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 love to do this too... it always looks so cosy :) The thing I always take away is that everyone's house is nicer than mine! Christmas time is absolutely beautiful... all the lights and the trees in the windows...

I just look as I walk past, I don't sit there with my face pressed against the window gurning at the occupants like a toddler at the monkey house.

A long time ago I was looking for the perfect colour to paint my living room and I saw it when looking into someone's house, I had to know what it was and where they'd got it, so I knocked on the door and asked!

I think Mothership just won the peeper crown.

I have just been reminded of a family holiday I went on as a teen. We were wandering around the town on the first evening, looking for somewhere to go for dinner. We stopped at a cosy looking cafe, and had a good gawp at the tasty looking food that the family with the window table were tucking into.

Until my Dad pointed out it was someone's house

I'm another one who does this. I also love walking along streets where there are houses with basements & you get these funny glimpses of life. In Marylebone on Friday evening, I glanced down through a basement window & saw a toddler whizz past on a ride on, followed by the legs of an older child carrying a bucket & then an adults legs charging after them.
When I lived in London, I lived in a ground floor flat on a busyish road with the living room at the front & considerately set the room up so the sofa was under the window meaning I didn't really mind if people looked in as I couldn't see them

Me and DH used to do this all the time on the way back from the pub. Street had a few houses and it seemed no-one drew their curtains. Lovely warm feelings all round.
My Great Auntie never closes her curtains...used to love walking home with then 2 DCs past her house in winter...just lovely.

I am another fan of creeping/peeping! I love a quick nosey into the way other people live as I stroll past. I wouldn't have my nose pressed up leaving steamy marks or anything, but I agree it makes me feel cosy and happy.

I love it too! Something about people all warm and (I think) happy inside in the dark winter evenings which makes me feel happy.

Yeah! I win!

It was Sugar Bag Blue, by that fancy paint company, I forget what they're called, I got Dulux to colour match a sample. I would be flattered if someone liked something of mine enough to ask.

Yanbu at all. We stayed in Kensington earlier this year and one of my favourite things was an early evening stroll around the posh streets glancing in windows. (This sounds bad written down )

I remember seeing a stunning blonde model type lady with a gorgeous toddler and her home really looked like a white company ad come to life. I loved imagining her life. In a neighbouring house, someone was playing clarinet to concert standard. It was bloody idyllic.

If that was any of you

I love looking through windows! The first time I went out in the evening after moving to our forever home was just brilliant. I particularly like it at Christmas. I wonder what kind of people live there. I hope they're happy.

I love it when the nights draw in! I can be coming back from work or the shops and my eyes are drawn to it. It's just inexplicably comforting - a snapshot of people lying on the sofa, cooking a meal, bumbling about, or drawing their curtains (to block out the mad woman peering in) In return they get a snapshot of me doing the ironing and 'encouraging' ds2 with his homework... But just seeing people on a dark winters night all cosy and warm -ach I don't know why but I really like it?

I love it. I particularly like seeing a lit up bedroom through closed curtains in the evenings. Make me imagine that people are warm and snuggly in their beds with a book and a cuppa.

Christmas Day is especially good for a good nose when it gets dark. We often go for a little walk at about 6pm, to burn off some of the excess food and perk ourselves back up for the evening indulgence. It's lovely seeing people and their own festive celebrations.

Did anyone else Google sugar bag blue? I love having a nosey into other people's houses. I can't help thinking the cosiest ones are always the ones with the most old fashioned interiors a bit like Grannys house

We used to deliberately go for walks in the early evening for this very reason :) In fact it was the deciding factor in buying our house - it was just before Christmas & neighbours-to-be were all being suitably cosy and twinkly. I was delighted :)

D'oh! I didn't think of that PB, Farrow & Ball, Sugar Bag Light! Brings back memories of decorating my first place that was just mine, no need to compromise on decor.

I can't believe the number of people who don't have blinds/nets. They just sit there in full view of people nosy parkers It's like being on Big Brother

YANBU- I love doing this. It's my favourite thing to do outdoors
I often suggest to the children in December that we should go for a walk after school around the block to 'see the christmas lights'... but really I just want to nose at everyone else's decor!

I often think that if there were a magazine showing ordinary, real people's homes they would sell far more copies than all these refurbished, tricked-out to the nines show homes.

I'm guilty of having sex in the window, my neighbour didn't seem to mine he eventually came outside to get a better look haha

at mickey flannigan peepee!!

If you are out peeping, are you out or does the peeping elevate it to being out out??

I used to be a vet nurse and we would argue over who went out on home visits so would could assist the vet be nosey i did get to visit some lovely houses.

What a fabulous thread. I love this too. I might visit the beautiful town we moved from last year around Christmas, just to do this again too many tacky neon reindeer around here

Every Christmas night, around 7pm, we take the dogs for a walk.

Our sole purpose is to look in people's windows and feel all cozy

It's the only time I'm happy to have my curtains open at night as I like the idea of other people doing the same.

Any other time of year, curtains are drawn at dusk - ain't nobody peeping into my humble abode! (I reserve the right to thoroughly enjoy looking in other people's windows all year round)

I love noseying in people's windows in the evening. I run, and when it's light I love running along the streets, looking in people's gardens and at their houses. At night I look into their windows as I pass. It's like a glimpse into another usually more affluent world.

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