Your Family's "Guilty Pleasure"

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tee_eff_em said:
(No cups of tee, please! :eek: )

Not my family’s guilty pleasure, but mine, mine, mine – All Mine!

I love seafood, and look forward to Fridays in Lent.

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I LOVE LOBSTER why is it so spendy??? I only have it once a year on my birthday at Red Lobster, yummy!! 😃
 
carol marie:
If we have it in the house, we eat chocolate cake for breakfast… with icecream, which technically is dairy. Plus cake is made w/ eggs so how could it NOT be breakfast food? How can a day that starts out with chocolate cake be anything but good??? I make the kids promise not to tell their teachers.

Pie is OK for breakfast too… since it’s made with fruit.
On the vintage Bill Cosby tape Himself, Bill describes what happened when he used this logic to give his children chocolate cake for breakfast, and what his wife had to say about it when the kids all turned on him!😉
 
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Peace-bwu:
We let our kids have sips of wine, we let our toddler stick her finger in dinner wine, and she likes it. After all, Catholic kids have to get ready to receive Communion somehow, LOL. At least this way they won’t spit it across the church.
As my wife would say, “No one can rationalize like a Catholic.”
Good for you, LOL!
 
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legeorge:
So many guilty pleasures, so little time! 😃

Our biggest ones: Computer time (way too many chores are neglected while on here 😉 ), too much TV, :
Computer time is bad around here.
My wife is addicted to two forums and I have to keep up on the latest computer news for work (or so I tell her).
It’s bad when I’m suppose to be reading for work and I have “Risk” going on one of my monitors. She gets pretty ticked about that.
 
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Lillith:
I love Cheesy movies from the eighties. Love to laugh at the way people looked…(angel wing hair that was curled on both sides all the way back to form a line in the back of the head)…the way folks danced…(lots of jumping going on in the eighties) and the silly valley girl phrases like gag me with a spoon.

These movies are really stupid and embarrassing to admit that I love!

Me too! I always find myself blabbing about how awful the eighties were (hair, fashion, music…) but then when I find an eighties movie on TV I just HAVE to watch it, lol.​

My personal guilty pleasure would have to be watching (and enjoying) just about every reality TV series ever made, lol. Boy does that feel good to say out loud!

Malia
 
Feanaro’s Wife said:

My personal guilty pleasure would have to be watching (and enjoying) just about every reality TV series ever made, lol. Boy does that feel good to say out loud!

Malia

Wow! Someone else who shares my secret life! 🙂

We don’t have cable but I manage with the shows on major networks and have bought DVDs like “The Newlyweds” to watch those series.

My husband will watch The Apprentice but that’s as far as it goes for him! 🙂
 
Every Sunday, for my family, it’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!” 😃
 
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Tonks40:
Every Sunday, for my family, it’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!” 😃
Oh, DH and I love that show. We both are in tears at the reveal.
 
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Katie1723:
Ok Rayne! When we get together…me…Momof3boys…LaChiara and anyone else brave enough to admit it, you bring your hubby for some Starbucks. We can have a taste test AND a good time.:whistle:

And just for the record…I DO NOT support Planned Parenthood, but like Affirmed said**…" Simply doing business with a company that “supports” PP in some unknown way does not make one morally culpable for what Planned Parenthood does." Or perhaps like BLB_Oregon said: "It is, really, about what we might admit that we do if there weren’t so many people out there willing to jump all over us about it." It just so happens that I choose to pick my battles, and coffee (Starbucks or otherwise) just isn’t one of them.

** From “you BRAZEN thing you”**
** ~ Kathy ~ 👋 **
Ok people… I had a priest tell me that it’s not immoral to buy or use the services of a company if what they provide is good services because we aer not in control of what they do with their money they honestly earned. We are all “six degrees removed” from everything so basically, you can go through your house and find SOMETHING that was bought either at a store that supports PP, that something is made by a company that supports PP, or you drove down a street that was made by a company that supports it’s manufacturers that has a small company percentage that might support a charity event that also by chance supports PP. I boycott what I can up to reason. Are you going to stop shopping at Walmart or Target because they sell a product (Johnson and Johnsons’) and J&J supports PP? Are those two stores supporting PP?

