I wipe kitchen counters, especially when I am nervous, am really bugged by crumbs or smeary marks on them. Have to make the bed (almost militarily neat) every night before I go to bed (cannot do it in the morning due to household schedules). Have a need to fold clean clothes as soon as they are dry, no leaving them in the dryer for awhile if possible (but I could leave them folded and clean in a basket and just use them out of the basket, never putting them away in dresser without it bothering me). I don’t know if these are OCD issues? Oh, and I will get up and close the closet door in the bedroom if it is open even a little crack and I am trying to go to sleep, kind of a bogeyman fear?
I guess we all have our little phobias.
We all have our little quirks but up until recently nobody made a big deal of them or gave them fancy names. All that does is make them bigger than they really are and draw attention to them. Now, when it’s so bad that people can’t function in society then it is a problem that needs to be dealt with. I’ve never met anybody that didn’t have some small ‘issue’. It just means we are human.
Heck, I’ve even had some dogs with OCD issues. :-)
You sound somewhat like me. I am a neat freak. Can’t stand smears on stuff—constantly cleaning and purging stuff out of the house. I’ve been told my house when it is messy is still a lot cleaner than most people’s ‘clean’ house. My husband both likes and loathes it at the same time. We’re trying to sell our house now, and our realtor is amazed at how clean it is compared to some of the places he has listed.
I also have 4 kids, including one 3 year old Tasmanian Devil, so that makes life a lot more difficult when you like clean as much as I do. I have learned to relax somewhat on what constitutes clean (especially in the kids’ rooms).
If you ever watch the TV show ‘Hoarders’ on A&E, it makes you want to go clean even more, LOL.