What are your obsessive tendencies? Do people comment?

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-I tend to use my eyes to measure everybody as a 6'2" guy just to find out that my perspective is impaired and can make a 5'11.5" guy look taller than me in my eyes when I have them beat. When considering perspective, there are few taller people around here, and they tend to only have me beat by 1-2 inches (I don't consider 6'3"-6'4" as being much taller than me). This one has acquired some awkward looks, but few have commented. I have an Anxiety about height and needing to feel tall. I'll often search for some way to compare my height to theirs.
-I check Football scores repetitively.
-I look up Insomnia a bunch on ways to relieve it.
-I also look up other disabilities to learn about them and myself at the same time.

What are your obsessive tendencies? What do people think of them?

The one other people comment repeatedly is my obsession with the expire date of foods. I always look for one before I eat something and if the date passed (even for a few minutes...) I refuse to eat it. The same comes with foods with right expire date but stored other way than it was supposed to. A shadow corner of the kitchen table is not a "dark and dry place" and a basement room is not a "refrigerator". It's an OCD one.

Other obsessions are less visible and are more like special interests than obsessions.
I stare through the window and check lightning detectors on my mobile phone when a thunderstorm is coming. I can read a book over and over many times and not get bored. Once I see a broken computer/tablet/mobile phone/wherever I can't rest till I fix it. And so on. But all of those are fun for me and even if others see me weird I am just too busy/happy to realize what they mean.

It makes sense that you don't want to eat foods which are past their expiry dates; you don't want stomach problems, right?

A basement room is certainly not a refrigerator! One stores things in refrigerators at about 2-3 degrees Celsius. The basement storeroom has temperatures, during most seasons at between 15 and 20 degrees Celsius.

Not resting until you fix something is a positive attribute. I wish I had that knowledge!

The obsession about expire/storages might seem reasonable but it comes to an extreme in my case - I will eat something with expiration date "till end of of 22nd of May" on 11:55PM today but I won't eat it at 00:10AM tomorrow. My parents often eat food outdated by 1-2 days and they are fine but I still refuse to eat it. They explain me the expire date/strict rules of storage were made for shops so the customer won't buy an outdated/uncorrectly stored food and usually there is an a few days/a few degrees flexibility and I know it might be true but my mind still goes other way and I just can't eat it.

The difference between refrigerator and basement isn't that big. Our refrigerator, depending on the spot gets from 1*C (deep inside) to 12*C (doors) and in our basement there is from 10 to 18*C over the year, it is cold ever during hot summer. If something got a rule "Store in a refrigerator with max. temperature of 12*C" I insist we put it on the refrigerator doors but if it is winter my parents argue we could store it in the basement as well.

I've become very obsessed with recycling and doing my part to save the planet each day. I go through different neigbourhoods on different days. I'm sure I've gotten a lot of comments.

I fight hard against bubbles, like if they're in a drink I have to get them out with a spoon, and if they won't go away I won't drink it. Sometimes, if I have a straw, an exception is made, but I watch the bubbles closely. I've had people say, "At least I'm not scared of bubbles!" But I'm not scared of them, I just hate them.

I pick at my skin
I bite myself when I am anxious
I line up stuff because stuff that is not lined up annoys me
I often look up on the web about rape (expecially female-on-male rape and child abuse) and when I read about it I feel bad and at times I even start crying, dunno why
When I think about something evil I feel like a monster and my thoughts get darker and darker
I fear I might accidentally hit a razor with my wrist and die
Others but these are the main ones

My karate teacher saw the signs from the skin-picking and asked me why I had them, I told her why and she just said "this is not a dojo, this is a mental health hospital". She is kinda right, since of my karate companions one has dysthymia, anorexia and dyslexia, another has anxiety disorder if not something else as well, a kid there definitely has ADD, another girl has low self-esteem and anxiety, and another guy has something else weird I can't really identify.

About all the others people don't say anything because I have never told anyone.

I see what you're saying, Kiriae.

I guess it depends on the kind of food. If it's meat, I wouldn't buy it after the expiry date. It it's dry goods, I might not be so strict. If you're buying milk, NEVER buy it after the expiry date. If it's yoghurt, it's available in stores months before the actual expiry date. Cheese is usually sold a few months before the expiry date. If you bought something and it's been refrigerated in hour home (at under 4 degrees Celsius), it obviously lasts longer.

It is generally thought that items that are refrigerated should not be stored at under 4 degrees Celsius (40 degrees Fahrenheit) for too long. I understand your family has a budget, and must make do. However, storing things, at over 4 degrees Celsius, that should be refrigerated, is potentially bad.

If you love to fix things, you have many marketable skills for which you could make extra money.

