O.c.d.

There's nothing wrong with being organized, and there's nothing wrong with being disorganized. OCD would only apply if every aspect of your life were consumed with organizing things to the most minute detail, not just "coins and stamps."

If there's nothing to do after organizing your coins and stamps, you can read a book (maybe a good coin book), watch television, or surf the web. You could spend all day looking at various coin web sites.

I voted no opinion. If organization has utility I don't see it as obsessive. Even things that look obsessive --such as the way the Navy aggravated us with their endless inspections and "busy-work" may have had utility, at least to them: We should not have been happy about shining brass and chipping paint all day when we were in port. So happy sailors must be up to no good. Watch them closely.

"Hey Chief, I think they threw all the chipping hammers over the side."

Oh, we did, we did.

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Obsessive to me is something that serves no useful purpose. Like Jack Nicholson in the movie As Good as it gets. Where he kept turning his lights on and off and washing his hands constantly and jumping over cracks in side walks. That was a good movie, BTW.

There is one thing that I'm sure I'm obsessive about and that's "market grading." Since I mostly collect tokens that are not affected in anyway by TPG antics, there is no utility for me in worrying about them. And yet I think about them constantly.

OldDan, that was Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.

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Originally posted by triggersmob

O.k. Well thanks for your opinions. It's nice to know I'm not alone.
Gary, thanks for coming out of the closet on the forum.

Steve

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LOL OUCH!!!! LOL

Thingee, Boy, that's my wife's motto. But she isn't OCD.

It doesn't really apply to me, as I'm not as organized as I should be, and could be.

My idiosyncracies (sp?) are as previously explained.