The August Break prompt 'Guilty Pleasure' gave me some pause for thought. After a bit of head scratching I came to the conclusion that I really don't have a guity pleasure. Sometimes I feel guilty, and it is such an unpleasant sensation that no pleasure could ever be derived from it, and those things that give me pleasure are nothing to feel guilty about. So a Venn diagram of my guilty pleasures would have virtually no overlap.
However, in the spirit of the August Break, I eventually concluded that one area of slight overlap is my baking book collection. I could probably manage with 4 or 5, but instead I have many. I find the lure of a new baking book almost irresistable, and am strongly influenced by the writing style and book design as well as the actual recipes. My baking book shelf is testament to this (fairly harmless) guilty pleasure, though in my defence, they are well used, and well loved.
Do I feel guilty when I look at this shelf?...no, but I do feel lots of pleasure.