I'm a safety girl.
Amanda - Baby proofing. Well, now it’s toddler proofing, which may actually be HARDER. I just have one of those kids - the kind who if there is an open electrical outlet will be shoving his fork into it the mere SECOND I turn my back. Our house is totally safe and I’m completely anal about where else I’ll let him go without my supervision, which, at present is precisely NO WHERE. He doesn’t even get to hang out at Grandma’s anymore.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
BaseballMom - I am most neurotic about my kids being clean and having clean clothes. I figure if I don't have time to look fabulous, at least my kids can. My boys also have to have nice short haircuts!
Jenijen - What a disaster my house is all the time.
MegaMom - My blog.

I just like things tidy and neat. And folded my way.
Jerri Ann Reason - Garbage, it absolutely makes me nuts for garbage to pile up and start to smell. That sounds like a normal thing except I am not the person in our house who takes out the garbage. I had back surgery and do not lift anything much, certainly not garbage filled with dozens of poopy diapers. However, I nag the heck out of my husband about it. I try to live by the motto that if it bothers you, then do something about it. For instance, my husband leaves his dirty socks in the living area. I pick them up. People question why I do this and I tell them because it bothers me and apparently it doesn't bother him. I don't nag about dirty socks, but garbage, I'm just plain ol' hateful about getting the garbage taken out. I think it is kind of bad for me to do that when I don't take care of the matter myself but I can't help that I can't lift and I can't help that it makes me sick to think about actual waste piling up in my garbage can.
Erin-erin-bo-berin - Laundry! After the birth of my first daughter, both my mother and Mother-In-Law did laundry for me. I told them' Thank you'. Once they were gone, however, I pulled out every piece of folded laundry and refolded it. The correct way, of course.
Liz - Holy crap! I've got an easier question: What am I NOT neurotic about? That would be the following:
Laundry -- I've grown to accept the fact that I WILL NEVER GET FRICKIN' DONE!
Making mistakes -- I own up to them first like, "DAYUM...BUT DID I SCREW THAT UP, ROYAL, HUH!?!"
Driving a clean car -- Have you ever heard of anyone having their car INFESTED WITH ANTS!?! The hubs freaked...me...eh...I spend more time in the frickin' car than I do in my own house...so, I keep a box of garbage bags and a dust buster in the car...and you're just gonna have to learn how to deal, Hubs!
Deana - Things that come in many colors must be arranged in spectrum (ROY G BIV) order. Even in the dishwasher.

Static.
Lin - Background noise when I sleep. If I don't have it, my sleep is tortured. My husband hates white noise. We spend some time together in the evening and then I split for the guestroom where I crank the fan up to high and slip into sleep. It started when he had a really bad back (fixed eventually by two surgeries) and could only comfortably sleep on his back. Of course he snored, big time, and of course I couldn't nudge him or yell at him to roll over because the man was in serious pain. So my answer was to have a fan on high. I'd wait until he was asleep then crank up the fan and then slip into sleep. Now the fan is an adjunct to sleep. So, when we travel by car, a fan is always with us. Cheap hotels with noisy ventilation...no problem! And when abroad, if the host doesn't have a fan, I buy one. Yeah, just a little neurotic.

In fact, she might shut it for you.
Katie - I have to keep my mouth closed if I'm not putting food into it or talking. It drives me nuts to see people with their mouths hanging open for no reason. Have they never read "The Lady who Swallowed a Fly"? She might die...

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
Mary Tsao - Sticky floors. *Shiver* Which is a drag since my kids are constantly spilling apple juice. I swear those kids are out to get me.

Game over, man.
Vicky Bach - I live in fear that one day a bird will poop on my head...it's something I know I will never be able to recover from. Like the Wicked Witch of the West, I will start screaming and melt into a green, slimy puddle. I hates me some birds.

Yep, that fits.
Marla Good - So, I looked up neurotic to make sure I was...neurotic. And here was the example given: a neurotic obsession with neat handwriting.
Well. Ahem. I am going to put it to you this way. I was the girl who, if she didn’t like the way her name and date and heading looked at the top of her papers in school, would start all over on a new page. If I made a mistake, I wouldn’t cross it out, use white out or erase it (and I was exactly the person that invented erasable pens were invented for, I just know it.) It wasn’t about the perfection. It was about the FEEL. I loved the flow of lines across the paper. I’d write out poems and chapters of books for FUN. The rhythm. The smoothness. The swirls and loops. The XY differential (yes, there is such a thing!) The positive and negative space. I still love it. There is nothing like a page written in a beautiful hand. I’m not just saying this – I know it is true because get this: Now I am paid a heckuva lot of money to hand write lines of copy for a hoity-toity department store’s current ad campaign. When those smarty-pantsed (or gauchoed, as they MUST all be styley) twenty-something ad agency girls who grew up with keyboards and joysticks look at my writing and tell the production artist (whom, it so happens, to be my husband, so this is how I know) to “Make it look like real handwriting – it’s too perfect.� I laugh, and I say, it all paid off.
That particular neurosis is keeping me in cashmere, babies. Sadly, the others have yet to pay off.

Talking 'bout my friends
Danielle - I am most neurotic about my answers on a Q&A roundup.
Ben - Whether people like me.
Holli - Something horrible happening to the people (or even my dog for that matter) that I can't control. I know this is what faith is all about - but sometimes I catch myself worrying a little too much. I just try not to get out of control and make other people worry with me. BUT I also want others to exercise the necessary caution if they're responsible for my life, Faith's life - or even Nate's (my dog) life. See? Here I go!! Okay - I'm done.
Mamacita - I am extremely neurotic about friendship. I worry constantly that someone will not like me and I don't know why and they won't tell me. I worry about offending someone and not realizing it. I worry about my children's futures and happiness and safety. I worry about harm coming to my loved ones. I worry that people I love won't realize how very much I love them, too. I worry about hurting people's feelings without realizing it.

Look, it just makes sense.
Mary, mom to many - I have a thing about my kids wearing matched PJ's to bed. After all, I BUY the things in sets. Why can the children not WEAR them in sets?? It seems a small thing to ask...

Because she's actually very dainty.
Lisa - I won't fart in front of my husband. When we were on vacation in Mexico I started having severe cramps and we all thought I was having an appendix attack. After being rushed to the hospital and everyone waiting in the waiting room, turned out it was just gas. Now our friends are constantly telling me to "just fart already". And my bowel angst is constantly being discussed at parties and how it ruined a fun night in Mexico. If he ever leaves me I don't want him to tell people it's because I farted in front of him. Seriously. Dr. Phil could do a whole Prime Time Special here, huh?

Just...NO.
Chris - People drinking out of my drink. I will not share my beverage with ANYONE. Including my husband and children.

Couple of eager beavers right here.
Donna Schwartz Mills - Punctuality. Even when I try to show up a little bit late, it turns out I'm early. Of course, this is balanced by the fact that just about all of my friends are habitually late for everything.
Rbelle - Being early to work. If I am an hour early I still won't stop for breakfast because that is less time that I will be early to work.

What? Are you looking at me?
Amber - *twitch* What does *twitch* neurotic *twitch* mean? *twitch-twitch*
Busy Mom - Why? What have you heard? Who said that?
Margalit - What am I NOT neurotic about would be more appropriate. I guess I'm most neurotic about my kids. Isn't that what I'm supposed to be neurotic about?
hadashi - how many jokes i know by heart. no really, the cleanliness of my kitchen. no actually, how e-mails pile up in my inbox unbidden. no really, that i don't post on my blog enough. no, perhaps it's that i don't call my friends enough. no, wait, it's that i will not find the suitable answer to this question! me, neurotic? hah!