Who loves sorting things?

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AnAlias, you sound just like me, haha! I agree with you, I’m probably borderline. I think that’s generally what “gifted” refers to, though, you know? Anyway I used to have this game based around a character called Rockett, and basically what you had to do was get her through a day at school, or a slumber party, or whatever. The way it worked was that some character would talk to you and then you had choices as far as how to respond, and then that affects the story. For example:

Jessica approached Rockett. “What are you WEARING?” she said with a scowl on her face.

1. “Oh it’s the latest fashion from Paris. Don’t you love it?”
2. “It’s my favorite blue sweater.”
3. “You don’t like it? Maybe I should go change!”

As you can imagine…I spent hooooours trying every itsy bitsy combination of answers. Or I’d go through and do all the “snobby” answers. And then I’d go through and do all the “nice” answers. I’m pretty sure I spent way more time playing that game than anybody else, haha.


Hehehe bradleigh, I know what you mean. Whenever I go in a bookstore or something, I get really mad when a book is not sorted how I think it should be. I also have that problem with cleaning. I just feel like it would take waaay too long to get everything where it goes. So a lot of people think I'm messy but really I'm just a bit OCD. So I came to a compromise: whenever I need to clean, I'll alternate between doing something I like (like reading a chapter or watching a TV episode) and then cleaning (either 10 or 100 things at a time, depending on how much needs to get done). My dad makes fun of me, but it works for me. Does anybody else do that?

I’m the Guy That Did That, that is a HECK of a lot of boxes! Do you have a whole room for them or something? Maybe you could put them in plastic baggies or something instead to save room? I guess that wouldn’t be very aesthetically pleasing, though. Anyway. You sort people? That’s sick. Sort me!! !

psmaster…have any candy you don’t want? I’ll take the Reese’s pile!


I love you guys…you’re all so much fun. ^_^

I definately have this problem.

You can set a box of beads in front of me and I'll sit there most of the day and sort them out by size, color, & type. I'd probably sort dryer lint if I could.

When I'm stressed out or upset about something, I actually do it on purpose because it calms me down.

I love sorting things, but usually I give up after a while or just get bored of it, and leave it in whatever order I happen to put it in.

Like for a while, I was sorting my DVD collection by genre and director. But then I started to get sci-fi movies by horror directors that couldn't be next to each other, or I would get sequels by different directors...eventually, it just wasn't working at all, so now they just go wherever there's an empty space.

Hmm, someone else needs to vote yes, obsessively so get back to the right balance .

HAHAHA AnAlias, no I think someone should vote just "yes" in order to piss you off even more.

No! Then we would be even more off balance, that would be horrible, how would we survive? People need to vote in the right order .

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""Do you have a whole room for them or something? Maybe you could put them in plastic baggies or something instead to save room?""

Actually i have a room especially for that, but need another one some time
in the future, the number of boxes keep growing Its just one square room,
4 walls covered with shelves and a big working table in the middle. I do keep
them in something seperatly inside the boxes but,
the thing with plastic is that metal (coins) react with air and pollution in the air over time no matter what you do. So all you can do is try to minimize it with things like storage and the
room you store it in. Things like chemically inactive types of plastic, airtight sealings, lightproof
boxes, chilled temperatur in the room and controll over the humidity in the air, i make so much
work for myself "everything worth doing, is worth doing well" is a motto that stuck i guess

Think one main reason for the habbit of sorting things, is that
it makes me relax, i just start and after a while i just do it without
thinking so much or something like that, it just flows in a way

I love sorting things >:} I once sat for about 45 minutes sorting an entire box of Lego into different colours and stacking them in the box according to colour. Also, tins in cupboards, dvd's, books, magazines. Anything.
You name it, I sort it.

>:}

HRH Swan.

Does anyone have a favourite thing to sort?

^ I also once spent a while sorting lego into its box, I kind of decided to cheat after a while and just hid most of it under a couple of layer that were sorted.