I am 51 years old and pretty freakin’ set in my ways – but after 35 or 40 years of morning showers, I’ve started taking my shower at night. A) I’m not a morning person, so it’s really hard for me to get out of the house in any kind of timely manner anyway (and no, the shower doesn’t help wake me up – I tend to just kind of space out under the running water), and B) I turn the heat down to 60 at night, and it’s pretty damn cold drying off and getting dressed in a 60 degree room. Much nicer to turn the heat up when I get home, let the house warm up, and take my shower at my leisure. This means I go to bed with wet hair – but that beats hell out of going outside in winter with wet hair. (I’m just not a blow-drying kind of gal.)
Somewhat less fundamental a change has been in my yogurt-eating habits. I’ve always gotten peach or boysenberry (or mixed berry, depending on the brand) – but my new favorite flavor is black cherry. As in, for now, I should stop buying peach, because I always want black cherry when I go to the fridge for a yogurt.
A happy night showering story for you: When I was in high school our jazz band did a 3-day, 4-venue “tour” around Ohio, staying in some hotels along the way. On the second night we’d been riding all day in a bus, after having played a gig. Definitely a stinky day. When we got to the hotel, only 2 of us took showers (me and another girl). Everyone else wanted to shower in the AM. Well in the morning there was NO WATER. They all had to get back on the bus and spend the rest of the day and the next show without a shower. Ha HA!!
Like you, Twickster, I am 51 years old, do not blowdry, and I turn the heat down at night.
(However, I only eat plain yoghurt and am a morning person. :))
And I have been taking night showers since I was about 22 years old, when I first began teaching preschool.
I would leave the child care center feeling so unbelievably grubby. I just could not stand to go to bed that way. Been taking night showers ever since.
As mentioned by ZipperJJ, there can be surprising benefits to taking a shower at night. I’ve noticed when traveling or staying with friends or just in the general state of things, taking a shower at night, at a less popular time, is quite convenient with no waiting time for the showerer.
The best part is when you’ve just changed the sheets on your bed, and hop into bed after showering. Sheer bliss.
I take night showers. But I work nights. I don’t blowfry my hair, either; I work in a basement in the middle of the night, I figure as long as it’s clean, who cares what it looks like? I do take the time to slap on a coat of whorepaint so I don’t look like the walking dead when I get here.
I paused here to go “Yes, Twix! Self-esteem roolz!”
Isn’t it a problem, though, if you dream about some vigorous and sweaty activities (or even have some) after your shower? Then you’ll have to go into work all BO, right?
