Incredibly dull things your husband gets excited about

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Please tell me I'm not the only one?

We live in a village and have a bit of a drive to the nearest "proper" shops. Hence the excitement over the new Eurospar that has been built over the last few months, opening today.

DH has provided a running commentary on the development of this project, his approval of how they've blended the new construction nicely in with the facade of the listed building involved, his disgust at the choice of electricians used (he spotted their van) his excitement when he peered in the window and realised it's actually going to be a sort of split level effect...

Today I woke up in darkness to DH's head sort of floating above me in the morning gloom, and a hiss of "it's half six. The new Eurospar opens at seven"

I had to tell him that, according to Facebook, it opens at 12,and he will have to wait until tomorrow so we can visit it as a family. He was absolutely crestfallen, but I'm going to suprise him with an emergency need for chocolate later tonight. He will then be able to visit this new Mecca, and come back all puffed up like a pigeon, to report on its wonders. I imagine that once the excitement fades, he'll go back to his previous fixation, "what sort of shed shall we get next summer"

@oldraver DH would love a dishwasher that did that.
Our washing machine plays a little jingle when it finishes the cycle So you know you have to go and open it and he is ever bemoaning the fact that the dishwasher doesn’t do this. An opening door would be his idea of seventh heaven.

ExP - motorbikes, except they had to refereed to as motorcycles, and never just 'bikes'.

You'd think it would be all sexy and cool to go out with a guy into motorcycles but no, dry af. I think he rode it twice when we were together in about two years, even though he was part of a small business. He could recite the ins and outs of all spare parts ....zzzz.

He is also obsessed with cleaning everything with bleach, because nothing is properly clean unless it has been bleached...
and those shows where they buy a lockup at auction..
How full the sky box is...
Oh and kitchen surface spray and kitchen roll...

All these but I think the biggest one is cars though he doesn't largely inflict it on me, to be fair. He is always looking at what he might buy, though he doesn't need a new one and actually, we don't have the finance to replace it anyway to be honest.

We'll be watching some old police drama and I might speculate when it was made and he'll confidently tell me it was 1982-84 because that was when that Mondeo front lights were that particular shape.

Also 80's pop trivia. Again, mostly kept to himself but he comes alive when those BBC4 late night music shows come on.

He is actually much more geeky than he comes across in real life.

The cats, who he greets before me and the children
Ordnance survey maps
Lower league football
Linguistics
Hill walking
Breathy Icelandic folk singers, preferably playing harps

Oh and I'd forgotten about the safety barriersand safety helmets.

He make the helmets and is forever obsessed by them on tv and out and about.

He managed to have a full on discussion with some bloke in Belgravia on the merits of a MK11 or somesuch

@MuseumOfYou We'll be watching some old police drama and I might speculate when it was made and he'll confidently tell me it was 1982-84 because that was when that Mondeo front lights were that particular shape.

^ This! This! This! DH has totally trampled over some extremely dramatic moments in films by pointing out what car the protagonist is driving (extra bonus points if it's a film set in the future and the makers have modified a contemporary car to look futuristic, and DH is able to identify what the chassis is).

museum and blue it can be hard suspending disbelief when some know-all does a running commentary on how the cars are all wrong!

I have to say, one notable exception has been Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries....you'll be relieved to know the 1920s cars are generally correct

Our cats. He's obsessed with them, making sure they've all eaten enough, how much water they drank and if someone appears to wee more than the other. He's currently obsessed with our new litter robot. He spent a year researching it before he bought it. €500!!!!

And deep space ,quantum theory or something like that . I actually tell him to stop, I really, really don't know what he taking about

If he's talking about Quantum Theory then nor does he.

DH is able to identify what the chassis is

That's a rare talent, might even outdo my DH there.
I'll challenge him one night.

Although it has its uses. We had a bit of a tough time a few years ago, had a horrible row and I stayed away for a few days with some friends for a bit of space.
He texted during Doc Martin (a bit of an 'our programme') to share that he had spotted a rookie continuity error re the various Lexus's involved, the ice was broken and rest is history.

Haven't RTFT just answering the title - his girlfriend, thank fuck he's living with her now

1. Waterproofs
2. Getting a good bargain. Loves to tell me how many pence something will save per gram if you buy X instead of Y.
3. Yorkshire tea. So much so that he bought a ginormous catering pack of it so that we don't run out. Ever.
4. and gold mining. He watches about a zillion documentaries about gold mining. He knows all the terminology, where the best deposits are and what methods to use to extract said gold. But hasn't ever actually done it himself.

Not my husband but my neighbours other half is obsessed with washing his car.

Every time I walk past the house he's either out washing the car, or the suds on the pavement show he's just been washing the car. It is the cleanest car in Britain. He cleans it inside and out.

The other day I noticed that he'd bought it a special blanket.

His partners car sits on the driveway blanketless and neglected.

Politics.
Stocks and shares.
Pension values.
The driving of other road users.
Delivery tracking.

Seeing the gritter out when it's forecast frost

DH is currently building a database to log all the information generated by his Netatmo weather station. There is a perfectly good app that goes with it but it's not detailed enough for him so he is creating his own.

He also made his own version of My Fitness Pal by logging the calorie details of all the food he ate for a month.

Mine is now planning on setting up an app to he can be reminded which bin goes out when; inspired by this thread as our area doesn't have one.

Mine is now planning on setting up an app to he can be reminded which bin goes out when

I use my phone's calendar. 😳

OS maps. All of them. If we ever go anywhere new, DH simply cannot rest until he has the correct OS map for the area.

Ironic really, as DH has the most hopeless sense of direction ever, and is the only man I know to routinely get lost whilst driving with a state of the art SatNav AND the appropriate OS map.

I'll raise you light bulbs, batteries and hoarding kettle leads ("but they're so useful. ..")

Anything to do with Drums and drumming, warships and WWII. He is super nerdy and into his history and I love everything about that.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham I’ll raise you hoarding books, cds, dvds, collectible mini figures (still in their packaging, obvs), & comics (the adult type - think superhero stuff from the 1940s onwards - some are worth a fair bit!) He is officially A Massive Geek.

@BarbaraofSeville I'll tell him. It might put him off as I can't picture him climbing out of a hatch to climb down.

My DH never throws stuff away...broken kettles, TVs, all go in the loft. Then every couple of years we have to sort the loft out before it crushes us in bed. The sort out is traumatic for him...he holds a broken kettle saying 'let's put this in the car boot pile - someone might want it for spares'......

Also he loves places like Wilko...and B&Q...where there are lots of screws and nails for specific jobs in open pots. It's his own pick n mix...