# Taking Showers at Night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212 "2004-12-05T14:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mirasol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mirasol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirasol)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/41 "2004-12-05T21:43:50Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Conserve water shower with a friend =) Or, [Take a bubble bath with Jesus!](http://www.datejesus.com/bathe/) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/42 "2004-12-05T21:58:37Z")
But don’t get the soap in his eyes, it will make him cry! ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/43 "2004-12-05T22:01:12Z")
I shower at night, right before I go to bed on the weekdays. On weekends, I sleep really late, then lounge around in my pajamas for a while, so I end up taking a shower around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. As for bedhead, my hair is such a mess anyway that it hardly seems to matter. My hair is really short, like three or four inches all over my head, and it sticks out all over the place. (That’s why I cut it all off. It was such a pain to take care of.) Bedhead just means it sticks out a little more. It calms down a lot after I brush it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/44 "2004-12-05T22:11:33Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Conserve water shower with a friend =) > > Hm, No Mercy for Swine - Cherry Poppin Daddies? Well, well, my reputation _does_ precede me… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/45 "2004-12-05T23:37:05Z")
> [@SusanStoHelit](#): > > Not as bad for you as it is to walk around in 10 degree weather with damp hair (can you say pneumonia?). I thought that was an old wives’ tale, that pneumonia was caused by bacteria or a virus. Not calling you an old wife or anything… As for the OP, I prefer morning showers, because they do wake me up. However, I have a toddler and an infant and when I go back to work in a few weeks, I’m thinking I will have to switch over to evening showers, since there’s no way I’d be able to get everybody up and out in the morning otherwise. We’ll see how the adjustment goes, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![uncleangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@uncleangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncleangus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/46 "2004-12-05T23:55:10Z")
Daily showering? Once a week Saturday night in the big steel tub was fine with the hard working sweaty settlers wasn’t it? I believe all the children reused the same water. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/47 "2004-12-06T00:09:43Z")
> [@uncleangus](#): > > Daily showering? > Once a week Saturday night in the big steel tub was fine with the hard working sweaty settlers wasn’t it? > I believe all the children reused the same water. Well, then, I guess it’s no coincidence that I read your username as Unclean Gus, is it? 😉 Ickily enough, your pores are expressing your body’s waste products amidst the oil and sweat all day and all of the night. So, I shower each morning and in the evenings before going out. And if that going out involved going somewhere smoky, it’s back in the shower before getting in bed. Sound like a lot? I have a pal who showers each time they have a BM. Not only then, though, don’t worry! eeewwwwww. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/48 "2004-12-06T00:46:02Z")
> [@Portia](#): > > Well, then, I guess it’s no coincidence that I read your username as Unclean Gus, is it? > 😉 > Ickily enough, your pores are expressing your body’s waste products amidst the oil and sweat all day and all of the night. So, I shower each morning and in the evenings before going out. And if that going out involved going somewhere smoky, it’s back in the shower before getting in bed. Sound like a lot? I have a pal who showers each time they have a BM. Not only then, though, don’t worry! eeewwwwww. But those oils are there for a reason- they’re protective. Don’t you run into skin irritation problems with that much washing? ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/49 "2004-12-06T01:19:55Z")
It would be nice to shower in the evening during the winter, because it’s so darned COLD in the morning (getting up before the sun rises sucks :mad: ). But I can’t do that because of the aforementioned bedhead problem. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/50 "2004-12-06T01:31:40Z")
In the winter, I like to shower in the evening because…I don’t know, it’s just me. I guess it’s because it’s so cold in the morning, like **iwakura43** said. But in the summer, I love showering in the morning because I can go outside and dry off and enjoy the sunrise. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/51 "2004-12-06T02:00:40Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > But those oils are there for a reason- they’re protective. Don’t you run into skin irritation problems with that much washing? Are you talking about my skin or theirs? For me, I can tell you that the days where I shower more than once aren’t more than a couple times a week, I don’t go out all that often during the school term. Plus, as a woman in her thirties, I’m a moisturizing fiend. As for my friend…I don’t ask nor have I ANY visual verification! I agree that the oils are there for a reason, but they’re not alone; they’re accompanied by the chemicals your body has no use for and needs to excrete. For example, eat a bunch of strongly spiced food for a few weeks, and you’ll start to smell like it! ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/52 "2004-12-06T02:10:39Z")
