Big C doesn't know he's been part of a military experiment for the last two weeks. It's called "Operation I won't clean up after him any more"!!! So far the house is a mess but the operation has been a success. When I say success I don't mean that he's started cleaning up after himself more, I mean success in that I haven't let my anal neatness take over and give in and clean up after him!!
I'm actually very proud of myself. If anyone else out there has anal neatness you know just what I'm talking about...it's very hard for us OCD folks to just walk by something and NOT pick it up or put it back where it belongs.
It's not like Big C is a complete slob he's no where near a slob, a tour in the navy took care of that. I don't know if you'd call it selfish, absentminded or just men being men like Ray on "Everyone Loves Raymond". Similar to the episode where the suitcases from the vacation where left at the bottom of the stairs and Raymond and Debra have a silent war about who'se going to put them back. Raymond goes so far as to use a plastic bag for his next vacation just so he won't have to touch the suitcases and even puts cheese in the bags and leaves for a couple of days, hopefully forcing Debra due to the smell of the cheese to actually have to deal with the suitcases!!! That episode was hilarious!!!
Big C isn't a Raymond thank god. I mean he'll go to the refrigerator and get out the orange juice, pour himself a glass and leave the orange juice right there on the counter so the next poor sod that comes along for a glass has to have a room chilled glass as opposed to the nice cold glass that he got!!! aghhh
Or he'll watch tv and get the remote from the basket RIGHT next to the tv, but when he's done he'll leave the remote in some random, obscure place that leaves me spending 30 minutes looking for the damn thing because I don't want to watch "Ultimate Fighting" which is the channel he always leaves it on when he's done. I guess it would just be too much for him to put it back where he got it from right!!! LOL
I'm not sure how long the experiment will go for but I will say this, so far I've had a lot more time on my hands now that I'm only cleaning up after myself!!!
Sidenote: I'm trying to calorie count using some fancy app I downloaded on my ipod touch, so yesterday he bought wheat soft tortilla's for our burritos and I thought this would have been the best option as it has 21g of fiber woo hoo! But I had no idea that ONE wheat tortilla has 200 CALORIES and 560g of SODIUM! Are you for real, that's crazy!!!
LOL. I've tried this experiment with my husband. It almost never works for me. He's kind of strange though. Once in a while he will actually go into a cleaning frenzy (usually when he's trying to find something he misplaced) and it drives me crazy when he does that. Suddenly he's Mr. Neat and I'm the slob.
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In my house we're all messy so it all works out BUT since we've moved into our brand new spanky house I do find myself wanting to pick up and straighten up more and it drives me batty that the other two who share said house with me could care less!
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Good luck with your experiment. I find that men have no eyes for disorder. My spouse has what I call a "nest" around his chair. Magazines, mail, tools, etc., spill over onto every table near him and onto the floor and I am not supposed to touch anything for fear of messing up his filing system!
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