I have really long hair and to keep it from clogging the drain every day when I wash it, I stick it to the wall of the shower when it falls out. Years ago I had forgotten to throw away my "shower dragon" (as he calls it) after my shower and that night he made a little picture out of it. I thought it was disgusting. Now I leave them there and he regularly "draws" with them. This morning I showered with a cat.
He also will drop whatever he is doing and RUN into the bedroom (or bathroom, or basement, or wherever) when I change my clothes. He gets really sad if he "misses" it. It's not like he rarely sees me naked but it's cute.
My FI also does both of these. Right after we got engaged he would draw little hearts and stuff. It's back to dragons and hotdogs and whatever else random thing he thinks of. I get next to no privacy when I'm showering or changing clothes.
I want to add to the weird phone habits. He will NOT talk on phone with anyone in the room, even me. Even though I can hear his conversation across our teeny apartment.
Yeah H and I have been together for over 12 years so his annoying habits have just become routine. I guess one that really bugs me is that he comes to bed after me quite a bit. But when I wake up at like 2am I notice all the lights are still on downstairs. I ask him why he didn't turn them off and he responds with "huh, I didn't notice them." How do you not notice that lights are on?!
God my FI does that shit too. Shift work wreaks havoc on him. I have woken up to screaming guitars punctuated by what I can only describe as a damn chainsaw at 5am more times than I can count. That fool will get drunk and fall asleep leaning over the counter watching loud-ass rock videos on youtube on his phone. Shit happens at least once every couple of months, depending on his OT call-ins.
Sometimes he falls asleep on the couch, jumps awake, and runs upstairs to get in bed, and leaves every fuckin' light AND the damn TV on.
FI likes to take existing songs and make up his own lyrics to them. The songs typically revolve around the cats and dog. He sings to the fur babies all the time. It is catchy too. I find myself doing now.
FI likes to take existing songs and make up his own lyrics to them. The songs typically revolve around the cats and dog. He sings to the fur babies all the time. It is catchy too. I find myself doing now.
I frequently change the main subject of songs to my cat while listening to Pandora getting ready for work. Most of them don't even make sense like Oasis Wonderwall....I say "you're my kitty-wall!!" I'm a loser.
FI likes to take existing songs and make up his own lyrics to them. The songs typically revolve around the cats and dog. He sings to the fur babies all the time. It is catchy too. I find myself doing now.
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FI does this too and it's rubbed off on me!!! Both of us will regularly sing to the dog with new words to songs. Over the winter I was watching the beginning of a hockey game and accidentally ass-dialed my mom while making up dog-related words to "O Canada". Thank god it was my mom or it would have been really embarrassing.
Yay!! We're not the only ones. It is a really easy habit to slip into. The cats and dog love it though. I'm sure in their mind they're thinking "stupid humans but still... Attention!!!!"
My FI also has the weird thing about keeping the fucking blinds closed and I am STARVING for natural light. He is also kind of a compulsive buyer and hates shopping for specific things...he likes to go look and see what is on sale...
Mine also leaves cabinets and drawers open. This only really bugs me on the rare occasion he's cooking in the kitchen because the crumbs of whatever he was working with get into the drawers. Not only are the drawers dirty, but all the silverware, knives and utensils in the drawer are now covered in gook as well.
He also starts drinking a soda, puts it down, forgets about it and pulls out another. I find half drunk sodas all over the house. Even the bedroom and we don't bring food or drink in there...
FI likes to take existing songs and make up his own lyrics to them. The songs typically revolve around the cats and dog. He sings to the fur babies all the time. It is catchy too. I find myself doing now.
Mine does this too. He makes them up for everything but his favorite dog (he says he doesn't have a favorite but he does) has an entire song dedicated to her. And, yeah, I do it too now.
FI likes to take existing songs and make up his own lyrics to them. The songs typically revolve around the cats and dog. He sings to the fur babies all the time. It is catchy too. I find myself doing now.
Mine does this too. He makes them up for everything but his favorite dog (he says he doesn't have a favorite but he does) has an entire song dedicated to her. And, yeah, I do it too now.
