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My friends and I were having a discussion about how once you move in with/ marry someone, you instantly notice all the weird/annoying things they do. It got me wondering about what my thing was, and what Joe's quirk was.
1. I cannot/will not/refuse to do dishes. It makes me nauseous.
2. All of our clothes are in spectrum order in each of our closets. I just think it looks pretty.
3. Joe eats ketchup on EVERYTHING. We buy the canisters of ketchup at Costco because he is crazy for it.
4. Neither of us can fall asleep in silence.
What's your quirky thing? Or your FIs?
Fun Post:
1. I am loud - I don't have volume control
2. I am an open book - literally, if you know me you know everything about me
3. I am brutally honest (sometimes it's bad :-()
4. I hate eyeballs and I am an anatomist that deals with cadavers
@ Future Mrs. Martin
We dissected Sheep Eyeballs in my Anatomy class in high school, and mine had eyelashes, which totally freaked me out! I had no problem with dissection besides those stupid sheep's eyelashes.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Everything has to be in it's proper place. Even if it's proper place is on the floor. When I was a kid, my parents could hardly walk into my room it was so "messy," but I had it organized so I knew where everything was, it just happened to be organized on my floor. They still don't get it. My FI has no organization. He'll learn soon enough.
And ILikePink, I also have to have my clothes color coordinated, it's easier to what I want when I want a certain color.
I am sooo impatient, like I would rather do things myself because I would do it quicker!
I am so honest it can be a little mean sometimes, but I always apologize!
I swear I have Add, I cannot focus for longer than 5 minuts...oh and I Can't follow conversations lol keep it 3 sentences or less!
I am so messy and unorganized
He eats his fries before his burger, like ALL his fries first then the burger...
He moves and thinks a little slower than I would like lmao but that could just be my impatience kicking in
He is so clean and organized haha
I forgot that Joe also cannot step on cracks when he walks. He was a baseball player all the way through college, and has some serious superstitions. But the cracks one drives me nuts when we are at a place like a mall, where the flooring changes regularly and he has to change the way he walks to not walk on any cracks.
I can't fall asleep to silence either. I think it started when I lived on Addison, a super-busy street with lots of bars, etc on it. Moving out of the city will make that awfully difficult!
If R and I are somewhere apart for the night for whatever reason, I have to talk to him or text him to make sure he's safe. My family has had really bad luck with car accidents (including a death) so I get really paranoid about those things.
I won't bake from mixes. Seriously CANNOT do it. To the point where FSIL asked me to make something for a bake sale for her rescue and mentioned she had a bunch of mixes. I just kept saying, "oh, no, I have all the ingredients right here. I swear!" even though I didn't, and had to run to the store.
Me:
1. Must have coffee every morning
2. I brush my teeth all the time!
3. When I'm nervous or antsy I pick at the skin by my fingernails
4. I am not efficient at most things I do: getting ready in the morning, driving somewhere, eating, etc haha
5. I set about 5 alarms in the morning because that's how much I don't like waking up
Him:
1. He doesn't like chocolate!!! At ALL! Ahh!
2. He loves fruit as much as most people love sweets. I guess that's a good thing haha, so I'm happy for this!
3. He is a management major, and therefore is definitely a pro at being efficient no matter what!
4. He does his laundry more than me haha
I cannot go to sleep if I feel the slightest urge to pee. So if I go to bed before I'm completely exhausted it ends up taking forever to sleep because I get up to go to the bathroom constantly!
@lilyfaith. I feel so guilty if I ever bake with a mix, I try to avoid it at all costs! It's like I am not loving the people I am baking for as much if I bake with a mix.
@MissAsB Haha, that would be a total problem for me, because I have to pee all the time!
Here's mine: I am obsessed with keeping my floors clean. Nothing grosses me out more than dirty carpet. It's strange to me that many people wear shoes in their home. I mean, think of all the dirty/nastiness that is on the bottom of the shoe that gets grinded into the carpet of where you live! Used a public restroom that day? You probably have other people's urine on your shoe that is being put into your carpet. Ewww. Sorry to be gross, but these are literally the thoughts that go through my mind :)
We take our shoes off in the foyer and never wear them in the house. I make some people that come into our home remove their shoes, but if it's someone I'm not super close with, I don't say anything, and then I just *cringe* when they are in my house with their shoes on. It totally skeeves me out.
