What compulsion do you have that makes your spouse roll his/her eyes heavenward?

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My hubby gets exasperated with my food container collecting. I keep everything…you never know when you’ll have a plant to root in that mini Heinz bottle you saved from hotel room service. Any container from Publix that has ever held a salad, fuit salad, or something from the deli gets washed, dried and put away. I think it’s great…he thinks I’m nuts.
 
My addiction to books. Can’t walk past a bookstore. Refuse to get rid of any of them because I re-read them.
Last time we moved, I counted 21 boxes of books. :o
 
BAGS

I must have Bags!!!

Purses, ditty bags, duffel bags, backpack bags, luggage bags, decorated bags, Vera Bradley bags (entire closet dedicated to those bad boys), paper bags, quilted bags, cloth bags, toiletry bags, mesh bags, beach bags, hunting/camping bags, sport bags, book bags, church bag, crocheting bags, avon bags, under-eye bags from staring at / sorting through / changing out / and re-arranging my collection of bags . . .

My ongoing quest for the perfect bag will never end. I think it may have been my purpose in life . . .
 
Being a backseat driver. But now he can’t take it any longer, so he’ll let me know!! LOL
 
A tie:

1.) Packratness with computer stuff.
2.) Far from adult ADD, I have an extreme length of concentration on a project…into the night, if need be.
 
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My addiction to books. Can’t walk past a bookstore. Refuse to get rid of any of them because I re-read them.
Last time we moved, I counted 21 boxes of books. :o
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Only 21 boxes of books! Yikes, last time we moved we must have had 40 or more boxes but both of us are bibliophiles. 🙂 Oh, and I have either traded or given books to my mom so not all of my books are even in my house.

Back to the subject. Again it is probably a tie between assuming he understands what my daughter’s and I are talking about (sometimes we talk in shorthand woman-ese) and reading something into what he says when he doesn’t expect us to or not reading something into what he says!

Brenda V.
 
Books!!! :bounce: I have the same situation.My house has become a library.I have them on shelves everywhere.So I understand what you mean.:rotfl:
 
Pretty much a tie between making the cat’s dance and making faces at her. 👍
 
My internet/message board usage…:rolleyes: (that’s DH’s face when I talk about what somebody said/did on a message board)
 
Apologetics! My wife calls me the…
“Catholic Defender”
 
Talking on the phone no matter what else is going on…

(those were his words when I asked him)

Either call them back, or back away from the stove and let him finish dinner, the diaper, the bath, whatever…lol.

(I wear a headset, so it’s not like I am without that other hand…and to be honest, I’m not on the phone all that often (which is why I try not to let a phone call stop me from being productive…lol!)
 
I suffer from social anxiety, so crowds are really, really hard for me and it drives my husband crazy some times, for the most part he is so awesome about it but sometimes, he just gets a little look on his face and a roll of the eyes that he hopes I don’t see, but I do understand cause I feel pretty frustrated with myself for having such a stupid aversion to large groups of people. 🙂
 
I am a compulsive minimalist… I throw away so many things, and keep very little that isn’t practical. I hate nick-naks… they are straight from the pit.
On the other hand I am a horse owner and that comes with its own unique set of neurotic behaviours. :o
 
I wake up and the first thing I do (once out of bed) is get on the computer and read Drudge Report to find out what happened while I was asleep and then I check Catholic Forums (if I was waiting on a reply). It drives him Bananas that I am a news junkie.

Oh, and that I wont let him (or the kids) leave the house wrinkled. Even if it is a t-shirt. 😉
 
My husband calls me “rainman” when I vaccum the floor. I can’t STAND a dirty floor!

He also hates it when I stay up too late… I better go to sleep now!
 
I would have to say the amount of fabric I accumilated when I was a manager at Jo-Anne Fabrics. I did reduce the amount, but I still have a few yards here ant there.

My other compulsion is being the family “container queen”. My family jokes if the containers are on sale and tries to hide my label maker. My hubby actually likes this one though because he can pretty much find anything as long as we have not just moved. If we had just moved, it takes me a couple of months to get it all back inorder.
 
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Apologetics! My wife calls me the…
“Catholic Defender”
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All right Robert in SD! There sure needs to be more of em!!! like you that’s for sure. Have you ever thought of passing along some phamplets to all your local Prot churches like the one The Sunday Visitor puts out “The 10 most frequently asked questions about Catholicism”. I love this one–dispels the most often myths you hear about.
Do you like the show on EWTN “Search and Rescue”? I love it!
 
My husband cringes when I rub my fingers together absentmindedly teying to get the cornmeal crumbs off my hand when eating English muffins. BTW my husband suffers from OCD that has only gotten worse as he’s gotten older. I roll my eyes when he asks me for the umpteenth time if I have my cell phone with me.
 
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