My DH does this to! Mostly the songs are about the kitty, but occasionally it's about me. He also paces when he's on the phone. He lets the kitty drink out of his water glass. I think it's gross but he doesn't care.
He is anal about the order he puts his taco together. It has to be in a certain order even if it takes him 15 minutes waiting for the ingredients to make it all around the table and back to him.
Yes!!!! Mine too! Most I have never ever seen him wear!
Seriously! It's like the same 10-15 are always in rotation. The others never see the light of day.
Exact same situation in our house!
Also, FI works from home yet still goes out and buys gas station coffee everyday. He'll make a pot at home and use it to continuously top off the gas station cup. He'll work on the same cup until he buys a new one the next day. It's weird.
Fi has an obsession with cleaning his ears. He does it at least twice a day. You wouldn't believe how fast we go through fucking q tips. And when he accidentally took my headphones to work, they were covered in ear wax! HOW
ETA: Also, if he comes home really last (like from a bar, etc), he always goes to sleep on the couch fully clothed. Fucking weirdo.
I have found a pretty good solution for the t-shirt thing- every 6 months I go through all my drawers and closet and gather a trash bag full that I never wear to donate. So then I put the bag in front of his dresser and say "You must contribute at least 5 items OR throw 5 items in the trash". He usually gets on a roll and does 10.
FI just moved in 2 months ago so I'm picking up on more habits than before.
It turns out we're both OCD-ish about totally different things. For example, he has no problem leaving random lights on (I hate that) but always unplugs and puts away his phone and laptop. To me, everything that wastes energy should be taken care of.
He folds our bath towels into thirds to hang them neatly, whereas I don't care; but he has no problem leaving haphazardly piling dishes with gross puddles in the sink and I DO care about scuzzy icky water festering in dishes we have yet to wash. I'd also prefer the dishes neatly piled. He always makes the bed, which again I don't care about, but he has no problem wandering around the house in his shoes, and I DO care about tracking the outdoor gook indoors.
Now that I write that out, I realize I care more about dirtiness and germs whereas he cares more about overall neatness. Fun, huh?
Edited for additional weirdness and clarity.
Just FYI, the phrase you're looking for is "anal" or "anal retentive". Please save the use of OCD for reference to the actual mental disorder. Thank you.
My DH is in the drawer club too. He'll get a bowl of cereal and the silverware drawer will stay open as well as the cabinet where the cereal is. Occasionally he will even forget to put the milk bak in the fridge. Even more problematic, I cannot stand open cabinets and drawers. I will get up in the middle of dinner to close them, it drives me crazy..... He cannot understand why it drives me bonkers.
He also refuses to leave his shoes on our boot tray in the house. He leaves them on the other side of the room, always somewhere within view of the damn boot tray. I have explained so many times that they need to go on the tray because the dog has twice peed on shoes left randomly on the floor. He still doesn't do it!!!!!!
I also find his inability to follow basic instructions weird. Let's say he's stopping at Subway. I text him my order in the exact order they build the sandwich --- and he STILL gets it completely wrong. I don't understand!
He's weird with temperatures. He cranks up the heat to 78 degrees in winter, but come summer, he wants the AC blasting at 70 but still runs the hairdryer in the bathroom to warm it up. This confuses me.
Weird habits of mine: I hoard school supplies. I have almost 2 dozen 3 ring binders to donate once we move. Oh! And I still had textbooks from undergrad, which at this are so out of date that they aren't even worth donating.
Weird habits of DH: he likes to smell my hair. He also really likes to play with it and twirl it around his fingers. I think it destresses him or something. He's also super picky about how to load the dishwasher. I never do it to his satisfaction (I still barely know how to use one after not having one growing up), so I usually just let him load and then I unload it when it's done.
DH pulls at the ends of his eyebrows when he's bored or thinking. He'll pull a few out on occasion, but never seems to notice it and doesn't know why he does it. I think it keeps his hands occupied.
My SO does this too only its his sideburns. It drives me nuts.
I'm a sharpie horder too. I fucking love sharpies.
