Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

Seasidegal58

Another here interested in the button phobia. I was fascinated reading Delichon's link.  And to think your OH and SA both suffer from it and I've never heard of it before.  And what a long name the phobia has!

Mind you I can't stand monkeys!  My DD's OH found it very amusing when I refused to watch King Kong!😀

Sun_Addict

I don’t like clowns either although not a phobia as with buttons. My cousin also has a button phobia.

jwil

Glad you are having a good holiday   Great that the grant came through too. 

HairyHandofDartmoor

teafor2 said:

Hi HHD Hope you managed to all get out for your seaside walk and didn't find it too busy. I'm another who was intrigued by the button phobia and how your DH works around it. Thank you for explaining I only go into a couple of shops on my weekly outing and I've noticed the queues aren't as bad as they were at the beginning. I think we've all got into a rhythm of what to do and the initial panic of things running out seems to be over which probably helps. Have a lovely day. xx

Sun_Addict said:

I completely understand your DH, I've had a button phobia since I was a child.  No idea why.  My mum had a button tin and it was the equivalent of a chamber of horrors in my opinion. I particularly hate large buttons with 4 holes.  If I see one on the floor I have to get someone to clear it away, I can't bear the thought of touching them or looking at them, it makes me feel physically sick.

Thanks both of you . How interesting that  you also have button phobia SA, I've never met anyone else who has it.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Seasidegal58 said:

Another here interested in the button phobia. I was fascinated reading Delichon's link.  And to think your OH and SA both suffer from it and I've never heard of it before.  And what a long name the phobia has!

Mind you I can't stand monkeys!  My DD's OH found it very amusing when I refused to watch King Kong!😀

Sun_Addict said:

I don’t like clowns either although not a phobia as with buttons. My cousin also has a button phobia.

jwil said:

Glad you are having a good holiday   Great that the grant came through too. 

I love monkeys  but I don't like clowns (although it's definitely not a phobia just a dislike). There are some interesting phobias around.

Thanks Jwil .

beanielou

I loathe snakes too in any shape or form.

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I think many people dislike snakes because they're repulsed by their imagined sliminess.  They aren't slimy at all but do feel cold.  Plus,  they can be lethal too so quite a lot of reasons why people dislike them even if it's not a full-on phobia.

I have an irrational fear of birds.  Not birds per se, I love the variety of birdlife that visits our garden, but ones on the ground that suddenly fly up if I pass them.  The thought of walking down riverbanks or through town squares where there are lots of ducks or pigeons all ready to take off near me brings me out in a cold sweat.  I've been known to take long detours when going for walks just to eliminate the 'danger'.  I know where this phobia started, I was a 5 year old being allowed to collect the eggs from my Grandparent's chickens  I'd done it several times without any issues but this time I may have rushed into the coop or something and  a huge (to the 5 year old me anyway) chicken suddenly flew up right at me and I fell over.  I never went in there again!   I know how irrational it is to still feel this way about birds but I just can't help it.    We have a huge garden and living in a rural location  DH has been going on for years about keeping our own chickens  I've held out so far and he knows about my phobia but doesn't understand it.  I think it's impossible to fully empathise unless you have the same phobia.

BalanceBy50

My older brother has a button phobia too! I had forgotten about it, as we live in different parts of the country, until a couple of years ago when I gave him a card and it had a button on the front - his reaction for a 40 odd year old man was quite funny to us in the room but not him 🙊  so not as unusual as I thought xx

HairyHandofDartmoor

That's interesting about the phobias and there are a lot more people with button phobia than I thought.

 @Sun_Addict Do you wear clothes with buttons on or do you prefer zips and hooks and eyes/poppas?

Sun_Addict

I don’t buy clothes with buttons @HairyHandofDartmoor. I’m ok with metal studs on jeans. Mr SA got quite cross with me recently when I wouldn’t sew a button back back on his shorts. I couldn’t bring myself to touch it, he thought I was being stupid.