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If you shower once a day, when do you shower?

103 replies

TropicofCapricorn · 23/04/2025 20:16

When you get up, or just before bed?

I think I'd have to do morning, as I get all sweaty and gross overnight and couldn't face the day like that.

But then, I suppose people wouldn't like the idea of going to bed unwashed from the day?

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NormasArse · 23/04/2025 20:16

I shower when I get up.

Arlanymor · 23/04/2025 20:17

I usually shower twice a day, but if I am shattered in the evening then I make do with just having a shower in the morning.

MsNevermore · 23/04/2025 20:19

My kids’ school drop off is early for breakfast club, so I usually do a morning shower when I’ve dropped the DC’s off and done my morning run.

FNDandme · 23/04/2025 20:27

Evening or early afternoon can’t stand a morning shower

faerietales · 23/04/2025 20:28

I'm a dog walker so shower as soon as I get in from work, normally around 2pm. But at weekends I shower first thing.

Fabulousagain · 23/04/2025 20:40

Twice a day morning and night.

Lascivious · 23/04/2025 20:42

I’m a twice a day girl, sometimes 3 if I go to the gym in the morning.

If for some reason I could only have one, it’d be first thing in the morning.

Comedycook · 23/04/2025 20:43

Before bed usually....but that's because I don't work. If I had to go to work I'd shower in the morning. But I only get up, do the school run, then housework or potter around, shop etc...so I prefer to shower in the evening rather than rush around getting ready in the morning

Bugahug · 23/04/2025 20:44

I have a shower in the evenings these days as kids get up super early so dont get a minute to shower once they are up. I used to be a morning showerer and hopefully will get back to that one day. But for now needs must

mynameiscalypso · 23/04/2025 20:45

Evening here. Partly because it fits better with our routine as a family.

irregularegular · 23/04/2025 20:45

I always shower when I get up. I would only shower again later in the day if I got particularly dirty/sweaty doing something, or I was going out somewhere special. But that shower would be during the day or early evening. Pretty much never shower just before bed as I don't tend to get dirty/sweaty in the evening and if I got dirty/sweaty during the day I'd want to be showered straight away.

AndImBrit · 23/04/2025 20:45

I only shower every few days, but almost exclusively in the evening. Sometimes in the afternoon. Rarely in the morning.

dontforgetme · 23/04/2025 20:46

Morning here.

irregularegular · 23/04/2025 20:46

I absolutely hate doing anything before I've showered. I don't leave my bedroom in the morning without showering!

onetwothreefourfive11 · 23/04/2025 20:46

20 minutes after I wake up and before bed

HundredPercentUnsure · 23/04/2025 20:47

Before bed, to wash off all the dirt from the day, to sleep with cleansed skin (especially if it's been hot and I've had suncream on...) and to wind down and relax before bed.

But also really it's because I have small kids who wake early so I have to shower when they're asleep otherwise I can't.

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 23/04/2025 20:47

When kids were young, in the evening once they were in bed.

These days almost always mornings. I will shower evenings though to wash my hair if I have a very early start the next day, so just want a quick refresh shower rather than doing my hair.

Summertimeblahness · 23/04/2025 20:48

Mornings but after the gym.
Sometimes I’ll have a bath in the evening if I want to relax.

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 23/04/2025 20:48

HundredPercentUnsure · 23/04/2025 20:47

Before bed, to wash off all the dirt from the day, to sleep with cleansed skin (especially if it's been hot and I've had suncream on...) and to wind down and relax before bed.

But also really it's because I have small kids who wake early so I have to shower when they're asleep otherwise I can't.

Edited

Oh yeah, if I'm caked in sunscreen I will wash before bed. But I tend to actively avoid the sun so don't need it often. Just a face wash before bed.

stayathomer · 23/04/2025 20:48

Only in the last year or so (am 44), I wake up stinking, sweaty and everywhere smells really bad so first thing in the morning but to be honest if I didn’t hate using up water I probably would in the evening too. I hate getting older! (A lot of my friends saying the same). I used to shower three or 4 times a week or after exercise.

BasilParsley · 23/04/2025 20:49

I don't shower. I bathe - in the morning...

Strokethefurrywall · 23/04/2025 20:49

Mornings mostly, because that’s when I train - I prefer mornings generally.

Ollybob · 23/04/2025 20:53

In the morning before work. If it's my day off then after housework and before I go out.
I could do evening shower only if I had fresh sheets and pyjamas and it was a cool night!

StressedQueen · 23/04/2025 20:56

Definitely evening showers before bed! Unless I'm up earlier than normal, then I might bring myself to have one, but I find it so relaxing to shower before bed

Smiler168 · 23/04/2025 21:00

Always in the evening, so all clean before bed.