It has always been my understanding that most people take showers in the morning. I do not. I’m not sure when I started taking showers at night, but I think it was around age ten.
For the past week I’ve tried taking morning showers because I got tired of taking showers at night when others are doing laundry or washing dishes (which mess with the water pressure in my shower). But I ended up hating it. I hate rushing to take a shower in the morning and drying my hair. My hair isn’t even that long but it takes ten or fifteen minutes to dry, and I plan on growing it out to past my shoulders.
I like taking showers at night because I don’t feel rushed. I can take as long as I want. And I like getting clean after the day is done.
So who else takes showers at night and why. Surely I can’t be the only one.
Why? I suppose it’s because taking a long hot shower is just a great way to end a day. When I wake up, I don’t want to do anything more than sit/lay on my couch for a good ten minutes, and try to come to terms with whatever it is I need to do that day. After that, I like to start breakfast.
I’m a night showerer, which completely baffles my husband. I don’t like going to bed feeling dirty. I like to be nice and clean - the sheets feel so nice against freshly washed skin. Plus, my hair dries as I sleep, so it’s really much less of a pain.
My son’s an afternoon showerer. He likes to come home from school, do a bit of homework and then take a shower. A long shower. I don’t want to know. (LALALALALALA I can’t hear you!)
Husband’s a morning showerer. All in all, it works well for the family. We’re never waiting impatiently for the other to be done.
I have no preference and take one or the other as the need or desire strikes me. A hot shower at night to relax me before bed is nice but so is a cool one in the morning to wake me up.
No, I do both.
These days I have a toddler so I take a shower whenever I damn well get a second.
I agree, though. There’s something relaxing about going to bed clean and not being rushed or wet in the morning. Sometimes I just do not like to be wet.
I shower before bed for pretty much the same reason as the OP: it’s one less thing to do in the morning (though drying my hair’s not an issue 'cause I have a buzzcut). It’s all I can do to drag myself out of bed, suck down some coffee, throw some clothes on and run out the door to get to work on time. It’s a routine I’ve mastered, and taking a shower would add at least ten minutes and bust my groove.
I began showering at night years and years ago, when I first began teaching preschool. Working at the school made me feel awfully grubby at the end of the day. Showering at night was the obvious solution. This was when all of the other benefits mentioned (going to bed clean, having one less thing to do in the morning etc) dawned on me.
Husband showers in the morning, it wakes him up. Ditto older son. Younger son does either one depending on how he feels.
27 years later I am still teaching preschool, but if/when I retire I will continue to shower at night. Can’t imagine going to bed dirty ever again.
This is wonderful, I don’t feel alone anymore I’ve always showered before bed for the same reasons given, more time, hard to get going in the am, nice way to decompress after the day.
I have always showered at night. I guess I never grew out of the childhood routine. Actually, I have an excuse. My hair is long (like, l-o-n-g, about 40 inches root to tips), and to keep the split ends under control, I refuse to blow-dry it. So, if I waited till morning to shower, I would have wet hair for half the day. If I shower in the evening, it’s reasonably dry by the time I go to bed, and in the morning I just put it up (which takes two minutes) and go.
The few times in my life that I’ve had to take a rushed morning shower, I really hated it. It’s jarring.
I prefer to shower in the morning, but my wife likes to shower before bed. She goes to bed while still damp, and the sheets and and her pillow get wet. That’s one of the few annoyances I have. In the Florida summer, I’ll have a shower as soon as I get in the door from work and sit by a fan and get dry, otherwise, I have to wake up first before I can get water all over me.
I shower at night because the rest of my family takes their shower in the morning. It’s much less hassel if I don’t have to wait for someone to be done. That and because I hate blow drying my hair and it takes forever to dry. And with it being winter, wet hair freezes mighty fast.
So, for those of you who shower at night, how do you handle the hair problem - bedhead?
I’d rather shower at night, but when I wake up, particularly if I’ve gone to bed with wet hair, but even with dry hair sometimes, I have the most atrocious bedhead that nothing but completely wetting down my hair will bring under control - which makes it easier to shower in the morning.
For the record, I’ve got shoulder length curlyish hair - but not long enough to pull back at night if I go to bed with it wet.
I’ve always showered before bed for the same reasons given, more time, hard to get going in the am, nice way to decompress after the day.
