It occurred to me today that I’ve been wearing Chinese shoes http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A2RUW4.01-A5DIGHQXRUDZQ.SCMZZZZZZZ.jpg every summer since I was about 15. I’m 32 now. And in all these years I’ve barely seen anyone else around here wearing them.
Other little ones:
Silver jewelry–decided that around 15, still only wear silver, never gold
Wearing mostly black, but not in a goth way–age 15 or so
I’m sure there are more, but hopefully you get the gist. 
I wear a Mickey Mouse watch with a leather band on my right wrist (I’m right-handed) and have been doing so since I was about 11. I don’t particularly like Mickey Mouse, and I only ever wear this style with that mouse picture (never anything fancy). But I like to think it says “I am kind of fun and I always need to know what time it is.” 
Also, I’m 27 and I don’t drink beer or coffee. Ever. Have never liked the taste.
I’m 34, and have worn a Claddagh ring every day for the past ten years – not exactly “forever,” but most of my adult life. The hand/finger has varied over the years (it’s currently worn on the middle finger of my right hand), I have one in silver and one in gold (I wear both, but mostly gold), and I’ve even been able to wear it “upside down” a couple of times (it usually rests in the “I’m single” position). I used to wear two rings all of the time, my Claddagh and my college ring, but a couple of years ago I stopped wearing my college ring and now the Claddagh is the only ring I wear.
I’ve held my pens and pencils “differently” since I was under two, and helpful folks still point it out to me on a daily basis. “Do you know that you hold your pen funny?”… but I can do calligraphy and you can read my prescriptions.
I also do not wear gold jewellery – never really liked it. Silver seems much more elegant.
I read a few hundred books a year – always have; people don’t seem to do that anymore.
Wha?? What sort of quack are you?
I only feel I’m getting quality medical care if my doc gives me a prescription for fnahgrbxm spigrifnobo.
Me too. I hold my pens in the crook between my fore- and middle-fingers, and control the tip with the middle finger. I also get weird looks. I started when I was a teenager because I used to write incessantly and was starting to develop a seriously funky looking callous on my middle finger. I switched, and not only is it more comfortable (by a long shot) ,but it’s also much neater now.
I print in all capital letters.
I keep my bedroom very cold. The window is open a bit even in the winter and I snuggle under my down comforter.
I almost never give exact change. I throw the change in the bottom of my purse and when it gets so heavy I can barely lift it, I dump the change into the Coinstar machine.
Spending a decade living in Asian households, I’m now living alone, but I can’t abide wearing shoes in the house. It seems barbaric to me now. It’s weird when I visit Asian friends, and they try to be polite by insisting I don’t bother taking off my shoes at the door - but I want to. Most of them understand this weird white boy now.
I believe in ‘bright light therapy’, and if I’m feeling down, I’ll turn on all the lights in the house, even in rooms I’m not using or can’t see from where I’m sitting. The main thing is I know they’re on. It works for me.
Great thread idea. Let’s see…
When I tie my shoes, I do it normally, then I pull the loops out so that the other two free ends are really short, and the loops are really long, then I tuck the loops into the sides. I don’t remember when I started doing that, but I’ve been doing it for a long time and I don’t know anybody else who does.
Also, I don’t really have a signature. That is to say, when I put my name on a piece of paper, when one part says “Print name” and the other says “Signature” they will both look the same. That’s just the way I naturally write it.
I’m afraid I’m a bit like Walter mitty. I probably spend a few hours every day, and have for over 10 years, working on this fantasy realm. It’s weird to find 10 year old notes and maps and see how it used to be. A lot of it has changed it’s the same world, evolving as things go on. It’s started with Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni books.
I think it makes me view life as very mundane and leaves me detached from the world and people around me as the world I make is so vivid and so much fun.
Me too, I have since 6th grade and after 35 years I can’t remembrer how to write right.
I read upside down, if I pick up a book that is upside down I just start reading it that way. I only read upside down if I’m trying to study because it makes me slow down a little and think.
I eat my M+Ms and similar candy by color in order red, blue, brown, yellow, green and orange. I don’t know why but it I just have to eat them that way.
I’m calling my parents and asking why I wasn’t told about my secret sibling.
I also wear a leather-band Mickey watch on my right wrist (even though I’m a northpaw). Not a Mouse fan otherwise.
I don’t drink beer. Or coffee (with the exception of reconstituted faux-capuccino crap from the machine at the gas station down the street, cause I kind of like the french vanilla-y stuff, and that hardly counts).
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I’m a shoelace tucker too! I think it just looks better. Ditto for the silver jewelry, and the printing in all caps thing too. I also only wear Chuck Taylors unless I have to get really dressed up, but I’m not above wearing them with a shirt and tie either.
KJ, I tuck in my laces too.
I have been wearing a Hello Kitty watch every day for many years. Some people eye it strangely. Generally I am not into juvenile things but for some reason this thing has stuck with me. Plus, my daughter has an adorable fascination with it, so I think now I wear it more for her than myself.
Skirts over jeans. Not a constant thing, but I’ve been doing it since high school, and I usually wear this style once or twice a week. Most people seem to think that it’s odd. I know I’m not the only person to have ever done it, but I’ve never met anyone who’s done it as often as I do.
Lacetucker here as well, though only with sneakers - don’t do it with my officeshoes.
I haven’t slept with a pillow in forever…
I use two towels when drying off after a shower all my life…
I bang my head from left to right for hours when I go to bed (too much annoyance from people I have dated over the years). Have been doing that for as long as I can remember
I hold writing instruments funny, too. I use my middle and index fingers on top, instead of just my index finger. My ancient third grade teacher Mrs. Whitmore used to try to make me use those triangular guides so I’d hold my pencil the “right” way, but I’d just push them up to the top and ignore them.
I have to start stairs, up or down, with my right foot. If I somehow start with my left, I have to correct it mid-way up (or down).
I wear two studs in my left nostril. I’ve only seen one other person ever with two holes in one side of their nose.
Not something I do, but still a quirk: I’m a sucker for a 10-dollar bill. When I cash in my jar of change at the bank, I always ask for 10s. When paying for something, if I have a choice between using a twenty or two fives, I’ll use the twenty so I can get a 10 back. I know which local ATMs give out 10s rather than 20s (but I don’t use them often, since they’re not from my bank and I have to pay a fee).
Before I get out of the shower, I always briskly “squeegee off” all the excess water from my body with my hands, then pat dry with the towel.
I once had a boyfriend who saw me do this, and burst out laughing - he said he’d always done it, but had never met anyone else who did.
It just seemed to me like a good way to not get as chilled, to prevent large puddles of water on the bathroom floor, and to keep your towel from getting soaked (as mom would make us use the same towel for many days in a row).
I double-knot my shoelaces. I noticed back in like 3rd grade that kids were constantly re-tying their shoes, so I started double-knotting them and haven’t had to re-tie them more than a few times since then.
Right-handed, watch on the right wrist. My sister does this as well.
I do not write; I print. My writing in gawdawful, and I’ve been printing for so long now, I can’t even remember how to do some cursive letters.
I can’t abide using pens. Unless absolutely required, I will always use a mechanical pencil (I can’t stand non-mechanical pencils, either). It’s always the first thing I order when I start a new job.