What's your weird minor treat?

[ChocolateRat]

Mine is this:

Sometimes, in the middle of the day — maybe I've been cleaning or gardening or something, but not exactly vigorous aerobic exercise or anything — and without any disasters having happened that produce some compelling need to do so, I'll think to myself, "You know what, I'm going to treat myself to a fresh pair of knickers".

Not a whole set of fresh clothes, not a full-on shower and change — just the knickers.

For some reason, I always mentally frame this underwear profligacy as "treating myself". It just… feels nice to put on a fresh, clean, cool pair. A little half-way-through-the-day boost.

Can we be friends?!

I will occasionally wear 3+ pairs of clean pants over the course of a day and my OH scoffs at me, but fuck it: I'm an adult, I do my own laundry, I will wear AS MANY pairs of pants as I wish.

I also like eating Bonne Maman chocolate spread off a spoon, straight out of the jar.

Um, ok. Glad to hear about your knickers.

I love a fresh pair of knickers too! I never wear the same pair for a full day, even if I'm working until 6, I'll change them when I get home and then before bed again.

My minor treat is getting a nice croissant and coffee and eating it in the car before work. Without a child trying to steal! It's bliss.

I love a nap. It's free and I get excited if I can have one without setting an alarm clock.

I'm not alone! I aspire to @AffIt's devil-may-care abandon about getting through clean pants. In my head, it's somehow the height of sybaritic decadence, even though in reality it's an almost imperceptible quantity of extra laundry

Car croissants sound totally worth the cleanup.

i watch something on the tv on my day off, sometimes All Creatures Great and Small sort of 4 pm.
on monday i think i actually watched something at lunch time, which is unlike me

Squeezing Primula cheese straight into my mouth 😆

@Crumpetdisappointment I agree: watching TV during the day feels hedonistic (I blame my Presbyterian upbringing, in which turning the telly on before the 6pm news was Not Done).

I both love the nap and watching tv during the afternoon on a day off. I also love stopping for a random coffee in my local flower shop (they have a little coffee doxk) and getting a seat at the window and people watching. They do the best coffee for very little and I have go so many outfit ideas by looking out the window.

Nutella straight from the jar with a spoon.

Midsomer Murders in the afternoon

hot tub during my lunch break - so lovely!

WHY DON'T I HAVE A HOT TUB

Mine is browsing and buying little bits for myself on Vinted. I get extremely excited over bargains.

I also quite enjoy looking through Airbnb and imagining myself on holiday. Who of my friends would have each room etc. I'm very much into daydreaming.

Yes to the clean knickers. Especially in summer. Makes you feel so much fresher!

They’re a bit marmite but I absolutely love mine! i’m pretty much the only one that uses it until the summer when we drop
the temperature and make it a cold tub and then the rest of the family join me (bastards 😂)

Mine is a mid morning coffee made with full milk! And I love an uninterrupted nap in an afternoon! I always set my alarm for a couple of hours, but since I've taken to wearing a sleep mask (even with black out curtains!) it kind of tricks me into thinking I've had hours, when in fact, sometimes I've only had just over an hour! Bliss!

A Fry’s Turkish Delight and a cup of tea. My mum used to have one when we were little and the sensible woman refused to share it with us. I always vowed that when I was a grown up I would have one all to myself and so I do. Bliss.

Half an hour in bed with my vibrator. It keeps me sane, calm and happy. And if I've had a chaotic morning I know I've got it to look forward to. Even better if I've got time for a nap afterwards.

A particular roll from my local coop with pumpkin seeds on. Frivolous because we always have bread in so I don’t ‘need’ it

@Yozzer87 I was going to write 'a quick afternoon wank'; but didn't want to be the first to lower the tone.

Probably because you spend all your money on electricity and detergent to wash all those pants, decadent mare 😀

Me too

Yes! I love midsomer murders. It’s on as we speak, DH thinks I’m boring though, if it’s on in an evening he’ll be asleep in 5 mins flat.