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???

something you knew to be a universal truth is turned on its head

Brilliant!

Love the big light thread too. We have a double big light. It's never on.

ithought, it honestly tipped my axis a bit, really it did.

Oooh i love a good nosy! I'm afraid i don't return the favour though. We live in a house where the living room is at the back and it's a quiet street anyway. We are looking to move though...

DadDadDad hadn't thought of that. Interestingly the reason I could see straight in though was because she had the "big light" on!

Agree with PPs about how much more enticing it looks from the outside. I feel this kind of misplaced nostalgia for the days when I yearned for domesticity. Then I get in and it's a cat-infested shambles of books and shoes and musical instruments and the only reason I've been able to look in at all is because no bugger's drawn the curtains.

Its fraught with peril, Jelly

Love it too.

But when I am outside my own house and look in when it has all the lights on and everyone is inside, I get a really strange unsettled feeling. I have no idea why.

It's even better near Christmas when they have their tree lights on!

I don't because I hate people looking in my windows all sodding day. Dog walkers, walking groups, horse riders all having a good old gawp all day long.

Hate hate hate it. I just want to sit and watch tv without being snouted at

I loved doing this until I did it through the window of a house directly next to the pavement and made eye contact with the person who was looking out of the window at the same time
I still do it but am a bit more discreet now ??

our house looks like the Mother Ship from outside with all the bloody lights everyone leaves on.
I love looking through windows, on my ML I regularly came back from my walks with a crick in my neck.
Eve did you know that nets are totally see through when it's dark & you have lights on?

Sorry pyjamaface! I love it too. I just want to know what colour people have painted their walls, what sofa they have, does that flat look cosy or grim, could I imagine that being my house? I always go upstairs on the bus to do this and when I'm walking along the street too.

A friend once rented a ground-floor flat on a busy street and when he left he said he was so happy to be rid of it because of all the people looking in at his windows. I was like this

You never know who's peering in your window.

Ah, someone has already posted Windows in the West. I love that picture - one of my student houses was directly opposite that very block on the road on the right in that picture. I really miss walking or riding the bus though the west end at dusk as all the lights come on.

I live in the West End MsRinky, it really is the best spot for snooping in windows.

I'm tempted to put my life size Pennywise cardboard cutout in the window, ready for all the window peeping dog walkers this evening!

If you've got the curtains open and the light on, you're inviting me to critique your choice of sofa. End of.

I do Wookie, we close the curtains as soon as the lamps go on

Whst is "the big light"?

the big light is the light in the centre of the ceiling in the living room

op, I agree, I'm nosey too

My friend and I love looking love looking through people's windows when we go on our evening runs in the wintertime, especially at Christmastime! We have been known to choose expensive parts of our city to run just because we like looking at the really posh homes that we will likely never live in.

YANBU me too. This is one of the greatest pleasures of the dark winter months. It's free, and has negative calories.

I'd glance in passing, while walking, or on a bus. I wouldn't look enough to see wall colours or anything like that.