15 x recognizable guilty pleasures
We might as well be honest about it: everyone has their quirky traits, guilty pleasures that you’d rather not share with the world, but which are probably secretly favorites for many people. It happened this weekend when I indulged in one of my favorite guilty pleasures: I found out that I wasn't the only one with this specific GP. My neighbor across the street reacted extremely enthusiastically that he too secretly enjoys the kind of cheesy American crime shows that I was reading on my little balcony. I thought it was unseen until he cheerfully brought it up. After exchanging various book recommendations in this genre, we thought we should actually set up a little system to keep sending each other books this way. How cozy.
But all this made me curious: what other guilty pleasures does the Amayzine editorial team hide? The majority rules, so here’s the list of our most recognizable guilty pleasures:
- Eating Nutella with a spoon. If you haven't tried this yet: don't start. You can never stop once you do. Before you know it, the jar is empty.
- Watching bad reality TV shows. From Love Island and Temptation to Geordy Shore and Ex on the Beach. Horrible, cringe, but fantastically terrible.
- Sitting on the edge of the bathtub in a towel after showering, staring blankly ahead.
- Watching CSI Miami and Flikken Maastricht-like series. It's so predictable and so bad.
- Conducting Insta-investigations of people you don't even know. Before you know it, you're completely lost in the breakup of the best friend of your teacher's nephew and her husband.
- Secretly eating unhealthy food when the kids are in bed. Let that McDonald's come.
- Listening to Christmas songs in the summer. Why should they be seasonal?
- Watching all the Harry Potter movies 100 times. As soon as it rains a little, snuggling under a blanket on the couch, lighting candles, and being able to recite every line while holding back because you don't want to ruin it for the one who forces you to join in this obsession.
- Reading bad books but only posting heavy literature on Insta. Those Fifty Shades of Grey-like books, but also James Patterson crime novels.
- Scrolling through Funda and looking at houses that are way above your budget (and you don't even want to move), only to then criticize the kitchen for the ugly handles: ‘Yeah hello, I really don't want to live there.’ And on.
- Taking vitamin C pills like they're candy. This is definitely a product that I understand has ‘keep out of reach of children’ on the jar.
- Turning on Bizzey and dancing really badly. Come on, we’ve all been there.
- Eating frozen pizzas. The really disgusting ones, which my Italian family would be mortified about if they ever found out.
- Eating cocktail sausages cold from the can and taking a sip of the liquid. Gross, but apparently more people do this.
- Staying on the toilet for a long time. Scrolling through Insta, playing games, or shopping online. Maybe it also plays a part that it's the only space in the house where you can really be completely alone and sit in silence.
