Does anyone here live with a neat freak?

[Bouncy Ball]

Or are you the neat freak?

Most of the time I am ok with him (he is the neat freak) and I have cured him of most of it, but damn. Sometimes I just want to wring his neck.

What's the big deal about ONE FORK in the sink, anyway?

[Bok_Tukalo]

1. Yes. I live alone

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[bigwillq]

2. My mom is

Drives me nuts sometimes but our house is always so neat and clean, which is a good thing.

[Karenina]

31. I'm the mom and neat freak.

Just makes me nuts tho' knowing compliance to certain standards of order will only occur when it's demanded from where he's getting it, if you get my drift... For now I'm up for him finding his OWN space and getting his PIG STY outta my flat. I'm cool with disorder, IT'S THE DUST, BUTTS, AND PIZZA CARTONS... :argh:

[KG]

3. life is too short to be a neat freak.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. I TOTALLY AGREE!!!

Now tell that to Mr. Bouncy Ball.

[hangemhigh]

4. Ditto above. nt

[Left Is Write]

5. My husband does.

I would not, however, be upset over one fork in the sink.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. Then you're not the neurotic kind of neatfreak.

Normal neatfreak I can handle. Freaked out over one fork is a bit much.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. I'm the neat freak, I guess.

*hangs head in shame*

[trof]

7. I am the neat freak she lives with.

When the dust bunnies get to armadillo size I have to move in.

[hangemhigh]

8. You have to understand the messed up way we think.......nt

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Ok explain it to me, then.

Why is Mr. Bouncy Ball such a neat freak?

Both of his parents were and are. Is it genetic?

His dad was in the Army and then HE was in the Army. Shirts have to be folded a certain way, socks have to be folded a certain way.

When we were newlyweds, he handed me a big jar of pens and pencils and asked me to check to see which pens still work and then do an inventory, separating pens and pencils and putting a rubber band around each group of them.

I laughed, thought he was kidding. He wasn't. I went like this :scared:

I've gotten him to be WAY better than he used to be, but sometimes the neatfreakiness rears its ugly head again.

[Shrek]

10. My wife's a neat freak

What's the big deal about the newspaper all over the kitchen table when I haven't finished reading it yet?

:shrug:

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Exactly, ok!!!

I've said the same thing!

[Stevendsmith]

21. LOL!

[jonnyblitz]

11. LMFAO you should see this place

no neat freaks here! :P :hi:

[donheld]

12. I sometimes wish i did

:crazy:

[Bouncy Ball]

17. No you don't.

The really neurotic ones drive you crazy.

Imagine being asked about every little thing you get out.

[Steven_S]

13. My wife is the neurotic...

I'm not a slob, I like a clean house but she can be a real pain.

Cannot leave a butterknife for 5 minutes. And don't turn your back on an almost empty glass.

[Bouncy Ball]

16. Now THAT sounds like my husband.

Say there's a cup on the counter. ONE cup. Maybe a person JUST used it. He'll loudly announce the cup, hold it up and ask "WHOSE IS THIS???"

Ug. He drives us batshit sometimes. I mean, I love him, but...

[madaboutharry]

19. Where did this term come from anyway?

I am the neat one, but I protest at being called a "freak." I don't think there is anything freaky about me. It is not obsessive compulsive, it is Feng Shui!

[Bouncy Ball]

20. Well there are varying levels of the freakiness.

I have toned down his over the years, but he is a full-out neurotic one. Seriously.

We had to get rid of all the wall to wall carpeting because if he even THOUGHT he saw a spot on the carpet, he'd go apeshit.

Once he spent about 30 minutes sniffing a spot on the floor, trying to dab it up with a wet paper towel, applying cleaner to it, scrubbing it, only to have me come in and say "Hon? That's a SHADOW on the carpet."

He backed up and discovered it was. HE WAS CLEANING A SHADOW ON THE CARPET FOR THIRTY MINUTES.

If that isn't a freak, I don't know what is.

[Spinzonner]

30. Don't let him near any sundials

Or, may do if you need him out of the way for a while.

[HEAVYHEART]

22. Yes

I'm a neat freak. I've been called neurotic when it comes to my house.

[Stevendsmith]

23. I'm the neat freak in our house

My wife keeps EVERYTHING. She is a total pack rat.

There are piles of stuff all over our place--books, papers, etc. It's not unclean, but it drives me nuts.

I really like for things to be in there place.

God, I am a freak!

[Bouncy Ball]

26. Well now pack rattiness would drive me crazy too

and I'm not a neatfreak. But I do like to travel light in life.

[Cuban_Liberal]

24. Why are we considered 'freaks', any way?

I'm not obsessive-compulsive about it, I just like living in a clean, tidy home.

:shrug:

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Then you probably aren't a freak about it!

:hi:

Read some of the stories I've written about my husband in this thread. Are you like that? Do you freak out over one thing in the sink? One cup on the counter for five seconds?

[Cuban_Liberal]

28. No, I don't get *that way* about stuff.

I just do a few things peope kinda consider odd, like dry the shower or tub after I use it. I don't freak about a pair of socks not put in the clothes hamper, or anything.

:)

[Fleshdancer]

27. I wish. My husband is a mess freak.

I'm not messy but I'm not a neat freak either. I also prefer not to clean up after him since he's a capable human being with the ability to pick up his own damn socks. Therefore, our house is never fully clean. My first roomate was a neat freak...I miss living with her.

[Donailin]

29. It's DISTRACTING!

it clutters the mind, it is DISORDER.

--Danielle, a recovering anal retentivator.

By the way, there is a cure