I don't get as grossed out if the shoes are on wood flooring. There are areas of our house that have wood flooring, but the stairs, hallways and many rooms have carpeting. I told my FI that in our next house, I have to have all wood floors if he wants me to be less psychotic about shoes in the house!
I live for my cats, and everyone thinks i'm crazy because i love them so much.
but i've got FH loving them too!
To be fair, they are OUR cats. We got them together. But they do the sweetest little things, and it makes me so happy (even if that sweet thing just ruined the sofa!)
But seriously...I can't drink milk if it's been open more than 2 days.
This is gross, but I can't stand black heads. I will lean over my sink and get really close to my mirror and go to town until I am satisfied... lol Yuck I know...
@Tulip. I grew up in a take-your-shoes off house, and I cannot stand even wearing my shoes in someone elses house. Unless their floor is already really dirty.
@ToasterCat. My mom pops my dad's black heads! How NASTY is that?!
I also never wear socks. And often, no shoes either.
Wait, needing coffee in the morning is a quirk? Because I'm evil without coffee, hahaha.
@ILikePink - right?! I totally agree, but I couldn't tell you why. I'm also a crazy perfectionist with my cooking. It drives R crazy because he's okay with just tastes good.
I think over half of the things said apply to me... I live for my animals too! We get their food from Whole Foods even when we can't afford to shop there. (We do anyway, most of the time. But hey, we don't eat out!)
I dont do dishes. Grimey food makes me sick... and are house doesnt have a dishwasher... and it's a rental so we arent doing and remodeling in order to put one in.
I cant fall asleep in silence... but Brad cant fall asleep with the tv on. We use a rain machine sometimes. And the rest of the times we alternate nights (he gets a few silent nights and I get a few nights with the tv on)
I hate wearing shoes in the house too... although with our new puppy not housebroken yet and my other dog (11 year old pug) having bladder control issues I've taken to wearing flip flps in the house (all the while carrying stain remover and paper towels in hopes the dogs will get the hint)
I have lots of quirks...
@ILikePink - Me too! I am the same way at other people's houses! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I also grew up like that, so I guess maybe that's why I'm like that now. You know, I'm from the midwest, and I think it's more common there to do that. I had a lot of friends that grew up in households like that. Since I moved to the east coast, I haven't met one person that takes their shoes off in their home. It's just so strange to me.
I'm so afraid that I cook pasta too often that apparently I don't cook it often enough. I found out about that last night when FI said, "What are you talking about, we NEVER have pasta!"
If I'm baking I HAVE to get every bit of batter out of the bowl and into the pan/mold/whatever. The spatula is my very best friend.
As soon as I do laundry it has to be folded and put in its place or I go crazy. FI, on the other hand, does like opening drawers, so all his clothes get stacked up in a laundry basket.
We both go on weird cleaning/organization sprees, but never at the same time. His usually hit him at midnight and I wake up to a spotless apartment. Mine usually happen when I'm bored and he's at work.
I sort my clothes by sleeve length, and by colour. So sleeveless, short sleeve, 3/4 sleeve, long sleeve. then brights to neutrals. plus I have 2 racks: one for work only clothes, and one for casual stuff I can't wear for work. slightly obsessive about it.
@Tulip. Maybe Coasties can afford to recarpet more than us frugal Midwesterners? I don't think I had a single friend growing up whose house you could enter with your shoes on.
@ Twista. Girl, meet bowl scraper! It's one of my favorite kitchen tools!
me and the Fh have quirks to when it comes to sleeping.
i cannot sleep with socks on and MUST have my feet sticking out from under the cover.
he must sleep on the right side of the bed or he cant sleep
he gets up a bunch of times to fix the blankets to get the "crumbs" out of teh bed..... umm there are no crumbs in the bed, i swear he imagines this stuff, he's crazy. gets really annoying esp when its lke 1 in the morning and hes waking you up so he can wipe the ctumbs off the sheets. urghh. lol
@stargal, we share all the same things! I cannot even get comfy with out my naked feet sticking out of the covers. I cannot sleep with hot feet.
Joe sleeps on the right side too, but when we sleep in hotels he always sleeps on the left. Makes no sense.
