We all suffer from a little bit of OCD don’t we? It can’t just be me, right?
I am an easy going kind of a guy but there are certain things that need to be just so in my life, not many but a few.
Examples for me include:
I am practical and believe that some things need to be ordered to allow stuff to be achieved in an efficient way – like finding a particular album when I have a great many of them in my collection.
Since moving house, almost two years ago now, my CDs have been all higgledy-piggledy and it has been a source of nagging irritation ever since. In my defence, they were packed in alphabetical order but when it came to unpacking the boxes into the new house, it became too great a task and too low in priority. Some boxes were in the house, some were in the garage, the boxes I wanted first were inevitably at the bottom of a stack etc. Mrs Baldwin had 65 things for me to do and alphabetising my CDs at that time would have resulted in violence and/or divorce. You get the drift.
Being an old and avid music fan, I have amassed circa 3,000 CDs since I began buying them in the 1980s. Having the collection randomly distributed around the house resulted in a range of frustrating outcomes. Taking ages to find a given album, buying it again because I couldn’t remember/prove if I had it or not, wanting to listen to a particular album but then selecting something else because it was easier etc.
Last weekend, having failed my own OCD standard for so long, I decided to get to grips with the alphabetising task …
And bloody hell, I have been at it on and off since Saturday and have only finished to “C”. Hours more work awaits me before I can relax in the knowledge that the music collection will be properly accessible once more.
But the work will be worthwhile, I’ll be able to tick off a job on the list before I end up ticking over it.
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I am an easy going kind of a guy but there are certain things that need to be just so in my life, not many but a few.
Examples for me include:
- The cutlery tray – no mixing of knives, forks and spoons and all eating irons facing the same direction in the tray
- Toilet roll – I want the leading edge on the underside to pull down rather than pull over
- Books in author sets and/or subject areas
- Ties sorted by colour
- My CDs – really need to be in alphabetical order
I am practical and believe that some things need to be ordered to allow stuff to be achieved in an efficient way – like finding a particular album when I have a great many of them in my collection.
Since moving house, almost two years ago now, my CDs have been all higgledy-piggledy and it has been a source of nagging irritation ever since. In my defence, they were packed in alphabetical order but when it came to unpacking the boxes into the new house, it became too great a task and too low in priority. Some boxes were in the house, some were in the garage, the boxes I wanted first were inevitably at the bottom of a stack etc. Mrs Baldwin had 65 things for me to do and alphabetising my CDs at that time would have resulted in violence and/or divorce. You get the drift.
Being an old and avid music fan, I have amassed circa 3,000 CDs since I began buying them in the 1980s. Having the collection randomly distributed around the house resulted in a range of frustrating outcomes. Taking ages to find a given album, buying it again because I couldn’t remember/prove if I had it or not, wanting to listen to a particular album but then selecting something else because it was easier etc.
Last weekend, having failed my own OCD standard for so long, I decided to get to grips with the alphabetising task …
And bloody hell, I have been at it on and off since Saturday and have only finished to “C”. Hours more work awaits me before I can relax in the knowledge that the music collection will be properly accessible once more.
But the work will be worthwhile, I’ll be able to tick off a job on the list before I end up ticking over it.
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