AIBU to love looking in people’s windows!

[LittleRa]

I’m on maternity leave and my baby loves the pram (was a surprise as older DD hated it!) and naps well it, but wakes up when I stop walking. I also do the school run twice a day for older DD. So I find myself wandering around the streets, exploring parts of the neighbourhood I haven’t been to before. I love looking into people’s front windows! It feels so nosy What they have on their walls; art work, photos etc, how their furniture is arranged, where their TV is positioned (and how big it is!) have all become a source of fascination to me. Has my baby brain turned to mush and I need to get out (of the nearby streets) more? Is is terribly bad manners? Anyone else like a good nose into front windows?
Disclaimer- from the street! Not entering gardens/yards and pressing my nose up against the glass! And also not stopping and gawping- always moving along (aforementioned sleeping baby!)

I love it, but it's habit BUT IT'S WELL RUDE!!!

Omg I do this too hahaha I like to get ideas for my home to !! And I am super curious. Specially the homes that havnt been touched since built I always wonder what their like inside!
So sad people find it funny hut I am curious I'd love to urban explore some old buildings !!

So nosy

When I used to commute to/from London, I’d look out the train window to see other people’s design ideas.

I don’t see an issue with it if you look while walking past. But to stop and stare, for a little while, that I’d think would be weird.

Me too, drives me mad when people draw their curtains and I cannot see.

Yes I am very nosy but was also brought up to believe it is the height of rudeness so I try to resist.

I get the temptation, but it's really rude. I get really fed up with people doing that, we have a small front garden so people are able to get a really good gawp in and it makes me so uncomfortable. I deliberately try to make eye contact with the nosy fuckers now, in the hope it puts them off next time.

Will be glad to be moving to somewhere with a more enclosed front garden and where there isn't so much foot traffic going past.

No I don’t do this but I think it’s human nature to look

I do have an Amazon delivery guy though like you. Instead of knocking the door he likes to walk over to thr living room window and peer in. Even trying to hand me the parcel through the window and not through the door a few feet away. Sigh.

I look on right move a lot particularly if someone puts their house up for sale locally as I’m very nosey but I don’t look in peoples windows as i dislike people doing that as they walk past my kitchen

I put privacy film on my front and back windows to stop people like you doing this. I'm a very private person and my home is my sanctuary.

It's my secret shame 🤣🤣 yet I'm the one with privacy film on my windows 🙈🙈

I love it when the nights start to draw I , about dusk when people have their lights on and haven't drawn the curtains

That is so rude, honestly! Surprised you think otherwise.

I had to put up privacy film due to nosy fuckers like you.

I do this but through Instagram and rightmove, I love to see how people live.

We have a drive so nobody can see in from the road (much as I like to look out!), but one of the Amazon delivery men likes to knock on the window of the sitting room and look in, showing me the parcel, whilst on his way to the front door. It drives me mad, such an intrusion. We have a standing instruction to leave parcels in the porch anyway.

Why is it rude? If you don't want people to be able to see through your windows, cover them up.

@bigbaggyeyes

I love it when the nights start to draw I , about dusk when people have their lights on and haven't drawn the curtains

That’s the best time of day to do it

@GreyhoundG1rl

Why is it rude? If you don't want people to be able to see through your windows, cover them up.

I have nets up, but it conceals very little. I don't really want to have my curtains shut all day long, and shouldn't have to just because people have no self control.

It's natural to be inquisitive about your surroundings and look around you as you walk

A quick glance is normal and acceptable imho but it is obviously rude to stop and stare

If people really hate the thought of people being able to see inside their house from the street then they really need blinds/ net curtains

That’s the best time of day to do it
Yeah, I time dog walks for that particular window (in a manner of speaking 😂)

I love it! Especially when I’m on a train and I can have a nosey at their back gardens!!

I do it all the time. I know all the houses on all the streets near me (DS takes a lot of exercising), and I have opinions about the people who live in the houses, and favourite houses. They get bonus points for a cat, bookshelves or great lampshade, but nul points for a massive TV on the wall.

I think it's partly because I grew up in a suburb with big front gardens, walls fences etc, and a fair few net curtains back then. Now I live with streets of Victorian houses with tiny front yards, and many of the houses have knocked through so you can see the kitchen too.

We actually invite window staring here by doing a local advent calendar where different houses get a number and theme their front windows for children to look at.

I definitely don’t stop and stare- if I stopped, the baby would wake up! Gotta keep moving…

God, I miss this about the UK, walking home and getting the little glimpses of people's lives. Best at Christmas. Where I am in Melbourne, most houses are set well back, behind walls.

When we lived in London, the Eurostar used to occasionally stop at the bottom of the garden and the passengers waved at us doing the washing up. We never minded, and waved back.

My kitchen is at the front of the house, the only one on the street, and without fail passersby look up. I don't use blinds or curtains. Not fussed. They can see me cooking. Or dancing around like a mad thing.

I like to see that someone’s front room has lots of books, or a piano, or lots of artwork on the walls etc. But I’m also a private person myself so I NEVER stop to look, and it’s usually a split-second glance since I feel I’m being nosy. The best is autumn/winter when it’s dark and people have their low lamps on, so cosy looking!