Thankfully he doesn't do the crumbs thing, but he is a total freak about making the bed.
I ALWAYS leave batter in the bowl to lick. This is because my Mom never let me as a kid. I've also made whole batches of cookie dough for the sole purpose of eating it raw.
I like my food plain and FI loads his up with EVERYTHING. Taco night is so annoying at our house because I like meat, shell, cheese, cilantro, salsa. That's it. Mike spends half an hour chopping onions, tomatoes, lettuce, then loads it up with quac and sour cream. I'm done eating before he's even finished making his. It's the same with burgers.
i leave tons of batter in the bowl too! omg, i can't not cover my face in chocolate when i bake brownies. If i'm making for someone else i'll completely do everything, start baking, then chow down so i dont get any slobber in anyone's food of course.
My quirks are that I always assume things are expired (and sometimes i am RIGHT - this past weekend i made my husband an omelet and he insisted i put vodka sauce in it, ick, but i thought it was open too long. i was right, he was sick for a day). I do a lot of fridge purging. I also don't like the texture of biting into some veg, like tomato. Gag. It needs some serious balsamic or something drizzled on top for me to want to eat it. I can't stop moving, i'm like a shark. A lazy shark. I drive back to my house at least once a week to be sure I dropped the garage door.
Don't get me started on hubby's quirks :-P He's not here to defend himself.
Okay, quirks are fun. Luckily, my Fi and I have accepted eachother's quirks and even think they're cute.
My quirks:
1. I can't remember... jokes, names, directions, addresses. Sometimes even faces. Agh! It's like I have dementia. I'm often in deep thought about other things while I'm going about my day, which is probably why I have a hard time remembering things. I also get lost easily while driving.
2. When I sleep, I wrap myself in a caccoon of blankets. The caccoon cannot be disturbed, and I can't be touched or I lie awake all night. I can have pretty bad insomnia. My Fi and I will need a king sized bed with separate blankets :( Sorry darling! We cuddle, but when it's time to sleep, I create my caccoon.
3. I am obsessed with nutrition and eating healthy. I've gotte more laid-back though. Sometimes, a girl needs a strong beer and a fatty curry or awesome pizza. But I never drink sugary drinks, feel guilty if I eat a bad diet.
4. I always wear sunscreen and sunglasses.
5. Ha I fluctuate between a bit of a neurotic/worry wart or a happy go lucky person who loves life. I try to keep my worries in check and remember that each day should be enjoyed and that life's too short to spend it worrying.
My Fi's quirks:
1. He hates ketchup. He has a very sensitive nose and practially vomits at the smell or sight of it. He's not bluffing, I've seen him get nauteous. He can even smell it if I ate ketchup earlier. I'll have to have a secret stash of ketcup packets and then brush my teeth. It was annoying at first, but I've learned to eat salsa on my eggs. Lol he was like this about play dough in kindergarten. His parents warned the teacher that he would vomit if he had to touch play dough. She didn't believed them, but he quickly proved her wrong. He's also this way about mayaonnaise (which is fine because I hate it!)
2. He always loses his keys. Always. Wherever we go. He loses lots of things. He even lost the warranty to my ering! (I got another one thank god) I've learned to be patient and help him find things. When we move into together, organization will be a joint effort.
3. I don't know if it's a quirk, but he adores dogs. He loves them. It was one of the first things I noticed about him, whenever we went to someone's house, he would always pet their dog. I think it's sweet.
Everyone's a little quirky right? I think his quirks are funny, and he thinks mine are endearing. What a fun post! Aren't the little quirks what makes people so interesting?
