What daft things do you do?

[hopalong]

This is what I do Before I put things in the recycle bin.
After I open tin food I wash the tin open both ends and peel the lable of and crush the can, I wash out sauce and wasing up liquid bottles

Is this being stupid?

[eupraxia]

No not really. I don't peel labels but I do wash them out.

Hubby has to check the light in the fridge works. He does it at least 4 or 5 times a day.

[Sammy Snake]

Most recycling bins etc come with instructions requestng that you do wash tins and remove the labels.  the same with bottles and drinks cans should usually be crushed.

[ceebee007]

I don't think it is stupid at all, hopalong.  Good for you!

I wash out the tins and peel off the labels and put them in the paper recycling box, but I don't open both ends.  I also wash out the glass jars/bottles and plastic bottles.  Like Sammy Snake says, washing out the containers is usually requested on the recycling box - it certainly is on mine.

[dmsjps]

Something like tapping my foot (or clicking my fingers or anything like that), I always have to finish on an even number of taps/clicks, whatever. If I happen to finish on say 7, then I have to do another 7 to even it out.

[Ray the DJ]

dmsjps,
Now that is daft!

[chazza]

With ours the instructions are just to wash and squash!

 

But when i'm putting plastic bottles in the bin i have to pick off that little plastic ring that the lid used to be attached to!

[blueeyedlass]

well heres another daft one for use all . every night when i go to bed i lift the duvet and all the pillows up just to check theres nothing under them before i can get into bed,its become a habit i even do it on holidays and stuff.

[kazzee69]

Ok mine are quite strange.. I can't have the volume on my t.v on an odd number.. (mine goes from 1-50, so I can't hav eit on 13.. it would have to be on 14. I can however have it on an odd number if it ends in 5)!!!!! And when I was younger I watched casualty and a lady had a moth stuck in her ear so whenever I sleep I have to put my hair over my ear! Mental I know!

[dmsjps]

Ha, mine's not so daft now, is it Ray? Anyway, what are your little quirks? I'm happy rounding up to 10 as well kazzee, but I just can't handle 5. And don't get your hair cut short or you'll have to wear a bonnet in bed! Now that would be strange.

[mfewell]

There's nothing daft about any of these things. I am the same about even volume settings (on the car radio) - curious, I thought it was so odd as to be unique, but kazzee69 is the same. I count stairs, railings, and as noted in another thread, I have to get downstairs before the flush stops otherwise I know I will die. Also, I store my cycle clips with the right one outside the left one, and as with the loo flush, I know that if I ever put the left cycle clip on my right leg I will die.

[nicla]

No, it's not stupid to 'wash and squash' your recycling, however you choose to do it.  

It's great that more and more people (and local authorities) are recycling their waste but most people forget that someone, somewhere, has to process it. My partner has worked collecting domestic waste from doorsteps and in recycling plants and it is extremely unpleasant to have to handle dirty, mouldy recycling because someone could not be bothered to rinse it out.

If you don't already, please do this.  We just rinse out in the left-over washing-up water.

Cheers

[ShellyHall]

Thought I was the only one with a silly habit!

I have to add sequences of numbers up, ie. if the video counter reads 1:23:56 I have to add the numbers up (17 by the way - 17 would then become 8).  I do this with allsorts, clocks, car number plates, serial numbers, etc, etc.

With regard to washing items to go in the recycling bin, I wash out all empty food containers.  It stops the dirty tins, packages, etc, attracting flies, etc.

[floss85]

OMG Kazzee69. Im so glad Im not the only one! I do exactly the same even down to the 'rule' where it CAN but on an odd number if it ends in a '5'!!

[Firiffic]

I have to eat crisp or hot chips eg McD's or KFC in the order they are on the pile ie like pick up sticks.  I can't pull one out from underneath.  Also with the washing but particularly towels, I have to fold them as they are most easily available and not from underneath another.  I also have a number thing where I tend to have to get fruit and vege in 5's preferable eg 5 apples, 5 tomatoes but if I need more or less it has to be an odd number.  I also check the doors and windows are locked several times even though I know I've just checked but this is mostly when I'm going out or to bed.  Oh yeah and when I'm eating crisps I can only eat one at a time and if they have ripples I have to eat them so that they always have a straight line so I don't like it too much when they break across the lines.  I don't feel so weird now though!

[Dark Angel]

I tend to buy two of things - like two tubes of toothpaste, two bottles of fairy liquid, two bottles of the litre bottles of coke, two packets of coffee etc etc. Even if I need one or could do buying more.

[sglazier]

When I cross the road I go off the kerb right foot first, then back on the kerb right foot first. If somehow I get back on left foot first then I reverse the procedure on the next road I cross to even it out.

otherwise I will die

[butter1]

I can't walk over 3 drains.....if I do, I have to find 2 drains to cancel it out, otherwise I will have bad luck.  I too have to check that the front door is locked 4 times before i leave or go to bed - I do this also with the fridge door.

[sglazier]

Do you lock the fridge door, butter ?

Do you live in the fridge, otherwise you go soft?

[kazzee69]

I do that with drains too, although mine is slightly different. I can't walk over 3 drains coz its bad luck and if I do then I have to say 'bread and butter' 3 times or something bad will happen. If I walk over 2 drains then its good luck and if I walk over 1 then I have to make a wish (I've made my boyfriend do this too).

I am so glad other people do the volume thing too. Also if I look at the clock and it says 13 mins past I have to keep looking at it until it says 14 (13 is unlucky), but if someone asks me to choose a number and 13 is available I have to choose it. OMG I'm insane. 

I check the door and window locks all the time too. This has only started since I moved into my own place with my boyfriend. Also if I'm in bed and I think the gas is on I have to come and check it. I have to eat crisps with my sandwiches and I have to put them in the sandwich (I even do this when I'm in public). And last but not least (probably not even last actually) when I say 'Touch wood' I have to actually find some wood to touch!! Am I officially nuts? I'm off to the mental hospital now to turn myself in.

[becks]

If i'm walking along with someone, i ALWAYS have to be on the left, so they're to my right. I'll always switch if someone tries to make me walk on the wrong side, and if there's more than one person with me i have to be balanced, ie more people on the right of me than on the left.