I have an apparently unbreakable habit of returning things to the refrigerator as soon as I’ve finished using them. For instance, my breakfast is often a glass of milk and some toast. I keep the bread in the fridge to prevent mold. So in the morning, I take out the bread, milk, and butter, pour myself a glass of milk and put the milk back in the fridge. Then I warm the butter a bit in the microwave, put the toast in the toaster oven and put the bread away. I have tried every day this week to wait to put the milk back until the bread is ready to go back, and this morning, even TOLD myself to wait and put them both back together. This habit is so unconscious that when I went to put the bread away, the milk was already in the fridge and I didn’t even remember putting it back.
I think I’m about to give up on even trying, because this isn’t the first time I’ve tried to break myself of that habit.
There are some habits I’ve managed to break myself of, including cracking nearly every bone in my body before going to sleep. Stopped that years ago. But I simply cannot seem to stop myself from opening the refrigerator door twice every morning, instead of only once, when returning things to the fridge.
Got any habits you’ve tried to break that you can’t seem to manage?
Does web surfing count?
I guess I’m not convinced that the fridge thing is such a bad habit. The ratio of time it stays closed as opposed to open is so large that I can’t imagine you’re wasting much energy. Also, a modern small to medium fridge only uses about as much power as a light bulb anyway.
Er… no, but I is perfekt.
Actually lots of them: smoking, pistachio nuts, expensive whis… no, enough, no one has the Need To Know It All.
Habits? Eating. Frequently.
I do the same with taking out one thing at a time from the fridge and putting it back before the next thing comes out until, fixing anything complicated, I end up pulling out vegetables or whatever twice, back out on the counter AND already sliced.
I just like looking through a well-stocked refrigerator!
In the words of that immortal Vulcan, Spock: “A difference that makes no difference is no difference.”
Just try to enjoy life, it’ll be over soon…
Well, yes, it is tiny in the overall scheme of things, but it’s a waste of effort. And, well, I’m a bit of a control freak, and it annoys me that I can’t change this habit.
I have lots of bad habit’s, but I wouldn’t include putting things away like you do to be a bad one.
Same habit here, think of it this way – it keeps the milk cold to not let it stay out too long.
Oh, yes. Don’t get me started.
i have found cracking bones very addictive and im trying to stop the habit