My husband is driving me nuts today. He has latched on to the garbage. He packs the garbage from the house into smaller containers and then containers within containers. He will bring the large garbage can into the house to show me how well he packs it. I know I should let it go but for some reason it drives me crazy. He also gets up at 3 or 4:00 in the morning to take the garbage out. Any suggestions on getting through this? Anyone else deal with this?
There is a thread called Got to do it now! which is all about doing weird obsessive things and having to do them right now. You might want to have a look at it.
Obsessive behavior is pretty common. Most of us have dealt with it. My husband also set up a totally weird garbage disposal system. He also packs the newspaper recycling into multiple plastic bags and literally uses a dozen twist ties to pack them up. And if it is wet outside he then puts the multiple packages of newspapers into yet another plastic bag. Etc.
I'd love to know what the garbage truck guys think. They know enough not to put the recycling into the garbage. Same day, different runs. Two weeks ago they couldn't see the white bags in the snow, so they missed them, but outside of that they deal with the craziness. <grin>
This is strange to me: My husband has been obsessed with his wallet for at least 2 years, constantly checking how much money he has, wanting to sleep with it, holding it while he naps, etc. On Sunday he handed it to me, then walked away. I decided I would put it in my purse...I expected him to ask me for it within the next 5 minutes. He has not mentioned it since. I guess he has forgot he had a wallet.
I love it, Kadee. My DH is forever getting out his wallet, wherever he is and showing people everything that's in it including all his money (which usually isn't much). He needs to have the wallet with him and needs to have some money in it. When it's time to pay, he wants me to do it, but he always offers me all the money in his wallet.
New obsession: cutting trash into tiny pieces. He also does this with his banana peelings before he puts them in the compost bin. I don't mind, anything that keeps him busy is fine.
My husband's the same way with his wallet. He either puts his pants under his pillow at night or puts the wallet in his underwear. I have quit fighting that battle. You'd think they had thousands of dollars in there, wouldn't you?
this obsession was during the early yrs with us as well. and i found a wallet just the other day that i had found online. it has slots that beep if you forget to fill the slot with the credit card or paper or ID. at the time DH was ALWAYS losing his DL or credit card (even expired ones) it was a nifty little gadget. he loved it and would take the cards inout alll day just to hear it beep:) at least i could hear it beeping in his pants and know something was 'missing' and knew to check it out. it was kinda sad to find it in the drawer. now thats all in the ancient past. and it seemed like such drama at the time. sigh. i wish he wanted his wallet again:) divvi
dh has had a thing with his watch and wallet, how many times have I had to look for them, would have to empty out dresser drawers, look under pillow or in it, a big thing ,was stuffing the wallet in a sock or in a shoe, washed the wallet with all the important cards in it good thing I had them laminated so no harm done, that was my daughters idea. money, well it needs to be londered once in awhile anyway lol. I kind of miss that kind of stuff going on now that he isn`t home anymore, I know they have to look for his watch once inawhile in the nh, he will not part with it. Gail
Obsessive behavior: EATING! My DH loves to look through the fridge and if he is intrigued by something, he will not let it go. A couple weeks ago I bought a can of ready-to-bake croissant rolls -- on an impulse, and then never had an occasion to use them. When are we going to want that many croissants, just the two of us, and we usually go out for breakfast? But he kept bringing me the can, reading everything it said aloud, looking for a date, asking when I was going to use it. Last night he got to picking at it, and I don't know what he did, but POP the can burst and the croissants were busting out all over. So this morning i HAD to use them and got the bright idea of using them as a sort of pie crust in a shallow pan with my precious last box of sugar-free vanilla pudding from our last trip to the States. I spread the pudding over the baked croissant crust, with dh watching avidly and added a layer of blackberries. It did look luscious. I put it in the fridge and told dh it had to chill for at least an hour. I guess he was watching the clock better than I was, because when I came back to the kitchen after two hours he had eaten ALL of the filling and NONE of the crust. Later, after I had moaned and groaned a little bit over how selfish he had been (he didn't seem to understand the concept) I ate a couple pieces of crust that had a little filling still sticking to them: delicious. So then dh ate the rest of the crust, with my blessing. Immediately afterwards, he was pushing to go out for lunch.
hmmm I think we could all write a book about this,my wife continually hides her purse an then tells me that someone took money from it,she says its all the people coming an going,we live alone,today its dog treats she hid four boxes of Milk Bones an we looked for quite awhile before I found them,also this morning she wanted to know why I was living in HER house?Believe me I'd give plenty to be living elsewhere,I'm guessing its gonna be a long winter
Funny how they all have similiar behavior....my Dh. does the same with his wallet...always checking what in it..and sleeping with it...He was messing around with his Rolex (retirement gift) so I replaced that with a 10 dollor one from K.Mart...Our yard is backed up to woods...yesterday he insisted on going in,just to the edge, and started to pull out all the dead Palmetto leaves...then this morning he wanted to know who left that mess of dead leaves next to the lawn...everyday is a new one..
I still can't believe he hasn't ask about his wallet. RB, my husband does the same thing with his golf clubs, will arrange them along the wall & if 1 or happen to fall on the floor, he goes into a tizzy thinking someone has been messing with them. Also, every now & then he will ask me whose clubs are against the wall, he is so happy when I tell him they are all his.
My husband was obsessed with his watch. Always checking the time and readjusting the settings (never could get them right). Almost everyday he would trek up to Wal-Mart where some poor soul in the jewelry department would set things straight. I'll bet it reached the point where they would draw straws when they saw him coming.
G was always glued to his watch and timing was everything, then our pup got hold of it and chewed the band off. I expected an explosion, but G just said he had never liked it anyway, and didn't want another. Go figure!