What things do you love that your family and friends don't understand?

[BabyJellyShark]

I've recently rediscovered the Pro Wrestling of my childhood. It was huge when I was growing up and I get nostalgic when watching old matches.

Also museums, any museum regardless of subject and delis. I'm always looking for something new to try. I can't walk past a deli or Chinese/Japanese/Turkish etc store.

There are others too but I'll have to think about them.

No judgement because there are plenty of things they love that don't appeal to me but is there anything you love that puzzles your family or friends?

Podcasts
True Crime YouTube videos
Charity shops
Buying books (Idon't read often)
Receipt scanning apps

Root beer

Running

TikToks of people cleaning old swimming pools or really manky carpets. The more disgusting the better. I’m not even on TikTok, one appeared on my Instagram and now they keep coming (because I keep watching them)

Podcasts. No one else in the family listens to any and I pretty much have something on whenever I’m not at work. Husband asked me the other day what I was listening to and looked very confused as I tried to explain how the LA Olympics were indirectly responsible for the LA riots 8 years later.

@lifeturnsonadime a few of my penpals I've been writing to since I was about 16 years old. I've gathered the rest through the years. One I wrote to in childhood but we eventually lost touch. Her mum and sister got in touch a couple of years ago saying they were in the area and could we meet up. Unfortunately, they told me my penpal had passed away a few years earlier. They saw me as a connection to their daughter, who had kept all my letters in a drawer which the sister later found and used to track me down. It was a lovely, if emotional, meeting.

I have met 3 of my penpals, one just a couple of months ago who came from the USA with her husband. It was great, we got on so well and she's just like in her letters.

A few I got from Instagram over the last couple of years. It's fun to learn about other people's lives in different countries. As I've known some so long, I've heard about their relationship changes, children born, moving house, changing jobs. You do feel like you really know them.

My letters are all handwritten 😁

My kid has 4 penpals now - 1 from Spain, 1 from the Philippines, 1 from China and 1 from Puerto Rico. He's enjoying getting post just for him!

@JohnsShirt the food is amazing, especially some of the food at the festival booths in Epcot. I do enjoy watching the vlogs about the food during the Epcot festivals and reviewing the menus and deciding what I would eat (all the cheese and booze at the latest festival!).

Yes! I bloody love MIC

Perfumes/beauty stuff
I love watching shower routines on YouTube and empties videos
Do a whole routine from a base cleanse with soap to shower gel, scrubs, body lotion, perfume

My dad "well fairy liquid works well to get grease off my face"

Although I have converted him to a shower oil after he moaned about dry skin, but he's still whinging about the price of it

Reading the obituaries in the Times - I don't find them morbid but actually quite interesting, and I have learned about some fascinating people who I may never have heard of otherwise. Apparently that makes me obsessed with death...

Also - Ancient History, Off Grid Living and True Crime documentaries. I adore my friends, but we all have totally different interests.

Watching spot squeezing videos on YouTube! Actually any gross video from mango worms in dogs to jiggers and ear wax!

I also love Royal family and Victorian history! I particularly have an interest in War of the roses! Compared to that lot Meghan and Harry are almost respectful and compassionate to Harry’s side of his family….

Pretty sure the spot squeezing videos make my husband and parents want to disown me!

Crochet
pokemon go
dr who
toffee vodka
kettle crisps

I have found my All Bran people 😁

I knew it wasn't just me.

Ooh, I’ve recently been introduced by my DD to the world of kdramas/kpop, and I love them all! My DH doesn’t understand my new hobby.

On a separate note, I get laughed at for my love of gnomes/gonks, but I don’t care 😁

Exactly this!

Although you can never be sure if they don’t understand Mumsnet, because the first rule of Mumsnet is you don’t talk about Mumsnet….

Oh yes to the classic eastenders! I find it fascinating the way the set changes is a microcosm of the cultural changes of the U.K.!

The outbreak of World War I

"Oh yes to the classic eastenders! I find it fascinating the way the set changes is a microcosm of the way U.K. has changed "

Don't know where the rest of that post went!!!

The Great Pottery Throw Down
The Masked Singer
Books
Kate Bush
Fentimans Cola
Trying to buy things as ethically as poss

Made in Chelsea here too @Marellatea !
Twitter
News channel always on
Mumsnet
Zumba
Crisps - could live on them
V8 juice

I like watching YouTube videos about rollercoasters - the history of a ride, if it's still operating, how it worked. I also love abandoned theme parks and places where time has just stopped and nature has taken over. My family think I'm weird, but luckily my chap is a fellow geek and has promised to take me to an abandoned theme park with his drone so I can film it.

I also have a fondness for videos of people repairing old watches.

Charity shops.
Vintage textiles.
Old china and Pyrex especially if I can spend ages identifying a pattern/date of manufacture.
Old sewing machines and sewing accessories/haberdashery.

Board games

I am forever buying new and exciting board games and trying to wrangle my family into playing them with me. They don't seem to have caught the board game bug (~sigh).

True crime books and documentaries

The Eurovision Song Contest

My DH's is films about climbing and especially free climbing. He has vertigo. I don't get it

Me too.