- What weird things do you do at home?
What do you think about people and their homes? Do you just stand there and keep gift bags?
- Walk into the kitchen for absolutely no reason.
- Stand there.
- Open the refrigerator.
- Close it.
- Open it again.
- Check the pantry.
- Decide there is nothing to eat.
- Return five minutes later.
- Have one chair covered in clothes.
- Call it the laundry chair.
- Put clean laundry on the bed.
- Refuse to fold it.
- Move it to the chair.
- Move it back to the bed.
- Live out of a laundry basket. Does this sound like people and their homes?
- Have clothes that are neither clean nor dirty.
- Smell them to determine their status.
- Have “house clothes.”
- Change into them immediately after getting home.
- Take your bra off and feel like you’ve achieved something.
- Take your shoes off immediately.
- Leave them directly in the doorway.
- Trip over them later.
- Blame the shoes.
- Leave cabinets open while cooking.
- Close them with your hip.
- Leave one cabinet slightly open.
- Walk past it three times.
- Finally close it.
- Leave lights on everywhere.
- Walk through the house turning them off.
- Turn one back on immediately.
- Forget why you turned it on.
- Use the phone flashlight instead of turning on the actual light.
- Walk around the house in the dark.
- Avoid stepping on certain floorboards.
- Avoid stepping on cracks.
- Count stairs.
- Forget what number you’re on.
- Start counting again. Does this sound like people and their homes?
- Talk to your pets.
- Ask them questions.
- Answer for them.
- Blame them for things they didn’t do.
- Apologize to them.
- Tell them you’re leaving.
- Tell them you’re coming back.
- Tell them exactly where you’re going.
- Return five minutes later.
- Act like you’ve been gone for years.
- Talk to plants.
- Name plants.
- Forget the names.
- Rename them.
- Water a plant.
- Forget whether you already watered it.
- Water it again.
- Wonder why it’s dying.
- Have one mysterious smell in the refrigerator.
- Search for the source.
- Find nothing.
- Smell everything.
- Give up.
- Open the refrigerator again.
- Have one container of leftovers nobody wants.
- Keep it anyway.
- Move it around.
- Eventually throw it away.
- Feel guilty.
- Clean the refrigerator after feeling guilty.
- Find something expired from 2019.
- Wonder how it’s still alive. Does this sound like people and their homes?
- Have one drawer full of random batteries.
- Have one drawer full of cords.
- Have one drawer that scares you.
- Keep empty jars.
- Keep good boxes.
- Keep gift bags.
- Keep tissue paper.
- Keep rubber bands.
- Keep twist ties.
- Keep takeout containers.
- Keep a plastic container with no matching lid.
- Keep the lid with no matching container.
- Believe they will reunite someday.
- Put something somewhere “safe.”
- Immediately forget where.
- Search for it.
- Find it.
- Put it somewhere “better.”
- Lose it again.
- Clean when you’re procrastinating.
- Organize when you’re avoiding work.
- Suddenly become obsessed with cleaning one tiny area.
- Deep-clean something nobody asked you to clean.
- Ignore the thing you actually needed to do.
- Rearrange furniture at night.
- Decide the couch would look better somewhere else.
- Move it. Does this sound like people and their homes?
- Move it back.
- Push something three inches to the left.
- Stand back and inspect.
- Push it one inch right.
- Decide it looks perfect.
- Notice it again tomorrow.
- Talk to yourself while cleaning.
- Put music on.
- Stop cleaning because the song is too good.
- Dance.
- Forget you were cleaning.
- Sit down.
- Scroll your phone.
- Realize an hour passed.
- Decide tomorrow you’ll be more productive.
- Go to bed.
- Remember the laundry is still in the washer.
Is this what you thought about people and their homes? Tell us what you do that’s quirky in your own in the comments!