Hoarding...

[ChiefKiasu]

insider:

... Errr...my books usually are full with dog ears, folds, highlighting, comments, etc, etc. The more 'rugged' a book is = the more time I have spent on each (meaning if no marks ones are those that I am yet to lay my hands on)...

Ugggh! I'll tear my hair out if I see such books. The funny thing is my kid's school teachers make the children fold the pages of the books to indicate corrections. Yuucks.

BTW... I love to get book collections, but I have to make sure they get stored in the correct sequence. My boy gets the brunt of my compulsive behavior during the holidays where he would just pull out a whole bunch of books and simply stuff them back without thinking at all.

[buds]

ChiefKiasu:

insider:

... Errr...my books usually are full with dog ears, folds, highlighting, comments, etc, etc. The more 'rugged' a book is = the more time I have spent on each (meaning if no marks ones are those that I am yet to lay my hands on)...

Ugggh! I'll tear my hair out if I see such books. The funny thing is my kid's school teachers make the children fold the pages of the books to indicate corrections. Yuucks.

:rotflmao:

[mrswongtuition]

ChiefKiasu:

insider:

... Errr...my books usually are full with dog ears, folds, highlighting, comments, etc, etc. The more 'rugged' a book is = the more time I have spent on each (meaning if no marks ones are those that I am yet to lay my hands on)...

Ugggh! I'll tear my hair out if I see such books. The funny thing is my kid's school teachers make the children fold the pages of the books to indicate corrections. Yuucks.

I will scream my lungs out at anyone who make my books 'imperfect'. I do highlight my books if necessary but I do so extremely neatly. My sis is still using some of my books which I kept from my sec sch days & her friends are very amazed that I've kept them so well.

Even my story books are all neatly wrapped up & kept nicely

[buds]

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jedamum:

[quote=\"ChiefKiasu\"]
I will take my time to make sure the notes in my wallet are properly placed in ascending order, and in the right way up.

:lol: with regards to the above, while he is not a hoarder (he can trash the seminar notes the moment he finish his coursework :roll: ), my husband has the exact same habit as yours - i can't stand the arranging of notes habit!
or course, i must complement him by being the exact opposite!

errr....excuse me...may I know whether chief and jedamum's hubby belongs to those GEP group...coz these seem to be signs of autism... (no kidding!)[/quote]

ChiefKiasu:

What?! I'm... I'm autistic?! :scared: Now you have me sh*tting my pants, insider.

She does have a point there, Chief...... :idea:

It may surprise you when you meet your competition.
They can be super organized in record time boy...!

I had one boy who will get extremely disoriented when
he sees puzzles in shelves... he just had to have them
in a line and re-arranged them so quickly in a manner
he deemed more organized.

[MLR]

Jedamum's DH and Chief seems to be suffering from some form of Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).


I had a friend who was like that, he would hv to straighten and align things that he comes across or he would experience anxiety attacks. We used to do library duties together in our sec school days. Oh boy, he the one that everyone loves to be on duty with, cos he would spent the entire duty period organising the books on the shelves. We would just hv to do counter duties (even back then, I already hated filing/sorting). His condition was serious to got noticed by our teachers, cos he took a long time to get any work done. Our Form Teacher went for a family visit and finally managed to get help for him. He attended therapy and managed to control his OCD and able to lead a normal life. I lost contact with him after he went abroad for further studies.

Both DH and I are hoarders (Gosh, that really sound like attending AA session). I m a more organised hoarder and I hoard containers and books. DH is the totally disorganised hoarder that hoards papers, especially catalogue/flyers/magazines/receipts, etc AND clothes. Any table/counter surface in our place could hardly survived for more than 24hrs without DH bringing home some paper to cover the area.

When we had to move 3 times in a period of 10 months, we had to store some of our stuff in temporary storage, we about 80 boxes of stuff in storage. Finally when we settled down in our current place and I had to unpack the mountain of boxes, I found at least 20 boxes that marked \"DH's stuff\" and thats excuding his clothes/toiletries and household stuff. We are currently into our 14th month stay in our current place and there are still about 10 boxes that marke \"DH's stuff\" remains untouched and in the study room, which now look like an extension of the store. He kept his receipts and electronics/appliances catalogues/magazines for the last 5 yrs or more. Out of the 10 over boxes that was unpacked, more than half of the stuff were thrown away. I was so upset that we had spent all those extra $$ to store his useless papers and also he didn't even sort thru his stuff when he packed, he just dump everything in the drawers/table/counter surface into a carton box, sealed it up and labelled \"DH's stuff\". His clothes, OMG, where do I even begin. Just T-shirts alone, he has at least 80 pcs of them. Dragon boat team gives out one for each season and he would join for at least 2 to 3 seasons each year, he has been with the team since 1998. He loves souvenir T-shirts, lots of those Canada, Australia, Bali, Bangkok, Beijing, NYC, etc, etc...... His work shirts, if no laundry is done for a month, he would still be able to wear a fresh shirt for work everyday. I shan't go on about the rest of his wardrobe. I m a minimalist when it comes to wardrobe and yet I had to pick a man who is more vain than me.

