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A completely useful compulsion I have.

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨spicytuna62@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been combining eggs and my interest in Go (the ancient board game) to similar effect.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Shamber@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.

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  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OMG, I do this too!

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s another way to egg?

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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?

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    • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is why eggs should be sold in packs of 15

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    • rooster_butt@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      2 is a prime. I think you meant odd.

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      • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!

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    • ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.

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  • bejean@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.

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  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep the eggs away from the corners, most likely to get damaged imo

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen a pack smaller than 2x3. I buy at least two dozen a week.

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      • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, now you have :)

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  • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do this all the time but for some reason don’t feel compelled to drag the entire internet through my process to make feel better every time…

    Why is this an ADHD thing? Other folks go through it and spare the world from suffering their internal mechanisms…

    Is ADHD just forcing others to hear your shortcomings?

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I usually create checker patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me I have to take them out in an even number otherwise I will have a feeling that is going to hang onto me until I rectify it ASAP.

    Also they must be taken out from one specific side and not the other. The balance must be maintained!

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The other day, in another thread about eggs (damn we talk a lot about eggs lately!) someone mentioned a 15 egg pack. WTF is wrong with your countries!! The natural egg set is 12. a dozen! because, 12 is the logical… Because 12 eggs is… Hmmm. we don’t have twelve fingers, or toes… Why dafuq do we use dozens? I mean, even decimal months make more sense

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    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      EVEN NUMBERS ONLY! 15? Are you fucking kidding me? They come in 6, 12, or 18, or those big 30 squares. EVEN NUMBERS!

      Who packs them in odd must suffer the wrath of the gods of the autists

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.

    or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.

    or…you get the picture.

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    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I balance eggs…

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.

    I still don’t worry about the balance, but I get it.

    I don’t even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random

    ooxoxx ooooxx

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    • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ll bring chaos into your house rumba!

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.

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  • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you take out another egg

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    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Start from the corners one at a time.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do this because the weight distribution is even so i dint drop the carton when grabbing out if the fridge again

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    • CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end.

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      • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out

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      • Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing

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  • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.

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  • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    T’was the tism m’lord

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I eat grapes, I like to eat two at a time, and end with an even number. I throw away the last grape if it’s not an even number. Why? #JustAutieThings.

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  • sep@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the way!

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  • raod_guitar@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always take them out symmetrically and front row first, if possible.

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  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YOU’RE A GENIUS ! I take eggs out starting by one end and it always feels super weird to have an unbalanced carton, I’ll have to try your method.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You try to take the egg carton out of the fridge and it’s unbalanced ONE TIME…

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    • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem now is living with someone who doesn’t do this and then you expect it to be balanced because you take the time and effort to be precise as a show of appreciation for the others around you so they don’t befall the same fate that you now must suffer as you discover the eggs are now in unbalanced and they’d till all over the floor, because they didn’t happen to hyper focus these exact thoughts and how could they be so inconsiderate after you put in so much effort to focus on this to prevent this exact situation

      Bro life is too exhausting wtf

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn’t share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.

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  • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ngl I’m too lazy to do this and just take eggs out from right to left. I always put the carton back in the fridge the same way so the weight is always on the end I grab.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)

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      • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lol nah I’m right handed. But to get the geometry right, my fridge is on the right side of the kitchen, and the door hinge is on the right. So the eggs stay on the left side of the fridge closest to the rest of the kitchen counter tops. So the carton comes out and goes back in the same orientation using my right hand. Meaning I’m always grabbing the heavy side with the eggs.

        I’m still careful anytime I’m grabbing the carton just in case, but so far no dropped eggs in the house

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