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.

Fresh bed sheet every day.
Thorntons fudge .

Afternoon nap: tick
Ebay bargain: tick
Afternoon wank: double or triple tick , also morning.

My other quirky treats are:
Watching the Good Witch on Netflix or basically any Hallmark type show, schmaltzy feel good and not demanding or stressful.
Imaginary conversations where I'm basically the beautiful and brilliant heroine in many different scenarios 😂

Would.love a job where I could change my pants in the middle of the day😀 like an afternoon bath, not to.get clean, just to.soak and then a shower after.

Having my morning cup of tea in the bath when DH has gone to work and DD is in nursery, rather than standing over the sink as I wash bottles and put mascara on and do a million other things at 6am.

Finding the time to watch 5 episodes of Four in a Bed whilst eating a white bread prawn cocktail crisp and ham sandwich. Followed by a cup of tea and a biggish bar of Cadbury whole nut.

A nap - I think I may be part cat!

Coffee ice cream. It’s the only flavour of ice cream that my teenagers don’t like.

In fact it’s the only treat of any kind that they don’t like.

Garners pickled shallots, straight from the jar.

Absolutely, Foyles War is not a replacement for the crazy escapism that was ITV3 Afternoons with John Nettles in Midsummer Murders. If it was a bit less wet and oribble I would not be indoors on a day off afternoon

Looking around derelict buildings, abandoned fairgrounds, etc, on Urb Ex sites and YouTube.

Eating an entire jar of cocktail cherries all at once.

This has given me an idea: armchair urbexing and eating a silly amount of cocktail cherries at the same time

Fresh socks. Snuggly woolly socks that cuddle your feet 🥰

Also, going to one of the coffee bars in town for a slice of cake and a cocktail and to read my book or people watch. Don’t do it often but it’s pure bliss!

Sleep!

I just love sleeping, I occasionally go through very tired patches (I'm not very healthy) and can sleep on and off all evening on the sofa. I love the heavy dreamy feeling of that!

You change your bedsheets every day?

Ooh I have a few

Fresh super soft fluffy loose socks that I put on as soon as I get out of the shower after work with my comfys. Bliss

Washing and exfoliating my face with an essential oils range then oil and moisturiser straight after as well as lash growth serum.
Smalls amazing and makes me feel really good

Sat in my fave chair with my feet up a cup of hot sweet strong tea and a packet of malted milk biscuits.

Disappearing into a really good box set on Netflix every evening curled up in peace.

A packet of pickled onion monster munch, preferably in bed

Clean pyjamas

Washing my face with Neals Yard shower gel

Sleeping with the windows open. Dh hates it and I love it. I don't always win.

Picking up cooked food for lunch then eating it whilst watching tv

Browsing a second hand bookshop.

A good shower where I scrub, exfoliate, moisturise and get into clean pjs feeling like a slippery seal
Preferably followed by a cup of tea and a morrisons jam and cream muffin
The first burn of a new candle
Really random but water... sometimes I just need to go and stand in the sea. Find it really grounding

My dad lives near the beach and it's always the same no matter how many times I do it
"Can I borrow a towel?"
"What.. why.. why are you wet? Have you been paddling again?" < sigh >

I put on "I'd do anything for you" from Oliver and change the words while I sign along and dance with my dogs. The boy dog goes nuts as soon as he hears it. His name is Oliver lol.. Great thing about standard poodles, they can dance upright for ages hahahahaha. Always lifts my mood and I burn off the chocolate I may or may not have eaten prior.

Another afternoon nap person. WFH and have a flexible work pattern- start at 8 ish finish at 6 so take a long 'lunch' aka snoozing for an hour every day. Alarm is set and roll out of my bed- strong cup of tea and raring to go again.
I get a bit pissed off the days I go to the office now! I still always accrue flexi time doing this so I'm not cheating in any way- have a target of 7.5 hrs a day and work over that most days. Love my nap.
Also buy/make epic lunches of my fav things and have tea and cake/fancy biscuits at 3pm every day.
😍

YES to the knickers! Recently went on a 1 week work trip and brought around 25 pairs.
And plastic cheese.
And wearing M&S slips under dresses, feels so nice and feminine and also feeds into my vintage lifestyle fantasies. And the clothes hang better.
Oh, and playing pop music on my iphone when I have a long shower ie exfoliate/shave/moisturize.

Ooh yes, yes, yes to clean pants! I always get changed when I come in from work at lunchtime, so clean pants for me!
Eating a sly McDs in the car so I don’t have to share with the Ddog. Used to eat a pasty as a treat but DP moaned about the pastry crumbs😁
Love an afternoon nap, in bed in the winter, in the garden in the summer, and on the sofa at all other times - with the Ddog🙄
Cup of tea and a read if the house is ever quiet enough…

Drinking an M&S cold gin and tonic in a tin while enjoying a lavender scented foam bath.

Eating those strange slices of individually wrapped plastic cheese that are meant for burgers straight from the fridge wrapped round a sweet pickled cucumber.

Making up funeral eulogies while rolling out pastry.

Going through a McD’s drive through on my own when no one knows where I am and just ordering coffee - it’s surprisingly good coffee at my local branch - and just sitting in the car park listening to the music on my phone play lists for 10 minutes.

Fried egg and beans on toast

• Neals yard lacendar, geranium aromatic bath salts - they smell sooooo good
• getting a chai latte from the local cafe
• a spoonful of Nutella

Sometimes I find karaoke versions of old songs I liked on my phone and just sing them really loudly on my own. I did the entire Beatles love songs album one afternoon.