Weird things you love that other people think are awful....

[NutSmeg]

I have two:

One:
Our dog has started getting up at sometime between 5am and 6am every day.

Me and DP have started sleeping in separate bedrooms so her early wake-ups don't disrupt both of us.

DP complains vigorously about the whole situation.

I secretly love it.
I love sleeping separately from DP.
I love waking up with the dawn.
I love having a brew in the early morning when it feels like the rest of the world is asleep.
I love early morning walks with the dog when the streets are empty.
I love having long mornings when I can get all my jobs done before 9am.
I love feeling like I've woken early so I deserve extra tea and biscuits.

Having said that, I really hope its only a summer thing. Five in the morning on a cold, wet January morning isn't so appealing.

Two:
I do a personal training session in our local park twice a week.

I love it when it rains. I especially love torrential, hammering rain. Its cooling and refreshing. The park empties and I feel a wave of optimistic isolation come over me. I feel powerful. I feel dedicated. I feel strong. I feel completely alive.

Last night I got caught in a thunder downpour and it was wonderful.

What awful things do you love....

All the rain we've had lately, and cold, rainy Summers. Every time it rains I feel relieved, calmer, glad that it makes people less noisy and annoying.

Removing moss from in between paving slabs on the patio and descaling the kettle!

@Crikeyalmighty I know that chemist in Bath. It’s brilliant. All dark and fusty inside with the most glorious anticipation of finding something you haven’t seen for years.

I bought a new pair of nail scissors from them. When I asked what they had, they brought out 2 or 3 trays from under the counter for my perusal. I was quite flustered by the choice. The pair I eventually bought are ACE.

I love my commute on buses and trains!
I love a well-run bus service. I have a subsidised annual bus pass through work. I pay 50 euros a year and can go anywhere in my urban area. No parking problems! I sometimes just get the bus for one stop if I'm late. Love it!

@BetteDavisChin It's great to sing along to!

Ooh yes, love this too! I think it's partly nostalgia. Another thing I adore but don't get to do it often is not using electricity. Sounds weird but sometimes if I'm on my own in the house I turn everything off and use candles. I'd love to go on holiday somewhere like Lundy Island and do the same but no-one else is keen. It really destresses me.

I absolutely LOVE covering my kids' school books in sticky-back plastic. I find it so therapeutic. I'm really good at it too - having had so much practice! Many of my friends who do not enjoy (or are not good at) doing this, used to bring their kids' books to me to do for them. This all stopped several years ago, when they left Primary school, and I really miss doing it.

Spiders. Helpful, industrious and fascinating little things. Am always happy to see a new one on my bedroom ceiling. I like to watch them spin their webs and catch and eat things. I find it sad when I have to destroy a web. I try and catch the spider and release it somewhere helpful to try again.

I love shopping in charity shops. When I buy something I take it home and wash it. I peg it on the line and keep glancing at it blowing in the breeze. I feel so happy that I've rescued it and set it free!

I love mice. Used to keep them as pets and at one point had 8! They’re so cute and fun. A bit pongy it has to be said!! But super cute. They all sleep on one big pile and they play together.

I don’t keep them any more because I have a dog and wouldn’t be fair

I dread having mice in the garden or house because it would really upset me to trap or kill them!

I had mice and just used humane traps. I love them too!

I'm the same as some people on here. I love going abroad and visiting supermarkets, loved going into mercadona.

Everyone I know thinks I'm gross for this. It's not the healthiest snack, but I love eating simply strong cheese spread on salami, pepperoni, or chorizo, and then rolling it like an appetiser. I could eat the whole pack; it's delicious! 😋 noodles in a sandwich also. Cheese on toast with honey on top. I'm so healthy 🤦🏼‍♀️

Came on just to say this. I love seagulls. We live by the sea, and still when I hear them I feel "holiday-ey". They are hilarious and cheeky.

Yes! Half my wardrobe is charity shopped! I love the fact you can usually find something you like, whereas in the high street shops you're only going to find it if it's in fashion 🙄 Love coming home with a big haul and figuring out what I can wear things with.

I love eating fish skin, really annoyed most of white fish in supermarkets is sold skinned. Even tinned sardines are sometimes skinned and boned - why or why??

@Libre2 My friend got his icecream stolen out of his hand by one a few days ago at Whitby. I love their cheeky give no fucks attitude 😂

Yes to no electricity!
I switch everything off and light the fire and candles.

