This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn’t evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.
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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
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You’ll bring chaos into your house rumba!
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
This is the way!
Symmeggrical
It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.
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.
I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.
I’ve never seen a pack smaller than 2x3. I buy at least two dozen a week. I make sure partial cartons are weight balanced though.
Well, now you have :)
I have! I’d have to buy three of them though just to cook a small breakfast for the people sleeping in my house tonight. I’m usually making breakfast for six.
I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.
T’was the tism m’lord
So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing
I do this because the weight distribution is even so i don’t drop the carton when grabbing it out of the fridge again
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. It should be that way anyways if you’re putting the eggs in the fridge because you’d also want to be holding the stable end of the carton and not the empty side.
But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?
Then you don’t have teenagers that are taking eggs from the carton to make scrambled eggs at 10pm. They happen to put the eggs back in correctly because they need the sturdy side to handle them. I don’t need to teach them fractal patterns to take eggs out.
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
Start from the corners one at a time.
you take out another egg
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
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.
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.
They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER
I balance eggs…
I do this all the time but for some reason don’t feel compelled to drag the entire internet through my process to make me feel better every time…
Is ADHD supposed to be a social coping mechanism?
This whole sub is just bunch of folks complaining about habits…
Why is this an ADHD thing? Other folks have habits yet spare the world from suffering their internal mechanisms… Is ADHD just forcing others to hear your habits?
