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I Can't Go To Bed....
Unless the kitchen is tidy. If there were a mountain of washing up to face I wouldn't get out of bed.
My wife can't go to bed unless she's checked the doors and windows.
What night time routine do you have?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My last actions are cat related too. Check/clean both litter trays, re-fill the water bowls, re-fill the biscuit bowl and then feed them. If the housekeeping staff member does not perform her duties to their satisfaction, the housekeeping staff member is normally notified of their displeasure around 3am.
Even when the housekeeping staff have attend to all that, BM, the 'on-call' skivvy generally gets awoken about 3am in order to escort the boss back to her kibble-dish - which, naturally, has just been passed en-route to my chest.
Tidy kitchen, downstairs hall-lights switched and left on and bedroom door left slightly ajar.
Then I am ready to lay awake for hours thinking about rubbish...🙄
I sometimes wash up every day, sometimes leave it 2 or 3 days till I'm running out of crockery. No big deal.
I'm not really OCD about anything (I think!). It can be a curse.
Night time - I turn the TV off at the wall, brush my teeth, take meds & make sure the heating's turned down. I usually drop off to sleep quickly.
Everything in the dishwasher, dogs out for their ablutions, check I've got bread out for breakfast, check keys are out of door to garage, plug phone in to charge, alarm on. Wake at 3 because either a cat, fox, squirrel or other critter keeps switching the outside lights on, or, a spider has built a web across a camera again and phone keeps alerting us.
these are reassurance rituals - about which a lot
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Begins with a child asking - "why is that car black, seeking the answer " because it is painted black" - and NOT - because the paint has absorbed the electro magnetic radiationso none is reflected
I check eyedrops/keys in one pocket and mobile and wallet in other and ignirtion points ( fire and cooker) off. and is quite usual
if you have to do it 20 times, it is a bit OCD.
Soing the washing up -I think is in another category