So… Kathy… add me and my hubby to your list of Starbucks drinkers… I’m not a big coffee drinker, but I do love their mochas. 😃
 
carol marie:
If we have it in the house, we eat chocolate cake for breakfast… with icecream, which technically is dairy. Plus cake is made w/ eggs so how could it NOT be breakfast food? How can a day that starts out with chocolate cake be anything but good??? I make the kids promise not to tell their teachers.

Pie is OK for breakfast too… since it’s made with fruit.
We have a tradition… the morning after Thanksgiving, pie for breakfast. Ala mode, if you like.

I also sometimes let my kids drink coffee (I should say lattes; they don’t like coffee black), although only before 9 am and only if I’m going to be the one caring for them that day. That way, if they go on a caffeine frenzy, it’s on my head. As far as I can tell, the caffeine has never had a noticeable effect.

For the record, the most incorrect breakfast they’ve ever had: Lattes in a demitasse cups, each with a 1/4 shot of espresso, with a Krispy Creme donut each. Having always had to score sips of latte from me, they could not believe their good fortune.

This maybe happens every six months. The first time they had this, they were five years old. I think that once they decided to have a scrambled egg or a piece of Canadian bacon on the side. Every other meal of the day, the starch has 3-4 grams of fiber.

There are fast days, ordinary days, and feast days in life. It’s about temperance. Five is not to young to learn that just because a food has too much sugar or fat or not enough nutrition to eat often does not make it a bad food. It only means that if it a food that you like, you’ll have to learn some restraint.

You can see why I started this thread. My list of “transgressions” is long.
 
You’ll have to forgive my other post about PP… about four other people said it before i got done reading… please forgive me for the redundancy! :o

I LOVE the crime/drama shows on TV. House, CSI (the original and Miami), Law & Orders (the original and SVU), now Bones (I love to read Kathy Reichs books), and when I’m in my insomnia modes… I watch all the Plastic surgery Before and AFter type stuff. I love to laugh at the people that look normal but feel they have to have plastic surgery or they give their 18 year old daughter a breast job for her 18th birthday (to enhance her social life!)

this thread is so fun to read!!! thanks to all of you for sharing your indulgences. I’m realizing “I do that too!” 😃
 
Ours is TV in general… we even let our 2 yo son watch “King of the Hill” on Fox! Yeah, that’s gotta stop here soon… :rolleyes:

My husband and I just love wasting time on shows that are sometimes less than worth it. But “Lost” is our favorite!

My own personal guilty pleasure is spending valuable free time while the kids are napping on Catholic Answers Forum!

Speaking of which, I should get to the laundy… right after I read this next thread… 😃
 
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EricCKS:
POPCORN! My family eats at least 3 huge bowls of popcorn a week. Our popper has the capacity to pop a cup of kernals at a time and we have made two cups in an evening and cleaned it all up. There is 4 of us! Lots of REAL butter and salt. On Sunday evening you better not stop buy and expect a gourmet meal because it is usually made in the popper and that may be all we eat:)

Thanks
Eric
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You can see my parakeet likes it too 😃 He is part of the family too!
 
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Consecrated:
Ours is TV in general… we even let our 2 yo son watch “King of the Hill” on Fox! Yeah, that’s gotta stop here soon… :rolleyes:
Yes, our kids are on TV rations… it started as the “suicide watch” years ended and the “living under surveillance” years started. (We adults being the ones under surveillance, as in “That guy in the pickup just cut me off! He, he…* he* is not being safe!”)

When they are old enough to see something without repeating it or re-enacting it, then they can watch more of what we watch, and I will introduce them to the joys of letting Bugs Bunny eternally poison one’s experience of the “Barber of Seville.”

