To Ask How Long it Takes you to get Ready in Mornings?

[Fluffysparks]

I wake up at 7:00 and need to be out of the house by 8, which gives me an hour, quite a long time? Without adding anything else, it takes me nearly ten minutes to heave myself out of, a further twenty for breakfast, twenty minutes in the bathroom to go to the toilet, clean teeth etc and then another ten minutes to get dressed, so I always end up applying any makeup in the car as well as brushing my hair. Am I just ridiculously slow or do others have this struggle too?

About 30 mins

Up at 4am, no snoozing allowed or I'd never get up, 15 mins sorting out cats and dogs. 30 mins with cup of tea to wake up properly. 15 mins for shower, hair dry and to get dressed. 30 mins to make lunch, sort bag and have another cup of tea. Leave house at 5.30am.

Just me? 45mins, including shower, hair dried, make up, brekkie, coffee etc. Clothes prepped night before.

With the kids? About 4 hours....

Up at 6.15, dressed, coffee and make up all done and sort out d's 3, out the door for 7. Although I have breakfast at work and ds gas breakfast at cm

I get up at 7 and don't have to leave until 8.45 but I don't take long to get myself ready. 5 mins in shower, 10 mins getting dressed and putting make-up on, 10 mins having breakfast. That's it.

I could do it in 40mins with no breakfast and skip the 20mins coming round with a cup of tea before I do anything useful, I prefer 2 hours, as it means I can hand a leisurely cuppa first, have breakfast and wash the dishes and generally take my time in getting out the door with feeling rushed and stressed before the day has started.

Up at 5.30 if I have to wash hair. If not then snooze until 5.40.
Collect clothes I've laid out the night before, head to bathroom -wee, shower, dry self, brush teeth, apply deodorant and moisturiser, get dressed.
Downstairs by 5.55 - make husband coffee, grab packed lunch out of fridge. Take husbands coffee up, brush hair, grab handbag.

By 6.05 back downstairs - shoes on, out of door. Less than 5 mins walk to train station platform. Catch 6.17 train to London. Do makeup on train. Cup of tea once in the office (If i have it before leaving I'm desperate for a wee before i get there!)

Sometimes I oversleep. I have managed to still get the 6.17 train after waking up at 6 but it's not pretty!

A huge part of the success is not having to deal with children. I take my youngest to a toddler club on Saturday mornings and struggle to get out of the house by 10!!!

Up at 6.30. 5 minutes in bathroom (wash face/pits/bits, clean teeth - I'm an evening showerer). Feed cats. Make coffee, eat breakfast, drink coffee, become vaguely human . Make second coffee. Have poo. Put make-up on. Drink second coffee and leave house at 7.30.

Arrive at work at some point between 7.58 and 8.28 depending on traffic.

If it's just me getting myself ready I wake at 7.30 and leave at 7.45... I just wash my face and brush my teeth and hair pretty much.

45 minutes - (shower/dry hair/makeup)

15 minutes for me. Shower the night before; clothes out ready and lunch made the night before.

Wake up at 6, have an hour of getting me ready then I wake husband and baby up, get the baby ready and we all have breakfast. Leave at 8 to take baby to my mums or her other nan's and at work for 8:45.

I wish I could be quick at getting ready but I tend to go into a dream and take forever!

I'm up at 7.15 to leave the house at 8.45. That's just me to get ready, shower, hair, make up and mumsnet breakfast.

Can ask those of you who leave home at 5.30 or thereabouts what jobs do you do? And do you finish really early? I'm so glad I work in an office just minutes from home!

An hour and 15 min to get myself up and 2 dc up dressed, breakfasts and out the door.
Alarm at 6am
Second alarm 6.10 up and in shower out the shower and dressed hair dry by 6.30.
Dc up and dressed at 6.30.
7am breakfast.
Out the door at 7.15 am.

I get up before everyone else at 6am.

Have a cup of tea in peace and read MN / FB.

Get showered, dressed & makeup'd (only wear mascara & eyebrow pencil.) Clothes have been laid out the night before.
Get DDs up, get their breakfast & get them teeth brushed & dressed.
DH gets up, get his breakfast (I don't mind doing it. I have to keep an eye on what he eats, he's pre-diabetic and would eat cereal given half a chance!)
Get DD1's water bottle etc ready. Book bag etc is all done the night before.
Leave with DDs 8.25am

For me, getting up early is worth not rushing around like a mad stressed thing in the morning. Even pre-DC, I would always take about an hour and a half.

If DP's at home he'll make me my first (and usually second) coffee, and deal with half the animals, so I can get from bed to door in about 1hr 15. If I'm on my own I generally give myself about half an hour extra, since I actually have to do something before I can consume caffeine (ie put the kettle on, it's a challenge first thing!) and feed the poultry as well.

It literally takes me an hour to get out of bed - I keep falling back to sleep so have multiple alarms set every 10 mins
Get out of bed 7.40 leave house at 8.35
Have myself to get ready and dd with SEN
I get ready whilst she eats then I help her shower and dress.

Up between 6.40-7am. Depending on whether I'm washing hair or not.

Kids up at 7.

Dress all 3 of us, feed the kids, teeth for all of us, pack bags, get pram out and sometimes even do a quick wash up, bung a load of washing on.

Out the door just past 8.30.

DP leaves before kids get up so isn't much use unless he has a day off and then I leave toddler with him and only get me and dc1 ready.

20mins.. but that's mainly because I press snooze over and over (I don't sleep much at night), run out of time, skip breakfast, do makeup on the train... bit of a disaster really. If you can get up and get ready nice and relaxed then I say go for it!

40 mins on my office days.

Up at 5:50, make a mug of coffee and a travel mug of coffee and leave on the side, quick wee and wash face and brush teeth, wellies on over PJs and quick walk with the dogs. Come back, start drinking coffee which has cooled down now. Very quick shower and hair wash, get changed (clothes laid out night before), very basic makeup whilst finishing coffee, pick up packed lunch (done night before) and travel coffee and away.

Being efficient with time depends on having a routine and things already prepped.

20 mins to get up showered make coffee and grab my lunch (prepared the night before) oh and get dressed

It all depends how smoothly the routine goes. This morning I managed to get a huge blob of mascara in my fringe. 10 mins were wasted trying to wash it out with some shampoo on a flannel.

Up at 6.15 —6.24— in the shower, washed, dried dressed, hair dried, makeup on, breakfast made, tea drank and in the car on my way to work by 7.

We get up at 7.15 and out the door by 8.20.
That's me, dp, and 4 dc.
Beds made, animals fed and dishwasher loaded.

Up, showered, toddler fed and wrestled into multiple layers of outdoor gear and out the door in 30 mins flat.

Works most of the time. Today we needed an extra 15m as said toddler was having none of it.