# Hit the Showers! (A Poll)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 18, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123 "2001-10-18T01:51:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/1 "2001-10-18T01:51:58Z")
When do you shower? At night, to prevent sleeping in your own funk? Or in the morning, to wake yourself up some and fix that nasty “bed head”?
I’m a morning showerer. You?
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/2 "2001-10-18T01:52:49Z")
I prefer to be a morning showerer, but the dorm showers are always crowded in the mornings, so I’ve been getting clean at night.
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/3 "2001-10-18T01:56:17Z")
In the morning…if I have company a shower is…acceptable at any time 😃
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/4 "2001-10-18T01:56:33Z")
In the morning - otherwise I am not awake enough to go to work.
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/5 "2001-10-18T01:59:08Z")
I’m a morning girl. My curly hair doesn’t fare well overnight. I have to tame it every AM.
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### Author:  [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/6 "2001-10-18T02:02:15Z")
Um…well, I don’t take showers. I take baths. But I am a night bather. I have a terrible habit of waking up too late for baths in the morning, plus I have a houseful of kids to get going in the mornings, as well.
I bathe at night, and when necessary (about every other day) I wash my hair in the mornings.
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### Author:  [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/7 "2001-10-18T02:03:00Z")
In the morning. I have oily hair and it needs refreshing before anyone’s allowed to see it.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/8 "2001-10-18T02:10:19Z")
Normally just in the morning to wake up. But if there is a funk involved, anytime. And anytime someone wants to scrub my back for me, morning, noon or night.
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### Author:  [@acconav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acconav)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/9 "2001-10-18T02:46:37Z")
i prefer to shower in the morning, but often i _know_ i won’t wake up early enough to shower, so i’ll do it the night before.
morning showers wake me up, but i’m such a slug in the morning that it usually takes me 20-30 minutes. night showers only take 5 minutes.
in other words, i usually end up showering at night.
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/10 "2001-10-18T02:52:24Z")
good evening friends,
morning or night? i shower when i get home from work. as an alarm technician i have usually spent the day climbing around attics or basements. i like to wash the sweat of the workday away, and eat dinner in clean, fresh clothing.
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### Author:  [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/11 "2001-10-18T02:54:32Z")
One of the things I routinely give thanks for was being born into the era of indoor plumbing.
Morning showerer, but it need not be an either-or situation. If I have noteworthy funk to sleep in, an evening shower is just the ticket.
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### Author:  [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/12 "2001-10-18T02:58:21Z")
I am most emphatically a **night** showerer, simply because I’ve got pretty long hair and it takes a while to dry. School starts at 8:15. My ride is at my house at 7:50. I get out of bed at 7 a.m. as it is, and there is no waaaaay in hell I’d get up at like, 6:15 to shower and dry my hair. Plus my family always hogs the showers in the mornings. I need my sleep, as much as I can get. It’s simpler.
Besides, going to sleep all clean and sweet-smelling is nice.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/13 "2001-10-18T03:03:55Z")
I’m a night shower convert, too. I can’t deal with “sleeping in my own funk”. I have a white-collar job so it’s not from hard labor sweat [sub] or perspiration for all you delicate ladies out there[/sub]. I just feel better being clean in the sheets.
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/14 "2001-10-18T03:07:26Z")
Night time bather. Well, a soak really. I never wash my hair at night otherwise I’ll have blisters on my scalp come morning. In the mornings I shower and alternate between shaving my legs or washing my hair.
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/15 "2001-10-18T03:14:03Z")
I shower when I get home from work since, in the words of my SO, I “smell like bakery” when I walk through the door. Besides, I gotta wash off all the sweat and the occasional chocolate smudges on my face.
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### Author:  [@Limerick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limerick)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/16 "2001-10-18T03:16:57Z")
Mmmm… I kind of shower whenever I get the chance. Not in an OCD kind of way–it’s just that I’m in animal science and so I am frequently…less than fragrent.
I always have to shower before bed after I’ve partied though. No matter how drunk and exhausted I am, I just can’t go to bed smelling like bar. Unless there’s a compelling reason to go straight to bed…
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/17 "2001-10-18T03:46:39Z")
Night time. In college, I couldn’t stand sleeping with the bar-smoke and beer smell and it stayed with me. Basically, not wanting to sleep on dirty sheets every night is the main thing.
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/18 "2001-10-18T03:51:48Z")
I shower at night. I wash my hair and in the morning so it dosen’t stick up.
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### Author:  [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/19 "2001-10-18T03:58:09Z")
uhhhh… both actually…
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### Author:  [@ski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ski)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-the-showers-a-poll/88123/20 "2001-10-18T03:58:12Z")
In college (and all while growing up), I showered at night. I just couldn’t drag myself out of bed in the mornings, plus, that’s when lots of other people showered.
But now I shower in the morning. I feel gross all day if I don’t. Plus there’s the bed-head hair problem.
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