This post will probably just confirm my OCD for the masses but I need to see if others are as meticulous as me.  Besides being a neat freak (although that has changed somewhat at home since taking care of two kids trumps organizing one’s kitchen counter at times), I’ve always been a huge fan of The Rotation.

“What is The Rotation?” you ask.  Simply put, it’s when you take the clean items out of your dishwasher and place them at the bottom of their appropriate pile.  Instead of placing the 4 large dishes you have on top of the other 8 in your cabinet, you place those 4 at the bottom of the pile.  Silverware isn’t placed on top of what’s there already.  You pick up the existing forks and place the newly cleaned forks on the bottom.  Same thing for glasses; you move the existing unused glasses to the front of the cabinet and place the newly cleaned ones in back.

This allows an even rotation of food/drink items so nothing is overused.  Yes, a lot of those items don’t age fast but there are certain things that you can absolutely tell are older and have been through the dishwasher a lot (plastic cups are a good example).  I stand by my principle – an even number of washes for each item.

Look, I’ve gotten a lot better about certain quirks which almost incapacitated me as a kid.  Each night I had to peek under my bed in MULTIPLES OF FOUR.  If I wasn’t satisfied after the fourth peek, I had to do four more.  Sure, that might be nuts but I never ever got attacked by monsters or bedbugs or the bogeyman so I think my plan worked quite well thankyouverymuch.

Anyone now think that my job as a web tester doesn’t suit my personality?  Like I tell anyone willing to listen – “You can’t spell ‘analyst’ without ‘anal’”.  Although us anal folk prefer the term “organized.”