Five Things I'm Borderline OCD About:
1. Recycling. My city has an excellent recycling program, and I take advantage of it to an almost absurd level. If I buy one item at the corner store, I recycle the inch-long receipt. I painstakingly wash out the aluminum Chinese-takeout pans so they can be recycled. Those plastic caps from the glass milk bottles? Into the bin they go! If it weren't for diapers, I would have almost no real trash.
2. Flossing. Every night, no matter what. Then the thingy with the red rubber tip.
3. Balancing the checkbook. When the monthly statement comes, I can barely wait to sit down before I get out all the receipts and the calculator and make it work to the last penny. Love discovering a discrepancy. Love finding and correcting errors.
4. Shopping. I go to Whole Foods just about every day for fresh meat and produce. I go to the supermarket once a week or so for the other stuff, like regular bread. We never, ever run out of Dawn or Kleenex or Tide or anything else, for that matter. Never.
5. Reading The New Yorker. I must read them in order. When the new issue arrives, I may not open it until I've finished the previous week's issue. With the dearth of free reading time I have most days, this means that I rarely get to read the current issue during the week it arrived, so I'm always a little behind on the latest current events and arts reviews. But hey, rules is rules.
Five Things I'm Shockingly Cavalier About:
1. Laundry. Everything we own gets washed together and dried together. Green towels, white unders, jeans, and button-down shirts, in you go! Chinos, dishrags, tube socks, and polo shirts, have fun in there together! I do laundry at least once a day, and that is just the way it works best for me.
2. I can't think of anything else.
with all of the effort you exert sorting your recycling, no wonder you have none left to sort the laundry!
Posted by: kat | July 19, 2004 at 10:30 AM