Mundane things that give you satisfaction

Yeah, these are the kinds of things that should give me satisfaction, but all too often I don’t even notice them until they’re not there.

Watching people get ticketed for forgetting to move their car for street cleaning, by one minute.

Brand new socks. You just can’t beat the comforting feeling of new cotton socks going on for the first time. They’re so soft, and the elasticity will never be the same again. Ahh, I love new socks…

You’re not alone on this. We have a run of lights near us - getting through them all on green is called Crossing The Red Sea.

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Watching a youtube video of a very overgrown, out-of-control yard being mown and trimmed and weed-whacked until it’s nice and neat.

It’s a specialty of Fill’s Lawn Care.

Watching the Cowboys lose.
Watching the Raiders lose.
Watching the Yankees lose.
And especially… watching the Cheatstro’s lose.

Not quite the first thing that came to mind*, but I also enjoy the comfort of driving barefoot, especially on longer trips.

*it was bacon.

Getting the ice off the inside of my freezer when I’m defrosting it.

The first five minutes of silence after my kids all go off to school, when I finally get to drink my tea. Especially when I got it when it’s strong enough to melt the spoon but not bitter.

Making a new recipe and it comes out perfect and want to do it again. Tonight was gnocchi - Home made potato pasta.

Nailed it.

Finishing my book right at the end of my scheduled reading time, preferably on a Friday.

Warm shoes when going out in winter.
After long soak in sauna you come home and have bed made with fresh linen. (Always remember to change your bed sheets before going to sauna.)
Perfectly cooked pasta.

It is oddly satisfying when entire plaques of ice slide right out and the end of the job looms into sight. I’ve actually just finished defrosting mine. What used to be a two-day affair involving mopping, swearing and eating out until Monday now takes less than two hours.

ooooo! scraping a windscreen with a good scraper.

A newly discovered mundane thing that gives me satisfaction is that now I can now point and say “@CorpusNeptune uses Brave…”

I appreciate plenty of people use Brave - I just never knew of any others. I’m sad …

Starting up a computer game I haven’t played in a while and still remembering the controls.

So many times I’ve had to start a new game just to play through the tutorial if I haven’t played something in a long time because I forgot everything. It’s not like Atari when you just had a stick and one button, an XBox controller has over a dozen buttons on it, and most modern games use every one of them.

Waking up on a weekend morning at the normal time I’d wake up during the work week, and realizing that I don’t have to get up and get ready. There’s something eminently satisfying about that particular feeling for me.

Putting on a fresh mask, hearing the tiny pops as I stretch out the pleats.

Even better, if I feel so awake that I choose not to waste this time going back to sleep. Instead, I can putter around the house doing whatever non-critical things that catch my fancy, with no pressure at all, and I’m awake enough to appreciate it.

Aww, you shouldn’t have. :blue_heart:

I’m actually pretty new to Brave (I used Firefox beforehand), but I must say I quite enjoy it. Very glad I switched.

The foldable corrugated plastic chute I bought for my lawn/leaf bags. I hate wrestling with those giant paper bags, trying to keep them open while I’m emptying the bag from the mower or trying to dump leaves in. This thing holds the bag open and keeps it upright until I’ve got it full enough to stand on its own. I love it and wish I had bought one years ago.