.
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