FI probably has more weird things about me then I do about her, but I think I can scrounge up a few. She keeps mint containers. And not just the Altoids tins, but like the tic tack containers too. She always says their useful, I have no idea what she's planning on doing with all of them. But she lets me decorate them so I leave her be. And her side of the closet (and mine when she gets her hands on it) is color coordinated, all the colors together and in range from lightest to darkest.
SIB: I've seen quite a few craft fair displays with beautifully decorated Altoids tins...maybe a way to earn extra wedding money? But the Tic Tac containers does seem stranger, because there's really nothing else practical you could fit in them besides more Tic Tics...which already have their own containers to begin with...
I have to admit I use a Tic Tac container to hold safety pins in and keep it in the car, it is the perfect holder for them and has come in handy so many times. But I have an obsession with little boxes in general.
Mine also leaves cabinets and drawers open. This only really bugs me on the rare occasion he's cooking in the kitchen because the crumbs of whatever he was working with get into the drawers. Not only are the drawers dirty, but all the silverware, knives and utensils in the drawer are now covered in gook as well.
He also starts drinking a soda, puts it down, forgets about it and pulls out another. I find half drunk sodas all over the house. Even the bedroom and we don't bring food or drink in there...
Confession: I do the soda thing. We had to stop buying cans because I just cannot finish 12 ounces of soda.
I just realized that a weird habit that I have is that I HAVE to have the fan on every single night when I sleep. Last night, FI turned it off when he hopped into bed to cuddle before he had to go to work. I just about went nuts over it. Yep, I have some strange habits, too! LOL
Mine has the kitchen-utensil-misuse problem too. Like, put my cookie cooling racks under the broiler as a crisping rack for sweet potato fries and then wondered why the house smelled like death (they were coated in something not meant for the oven). And he's SUCH a creature of habit, that even though we have super nice Calphalon Unison pans now, he still insists upon using an old, beat up, peeling-Teflon pan for his scrambled egg whites (8 every morning, and 2 maple-brown sugar oatmeals, everysingleday) because he wants to spray the bajeesus out of it with Pam and stir with a metal fork, both of which are no-nos with the Calphalon. Even though his egg whites would be so much healthier with a teensy bit of olive oil and without bits of Teflon, if he'd just be willing to stir with a daggon nylon spoon instead of a metal fork. Silly man.
And although he's a health nut who eats really lean most of the time and works out all the time, he's ADDICTED to candy. His favorite - jelly beans. He'll come sit on the couch and I'll see him sneak his hand up to his mouth... from his hoodie pocket loaded with jelly beans. Like a sneaky little squirrel. The weird thing though is he doesn't like the INSIDE of the jelly beans, and doesn't find it worth the calories. So he'll chew off the candy coating and then spit out the naked bean and give it to the dog. Yep, the dog loves naked gooey jelly beans. They're a strange pair.
Re: Weird but Harmless
I'm the fuck out.
He also starts drinking a soda, puts it down, forgets about it and pulls out another. I find half drunk sodas all over the house. Even the bedroom and we don't bring food or drink in there...
I'm the fuck out.
Seriously! It's like the same 10-15 are always in rotation. The others never see the light of day.
Exact same situation in our house!
Also, FI works from home yet still goes out and buys gas station coffee everyday. He'll make a pot at home and use it to continuously top off the gas station cup. He'll work on the same cup until he buys a new one the next day. It's weird.
Ditto on the t-shirt thing. He wears them until they are embarrassing rags!
He also refuses to leave his shoes on our boot tray in the house. He leaves them on the other side of the room, always somewhere within view of the damn boot tray. I have explained so many times that they need to go on the tray because the dog has twice peed on shoes left randomly on the floor. He still doesn't do it!!!!!!
Weird habits of DH: he likes to smell my hair. He also really likes to play with it and twirl it around his fingers. I think it destresses him or something. He's also super picky about how to load the dishwasher. I never do it to his satisfaction (I still barely know how to use one after not having one growing up), so I usually just let him load and then I unload it when it's done.