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To ask for your favourite gross thing to do?

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HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 19:48

What's your favourite thing that people consider gross but you love doing?

Do you take ultimate joy in cleaning a plug hole? Is clearing your gutters the most satisfying feeling? Is it getting your ear wax out that makes you happy?

For me, it's plucking out ingrown hairs. I love doing this and at least twice a week take tweezers to my legs and dig them all out. Some think it's disgusting, I find it incredibly satisfying. Plus, it annoys me to see them.

So what is your "thing" that makes you happy?

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TestingTestingWonTooFree · 18/08/2019 19:50

It’s not all that disgusting but I love cleaning the tumble dryer fluff filter.

PositiveVibez · 18/08/2019 19:54

I do it in secret, but plucking my tache and beard/chin hairs.

When dd is in bed and dh is watching sport in the other room or is on a late shift, out comes my magnifying mirror with lights on and my tweezerman's.

It's so damn satisfying.

Mollyboboff · 18/08/2019 19:54

I have an open pore near my chest bone , every few months I can give it a squeeze and a little bit of gunk comes out.

Kplpandd · 18/08/2019 19:55

Same as @PositiveVibez love tweezing my chin hair lol

Bezalelle · 18/08/2019 19:56

Squeezing a nice long thread of gunge out of my old belly button piercing. I let it build up over about six months then have at it.

HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 19:58

@TestingTestingWonTooFree I hate that job (but know it's necessary) so you're welcome to do mine! Wink

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HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 20:00

@PositiveVibez That sounds like it'd be incredible to see the difference! I don't get chin hairs yet, but when I do I'll be plucking! @Kplpandd It seems I'm not alone with you both loving plucking too!

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SimonJT · 18/08/2019 20:00

Squeezing spots/blocked pores, my boyrfriend had a few juicy ones on his shoulder on Thursday night, very satisfying to squeeze.

QueenofallIsee · 18/08/2019 20:01

I have an old belly piercing but I don’t get anything as cool as that! Unfair!

HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 20:01

@Mollyboboff and @Bezalelle Those both sound a bit grim, but I sort of can get it. I wouldn't leave gunk for six months though! Ewww. Envy

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PutyourtoponTrevor · 18/08/2019 20:03

Chin hairs here too, and chewing the hard skin I peel off my feet

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 18/08/2019 20:06

Chewing foot skin?! Envy

HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 20:07

@PutyourtoponTrevor Foot skin?

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HarrietSchulenberg · 18/08/2019 20:10

I used to love picking off DS3's cradle cap. Could spend whole afternoons doing it!

He's 12 now and those days have long gone Sad.

Dieu · 18/08/2019 20:10

I get such grim satisfaction from pulling the hair out the shower plug.

Rainbowknickers · 18/08/2019 20:11

Popping my fellas back spots
The git is running out of them
I get awful spots on my fanjo so spend 10 mins a month with a mirror
I enjoy degunking the hair out of the bath plug hole too

I’m a gross twat

doodlejump1980 · 18/08/2019 20:11

Doing a biore nose strip thingy

Aprillygirl · 18/08/2019 20:14

I used to love denitting the kids hair with a comb and popping them dead with my fingernail. Soo sayisfying.

Bumbags · 18/08/2019 20:15

I love all these things.

I also love cleaning the outdoor dustbin.

GabsAlot · 18/08/2019 20:28

plucking my chin but i suppose its not gross i do like it though

Damntheman · 18/08/2019 20:31

I take amazing satisfaction from scratching insect bites to oblivion and then picking the scabs off for weeks. Which is probably why my limbs are covered in sad little white round scars.. just can't stop it though :( took everything I had to not pick off the chicken pox scabs from my kids!

sqirrelfriends · 18/08/2019 20:32

I really love watching YouTube video's of people squeezing blackheads and popping spots.

I do love a good squeeze but don't get much of an opportunity these days.

PutyourtoponTrevor · 18/08/2019 21:10

You said gross, the rest of these are pretty tame and I don't eat it, just chew it

HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 21:19

@HarrietSchulenberg Yes for the cradle cap! My DC had it and I loved picking it off when it went all soft!

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HeartboxTeddy · 18/08/2019 21:21

@Dieu You should volunteer to do everyone's who can't stand them on MN! Just kidding but seriously it's amazing that you can stomach it, I really can't!

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