It's not the budget. We just buy too much food and often it gets past the expiration date before we eat it. When someone gets back from the store it is like that: "Oww, I didn't know there still some milk in the basement so I bought some." (most milk in our country can be stored even in 20*C as long as the box wasn't open), "There was a promotion for eggs, look 20 of them at the cost of 10!", "Crap, you bought a bread? I bought one too...", "I bought some cookies, wanna? No? Oh, well. I will put them in the cupboard. Make sure you remember they are there." (5 months later, cleaning back of the cupboard: "Who bought those cookies? They got outdated! This household wastes way too much food!")

*I tend to pinch my chin, wring my hands or bite my knuckles.
*When I like a new video game/movie/song, I research everything about it such as development and interesting tidbits.
*I have to have all my stuff lined up by type, name, series and the like (such as my baseball cards growing up which were organized by team, then positions and name). My files on my computer are organized like this too (such as stuff I've written by series and date/outlines, etc).
*When I'm playing a game, I HAVE to have a checklist or guide available so that I don't miss out on anything (I have to finish a game 100%).
*I can sit and grind out repetitive, monotonous tasks for hours and hours (such as completing 6 seasons of baseball in a week for an achievement or a notorious time where I inventoried all 10,000 of my friend's magic cards in an afternoon before he opened his online shop).

My manager was the one who pointed out the first one, as she told me "I can tell when you're stressed cause you wring your hands constantly". My fiancee noticed the fourth one and asked me "why can't you just enjoy a game without finding everything?" and quit playing games with me due to this habit. With the second and third, I've received praise mainly with people finding tidbits interesting (and being organized is a good trait). No one has really commented on the last one.

LOL...you must have some great milk, right out of the cow!

I'm aware that, in Poland, there are restaurants/delis that specialize in dairy products like milk. I think they're called "milk bars."

In New York City, one usually buys milk about a week before the expiration date. Once we buy milk, we certainly cannot store it at room temperature! It would go sour in less than a day in a 20 degree Celsius room.

Bread could be stored in a 20 Celsius room for about 2 weeks, in my opinion. Cookies: even longer than that.

At my house, the same thing happens--we might buy too many things, and have to throw away some things.

I still don't think it's so bad to be safe and not eat things bought after the expiration date. In the US, the expiration date truly is the expiration date--it truly does go bad after that date! It's not obsessive to not want to eat something bought after the expiration date. It's safe.

It should be noted that I'm not perfect in this regard. I've eaten things after the expiration date, usually with no ill effects. However, I've also had stomach problems after eating such food.

Insomnia research is big for me.

The thing I am talking about certainly isn't a milk "right out of cow". It is a milk processed in a high temperature before packing - that kills the bacteries. Then, it is stored in a closed box and until you let bacteries in by opening it you can store it even a few months out of the refrigerator. It is called UHT milk. I guess it isn't that popular in US.

I like this one because I can always be sure it tastes right. Sometimes my mom buys regular milk "because it is more healthy" but even when it is fresh it has a unfamiliar, sourish taste along with the sweet one. And it gets bad really fast - a few hours out of refrigerator and it is done, even if the box was closed.

I tried a milk right out the cow a few times too (my grandma and aunt used to have cows) and it tasted very similar to the UHT milk for me, no sourish taste as in the shop "fresh milk". I especially liked the foam. Unfortunately only my aunt let me eat the foam. My grandma was saying it is unclean and was filtering the milk trough a cloth before letting me drink. That was killing the foam and giving the milk a funny taste.

About the bread - the bread we buy either gets hard or gets a mold within a few days if we store it in the room temperature. The only way to prelong it is to freeze it but it takes too much place. The freezer already has a problem with being closed due to too many stuffs there. xD

I cannot drink cow's milk, the taste makes me want to vomit. I only drink long life soya milk which I buy in bulk.

I rub my thumbs really fast against the inside of my fingers, like the non verbal sign for cash. I do it more often when I am excited or nervous about something. I think I'm pretty good at hiding it in my pockets. Nobody has ever mentioned it.

I re-read things I have written or videos I have done like fifty times. I get stuck and some times it goes on for hours. I also get stuck going back and forth between web pages and this can go on all day.

I'm obsessed with cardboard boxes. The texture, the smell, the enclosure, the sound...I used to hide in cardboard boxes as a kid for hours at a time. The smell would neutralize other horrid smells that I couldn't tolerate. Unfortunately I don't fit as well as I used to.

So I guess in a previous life I must have been a literate cat sitting on a keyboard and making it go haywire, while asking for money.

I put my favorite plushies in the washing machine once every one to two weeks, just so they stay clean and don't collect dust and dirt.

I tend to repeat myself when I say "thank you" if the person I am speaking to doesn't say "you're welcome" right away.

When I was younger, I used to "obsess" about my favorite movies all the time - the most notable ones being Chicken Run and Finding Nemo. I nearly drove my mother crazy obsessing over Finding Nemo...I'm surprised she was still willing to actually take me to see the movie on its opening day many years ago.