Luckily, they like watching remodels on H&G Channel (also known around here as the “Your House Isn’t Good Enough” channel). Power tools!
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Consecrated:
My own personal guilty pleasure is spending valuable free time while the kids are napping on Catholic Answers Forum!

Speaking of which, I should get to the laundy… right after I read this next thread…
I stand condemned with you. See you tomorrow!
 
one word- CANDY. Poor daughters similarly afflicted. Darling husband doesn’t care for it, I don’t get that at all.
Can someone please start a thread of funny family stories? Being the youngest of eight (and the most picked on IMHO) I have a lot. I don’t know how to start threads, but that flying frying pan and killer granny story have me laughing.
 
A nice glass of white wine once in a while. sometimes I’ll even have a second;)
 
Ours is TV in general… we even let our 2 yo son watch “King of the Hill” on Fox! Yeah, that’s gotta stop here soon… :rolleyes:

My husband and I just love wasting time on shows that are sometimes less than worth it. But “Lost” is our favorite!

My own personal guilty pleasure is spending valuable free time while the kids are napping on Catholic Answers Forum!

Speaking of which, I should get to the laundy… right after I read this next thread… 😃
 
On request from the “Guilty Pleasure” thread.
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Lovemyfaith:
Can someone please start a thread of funny family stories? Being the youngest of eight (and the most picked on IMHO) I have a lot. I don’t know how to start threads, but that flying frying pan and killer granny story have me laughing.
The stories in question were not just funny, they were terrible:
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Arlene:
… this reminded me of a bit of family lore that happened way before I was born. My mom and dad were having a doozy of a fight, and my mom threw a cast iron skillet at my dad, then called him a coward cause he ducked. Per the story, she screamed at him, “You gd coward, stand there and take it like a man!!”
Not funny, but what can I say???
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BLB_Oregon:
One involves a family member whom the family would not permit to drive. Stories of her ineptitude abound, but the last straw was when she ran over a neighbor’s dog that was sleeping on the warm pavement in his own driveway. She honked the horn, then just kept going. Thuh-thump. Thuh-thump. Yes! She ran over the poor thing twice! The only “up” side to the story is that the animal may have never known what hit him. Her excuse? “Well, I honked! I thought he’d get up!” Awful, tragic, terrible, but… funny.
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vluvski:
while we’re talking about pet executions, my fiance’s grandmother dismembered her cat when it was resting comfortably in the inner workings of her recliner. :eek:
Telling family stories that some people in this world would hide because they think they are “not funny” is definitely a “guilty pleasure”…because they aren’t just funny, they are hilarious. I think that if the story had a happy ending, it may be re-told as a comedy. Isn’t it true that the best comedies in literature are the ones that so easily could have been tragedies? And even some true tragedies are so stupid or so sad that you still just have to laugh. Then cry. Then cry with laughing.

Ok, so add “Kids don’t you try this” when you tell them the truth about the knuckle-headed things their siblings or their ancestors did way back when. Our family has to do this, as some of them involve dynamite, and others involve driving under the influence. We tell them, anyway. Sorry, but… they’re funny.

Repeat Disclaimer! KIDS, YOUNG AND OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER!! DON’T YOU TRY ANY OF THIS!!!
THESE STORIES ARE FOR REPEATING… NOT RE-ENACTING!! (This means YOU, David Letterman!!)

Now… Pass out the Kleenex and Let the story-telling begin!
 
I do not go to Starbuck’s because…

…I go to Dunkin’ Donuts!!! I love their coffee!!! I have to go after I’ve had a decent snack or breakfast, because then I would have a doughnut or six.
 
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OutinChgoburbs:
I do not go to Starbuck’s because…

…I go to Dunkin’ Donuts!!! I love their coffee!!! I have to go after I’ve had a decent snack or breakfast, because then I would have a doughnut or six.
Aren’t the Boston Cremes the best:thumbsup:
 
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