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AIBU to ask you to confess your guilty pleasure?

189 replies

DobbyLovesSocks · 22/07/2018 12:17

Posting here for traffic

My guilty pleasure is peeling the silver foil off the back of pill packets. DH has a repeat prescription so that guarantees me at least 4 strips a month. It is bizarrely satisfactory to peel it off. Please tell me I'm not alone in having a weird habit

Anyone else have a guilty pleasure/weird habit that you would to confess to?

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Raffles1981 · 22/07/2018 18:03

Dear god, I just googled how foie gras is made. Sad

whylie · 22/07/2018 18:56

Mine is ... opening a kinder egg, squishing the foil into a perfect ball, then break it in perfect half and with the outer shell rub it around my lips..Blush cause it would is so soft and shiny and smooth....oh the shame just typing itConfused

MyfanwyMontez · 22/07/2018 19:03

After taking out a roast chicken out of the oven, I get a slice a white bread( the plasticky kind) and dip it it the chicken fat. I enjoy that more than the roast chicken .

AcrossthePond55 · 22/07/2018 19:05

I wait until DH is gone, then I have a pint of Haagen Dazs Coffee Ice Cream drenched in Mrs. Richardson's Butterscotch Caramel sauce for supper. All to myself.

TitsalinaBumSquash · 22/07/2018 19:13

@LyndseyKola - I used to make things for people, Houses to spec, Sims to mimic families, items and patterns. I dabbled with meshes for custom items for a while too.

wanderings · 22/07/2018 19:15

Crystal Maze: both watching the old ones on YouTube, and taking part in the live experience (is it four or five times I've done it?).

My other pleasure - I suppose I only call it guilty because it makes my DH roll his eyes, but he indulges me. It's being in on my presents being wrapped. I remember tantrumming as a child about having to leave the room so my birthday prezzies could be wrapped! So I insist on being there while my DH wraps my goodies - I just love hearing the Sellotape and paper, knowing that it's hiding something that's all for me! I am allowed in the room, and the wrapping happens under my nose, I can hear the rustling, the Christmas music (if it's Christmas presents), but there's a small price I have to pay: I'm blindfolded and can't see! DH won't bring the presents into the room until he's "confiscated my sight", or "wrapped up my eyes", or "condemned me to dark". Sad For fun I sometimes plead to be allowed to see, but I actually love the mystery. Grin

delphguelph · 22/07/2018 19:16

Mine is looking at one bedroom flats on Rightmove and imagining living alone in them

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Me too. I'd set up a tinder account too, and make the most of it.

delphguelph · 22/07/2018 19:17

Instead I stick to eating the hot fat off baked duck confit.

Applesandpears23 · 22/07/2018 19:20

Nutella from the jar with a spoon. No bread.

Skarossinkplungerridesagain · 22/07/2018 19:22

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ZispinAndChaga · 22/07/2018 19:27

Sims! And other computer games, mainly WoW, although I'm on a hiatus with that at the moment.

DoYouLikeHueyLewisandTheNews · 22/07/2018 19:27

Sticking a spoon through a new jar of coffee or hot chocolate (or Nutella!)
Picking my nose in the bathroom. Extra fantastic if dry
Serial killer podcasts on my drive to work
Nibbling all the chocolate off a Milky Way and rolling the remainder into a ball and shoving into my mouth

bridgetreilly · 22/07/2018 19:30

Adding fictional characters to wikipedia pages.

missmouse101 · 22/07/2018 19:42

Nesquick chocolate milkshake. I hide a pack in my bedroom drawer to have when alone. Also YES to the looking at 1 bedroom flats and fantasising about living there alone. I also love cheap cheesy crisps, 25p per bag ones from the newsagents. I keep a stash in my car boot! Conensed milk, straight from the tin....yum!

FurryDogMother · 22/07/2018 19:47

Wishlist shopping on Amazon. I add all sorts of things to my list, and it's almost as satisfying as actually buying them. If this laptop wasn't half dead, The Sims would be my guilty pleasure too, and WoW, and LOTRO. Also raw mushrooms dipped in Heinz Salad Cream.

I tried foie gras once because I'm a foodie, but also an animal lover - so just knowing what it tasted like was enough for me. Never going to eat it again, although it was divine. Once was enough.

charliebear78 · 22/07/2018 19:52

I am soo glad someone else mentioned it
Mine is also Picking my nose-I love the big cornflake like ones you can get!!! I refuse to tell you what I do with them though! :)
I KNOW it is disgusting-I would never do it in public ;)

BunsOfAnarchy · 22/07/2018 19:53

Watching RHOA (Real Housewives of Atlanta) on tv whilst also watching dr pimple popper extracting blackheads on YouTube.

Ultimate GP would be watching RHOA and extracting hubbys blackheads myself.

Omg i dont even care if im disgusting because it is sooooo satisfying.

MayhemandMadness01 · 22/07/2018 19:53

Lotus biscuit spread from the jar - yum!

moronseverywhere · 22/07/2018 19:54

Hooli I do that too!

JustHereForThePooStories · 22/07/2018 20:00

Sugar sandwiches

WilburIsSomePig · 22/07/2018 20:02

Watching shit telly.

Real Housewives/Love Island. Awful stuff. Love it.

FuckMePinkAndCallMeCedric · 22/07/2018 20:11

I watch toddlers and tiaras. And not just so I can judge the shocking parenting decisions of many of those appearing on the show. I actually like it Blush

I also seem to have an addiction to chocolate brioche from aldi (has to be aldi) I eat it when my kids aren’t around so I don’t have to share any of it.

EastMidsGPs · 22/07/2018 20:14

Eating chocolate whilst having a bath (favourite it Chocolate Orange)

Watching Say Yes To The Dress repeats especially with Lori and Monty. Although I did get distracted by SYTTD Ireland.

A bacon sandwich in cheap white contains no goodness bread, with huge dollop of tomato sauce

MorrisZapp · 22/07/2018 20:18

Temazepam. It's my cosy place.

tshirtsuntan · 22/07/2018 20:29

Occasional marlboro lights, chewing my toenails, £20 mascara I can't really afford but love...probably more, I try not too but seem to feel guilty quite regularly.

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