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Always making sure the coffee maker timer is set and on before bedtime. If I forget and remember in the middle of the night, I can't fall back asleep.
My wife's car is always parked in the garage, closest to the door entrance to the house. Mine on the farthest side. No matter what, it ALWAYS has to be that way. Even when parked the opposite, they HAVE to be in their assigned spots before we go to bed.
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I have methodical little systems for doing many things. Practically every item I own has a place it belongs, and I do what I can to keep it there. When I do the dishes, the silverware has to be sorted properly in the little silverware basket. Butter knives, large spoons small spoons, and then steak knives, large forks, small forks in the other row of 3 sections. Dinner plates lined up on one side of the silverware, small plates on the other side.
When I get ready in the morning, I do the exact same set of steps in the exact same order every day. This allows me to "auto pilot" my way through my routine without forgetting anything.
Every penny in or out of my financial life is logged in a spreadsheet, categorized, and summarized into reports. I do this almost every day while I'm drinking my coffee. I could tell you how much I spent on gasoline or groceries in any given month, going all the way back to 2008 when I started this system.
Spreadsheet etc, I haven't balanced checkbook in years. It will all come out in the wash at the end. As long as the online account is good, I'm good. And probably wrote a couple grocery lists in my life...so many have "to do lists"...I keep my brain working good.
Because some people have routines to make their lives easier that means they have obsessive-compulsive disorder?
I dated a guy who always had to leave a room stepping in the same places he stepped when he came in. That might be OCD. Another man I knew was critically injured in Hawaii. He forgot to look both ways before turning onto the highway and was t-boned by a tour bus. He had OCD as a result of the trauma. Oddly enough, it made him suited for certain kinds of precise work because he was obsessed with getting it right.
I have the same breakfast every morning with few variations. It's just easier and saves time, not to mention lots of decision-making.
Spreadsheet etc, I haven't balanced checkbook in years. It will all come out in the wash at the end. As long as the online account is good, I'm good. And probably wrote a couple grocery lists in my life...so many have "to do lists"...I keep my brain working good.
Sounds like a lot of OCD going on in some.
That pretty much ended when real-time bank information became available on your phone instantly.
Nope, I keep a tab in my spreadsheet as an account ledger. I have caught double-charges and bank errors before. I want my own copy of my stuff, which I check against my online account daily and mark the date it posted. Knowing how many days it takes for something to post is helpful, I know when exactly I can expect something to come out of my account. Tracking and reporting on my expense categories helps me to budget so I know how much I really need based on what I really spend.
This is something that financial advisers tell people to do; there is certainly nothing wrong with it. And I am not OCD, I'm an accounting nerd. This stuff is fun to me. So is preparing taxes. I enjoy collecting and sorting and organizing data in spreadsheets.
Some people enjoy obsessing over what they (and gods help us, other people) eat. Or the car they drive. Or a sports team. I enjoy obsessing over my financial figures.
Not like it's my only hobby or anything. I also read, write, make art, do jigsaw puzzles (outside edge first, always!) and pester my cat.
I have methodical little systems for doing many things. Practically every item I own has a place it belongs, and I do what I can to keep it there. When I do the dishes, the silverware has to be sorted properly in the little silverware basket. Butter knives, large spoons small spoons, and then steak knives, large forks, small forks in the other row of 3 sections. Dinner plates lined up on one side of the silverware, small plates on the other side.
When I get ready in the morning, I do the exact same set of steps in the exact same order every day. This allows me to "auto pilot" my way through my routine without forgetting anything.
Every penny in or out of my financial life is logged in a spreadsheet, categorized, and summarized into reports. I do this almost every day while I'm drinking my coffee. I could tell you how much I spent on gasoline or groceries in any given month, going all the way back to 2008 when I started this system.
I have been using Quicken since 1987 or so. Before that, I wrote my expenses in a desk calendar, including if I found change on the ground!
I think I am methodical about many things, but so used to doing them that it's hard to say what they are.
Every penny in or out of my financial life is logged in a spreadsheet, categorized, and summarized into reports. I do this almost every day while I'm drinking my coffee. I could tell you how much I spent on gasoline or groceries in any given month, going all the way back to 2008 when I started this system.
I'd love to know how you got started on this. I should be doing the same thing myself.
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