shower in the morning, shower in the evening

Morning. What's the point of showering before you go to sleep?

evening. mornings are for sleeping as much as possible.

evening, for two reasons. 1) i can't wake up on time, ever, and 2) my hair is super poofy for the 12-18 hours after i shower, so if i do it in the morning i look like donny osmond for the rest of the day.

I bike to work. If I don't shower, there's gonna be trouble. Sweaty, sweaty trouble.

...shower at suppertime...

morning logic: be fresh for the day
evening logic: don't make your bed dirty, more sleeping time

people who shower two or more times a day, this thread is not for you

need to shower in the morning to wake up

^ this

in summer i often shower at night too tho

every morning. some evenings, if i'm going out or whatever.

I shower in the evening because I have to apply lotion afterwards due to my generally dry skin, and I need at least half an hour for the feeling of greasiness to dissipate so I can put on clothes

started showering at work, 1. because the shower at home breaks the trade descriptions act. 2. because i cycle to work.

Morning. I always feel a little grody when I wake up plus whether or not I wash it, I need to wet my hair to keep it from being ridiculous.

Morning, but not first thing. After coffee and the standard morning internetting, but before I get started with the workday. Couple of times a week, not every day.

need to shower in the morning to wake up

― just sayin, Monday, August 13, 2012 10:26 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, August 13, 2012 10:27 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every day. I just feel half asleep otherwise.

My co-worker won't sleep without showering so she doesn't get her bed dirty. That's v odd to me.

shower at suppertime. when you have pizza on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime.

morning, i feel kinda gross and unfit for public consumption until i've showered

well i say "morning" but as a freelancer this often means 5pm, when i get dressed

though today i was very good, i was showered and dressed by 1pm!

xxp Tell her her bed is full of pillow mites and other beasties, and all the showering in the world won't make them go away.

http://www.bachmanssparrow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/dust-mite.jpg

I understand not wanting to climb into bed after you got really dirty that day and that requires a shower, but mornings feel weird without showering for me.

Also, people who think their bed is some sort of pure clean place, do they never sweat in their sleep or have sex or anything?

When I get home from work. So 10am ish. Technically morning but kinda evening. Never just before I go to work. Sleep is more important and I can make it from the time my alarm goes off, out of bed, brush teeth, dress, grab bottle of water, out front door in 7 mins, so minimum sleep time is lost.

I used to shower in the morning but I have gotten into the habit of swimming laps after work. So now I shower in the evening.
I am enjoying having the extra time in the morning, truthfully.

Location wildly varying these results, I suspect, along with access to public transport/bike vs car/walking

Showering as soon as I roll out of bed is a distinctly unpleasant experience for me and I avoid it unless I absolutely have to (mornings when I have to teach, basically). Otherwise, shower when I feel like it is more likely than morning or evening.

I guess that's "other."

I feel kinda disgusting if I leave the house without showering. I essentially refuse to do so unless under extreme duress.

You and my mom both -- I have always been really interested in this obsession some people have with "feeling clean" -- it's weird to me!

need to shower in the morning to wake up

― just sayin, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:26 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

showering is one of those morning routine things (also coffee) that i don't want to do because who wants to be awake in the morning. it is a good day if you get out of bed at eight but only notice at like eleven, by which point you have done two hours of work. i like showering late at night, then wearing a hat, then falling asleep, & having neatly packed & buoyant shower hair the next day.

this is the real "are you a hippie" thread isn't it

I prefer baths.

my sinuses are perpetually gross so the steam and water help me feel human

Baths are much more pleasant, I agree. Who wants to get water dumped on their head in the morning? Not me.

I prefer baths.

― emil.y, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:58 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you think there's a correlation between 'prefer baths' & 'shower in the evening', this would make sense to me because they're about it feeling all relaxing rather than serving some direct function, ie waking up

I haven't had a bath since i was 9 or 10 i don't think.

