"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
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> On 1/3/2012 10:56 PM, Ozgirl wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 1/3/2012 8:49 PM, Ozgirl wrote:
>>>> I also like to start to with a tidy kitchen and clean up as I go,
>>>> she
>>>> will happily dive into a cluttered kitchen, use every pot, pan and
>>>> utensil then walk away from it all at the end of the cooking. But
>>>> we
>>>> love each other, lol.
>>>
>>> bwha ha ha ha
>>>
>>> my SIL is studiously a neat freak........... i'll pause just before
>>> OCD, but......... serious neat freak (i know you aren't OCD, can't
>>> be
>>> with 7 kids! LOL)
>>
>> I am enormously OCD but I have to grit my teeth in a family
>> situation. I
>> had one year of OCD heaven when I moved to QLD as I had just Alex and
>> Jazz and it was so much easier to be comfortably OCD but now have 4
>> again and in a small house and it is very nerve wracking! Jazz is OCD
>> too but the docs say it is the autism. She shuts doors and drawers
>> and
>> we now have a key hidden outside in case we are locked out while she
>> is
>> inside. She also flicks the toilet roll off the holder, puts the air
>> freshener down on the floor then shuts the toilet door. She throws
>> things all over the floor of her bedroom floor (photos, slinkies and
>> other dangly toys, a microphone, an old cell phone etc). I pick up
>> and
>> vacuum and the minute she gets home she has rooted out all the floor
>> goodies and tossed them all over again. She takes a wet tea towel
>> into
>> her room and re wets it all day long and keeps it on a towel on the
>> floor for the most part, as it dries she holds it. I wash them every
>> day
>> but when she is home, like she is now for summer holidays, she
>> doesn't
>> like that. I find all the washing dragged out of the washing machine
>> or
>> dryer while she searches for her tea towel and towel. She doesn't
>> like
>> replacements, she wants the ones she has every day. Her hands from
>> her
>> thumb tip down to her forefinger tip are red from holding and
>> flicking
>> the wet tea towel.
> arggh
>
> duplicates? i can't think of any other solution

Can't duplicate the smell. So can't trick her. She has to agree with the
change and has on odd occasions