Ha I definitely share some of these quirks! Like ILikePink, I've got all of my clothes in color spectrum order. I think it makes life easier in addition to looking pretty. Like lilyfaith, I also refuse to use baking mixes and have done so since I was thirteen. I get really indignant about it if someone ever suggests using one, and I think I couldn't even enjoy the food if I did use one because I'd just be lamenting about how much better it'd taste if I'd made it from scratch. We also have had approximately a million and one deaths in my family from car accidents (including the person I dated right before FI) so I get really very worried when I don't hear from FI at the end of the night or in timely manner after he said he'd be done with something and I'm not with him. One of the worst nights of my life was when he went out with a friend and didn't call me to say goodnight. I was up bawling on the landline with my best friend as I called his home phone and cell phone constantly for maybe eight hours until he finally woke up at ten AM and told me he'd simply fallen asleep on the couch after polishing off a handle of vodka with his friend (who was so drunk after that that he'd wandered off to four other bars, lost his wallet, and woke up in a subway station he'd never been to. Yeah.). I wanted to kill him because I had never been so distressed in my life for so many hours. Even my parents were in my room consoling me for the last few hours. We were about to start calling hospitals because his parents weren't picking up the phone and neither was his friend (understandably). His friends are such bad influences. I also feed my cats only top-of-the-line organic food and will do so even when I'm eating beans and rice in grad school. What they put in so many regular grocery store brands is disgusting, it's like feeding your cats worse than McD's every day, so nothing but the best for my babies (and yes, that is how I refer to them to everyone, and they are certainly treated that way).
Another thing people find really weird about me is that it takes me at least fifteen minutes to brush my teeth. I don't know where the time goes but that's how long it takes me to brush and feel that my mouth is clean enough. I also cannot manage to take a shower shorter than twenty-five minutes. Usually I'm in the shower for around thirty-five to forty minutes. Yeah yeah, it's bad for the environment, but pretty much everything else I do is earth-friendly so cut me some slack.
I have a lot of quirks, but I can't think of what else to say right now. Fun thread, interesting to learn a little more about everyone!
1. I hiccup after drinking anything carbonated.
2. He sneezes after eating dark chocolate.
vegan - those are some quirks! though i'll admit - the cat food thing does get me. We just got some dehydrated salmon @whole foods for the cats and their eyes lit up - while they always want food, they never look like they actually enjoy it quite like that (unless it's something cat friendly that we are personally eating, that is).
You must get up 2 hrs earlier than i do every day w/ those routines :) I give myself.. wait for it.. 30 mins from last snooze to at my desk. 40 if i dont want to sweat before work running to the building. Shower, hair, clothes, teeth, routines, etc.
Ah reading these quirks makes me thinks that my quirks are not so weird!
I hate having my hands dirty, so suffice it to say, I don't bake or make any food I have to "mold" And I hate clay - or playdough or femo or any of that stuff, major ick. I will wash the dishes, but only after I run them under the water for 5 minutes and all of the food particles are off. And I am wearing gloves.
I must sleep with socks on, totally under the covers with at least 3 blankets, even in the summertime. FI only wants to sleep under a thin sheet and always sticks his feet out of the blankets.
I cannot stand someone reading over my shoulder, or standing too close to me. It freaks me out big time. I've been know to swing some elbows to give myself more room in crowded places....but this could be because I am short and am afriad I'll get squished somewhere
which leads me to my last quirk (that I am going to tell you all right now...I'm sure I have many others)
I hate home depot, Lowes or any of those big hardward stores. I have a huge fear that a sink will fall on me a crush me. I refuse to go into those stores.
MissAsB- I totally have a peeing thing too. I pee soooo much. I drink a ton of water and coffee, so I pee all day at school, in between every class. And I pee at least 1-2 times in the middle of the night. I also get nervous pee right before I perform on stage. It's just illusion pee.
Veganglam- who can blame you for worrying! It's scary when anyone drives home late at night, especially on the weekend. I always make my fiance call me when he gets home. I'm also the same about processed food mixes. Aluminum in pancake mix? Ew! They put so many nasty preservatives and addidives in food. I get the heeby-jeebies and can't bring myself to cook it. I try to do homemade.
Keep the quirks comin people :)
I can't think of anything else at the moment, but I'm sure I'll think of more things later on. Haha!
@Melissabegins: actually, I usually just get up an hour before I have to leave (if it's something low-pressure like going to class or doing errands etc)! 45 mins in the shower with brushing included, then I just comb out my hair, get dressed, put on some light makeup and I'm out the door. You would think spending that long in the shower/brushing would indicate a general trend of a high maintenance regimen, but no. I need next to no time once I'm done in the shower.
@LittleAudrey: yeah, commercial mixes are creepy! I only eat preservative/creepy chemical ingredient free foods anyway, so telling me to be lazy and make a sub-par flavored pancake or cookie with those ickiness-filled box mixes is just going too far haha.
