Mine seems to manifest itself in ropes, calbes, and hoses.
Hoses - if the end of the hose has been pulled out of the flat coil (I lay the coil on the ground,) I will pull out the whole damn hose and recoil it, then wash the loose crud off of it.
Cords - extension cords expecially - must be folded double (longer cords two or three times!) and faked into a neat "monkey chain." Hang it on a hook! Phone and data cords will get coiled up into a loop that I can pass my fist thru, and the last two turns of coil are used to retain the shape. I will do this even if the cords are hanked or "elbow-coiled."
Ropes - Coils and hanks aren't good enough - they MUST be monkey-chained, and hung so that the chain can be unlocked and unchined immediately!
The catch is, I don't know how much of this is training and how much is my innate wierdness anymore... I think I have always been like this...
Shoes - "Bar at the bottom, X at the top." I will try to make them mirror images of each other, but the last eyelets have to be gone thru from OVER, not UNDER. The first set from OVER as well...
Perhaps it's a touch of madness?
FFZ