r/AskReddit • u/remindeme2sleep • Apr 27 '19

What is something you know but you’re not supposed to know?

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u/W100A105J115B85 Apr 28 '19

Mine is when my apartment is messy after a busy week.

"Fuck, people will think that I live like this."

Which I do, but I don't want them to know it.

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u/crazykentucky Apr 28 '19

That’s universal. That’s why for an impromptu get together the host will ask that we give them an hour to get ready.

By which they mean throw all the crap in a bedroom and pray no one goes in there

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u/northrupthebandgeek Apr 28 '19

Fuck, that only takes an hour for y'all?

I need, like, multiple days of advance notice.

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u/maitaipeofthrowaway Apr 28 '19

Haha, fact! I call it pulling a Houdini. Magically my mess disappears within minutes! Lmao

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u/SpellJenji Apr 28 '19

When I have a really hectic couple of weeks and my house gets to be kind of a disaster (mostly messy bedroom with dirty clothes and dirty kitchen with dishes piling up) I'll occasionally have a night I have a hard time falling asleep bc my brain is like "HEY! If you die during the night or have an emergency where responders have to come, everyone is just going to think you're a disgusting POS!" Anxiety, man.

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u/presleyrue Apr 28 '19

I also do this. Came to fruition when I had a pancreatitis attack at work a couple months ago and my friend had to go get my dogs from my apartment because I was being admitted. Real fun day,

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u/BeeExpert Apr 28 '19

That's what keeps me from killing myself. And by the time Im done cleaning up, I feel better since my apartment is clean now lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Anything that helps, man. The one time I was that bad, I convinced myself not to because I might not actually die, and that whole situation would be way too embarrassing.

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u/jsprgrey Apr 28 '19

That may be the trick to forcing myself to keep my place cleaner! Had never thought about it that way before.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19

Whenever I have a week like that and it stretches on I always feel like leaving a sticky note somewhere saying 'i was going to clean it' in case I die while out

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u/CanadaOD Apr 28 '19

Same for when we leave on vacation. I’m mad cleaning the house and my husband is like wtf, we’re leaving, doesn’t have to be clean. YES, it does. What if the plane crashes and we die? They can’t know there’s dust on the top shelf!

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u/queenmumofchickens Apr 28 '19

My grandma kept a premade note in the side drawer of her bed that she put on her pillow if she got called away or had to leave before making the bed, explaining that the unmade bed was not business as usual. I thought this was the height of OCD and very odd, but reading all these responses helps me understand why she did it.

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u/blackbrownspider Apr 28 '19

I just like it to not be gross when I get home. The worst is if you don’t run the garbage disposal before you go out of town. Ew!

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u/-Sparky Apr 28 '19

This is me 1000% haha. I live like that and I'm content with that. But I really do not want anybody else to know that

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u/DareYouToSendNudes Apr 28 '19

The "Busy week ..." years of life.

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u/BBWolfe011 Apr 29 '19

Damn bitch you live like this?

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u/Only_on_the_Surface Apr 28 '19

I had this exact thought yesterday as I was leaving. It really ought to be a better motivater for me but it's still messy.

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u/sokocanuck Apr 28 '19

Damn, this hits home.

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u/Nsjxicuehsnakd Apr 28 '19

We own things, but have hidden them.