Stiming and loving it... but where will it end!

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I've been trying to calm my stim urges as the years go by. Does anyone else has a favorite stim they know they should eliminate from their repertoire, but refuse to do so..?

I love, love, looove to pick apart the denim on my jeans. So much to the point that I hardly wear blue jeans anymore. Corduroy, canvas, khaki... I can leave alone. The nice crumpling of crunchy and soft denim gets me every time. I used to save it all up as lint and store it in my sock drawer!

I want to wear jeans again, but my hands would be so busy, I'd be in nirvana.

I CANNOT stop biting the inside of my cheecks and lips, and i KNOW i look ridiculous and i'll be all wrinkly when I'm older but I basically do it whenever i'm not speaking. That little "crunch snap" feeling is addictive.........I should stop cracking my spine too if I don't want to end up in a wheelchair.

I'm going on 30 now so carrying around my pillow in order to feel the open end of the pillowcase with my fingers is a bit creepy by now
Actually that one probably started getting odd around the time I turned 10 hehe. But I like it. I will probably keep doing it until the day I die.

I have a few obvious and "weird" stims, I try to keep most of them contained as in I only do them at home, such as putting my ear to a wall and listening to the electric hum going through it (part of the reason for that though is because I know the walls in my house are clean.) Some of the ones I can't seem to stop before I start them in public is shaking my head while my eyes are pointed up... At different angles and speeds, or moving back and forth almost like I'm about to spin, but my feet never leave the ground (if that makes sense) I tend to do that one when I can't pace for whatever reason.

It calms me down or keeps me calm, and if people have a problem with it, that's up to them. I don't care- It's not hurting anybody so I'm not going to stop.

My stim is hopping around in my room and something with my fingers which is quite hard to describe, I slap the fingers of one hand agaisnt the fingers of the others hand very quickly. I just do that at home. I always tried to stop this, but I could't do nothing against it.

My eating stim. I eat way too much.