I hoard containers and books. Books, I manage to keep it under control and try not to buy more than a book a month, thats including for DS and myself. I goes to the public library now for my fiction fix. I still buy books for DS though, cos most of the library books for children are in terrible condition. I had to give/donate away about half my book, mostly fiction when we moved. There are still more at my parents' place and my mom is threathening to give them or throw them away. Containers, those for use in the kitchen. I love to keep them and whenever I buy stuff, i tend to get the refill pack, so I get to use them. So, actually I m doing my part and be green.

In the meantime, DH is still bringing home flyers/magazines/catalogues, etc. When people asked why do we want a 3 bedroom space for 2 adults, a kid and a little dog, my answer is most often: \"for Dh to store more papers\".

[Jennifer]

For those who are organised hoarders or disorganised hoarders, what’s your blood group? Trying to establish a relation between the two.


I am A+, considered myself as a organised hoarder of recipes.

[ChiefKiasu]

westmom:

Nah...I don't think Chief is autistic...He has all the very signs of being an irritating perfectionist....wah....I salute your wife for being able to stand you...hahaha

Yes... and that makes two of us. I can't stand myself mostly, but what to do, the world still needs to be sorted out. And I guess my wife still can tahan me because she needs some order in her life, while I admire her ability to be so nonchalant about being untidy. The perfection comes from our very imperfections.

[westmom]

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jedamum:

cut up his steak in 'surgical precision' as he strives to cut each piece in exactly similar in size in a specific direction/sequence with preplanned rationing to ensure that his main and side course last equally throughout the meal.

I know of a friend, GM of a branded goods company.

He is a terrible perfectionist (that makes me think that he is sick in some way).

When he has visitors in his house, he will serve plain water. He must make sure that water in each glass in of EQUAL height and of EQUAL temperature (if guests want warm water) before he serves the water out. We always tell him \"ching chai lah\" but he said very SERIOUSLY, \"CANNOT ching chai...\"

Other than that, he seems normal...

I know an ex-colleague who is very strict about the way the bathroom towels hang down from the rails. Both ends of the towels most be at the exact level. She will spend some time checking it. She is a capable and intelligent lady.

[Busymom]

ChiefKiasu:

I would spend my life organizing things and then never touch them again for fear of having to organize them again :stupid: .

My library is properly classified after deep thought to come up with the configuration that allows me to store the greatest amount of books in the available space, and yet allow the quickest access to the ones I use most.

Haha... I certainly see myself in what you have described above. For certain things that I have packed so well, I really hate to touch them for fear of getting them disorganised, or for fear that I would forget to place them in the same manner as previously (this also applies to small little ornaments that I have taken pain to arrange in the display cabinet - as a result, I have told all my helpers that there is no need to clean them...lucky them!) This dislike for anyone to touch my highly organised (or at least in my opinion) cupboards or drawers extends to everyone, and especially DH. I won't be able to recognise my drawer or cupboard after he opens it, even if I tell him exactly where to look to get something :x

Same goes for my library and CD collections. So imagine my :x whenever my MIL is in town and staying with us. She would take books from the bookshelves, a few at a time and then not put back in the same or almost the same slots (see, I can actually tolerate some discrepancies, but... I guess certain things just run in the family). The CDs are the worst. She must be really bored one day in the house and started to take my CD out one by one, just to look to pass time :!: :!: :faint: But DH would never understand what's the big deal...ok, this story should be reserved for another thread.

On the topic of CD, DH has this irritating habbit of putting whatever CD that is in the player into the case of the next CD that he is going to play. Is there anybody out there who is like that?!!

I try to organise my kids' books, by category and by height or size of the books, but almost give up now. Time no enough!

I am also a perfectionist when it comes to packing luggage. As a result, a few times quite close to missing flights :oops: So DH quite stressed by me all the time, as he is always the punctual one (not just taking flight but for even unimportant events) while I am the perpetual late-comer

Must have some fair share of stress from each other mah.

[schellen]

Busymom:

On the topic of CD, DH has this irritating habbit of putting whatever CD that is in the player into the case of the next CD that he is going to play. Is there anybody out there who is like that?!!

sashimi!! And it's not just CDs but DVDs and CD-ROMs too! If I am the last one to use the DVD player, and I presume that I will be the next one to use it, I will leave my DVD in the player. But sometimes, sashimi will use it after me and he will put my DVD into his DVD case, even when my DVD case is just sitting on the shelf above within reach and sight. The problem is that it may take a while for me to get back to what I was watching and meanwhile, sashimi (who loves to watch a few series at one go, for variety, he says) will have a few DVD cases laid out in front of the player. Imagine how annoyed I get when I have to look through so many cases for my missing DVD! :stupid: