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At what point of the day do you think there's no point getting up and dressed?

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anonperson2 · 12/11/2023 11:12

I'm still in my PJs in bed, I've spent the morning reading. I don't feel 100%, I'm not always this lazy.

It feels pointless getting up and dressed now, and a waste of clean and fresh clothes. It feels half the day has gone so I may as well stay in PJs all day.

At what point of the day do you think there's no point getting dressed?

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GigiAnnna · 12/11/2023 13:23

I never stay in the pjs I've slept in. I always get up and have a shower or bath. Even if I'm ill I just find I feel better for being freshly washed.

ladeluge · 12/11/2023 13:24

ABetterBitOfButter · 12/11/2023 13:21

This kind of discourse is what makes online discussion so unpleasant. Why are people who get dressed 'judgmental dicks' rather than just people who like to get dressed? It's like being back at school.

It is all about the tone of comments that make many of them "judgmental" and dickish.

BlueEyedPeanut · 12/11/2023 13:24

If I'm home alone I don't bother to get changed until/unless I'm going to cook food. I don't like the thought of food splashing onto my night clothes. But if it's a proper chill day I don't even bother to cook, so I just laze around eating snacks. I shower at night before bed.

Pipistrellus · 12/11/2023 13:30

cardibach · 12/11/2023 11:55

But our routines don’t get shortened by winter daylight hours, do they? People work and do hobbies in the dark still. The active day is still more post midday than pre.

I'd call daylight hours the day, the time I would do activities outside. I'm not asleep after dark but I'd still call that the evening or night. I guess different people just call things different things. My routines are shortened in the winter a bit, we sleep longer too.

MintyCedric · 12/11/2023 13:33

First thing when I wake up and realise I’m not expecting visitors and don’t need to leave the house!

Bookist · 12/11/2023 13:34

I have to be really ill to not get up, showered and dressed by around 10.00am. It's just completely ingrained in me.

FromMilanToMinsk1 · 12/11/2023 13:34

HerMammy · 12/11/2023 11:57

Do the people who reply Have just got in from a 2hr ramble with family. Couldn't imagine being in PJs all day not consider that this thread isn't aimed at them?
Fuckin hell must be wearing to be so virtuous

Oh, they totally think they're better than us, and they just have to say so 😁

I bloody love a lazy Sunday (or any day). I'm in PJ bottoms, a l/s tee and a jumper, didn't sleep in them, though, and I haven't had a shower - le shock. I showered yesterday afternoon and haven't done anything since. I'm fine.

I don't want to have a workout, go for a walk or "make a plan for the day", so I won't. I'm a very chill person and I actively enjoy being this way!

Humbugg · 12/11/2023 13:44

After 3pm

Alighttouchonthetiller · 12/11/2023 13:45

It is pretty slovenly to not get washed and dressed. I'm also a 'dick' as per the charming comments upthread, as I would never stay indoors all day, either, and am out with the dog, twice a day, in all weathers.

GrandHighPoohbah · 12/11/2023 13:49

Unless I was ill, I don't think I could eat lunch in my Pj's.

Mammyloveswine · 12/11/2023 13:52

namechange1986 · 12/11/2023 11:38

I will never understand why there's such judgement on here for people who stay in pjs. Baffling why people think they are superior because they change their clothes.

'Ohhh I would feel like a disease ridden gremlin if I ever contemplated staying in pjs after 5am. Heaven forbid!!'

'No I have a 45 mile hike done before sunrise and then it's time for my swim across the channel'

Just fuck off with your faux horror and superiority complex.

This!!! Yesterday I didn't get dressed at all, shock horror I didn't even shower! This morning I was up at 7, stripped the beds, showered, took the kids swimming, went to my dads for breakfast/brunch, went to the DIY store, took the kids to spend their pocket money in smyths, went to Lidl to do a supermarket shop and now we are back and I'm just turning on my laptop to finish my school work and planning!

It's ok to not stop some days.. it's ok to have lazy days.. it's ok to just do what works for you!

Hope you feel better soon op! Xx

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 12/11/2023 13:53

Alighttouchonthetiller · 12/11/2023 13:45

It is pretty slovenly to not get washed and dressed. I'm also a 'dick' as per the charming comments upthread, as I would never stay indoors all day, either, and am out with the dog, twice a day, in all weathers.