@rachaelrobin: I kind of understand your fear about Home Depot. It reminds me of my fear of being in those theaters where your seat is reclined and the picture goes all the way up onto the ceiling! I remember when I went to one in DC or something and they put backlights on at the beginning to display all the equipment behind the picture we were seeing. Imagining tons and tons of equipment suspended above me was enough to convince me to run out of that theater in horror. You couldn't drag me back into one.
@vegan - impressive then, my friend!! Watch out in winter - when i lived in PA my hair always froze :)
I am slightly OCD, and its so hard to explain. I have to mentally organize and order words and word/letter sequences (like license plates). I hope that makes sense, its the best way i can explain it. No one knows that i do it, and as hard as I try not to I can't help it. So, for example suggested, I mentally change it to deeggsstu. And sometimes I will move my finger in the air as if the word was hanging there. Wow, I have never told anyone that, and hear I am putting it on the bee...
@Veganglam: In our first year of dating, Joe got into a super serious car accident. He was in the hospital for a week, broke 5 ribs, punctured his lungs and his spleen. But instead of making me super paranoid about him, it's made him super paranoid about ME. In the winter time, if I am late even by a few minutes, he freaks out and thinks i am in a ditch somewhere.
ME:
I like when evrything is clean
I hate cooking big meals.. in fact I hate cooking
I love coffee
Everything has to be the way I left it.. in its own place
FI:
Is a tornado.. every where he goes there is a mess
Loves looking... but makes a HUGE mess that i wish he would pass on cooking and maybe we will just do take-out
Always rushes me when i'm getting dressed telling me "we are late" even if we dont even have plans yet
Hates coffee
Yet we love each other sooo much :)
Toffee- I remember my babysitter's boyfriend, when I was 3, giving me a raw beet and telling me it was a cherry. I bit into it eagerly and then just bawled. It tasted awful. So yes, I will join you in your hatred of beets.
I have ridiculously intense and crazy dreams. If I get woken up in the middle of one it can take a good 30 minutes or so to adjust to real life. I kind of stay in this haze where my head is confused, my heart is racing and I can't seem to fixate on what is actually real. Sometimes my crazy dreams just lead to crazy behavior. Like a few nights ago I launched onto my FI in the middle of the night because a camel with blades on its hoofs was trying to smash/cut up his legs and I needed to protect him. Luckily the really crazy stuff is rare, and mostly I just have very funny stories to tell in the morning. I love the look my FI gets when I say "Hey...so I had this dream last night..."
Hmm, quirks. I have a few.
If I laugh too long and hard at something, I will eventually start crying. Not just 'crying with laughter' but full blown sobbing, shaking, tears, and the ugly cry face. Then I get really sleepy and need to go have a nap.
I hate being woken up in the morning, but I can't stand Mr. Roux sleeping more than 1/2 an hour longer than me. Even if he got home late the night before, once I've been up for half an hour I need to go wake him up or have a cuddle in bed.
I cannot cook meals in quantities for 2 people, even though there is only 2 of us to cook for. I always cook for 4-6 people, and have a freezer full of frozen home cooked meals.
If I get stressed out, I go grocery shopping and buy pasta. We have a 'pasta cupboard' and probably about 10kg (20lbs) of dried pasta in different varieties.
Mr Roux's quirks
He must sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door.
...I think thats it for him, lol I'm the weird one.
Although our 'couple quirk' Is probably our negotiation skills. We use far distant future things and random things to negotiate. eg.
Me- 'Honey can we get chickens for the back yard?'
Mr. Roux- 'only if when we buy a house we can get a dog and call it Ewok'
Me- 'can I give Ewok a nickname like 'precious puppyface?'
Mr. Roux- 'As long as I can name one of the chickens Lunch.'
Me- 'ok, deal'.
This conversation actually took place last week.
i have hound dog hearing and smell. i can hear wispers in another room and smell things that other people dont smell for another 10 minutes or so (like a skunk) i can smell a meal and tell you what spices were used, wine vs sherry, etc. my brother showed up at my hosue to surprise me last weekend and came in while i was in the shower. i didnt even open the bathroom door and knew he was in the house becuase i could smell him. and he wasnt wearing calogne. its kinda annoying sometimes.
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