Luckily for anyone I'm around I have showered in the meantime

Well, I'm unsure about whether I prefer showers in the morning or evening - I prefer 'washing' in general in the evening, but showers strike me as more functional than baths, so their utility is probably greater in the morning.

Also a point to note: I'm a student, so bathing first thing is not necessary, as I spend most of my day alone.

Baths seem gross to me. Sitting in dirty/soapy water, eurgh. If I took a bath, I would want to take a shower to clean up from it afterward.

I love baths but haven't lived in a place with a bathtub that doesn't make me feel Brobdingnagian since I reached my full adult height.

Then again, I don't think I'd take a bath to clean myself but rather to just relax and enjoy soaking in warm water.

The last time I took a bath was in the 90s, at which point I realized just how impractical they are for the purpose intended. Dirt and dead skin all floating around in a swamp of my making.

Showers exclusively since that day (and mostly before that day).

Loads of people take baths for relaxation purposes and then finish off with a quick shower. It can be done.

...shower at suppertime...

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 13, 2012 2:26 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm in disbelief that you made an innocent joke that has nothing to do with President Obama.

Showering early in the day is more essential for me when I'm alone than when I go out! It's the signal that my day has begun and that it's time to start doing things.

That is quite a good point, actually.

I know that's true from when I was out of work and had no interviews lined up. It's easy to not even realize what day of the week it is if you don't keep up that shower/get ready in the morning routine.

i do feel really gross. also, haven't worked out how to go about my day without looking like a tramp on holiday who fell into a skip full of old jockstraps. what do people (especially men) do about their hair if they don't shower in the morning? Don't say comb it - that doesn't work.

shower in the morning, i do it in the evening if i've been exercising.

ballcaps xp

That really depends on the hair and how it's kept and what you do to it.

When I first wake up my bed hair looks like David Lynch's hair half the time.

Also, I've kind of mastered the art of just washing my hair w/o taking a full shower thing by leaning in and using the movable shower head. Sometimes I'll wash my hair two or three times a day.

hair is made for not washing, and then washing the living hell out of and conditioning

did I tell you guys about when I ran out of hair gunk and just used coconut oil for all my grooming needs?

it works as shave cream in a pinch

I shave in the shower and do not use a mirror. During my cycling months I'm showering at the local bike commuting facility, and the showers all have on-demand water heaters, so I don't feel too bad if I'm adding 3-4 minutes to my shower time.

I am super susceptible to razor bumps, which is just the worst

sometimes I have to grow a beard and endure the two weeks of itching just to get to a point where I can shave and not have it look like someone put tiny tapioca beads under my skin and then attacked my face with a cheese grater

I shave in a shower, don't use a mirror, and about 75% of the time I miss some huge or at least noticable patch of stubble, so I keep a razor at work and do touch-ups in the men's room before anyone else gets there.

I have heard of the horrors of black men and the shaving difficulties. You have my sympathies.

guess i'm quite lucky to have the rubbish bumfluff facial hair of a pubescent boy. I've grown beards before, but they just look daft.

I prefer the evening, because I'd rather feel clean at home and in bed, rather than outside and in public which is filthy anyway.
However I usually take a quick shower in the morning, a more thorough one in the evening, and wash my hair every two to three days.

aren't electric razors way better, wrt shaving rash, &c? i am super fussy about my skin & can't use like real wet shaves but electric razors are fine.

i thought having a beard was the manliest thing about me but no here i am sharing shaving tips on the internet

xp no i find those worse.

aren't electric razors way better, wrt shaving rash, &c? i am super fussy about my skin & can't use like real wet shaves but electric razors are fine.

I'm sure they are better now, but when I was much younger (say, in high school) and enduring a really horrible razor bump + stubble situation, I tried using my oldest brother's electric razor and it basically sliced little cuts into the skin on my face while leaving all of the stubble intact. I have not touched one since.

