To enjoy looking through other people's windows in the evening.

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I do this when i walk to and from my little cleaning job. It makes me feel all warm inside!

Doesn't matter what people are doing, what they have on display etc, its better when they have lamps rather than lights and i love to see families sat with their dinners on their laps or kids playing on the floor in front of the fire. Or single folk sat with their lap-top and or .

I'm not being nosey, it just makes me feel nice

I'm a weirdo aren't i???

I enjoy it too! When I walk my dog in the evening I go down a long street of houses that have huge windows and not one of them has blinds or curtains and it's always fun having a peek and seeing what those families get up to. Although I have been burned a few times, most recently there was a very large man wearing a lace body stocking! Also the amount of people that like to have sex in front of windows is surprising.

I sometimes like to make DH drive past the big posh houses on the way home just so I can look in the windows. It seems the larger and posher the house the uglier the decor is!

So true about Holland - everything set up for people looking in at the 'gezellig' (cosy) atmosphere. I now dress the front window expecting people to look in and would be cheesed off if they didn't! People need to connect more and what a harmless way to do it. I liked a themed display in the bay window for different times of year - Easter egg tree, Halloween arrangement etc - a bit like Harvey Nicholls but minus the mannequins..! Live in a cold dour street in Aberdeen so people mainly stomp straight ahead without looking, alas.

as mickey flanagan said, it's better to be the peeper than the peepee

Aaaabbbbcccc what's your taste in wallpaper like, and do you have a dog?

I love this time of year as I am a peeper too!

Everyone does it, don't they? That's why I've got net curtains and close the curtains when lights need turning on. I have a baby to BF and am not going to start covering myself when in the privacy of my own home! Though we seem to be the only ones in the village who've bothered with net curtains, apparently no one else minds.

While I like looking I hate the neighbours looking at us as we are so messy so I have nets up and am fussy about keeping the curtains closed at night.

Add Denmark to your travel list. Its considered hyggelig to be able to see in (cosy). I dont understand how anyone ever.has sex with the ligjts on.

It's horribly nosey. And what is nice about people eating dinner off their laps?

I am glad that I live very rurally so the only things that can see in to our house are lovely cows.

Kenny

I also must confess that I've done it to my own house. Coming back from a walk I realised I'd left a lamp on so doubled back on myself so I could see what it looked like to those waking past. It looked really different from that angle.

I sometimes like to make DH drive past the big posh houses on the way home just so I can look in the windows

sausage....really?

Yep you're a nosy weirdo.

We've taken precautions now so people like you can't invade our privacy.

Do you mean closing the curtains four?

Me too! Makes me feel warm and fuzzy, and sometimes a bit envious of lovely homes and interiors! Also makes me want to rush home, put my pjs on, get the fire going with a glass of wine and some chocolate!

No, better than that penguin

And THIS thread makes me very happy that I spend £200 on net curtains when we moved

at Eve - my mind is boggling at net curtains costing £200!

Ooohhhh, I love doing this. I sometimes don't even realise I'm doing it till DH says 'Booiiinnnggg!' quietly in my ear (it's the sound of my rubber neck, supposedly ).

I love doing it, and we often go for evening walks anyway.

My theory is that if people don't want you to look in they'll close their curtains or blinds, and if they don't do this then presumably they don't mind you looking in.

Kenny and Coumarin - I feel, as a peeper, i am responsible for returning the favour. To the point, er, of actually looking through my window to check what people will get a view of.. Night AND day. And then moving things into the window eyeline that i think they would like to see.

I LOVE looking into other people's windows and getting a snippet of their lives. My mum used to do this and would excuse it by saying she was researching for her 'book' (she's never written a book in her life!)

I was quite pleased earlier when caught by some people looking in that the scene they caught was one of a doting mother playing on the floor with the baby as opposed to normally sitting in the armchair, knackered, mumnsetting and ignoring poor child

Rooms do look better from the outside though. I often come home and peep in through the window at the cosy domestic scene.

Then go in to be greeted with chaos and squalor.

Glad it's not just me. I like Christmas lights walks with the children in the late afternoon. There's something rather Dickensian about walking in the chilly dusk, seeing all the cosy lights then going home for tea and a cuddle on the sofa.

Penguins, we have a lot of large windows, the main living room window alone was almost 60 quid. Then I had another 7 windows to do.

I like looking at my own house from the outside too - if I go out to the garage at dusk it looks so cosy with the lamp on when I look through the window, much nicer than it actually is!

I need that Edward Hopper print, love it.

If looking in peoples' living rooms in the evening is wrong then i don't wanna be right OP.