Adventures in Obsessive Compulsive Behavior

While I have no medical proof I am certain I have at least a mild form of OCD or at least some sort of obsessive organizational disorder. Either way this has led to many interesting encounters with strangers who think I am insane. Among those strangers is the entire staff at my local Costco. You see Costco likes to go green and put your economy sized purchases in old boxes. I am all for this concept, however, they do this day in and day out and not once has the practice made perfect. Every time I shop there I inevitably repack my box in order to maximize the amount of food that can reasonably fit in the box. In my obviously twisted mind this is not a difficult concept. You see a box, usually an oddly shaped box with only 3 out of 4 sides, and you place the gargantuan grocery items in said box with efficiency. Key word here is efficiency! Am I the only person who see's the sense in this sort of organizational compulsion?

However....

Not all of my obsessive tendencies make as much logical sense. For example, I cannot handle hangers chillin amongst the clothes if they are not hard at work holding my clothes up. These lazy unused hangers cannot simply fraternize with their friends on there day off! So I take my empty hangers and put them in a special part of the closet. But, oh the madness does not stop there, I then color coordinate and categorize these lonely hangers for further use. Is this at all necessary? NO! Do I feel an unending need to do this? YES!

However.....

This does not mean that my room is particularly clean. While I cannot allow the unused hanger to stay in the closet I often lose gusto after I remove the offending object from the closet and they land on the floor in a designated spot at the foot of my bed. YES, my warped and twisted OCD has contingency plans! I cannot leave the hangers just anywhere on the floor there is a special place for these discards. Obviously!

I am willing to acknowledge that none of this is logical to the average human, but to me it all makes perfect sense. While I expect no one else to uphold my ridiculous standards of organization I cannot simply abandon them and move on...that would be CRAZY!

.....and so I go forth confusing the Costco employs, entertaining my roommate with refrigerator organization antics, and discarding the unused hangers. Such is life.

XOXO