Used to be about 'Stickies', now seems to be about OCD... :D

[Two_Sheds]

- tea-towels are ironed and stack with the fold alternating

Yes, otherwise they don't fit in the drawer. If they're not alternated, the pile falls over

- clothes will always hang in the wardrobe based on the colours of the rainbow

Oh yes, that's just sensible as well as aesthetically pleasing. Can I top you? I only buy clothes in "my" colours (autumnal ish). I would never be tempted by, say, a cheery orange scarf. It just wouldn't go.

- newspapers

stacked for reuse as guinea pig bedding, or paper pots, then as compost

- garden pots are washed after use and size-graded

Yes, otherwise they don't fit in the shed.

My other OCD thing is the curtains have to be opened exactly the same distance from the frame, ie symmetrical when seen from outside. Otherwise the neighbours would think I was drunk when I'd opened them. If, when I leave the house, I see they aren't symmetrical, I have to go back in and correct them

(ha, gotcha. Only kidding).

[piskieinboots]

....the curtains have to be opened exactly the same distance from the frame

yep, same as

[FionaH]

You two have got to meet my friend Hazel, she does all this stuff too. On second thoughts maybe not you lot would never make it out
Ah well nowt as strange as folk. MrH would love me to have a bit of this lark going on, I'm sure

[Hazel at the Hill]

You two have got to meet my friend Hazel, she does all this stuff too.

I feel that I need to point out that this is not me. At all.

[HayleyB]

Can't we just get back to parsnips......

[FionaH]

I feel that I need to point out that this is not me. At all.

ROFL no, diferent girlie altogether
Off to sit in a patch of untidiness with Zazen I think, wanna come Hazel?

[zazen999]

ROFL no, diferent girlie altogether
Off to sit in a patch of untidiness with Zazen I think, wanna come Hazel?

I'm making pie, if that helps you decide.

[Alison]

I have to assume that visitors would lock the door, everyone who knows me (and comes here) know's it's a house rule They are used to me

You'd get a shock at our house, if it's only me and OH in then I don't even properly shut the door when I'm in there, just pull it too for privacy Not entirely sure that the lock works.

[Hazel at the Hill]

ROFL no, diferent girlie altogether
Off to sit in a patch of untidiness with Zazen I think, wanna come Hazel?

Sounds good to me.

I'm making pie, if that helps you decide.

*sound of door slamming & car engine starting up.

[zazen999]

*puts kettle on.

[Incy]

*puts kettle on.

Can I come too....
Poor RT must have been SOOO uncomfortable when he came to ours. Realised afterwards he was opposite a wonky picture frame and surrounded by piles of stuff
We do keep the cutlery in the drawer.....as for the rest, well there's always good intentions we just never seems to quite get there.

[zazen999]

Can I come too....

Course you can chuck.

[SarzWix]

You'd get a shock at our house, if it's only me and OH in then I don't even properly shut the door when I'm in there, just pull it too for privacy Not entirely sure that the lock works.

Same here Except I'm totally sure that our lock doesn't work, because I removed it when the kids were little to stop them from locking themselves in In our house bathroom door shut = occupied, at all others times it is wide open.
As to the rest: Iron? What's that then?; Tea towels - folded-ish from dryer & shoved in drawer; Cutlery, the drawer is in sections, but, most of it doesn't even match, never mind stack!;
Clutter = everywhere, tidyness & order = nowhere...

[SarzWix]

Oh, and I think I might move this thread into chat, seeing as it doesn't seem to be about Parsnips any more...

[Hilary B]

Tidy is an unachievable ideal!
Seriously, I would love a thoroughly tidy house, but I've got a lot of things I'd rather be doing!
The one place I TRY to keep tidy is the inside of certain cupboards, and that is a matter of space and stability. It's an uphill struggle though, because OH reckons it is 'tidy' if everything is in SOME cupboard and therefore out of sight.....
I do get tired of opening the door to the cookware cupboard and finding that the Pyrex-style casserole is perched on top of the plastic microwave saucepan, and about to fall out, or that the large mixing bowl is perched on top of the smaller ones, thus taking up 3 times as much space as it needs to (as well as being in danger of falling).