(conversely, whatever the new Gilette multiblade disposable head razor is called works perfectly; no nicks, close shave, no razor bumps unless I shave too many days in a row)

Sometimes I shave in the sink. It requires being able to get your foot into a sink at more or less waist height, but it's possible.

I get really bad shaving rash too. I normally shave with an electric razor first then go over what's left with a Gillette. Then it's not so bad. But even then I can only really do it every 3 days. As it is I generally only shave once a week, at the weekend. Which I didn't do this weekend so I'm a right scruffy bastard today.

Dan, the Fusion?

Or like, one of the particular Fusion subtypes?

btw you can use the little detail blade on the top of the fusion for some nosehair trimming (pro tip)

I shave in the shower, and if I didn't use a mirror I'd really mess up the neckline of my beard. Just got a new shaving mirror last month, one that doesn't tie in to the showerhead water supply. Carl A., thanks for the WD-40 tip, I'll give that a try.

YES the Fusion

that shit is awesome

i switched to the douchey mug-with-shaving-soap and safety razor a few years ago and it's really helped with my very sensitive skin. also it's way cheaper even considering the initial investment. i've spent literally $2 on razor blades in the past 3 years. and $4 on shaving soap.

On workdays, shower in the morning is key, otherwise I'd never wake up fully. Weekends, I either blow off showering altogether or shower at like 3pm. Unless I'm going somewhere social, of course.

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Baths seem gross to me. Sitting in dirty/soapy water, eurgh. If I took a bath, I would want to take a shower to clean up from it afterward.

― Death Grits (WmC), Monday, August 13, 2012 8:04 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Baths are better at cleaning you supposedly because soaking yourself helps dislodge more dead skin.

Anyway, I shower in the morning because I poop in the morning.

don't poop in the tub

poop is a bad exfoliant, ask anybody

i switched to the douchey mug-with-shaving-soap and safety razor a few years ago and it's really helped with my very sensitive skin. also it's way cheaper even considering the initial investment. i've spent literally $2 on razor blades in the past 3 years. and $4 on shaving soap.

― adam, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:46 AM (Yesterday)

me too. why is this douchey?

next stop, suspenders, next stop after that, steampunk convention

don't poop in the tub

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

I said I poop in the morning, not in the tub!!!

i just got out of the shower and want to go to bed soon -- but my hair takes forever to dry and i don't like blowdrying it.

A shower in the evening makes perfect sense: you climb into bed clean. But also, your body kind of relaxes if you took a hot shower. That is why I give my kids a bath in the evening. In the summer they have a bath every evening. That way they kind of relax, wind down from a hectic day. Me, I tend to take morning showers, but sometimes also evening showers. Especially in the summer when you sweat a lot, an evening shower is lovely.

You have to have afternoon or evening showers sometimes because drinking beer in a morning shower is awkward

Why is drinking beer in the shower so awesome? It is, though.

Not as much as smoking in a bath.

shower sex > shower drinking

meh

sex > drinking, therefore (x) sex > (x) drinking

then there's the post-sex smoke/bath.

I don't know. Shower sex is never as fun as it looks in the movies. It's awkward and I'm always afraid I'm going to fall and crack my head open or get soap in an uncomfortable place. I'd rather have a beer while I shower and then go have sex somewhere else. (I don't smoke.)

The awkwardness may be attributable to the same issue I mentioned upthread about small bathtubs.

sex > drinking

Gang Green disagree

WHAT? No way, shower six is inevitably a dangerous disappointment. Tub size is undoubtedly part of the problem, but so are about 5 other things that are easily resolved by non-shower environments.

The typo was on purpose btw, I had a moment of IT-monitoring paranoia.

Loss of traction is sad too

Plus side: funny accidental sounds!

water is an anti-lubricant

Yeah that's one of those things. Another one is height discrepancies.

I feel kinda disgusting if I leave the house without showering. I essentially refuse to do so unless under extreme duress.

OTM

Soaping someone up in bed has its own disappointments though.

both, ideally

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