obscure obsessions

[mariacallas]

I'm a sniffer, I have to smell everything..

my food before I eat it, my tea mug as i'm drinking, clothes, linen, the tv remote, and i'm constantly smelling my hands.

My bed has to be made a certain way, and on a sat/sun when my SO is home, he makes it, so I have to go upstairs and redo it when he's come down because other wise i'll get all fidgety knowing it's not right

You just described me to a tee....I am constantly smelling EVERYTHING too ! I'm all about tactile and sensory information processing, as I need to FEEL and SMELL stuff that I am using or that surround me at all times... And my bed is sacred....it has to be made a certain way, sheets and pillowcases and comforter just so, or else there will be hell to pay (meaning, I won't be able to sleep well at all..)

Nice finding kindred spirits on here

 

[undead]

i should mention...

i'm obsessed with the aesthetics of rough drafts, blueprints, layouts, rough sketches of things, etc. there's something in the unfinished look that appeals to me.

 

[aanallein]

maps. my entire life..

 

[JimenyRickets]

I can twirl a baseball bat for hours.
Also, I pick my nails incessantly with a tack.

 

[undead]

^ both compulsions. i want obsessions.

 

[rant*N*rave]

Colorful foods. I hate "plain" food. And I have to eat them in order such that I have the same number/amount of each food in each color and then eat them alternating by color. If I have more than two colors, I eat in rainbow order. (So if I have 20 peas and 10 carrots, I'll eat 10 peas and then alternate between peas and carrots; if i have rainbow skittles, i eat them so that I end up with the same number of each color skittle, then eat them red, orange, yellow, green, purple until they're gone.)

Alphabetizing/organizing by color. Have to do it to EVERYTHING. My closet is in rainbow order, and anything I can alphabetize, is.

I had OCD problems as a kid - a few things stuck.

 

[silvercrimson]

i obsess over slugs. i love them, and it makes me upset that people can be so mean and uncaring about them like there nothing. if i see one on in harms way like in the middle of the sidewalk i pick it up and move it away, so it dosent get stepped on. i love paper, all kinds of it. i like scrapbook paper, wrapping paper, folder paper,origami paper, vellum paper. i cant walk into store without checking to see what kind of paper they got. so yeah, i guess you can say im bit obssesed with slugs and paper.

 

[CherryPoppinz]

little glass jars
cool bracelets (string, metal, leather, etc)
hats
my swedish chapstick that my friend from sweden gave me
the smell of new books...new books
mouse balls (they are so heavy and cool and rubbery and shit :D)
little wooden boxes
bottles with corks
the wax on the seal of a message
stamps

oh and glass marijuana pipes and pieces (chillums and bowls esp.)...odd considering i rarely smoke nowadays..


good thread!

 

[XbookstoreX]

Busty St Clare: Wow, that is too amazing. Do you sell these?

Perpetual Indulgence: So cute that you even organized the sentences in an aesthetically pleasing way with proper punctuation!

I never collect anything or hoard, but I feel bad throwing out business cards. Sorta like I'm disrespecting the people that gave me them if I toss em.... but I'd never collect that shit.
So they just chill in their drawer and strangely i can remember who gave me like 98% of them and where each one was.
I have a freakishly good long term memory.

 

[XbookstoreX]

Colorful foods. I hate "plain" food. And I have to eat them in order such that I have the same number/amount of each food in each color and then eat them alternating by color. If I have more than two colors, I eat in rainbow order. (So if I have 20 peas and 10 carrots, I'll eat 10 peas and then alternate between peas and carrots; if i have rainbow skittles, i eat them so that I end up with the same number of each color skittle, then eat them red, orange, yellow, green, purple until they're gone.)

Alphabetizing/organizing by color. Have to do it to EVERYTHING. My closet is in rainbow order, and anything I can alphabetize, is.

I had OCD problems as a kid - a few things stuck.

Holy shit, you're a genius. I love this. I totally forgot foods and I too, have a color eating pattern with m&ms. I never eat anything orange. If I find a new food I like, I'll eat it every day for 3-4 months and then i usually grow to hate it forever and never touch it again. is that ocd? i could never figure it out.