Bonus unpopular opinion: Spending time/energy/money each year to get multiple sets of family photos done is completely overrated when you have little kids. They don't cooperate anyway.
I know I'd done other unpopular opinions posts in the last few years, but the most recent one was the only one I'd really considered when I wrote these ones out recently...
1. I don't get the trend of ordering all your clothes from Amazon.
#1 It's usually fast fashion, cheaply made, with little to nothing in the way of tags and the sizing is pretty random.
#2 I really like feeling a material (or knowing what a material will feel like from a trusted retailer) before I buy.
#3 It seems really wasteful? To have multiples of the same item, just because you want more than one color?
2. I don't like Taylor Swift. Her music jumped the shark around 2014 and I get that she's this supposed pop culture icon but she's not that good at...anything? I liked her a lot back in the day.
3. I play with the TV volume constantly so I'm pretty unpopular in this house. Since Scott generally stays up later than I do, he'll watch TV sometimes after I force myself to bed, but if I can even hear a snippet of sound from the living room, it keeps me up. So we're constantly at odds over TV volume. It is a problem we've never in the world had until we moved into this shoebox. (It's also why, with all the problems stairs create, I want a two-story house very soon.)
But even when we're watching together or I'm watching by myself, I need the remote in my hand. I feel like the volume changes within a show multiple times and don't get me started on commercials. I classify myself as a HSP when it comes to loud noises and bright lights so this explains some of it, I think.
4. Hard seltzer is awful. I always think it will taste good. I always want to enjoy it. I want to be #extrabasic too, I suppose. But half of a hard seltzer will land me with a 3 day hangover.
5. I don't like buying snacks at Trader Joe's. I find the flavors to be off, even if they are a fun novelty. Most of the chips/crackers are way too salty, and I'm not someone who is picky about salt. (In fact, I once contemplated breaking up with someone because he complained that the chips at a restaurant were too salty...I added that to my reasons to break up with him, later on.)
6. I'm 97% sure that the moms who insist they do "no screen time" and wear it as a badge of honor are moms who either work full-time or have live-in help. Because if we weren't home all day without a schedule I had to keep, not just one I attempt to create, Wells would probably never watch TV.
7. Do not refer to me as "mama". This is a huuuuuuge pet peeve. Unless you are my child or talking to my child about me, I have a name. In fact, I've been listening to this podcast and I like it but I cringe and consider turning it off during the opening every week when they refer to the listener as "mama". I don't understand how THEY don't understand that they're alienating people this way.
What's your current unpopular opinion?
