My hair all day since I shower at night:
If/when I shower at night, I just need to soak my hair in the shower, scruff it a bit, then towel dry. Then I can comb it out and style it as if I just took a fresh shower.
I’m a guy though, with relatively short hair. If I had long hair like this photo, it’d probably be a rat’s nest in the morning and need a full shower to fix.
I’m a golden showerer. Rated 5/5
EDIT: I have just been informed that doesn’t mean what I thought it meant
Don’t run from it.
Please, I need to know… what did you think it meant???
Shower at night for yourself, shower in the morning for other people.
There seems to be a misconception that showering at night, getting into a clean bed and waking means you’re still clean… The truth is the majority of odours and filth come from you. Sweat, dead skin, other stuff…
These posts are always positioned as a binary, even when you can do both, and there’s some nuance to it all.
Like, do you brush your teeth in the morning or at night?
But you haven’t eaten anything in the night, right?
That’s the logic on display here.
I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?
Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.
You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.
Because the bacteria in your mouth thrive in dry conditions, and a majority of sleepers are mouth breathers. The bacteria in your mouth are what destroy your teeth and give you bad breath.
Edit: I just saw you said Yes to after breakfast. I don’t know if it matters when, just don’t make night time be the only time you brush.
Yeah, I think I was underestimating how many people are habitually skipping breakfast. That seems like a bigger issue to address than whether you shower before or after the least active part of your day, if I’m being honest.
For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.
I eat dinner though
After you go to bed?
Gotta keep that emergency tendie stash on the headboard
The point being that you are going to bed with a day full of activity/dirt/sweat/stank.
It’s reasonable for most people to hit the Carlin-4 twice a day. If not for social reasons, then for health and hygiene.
Dentists say we ought to brush twice a day, morning and night. My dentist once told me that if I’m only going to brush once a day, then it should be at night. You don’t produce as much saliva while sleeping, and that creates a better environment for the bacteria that cause tooth decay. Brushing at night removes the tiny food particles that bacteria feed on, reducing the likelihood of developing tooth decay and gingivitis.
We then brush again in the morning because the lack of flowing saliva overnight causes a buildup of other bacteria that feeds on mucus, which is the cause of “morning breath”.
Right? And I’ve been saying that at night, whilst you sleep, a similar process happens all over your body.
Sweat, dead cells, farting under the duvet.
That’s why we shower in the morning too.
Bed time isn’t a magical clean stasis. Biological processes happen. People seem to miss that in this weird debate.
You absolutely shouldn’t be showering twice a day…
ETA: Showing twice a day is terrible for your skin.
This guy Magics the Gatherings.
Yeah. It’s shower, shower, bath, shower. D’uh.
Life is dirty and you should be washing your sheets weekly, you’ll get over it.
Every 2-4 months, take it or leave it
You guys wash your sheets?
You guys have sheets?
(I sleep in a hammock and wash my blankets and hammock routinely, but no sheets)
You should wash your sheets as often as you wash your sofa pillows, belt buckles an bread knife.
so … while I shower?
Pretty Prince Andrew behaviour ngl
Most of us sweat, I think if you plan to interact with another person, it’s kinda basic decorum to not start your day with 10h of sweat on you already.
The pic could also be titled “evening showerers waking up in the morning”.
But really, it depends on your job. If you work outside all day and get sweaty and dirty, you probably want to shower when you get home. If you show up at that job 12+ hours since your last shower with a bit of sweat etc. it doesn’t really matter.
OTOH, if you work in an office with closed windows and lots of meetings, you probably want to be (and want others to be) as clean as possible when they show up in the morning. When you go home from that job at night, you’re probably not particularly dirty and not in bad need of a shower. So, unless you want to shower twice a day, you might as well wait for the morning.
This was my exact thought too. Sometimes I think I’m the only person on Lemmy that doesn’t have an office job. If I did morning showers, I’d supposed to be spending my evening and night drenched in sweat and who knows what else from work? Doesn’t sound very pleasant.
Same here, I work in kitchens. I gotta get that grease off when i get home.
I run the kitchen section of a grocery store so I get what you mean. I come home covered in grease every day and usually other food stuff too. A couple days ago I had a full case of soup explode on me, that was fun to try and clean. Thankfully it was refrigerated, not hot, so I didn’t get burned, but still, had to do the last couple hours of my day in very dirty clothes and the floor wasn’t super easy to clean either.
This guy getting 10 hours of sleep a night…
Well, 10 hours in bed. 2 hours of sleep.
I wish
Rounded up on the 8h we’re supposed to get as I’m assuming these people aren’t going to bed with wet hair
When i wake up, if i had a shower tthr night before, my hair is all rough and greasy and i need to shower again in the morning. So its more efficient to just shower in the morning. Saves water and electricity too.
WTF kind of foods are you eating? Waking up with greasy hair after you just took a shower??
What you eat has very little to do with hair texture
Hair texture is an entirely different thing than hair GREASE.
K. That also has little to do with what you eat.
Have you ever noticed the difference in your skin & hygiene & body odor from the times you eat greasy junk foods vs when you eat clean?
There is a 180° difference.
No, i haven’t.
I’ve been a night showerer and a morning showerer throughout different periods of my life. These days I’m actually closer to a lunch showerer - which I realize isn’t practical for most, but it’s the superior method if one showers only once a day.
I work from home and cannot agree more. Mid day shower kicks ass. Just wash your sheets yall
Edit: autocorrect got me
My people
When I’m working from home, I shower like… occasionally. I’ll shower after exercise days, but if I’m just going between my computer and bed for days, there’s no reason to shower unless it’s been so long I’m getting itchy.
assuming?
Ass. Autocorrect gottem.
I took a shower at 4pm yesterday 😄
I shower in the morning before bed cuz I’m a 3rd shifter.
As long as people aren’t keeping you at arms length, telling you that you stink, and your skin and hair is healthy, people should shower as they see fit.
No. People need to shower daily.
You stink, they’re just not telling you.
I’m one of those people that showers daily, cause my hair looks greasy if I don’t. People have different bodies, some need to shower more, some less.
Your stink
ITT lots of sweaty sleepers spending 10 hours sleeping in a puddle of sweat and grease. I’d need a morning shower too if I was like that.
Normal people that are not covered in 10 hours of sweat when they wake up probably don’t need a morning shower and trying to say that sleeping (without the copious amounts of sweat of you veritable faucets)is the same as spending 16+ hours moving and working and being around other people is really delusional. And what adult is getting 10+ hours of sleep on the regular? Y’all either live in some major privilege or don’t have hobbies.
shower? but you barely know er!!!
You guys shower?
If you’re doing anything in your bed other than sleeping, you may need to shower and change your sheets more often.
And if you shower and change your sheets more often, you might increase the chances you’ll be doing more in your bed than sleeping.
I will also suggest having a lidded trashcan in the bathroom, and a hand shower.
Hand shower? Wat. A sink?
No, something like this, (I picked one at random) so easy to upgrade your boring head-down shower. Aim the warm water exactly where you want it, get everyone’s bits nice and clean.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Moen-Attune-Chrome-Handheld-Shower-Head-1-75-GPM-6-6-LPM/5015066185
That thing I piss into?! No thanks.
I suggest becoming an aquatic life form.
That’s also an option
Yeah, breadcrumbs in bed really suck.
My life motto is: two showers until Christmas
I shower before I go to bed. This is the only right answer. I can’t imagine going to bed with smelly feet and armpits, yuck
