to ask how long you take getting ready in the morning?

[cantmakeme]

This is excluding getting children ready. Just you, from shower to hair, makeup (if you wear it) etc - especially if you work. I feel that I take too long. Seems to be about an hour and a bit and I am always rushing. My routine is something like this:

Up, shower, brush teeth (10-15m)
Choose clothes and get dressed (15m ish)
Make a coffee, drink whilst doing makeup (20m)
Dry / style hair (20m)
Run about looking for things and trying to leave (10m)

Where am I going wrong?! Always late and don't want to get up earlier!

10 mins lying in bed drinking cup of tea that partner brings me and prizing my eyes slowly open. They are like glued shut.

Then 20 mins from bed to car. I bath the night before, and choose clothes the night before. I take my breakfast with me to eat at work as I wake up feeling full. I get a take away coffee on the way to work, so I arrive almost human. I don't wear make up generally. If I'm doing an important presentation, I might put some mascara on.

Awake to out the door takes about 10min (I shower in the evenings as I'm working outdoors).
Up and dressed, brush my teeth and go.

I have breakfast at work.

Mornings I have to get the toddlers out take about 30min as they just have milk while I have tea. All get dressed and head off. We all eat breakfast at work/nusery.

I often shower the night before (slattern) but I should do more stuff the night before really (like pick clothes and pack lunches)

15 mins sat with a cup of tea 'coming round'
10 mins toilet/teeth/face wash
10 mins breakfast
10 mins finding clothes to wear and then putting them on
3 mins brushing hair
3 mins make-up
5 mins maybe packing bag and loading car

Actually getting-ready time is not that much for me, I'm a pro at smearing foundation all over my face in a blurry mirror and thinking it looks ok
Add the kids into the equation and that's at least another hour.

Alarm at 5.20, espresso, onto yoga mat to be done by 7. I take the dog out for a 40 minute walk after that. Showering, make-up, hair, breakfast and making lunch takes about 40 minutes. Leave the house at 8.20.

limesoda, can I have some of your early morning discipline please?

I would say the hair drying and styling seems to take a lot of time in your routine..but then again I have very low maintenance hair and you may not.... If this is your routine and you like it but you are stressed at the end rushing around to leave then just get up half an hour earlier.

My routine: (single mum of 1 yo DD)

Wake up at up at 6.30, bring DD from her room into my bed, stick her on boob lying next to me so I can have another half an hour snooze !
Change her nappy
Feed cats
Make & give her breakfast (maybe get to drink a cup of tea during this)
Maybe get to make myself a proper breakfast if not I'll eat something small like fruit.
Play with her for 45 mins or so (I try & do washing up or tidying up but she's quite/very clingy at this time of the morning.)
Put her down for 1st nap at 9am or so
During this time I get dressed, do any left over washing up, maybe have time to have a shower or cup of tea or proper breakfast, maybe have time to do 15 min on exercise bike whilst replying to texts I need to reply to or reading my Kindle. Pack the nappy bag with snacks& food/water bottle, make sure I have clean bib in there, sunhat, suncream etc. Decide what we're going to do that morning if we don't have plans with anyone ie go to park, softplay, swimming, pack appropriate things in bag. Think if I need to go to supermarket or post anything, maybe end up crying about my failed relationship with DD's Dad (Sorry -- it's very fresh!!) Then getting in a flap because I haven't decided what we're gonna do that day & I know she's gonna wake up soon !
Then when she wakes up I usually haven't done my make up yet so I sit with her on the floor and she plays with my makeup bag whilst I put makeup on, she loves this. Sometimes she's too fractious and won't let me do this at all so it's a no make-up day !!
I then get her dressed, maybe change nappy if needed. Find where her shoes are in the house and put them on her. Give her a little snack & some water. Grab nappy bag & car keys and out the door !!

Phew ! BLIMEY. Writing all that out has made me realise I need to be way more organised and change my morning routine ! Maybe get up half an hour before her. Maybe do some organising the night before of what we're gonna do.
This is all very new for me being a single Mum so I'm still getting used to not having someone there in the mornings who can play with her whilst I shower or whatver. When she switches to 1 nap a day I don't know what I'm gonna do !!!!!!

limesoda - wow.... can I be you ???!!!

I'd say about twenty/thirty minutes, but not if I had to shower. Normally I shower in the evenings. If showering, 40 minutes.

Shower, wash hair, wash face, clean teeth - 10 minutes
Hair in towel, quick dry off, put on face cream, then put on body lotion - 5-10 mins
Put on bath robe, go drink water, take vitamins, get clothes out - 5 mins
Hair out of towel, oil spray, brush through (2 minutes)
Put on clothes (2 or so minutes)
Jewellery (2 minutes max)
Tie hair back, and put on make up (5 minutes)

I don't dry my hair, I just let it air dry or leave it tied back.

Ohhhh I just realised you said this is just about you and not time it takes to get children ready. Erm..at the moment that doesn't really apply to me ! Sorry ! But thread was helpful to me anyway

The whole family gets up in a 15 minute relay race. DH wakes up DS who wakes up me and DD. Those 15 mins mean we each get a reasonable time in the bathrooms.
Breakfast, schoolbags and clothes are all laid out the night before. DH and DS are self-sufficient, DD and I do our jobs together out of habit.

Actually getting myself ready takes 25 minutes but I do dishwasher, kitchen tidy, washing machine, bins, bed, tweak things into shape and close windows before I leave (60 mins and counting).
Hair and makeup are done in the car after I've dropped off DD at school.

My routine is pretty basic:

Wake up and immediately count to 100 focus my mind - 2 mins
Espresso (coffee maker in bedroom) drink whilst in shower
Shower, wash face and brush teeth - 3 mins
Get dressed -

You drink coffee in the shower? Is that an espresso in a large mug, so it's an Americano by the time you drink it?

A housekeeper would be awesome

6.15 Alarm goes off
6.20 Get up - make tea & feed cats
6.30 Shower (and think about what to wear)
6.40 Put make-up on (foundation, powder, blusher, 2 x eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara)
6.50 Dry hair
6.55 Get dressed
7.00 Pick up bits & pieces/faff about
7.05 Leave house

I eat breakfast at work.

If it's my turn to drop DD at nursery, I have to add another 20 mins to get her up & ready.

20 mins for make up is ages! I can do foundation, concealer, eye shadow, liner and mascara and gloss in 5 mins