It is like being in the graveyard at night, but at home 😄

Yuck 🤮

@Ohyeahwaitaminute I know- it's a real blast from the past!! I just love their glass shelved perfume section full of stuff I haven't seen since the 80s -and they have amazing ranges of hairbrushes and old fashioned shaving sets for men- I walk past it every day as it's on my way into town

I wouldn't say it's weird, but I kind of love Britain. (I kind of hate it as well – the dingy winters, the overcrowding, the horrible housing estates, the grotty towns like Stevenage and Basildon, etc.) It's a fascinating place, for all its faults. Oxford and Cambridge alone have a more interesting history that many countries. For example, I went to Oxford recently and saw the pub where Tolkien read Lord of the Rings out loud to C. S. Lewis. I also saw the college that Oscar Wilde attended. Cambridge is even more extraordinary. It never ceases to amaze me that Newton, Darwin, Milton, Byron, Nabokov, Wittgenstein, Tennyson, Bertrand Russell, etc, all studied in that same small town. When you walk past an old church in the town centre, you know you're walking past the same church that all those people passed when students. You can even drink in the pub where Watson and Crick (the DNA guys) walked in one day and said "can we have a beer, we've just discovered the secret of life." Amazing.

I can see why Bill Bryson loved Britain. It's the sense not just of history (of battles and revolutions and so on) but of cultural history – of writers and artists and scientists and thinkers. I also love the way the landscape and seasons are woven into the works and lives of those people: Kent in the spring makes me think of Chaucer, Stratford and the Avon river means Shakespeare, Bath means Jane Austen, London and Christmas mean Dickens, Yorkshire means the Brontes and Ted Hughes, the Lake District means Wordsworth, Liverpool means the Beatles. Bryson said that almost any random square mile of the UK has something fascinating connected with it – maybe Lenin lived there for a while, or Charles Darwin was born there, or whatever.

Agree with the poster who said about dark grey overcast skies, but not white clouds.

I've thought of a couple more. I enjoy loading dirty clothes into the washing machine - the dirtier the better. Feels quite satisfying knowing they'll come out clean and fresh with zero effort from me. Particularly look forward to the football kits and the white school shirts and the girls' white socks.

In the winter if I'm working from home on my own I like to do little things that I feel will save money and benefit the environment. So once the kids have left for school I'll turn the heating off for the day and putting my dressing gown on over my clothes rather than heating the house just for me (I get it warmed up for when the kids come home though).

Or making tea in a flask so I only have to boil the kettle once when working from home. Makes me feel like Greta Thunberg 😆 If I lived on my own my bills would be so low, but I have loads of kids so everything is extortionate (food/heating)🙄

When I work in the office I feel a bit of satisfaction having a coffee and knowing it's not my kettle I'm having to boil, or having a wee and knowing I've saved loo roll 🤣 Sounds ridiculous now I've written it down. Sometimes I'll think "ooh I must have saved about 80 kettle boils at home this month"

I'm not a tight person I promise, I'm actually really generous 🤣.

@Hartley99 I love your post and you've articulated how I feel without me realising it! I think exploring the UK has made me appreciate it so much more

I love joining in let’s pretend games with my grandson aged 3. Sometimes its repetitive ( quick ,bears are coming , let’s hide)but every session he will come up with random imaginative ideas that I attempt to follow and make happen to our mutual satisfaction! Recently he wants to tie up his Schleich horses with Sellotape to tables , chairs , cupboards with handles round the room. Everyone else in my family thinks I am crazy to “ let him do it/ wasting Sellotape, but I can feel my brain relaxing as I let myself be carried along in his play. He has told me he does this so the horses can run free in the fields but don’t get lost.

Does anyone else get a lot of satisfaction when unblocking drains? I probably enjoy this task more than any other.

Oh jeez - didn't expect this thread to take off so much. I took a day away from MN and there are hundreds of replies from weirdos😅

I'm going to brew up and read through!

I also love every single thing from point 1 of your OP @NutSmeg ! My dog is older now so she's happy sleeping in but I sort of loved getting up at 5am and sitting in the garden with her as a pup, having multiple teas before anyone else would stir, or taking her for a walk just as the sun comes up in summer was delightful.

I love walking up hill, gives me a really good feeling

Emmerdale

Chocolate from the fridge

I eat healthily most of the time and try to look after myself. My guilty pleasure is occasionally going out alone to get a McDonalds drive through, sitting in the retail park car park and eating it in peace and quiet.