I’m a morning showerer because I have to blow-dry my hair and I don’t want to waste all that effort on a pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/53 "2004-12-06T02:41:31Z")
I shower at night. My hair isn’t thick, but if I showered in the morning I’d have to get up way earlier to let it air dry. A hair dryer makes it all straight and icky looking. Plus I don’t like going to bed all gamey. In the summer I shower at night and sometimes during the day if it’s particularly sticky outside. There’s no better feeling than laying naked on your bed after a shower with a fan blowing on you when it’s hot and humid outside. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/54 "2004-12-06T02:53:19Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > 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 have to shower at night, because I curl my hair with a curling iron every day-otherwise, it’s too flat and flyaway. You can’t use a curling iron on wet hair, and trying to shower, use a blow dryer AND a curling iron would be way too time consuming. If I had my preference, though, I’d shower at night and wash my hair, then the next morning get up, curl my hair, set it in curlers, and jump in the shower for a quick rinse. (With a shower cap, duh). But that would set our water bill through the roof. I can’t stand going to bed without taking a shower and washing my hair. Yuck, yuck yuck. By early evening, my hair starts to get really greasy and clumps together. Which reminds me-I’m off to hit the shower! ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/55 "2004-12-06T03:11:23Z")
I shower at night. Always have. I don’t want to have to wake up even earlier in the morning to shower. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/56 "2004-12-06T03:14:34Z")
I like showering right after I get home for the day. Usually this is in the afternoon. It just seems right. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/57 "2004-12-06T03:16:58Z")
> [@sidle](#): > > These days I have a toddler so I take a shower whenever I damn well get a second. Oh man, do I hear that. I’ve been taking showers in the evening, simply just to have a minute to myself and to wind down. I can’t leave the house without taking a shower in the mornings though and I’ve been so busy the last few days that I’ve been taking two showers a day (actually, a shower in the AM and, when I have the energy, a bath after Alex goes to bed). Previous thread on a similar topic: [Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=93757). Oh, and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245568) is another somewhat related thread. Ahhh, showers. Both of these threads have aged a bit, but I thought they’d be an interesting read for the people in this thread. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/58 "2004-12-06T04:39:48Z")
I sometimes shower or bathe at night. In fact, I started filling up the tub right before I saw this thread. I usually shower before leaving the gym at 8 or 9 at night. So night baths are for non-workout days. But I do enjoy mornings when I’m already shaved and showered. For all the reasons night showerers have given above. Bedhead is for all of you hirsute losers. You should do like I did and go bald before 30. ---
**Author:** ![handmelder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@handmelder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handmelder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/59 "2004-12-06T05:21:40Z")
I shower at night to get rid of the day and any energy of clients that might stick to me,( I’m a massage therapist). I also shower in the morning to start the day,Nothing, absolutely Nothing, happens before coffee and a shower in the A.M.If I’m really busy I’m liable to change my t-shirt up to three times a day! What the hell, I’m already doing laundry every day. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212/60 "2004-12-06T15:04:00Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#): > > Morning showerer here. I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone can wake up from bed, where you’ve been lying several hours in a pool of your own sweat and dead skin cells, and immediately leave the house. I feel completely dirty after waking up in the morning, plus a shower really wakes me up. Not to mention, what do you do if you’ve managed to gain a severe case of bedhead overnight? > > Adam I don’t feel dirty at all in the morning. I can’t for the life of me understand how anyone can wait until morning to wash off the dirt from the previous day instead of washing it off the night before. I don’t really see a problem with skin cells and sweat as long as I wash my bed clothes enough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-showers-at-night/278212.md?page=4)