Wow have a medal 🏅

I’m quite happy being slovenly 😂. I can’t see the difference between pjs, joggers and a T-shirt, or cashmere “loungewear”, and I don’t get why pyjamas attract so much judgement.

SirChenjins · 12/11/2023 13:58

FlatWhiteExtraHot · 12/11/2023 13:53

Wow have a medal 🏅

I’m quite happy being slovenly 😂. I can’t see the difference between pjs, joggers and a T-shirt, or cashmere “loungewear”, and I don’t get why pyjamas attract so much judgement.

But you’re not sleeping in lounge wear or joggers - it’s the thought of staying in jammies that you’ve sweated (and farted and all sorts) into during the night which you then stay in all day that many of us find grim.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 12/11/2023 13:58

Do the people who reply Have just got in from a 2hr ramble with family. Couldn't imagine being in PJs all day not consider that this thread isn't aimed at them?
Fuckin hell must be wearing to be so virtuous

Or alternatively... the OP asked a question. People gave different answers because we're all different and like different things. I don't think there's anything wrong with having a long lie-in or lounging around in your pyjamas. I just don't like doing it myself. Virtue has fuck all to do with it. I wake up early. I get bored lying in bed awake, so I get up. I prefer to get dressed than be in pyjamas. It's a preference, not a moral code!

ohtowinthelottery · 12/11/2023 14:00

I'm always showered and dressed by 9am. Adult DS, on the other hand, is quite often not showered and dressed until 3/4pm at weekends and I think that he only bothers because he knows I wouldn't tolerate him coming down for dinner in his PJs - even though he had his lunch wearing them!

ohsotired2022 · 12/11/2023 14:10

Never.
Even if having a lazy day I like to have a shower and put joggers and comfy top on them clean PJ's at night.

I hate being in jammies all day.
My children would laze about in PJ's all day and I hate that too.
It really effects my MH.

cardibach · 12/11/2023 14:11

SiennaMillar · 12/11/2023 12:50

No my routine gets shorter in winter. We eat earlier and settle down for the night earlier. We never go out after work, as we might in summer. I’m pregnant and have a baby though, so anything after 4pm might as well be the middle of the night, I’m just so exhausted

I sympathise with the pregnancy/baby tiredness.
but really? Shorter routine in winter? Work day is shorter? No hobbies? My choir/band/book club/evening class all run in winter.

Rainbow1901 · 12/11/2023 14:18

Never!! Just don't do PJ days!!
No problem having a lay in - if it falls that way but still get up and get on with the day - whatever the time!
Even when I was a long time recovering after a major operation and then having chemo - if it took me two hours to get up, washed and dressed just to lay out on the recliner - then what did it matter? I just couldn't stay in PJs all day.

Pipistrellus · 12/11/2023 14:38

We certainly have a shorter routine in winter. I probably sleep an hour longer. There's just less day so we aren't outside after work at the playground or in the woods or on the common, or sitting or working in the garden.

EmpressSoleil · 12/11/2023 14:41

I'm still wearing the nightie I wore to bed. Just put on some thick socks and a big cardi as it's a bit nippy. No, I'm not going to shower either. I'm here alone so no one to offend! No one ever just "pops in" either. I don't have anything pressing I need to do so am having a lazy day. Also have a cat snoozing on my lap! Luckily she does not insist on me being freshly showered and dressed!

I don't see the harm in the odd day like that. My mum was always an up and dressed immediately person and I hated it as a kid. I longed for a pj day but it was never allowed. So now I'm an adult I certainly won't let someone elses judgement stop me!

PumpkinSpiceSeason · 12/11/2023 15:03

VanGoghsDog · 12/11/2023 11:13

3pm

I'm obviously far lazier than you!

Oops 😅

girlfriend44 · 12/11/2023 15:13

roarrfeckingroar · 12/11/2023 11:20

I find it a bit weird to not exercise every day, even if just a decent walk, unless very unwell.

Today is passing down with rain and cols, can't imagine many ppl stupid enough to go for a walk today.

Hardly fun and pleasurable is it?

Pieceofpurplesky · 12/11/2023 15:34

My parents are in their 80s (82/87) and I have never known them not get dressed - and then today I pop in at 2 and both are in their pyjamas and giggling like school kids as they decided to have a pyjama day. It's the cutest thing ever. They decided they'd never done it and as it's such a miserable day it was time.

They are normally up and dressed by 8 at the latest every day.

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