To think Mumsnetters are obsessed with being cosy

[Pigeonbilly]

It's driving me insane. Such a twee word. When did the cosy obsession start?

I think I'm just a person that hates being cooped up indoors. Even in winter I love freah air. It's only 15c but I've got all the windows open.

I love feeling cozy ! Bring back autumn, fleecy pyjamas, blankets, fairy lights, diptyque feu de bois candle, slow cooker !!! Cant wait 🥰

I don't know why you wouldn't want to be?!

I've never posted about being cosy. But I'd much rather that than alternatively being uncomfortable/cold.

I like to be cosy when I'm ill so not a good word really.

There’s a time and a place for being warm on your sofa but to read some posts it’s like some people’s whole life is sitting under a blanket on their sofa. Which is fine if that’s what they like but I’d feel very suffocated if that was my main pleasure and goal in daily life.
Worse than cosy for me though is people that ‘snuggle up under a blanket with a hot choc’ - if any of my dc tried that the hot chocolate would be upended all over themselves, the blankets and the fucking sofa. No chance, you’re up at the island with a bloody hot chocolate in this house!
Anyway, I do like sitting on my sofa with a blanket but when it’s cold and rainy and winter and I have nothing else to do.

This.

I love cute, cosy, quaint, charming things and places, and always have. 🥰

Is there anything stopping you from using your slow cooker now?

Totally agree with you OP. I think it was particularly apparent when people were discussing keeping warm without heating bills going mad. Perfectly reasonable of course but no one could mention socks without them being thick and fluffy. Jumpers had to be snuggly and blankets always fleecy. Cosy does my head in too!

Watch the news for half an hour... a cosy blanket to hide under is more appealing after that.

@ilovesooty slowcooker is more of a winter thing

Sounds perfect.

What's wrong with being comfortable and happy, doing your own thing, especially when the weather is shocking and the world has gone to hell in a handcart?

I've been homeless and possibly as a result treasure cosiness more than most. Being warm, comfy, with books to read or films to watch or crafting to do (or whatever else you're into) may seem mundane to some, but until you don't have it you don't know how precious it is.

Nothing beats a cosy poo

No, I love being outdoorsy too. Out in the fresh air, a long old walk in the woods/geocaching or a cycle ride but then coming home and snuggling up all cosy on the sofa with a warm drink. Bliss.

😳 say what now?

It's better than 'comfy'!

Do you wear fluffy slippers and light candles? Maybe take a mug of hot chocolate in with you?

Do you do it under a blanket with a hot choc and some candles burning?

🤣🤣 honestly! Have a poo wearing a comfy dressing gown, warm socks, playing on phone, no kids.... my mate and I call it a cosy poo 🤣

You could also call it a man poo 🤣🤣🤣

Me, too. And I'm not stopping now. I've got it to an art form. 😀

Who the fuck wants to sit in the house getting cosy in July?!

I wanna be out wearing nice little summer dresses and sandals and sunglasses drinking gin and tonic with mates in beer gardens

Don't we all! But the weather isn't sandals and sunglasses friendly sadly.

And even when it is, after months of heat and beer gardens one does hanker after roaring fires and candles. Well this one does anyway!

I’m in a Scandi country and we do use the word a lot (hygge/mysig), but, our rooms are definitely not small or stuffy with heavy curtains..quite the opposite! What you describe sounds like hell. 😂😅

@Arewehumanorarewecupboards

really?! There’s a big wide world out there - explore it , don’t hibernate!

@TheYearOfSmallThings , it might be July, but it was very chilly and wet here yesterday - in SW London, not Up North.

And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with ‘cosy’, unless you’re a Brit who spells it ‘cozy’.