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?

Alarm at 5.30.
Phaff on phone til kids get up at 5.45.
Ignore DH while I do breakfast for kids, packed lunch for kids, breakfast for me, kids dressed, school bags packed, me dressed. I've given up on a shower, and have that after the school run. Sun cream in the kids and out the door at 6.45.
And yes, its all fecking early.

If it was just me I could probably get ready in just over an hour, although I do get my clothes ready the night before on a work day. I do have the slowest child in the world though so a usual school day morning takes an hour and a half.

I get up at 6.30 and leave at 7.15 but I don’t eat breakfast and wash my hair the night before.

Alarm at 6am, on a Monday outfit is laid out so thirty second shower and dressed by 6:05, OH dresses while I'm in the shower and we eat breakfast, cereal or toast. At 6:15 we have five mins to dress DS and are out the house by 6:25.
Other days are more relaxed, alarm goes off at 6, snooze once but up by 6:09, showered and dressed by 6:20, makeup then eating breakfast that OH makes by 6:30, out the house at 6:45 and OH and DS get dressed and leave at 7.
Organisation is key for us, everything down to underwear is laid out the night before for us all, lunches already in bags in the fridge to grab and go.

*Up at 6am on the dot (nagging DC1)

• Come downstairs, pour cereal, turn on cbeebies and make a juice for DC1.
• Bathroom for first poo and mumsnet.
• Fetch DC2 from cot and provide cereal and juice. *Flick kettle on and go for a shower *Make coffee and fulfill demands for more juice.
• Drink coffee and eat breakfast *Wake husband and get myself and children dressed. *Dry hair/do makeup. *Make lunch for work *Second poo and mumsnet
• Out the door for 8.15

Gosh that sounds exhausting. all in all 2hrs 15 minutes. But I don't like to rush about like a Looney.

Absofuckinglutely love the competitiveness on these threads...MN at its finest .

Also the housework and hygiene threads, and maybe income or bf/ff threads. Or weight, or...anything really. Entertaining though.

I have to bring DS to an activity before school. We leave at 6.25. I get up at 6.20, pee, put on a tracksuit and boom!! I'm done
Really though If I have to wash and dry my hair and put on makeup I'd need 40 mins for myself. Add kids into the mix and we need at least an hour to get everyone up and out.

We should do this but circa 1997.

Used to take me about three hours to doll myself up for sixth form.

Up at 5, make tea, listen to news, make more tea
6-7 wash, dress, hair, make up
7-7.15 wake up DC make them tea
drink more tea, check emails, prep dinner, tidy up
Between 8-8.30 leave house
I'm not a morning person

20 minutes including shower, hair wash, getting dressed and making cup of tea to take with me for the train. (I don't have to get kids ready as well though)

I wake at 7.10 and leave at 8.30 but that includes me and two DC ages 4 & 5

My old boss used to wake up, go to the loo, get dressed, walk downstairs and straight out of the door. I don't know how he did it

Yes Steves I'm waiting for someone to say they muck out an entire farm, clean the house, dress 3 toddlers, shower, dress and blow dry in a personal best of approx. 10.5 minutes.

How do you get your dcs to eat breakfast so quickly? My ds doesn't want to eat when he first wakes up and when he does he takes at least 15/20 mins...(he's 12).

Kids I'm a support worker - I only live 25 minutes drive (rural, about 12 miles) from work.

I'm up at 5am, out my door at 5:30am, and at 6am I'm putting the coffee machine and kettle for teas on at work, setting medication out and greeting my early risers in German by 6:15 I'm being all cheery bustle in German as I wake people who have to leave for work at 7:30am, at 6:30am I'm helping the residents who need help shower and dress, just after 7am I'm making breakfast...

I've done a full day's work by 14:30 and can pick my younger kids up at 15:00.

I vastly prefer that to study days (I'm studying connected to work) when I have to be in a classroom 8am - 16:30 and arrive home just in time to go out the door again to take DS to football, and then try to rush some dinner onto the table, make the next days lunches X 5, make kids shower, put kids to bed. There's no day left if you work office hours!

It takes me about 15- 20 minutes, but I hate getting up.
Alarm.goes 7.30. Bang on dd1/dd2's door to make sure they're up. Dd1 will be dd2 won't usually.
Go to toilet, wash quickly brush teeth. Bang on dd2's door and shout that she must get up now.
7.35. Dress,
7.40 down, get ds' breakfast and make dd2's pack tea when needed.
7.45-7.50 help dd2 with hair when needed, leave house with dd2, reminding ds to get dressed

An hour and a half for me if washing hair otherwise an hour.

30 minutes here (was quicker pre-pregnancy!)

• shower the night before
• lay clothes out on bannister outside of bathroom night before
• get gym kit ready the night before
• I am organised make sandwiches and put in fridge

In the morning

• get up
• go to bathroom, toilet, brush teeth, deodorant, perfume, cleaner, moisturiser
• put clothes on
• put toast in toaster and eat
• run out the door with handbag, laptop, gym kit and lunch.

It I don't make lunch the night before it takes 40 mins.

Alarm 7.40, teenager and 8 yr old out of the house by 8.20.
Would rather rush like mad than get up any earlier.

Wake up at 7, out of the door with my three DC at 7.45

Alarm goes off at 6.20, I get up about 6.55- this is where the morning goes wrong, try to wake up DD. Out of shower by 7.05/08, try to wake up DD, make DD's packed lunch, chop fruit and veg for smoothie. Try to wake up DD. Sit down for breakfast 7.20, watch tv and consume breakfast until 7.35. DD gets up. Apply make-up, dry hair & get dressed. Plait DD's hair 8.05. No idea what happens between 8.10 and 8.20 but we never leave the house until about 8.20. Drop DD off at mums, drive to work, arrive late at 9.02.
If only I got up when my alarm goes off.

7am alarm, straight out of bed, clean teeth, put coffee on, while its brewing empty dishwasher and put on washing, put packed lunch ( made previous night) in my bag, back upstairs with coffee, wake DS 16 on the way,put on makeup ( fairly minimal) then ( this is the crucial bit that makes getting straight up possible) back to bed with my coffee! Read for 10/15 mins, including checking weather forecast, put on jewellery and body creams whilst still in bed, decide what to wear, then jump out of bed, get dressed and out the door at 7.50.
I don't like anyone talking to me in the morning, or interrupting my morning routine. I spent 12 years being woken up at stupid o' clock by badly spaced children, and really relish quiet mornings now.

If it's just me, I can get up, wash, dress, makeup and breakfasted in 30mins. With DC it takes an hour. With DH it takes hours. He is like a zombie in the mornings.

The night before I do my lunch, lay my clothes out and make sure DCs uniforms are all out, I also get my breakfast bowl, cereal box out and cup ready for tea.

7.30 alarm goes
7.40 get out of bed, make bed
7.43 get dressed, brush hair maybe put in
ponytail
7.48 put make-up on, sometimes help DD with socks if she has finished eating
8.00 go downstairs make breakfast and cup of tea and eat
8.20 go and do my teeth and put lipstick on
8.25 do DDs hair
8.30 get shoes and coats on and grab my lunch/make sure DCs have packed bags and pack DDs for her
8.35 outside waiting for walking bus to take DCsto school and I jump in car the minute they've gone which is often 8.40.

Whilst I'm doing all that I'm usually yelling at DCs to get ready. DS is usually fine and gets on with it but DD is chronically slow and gets constantly distracted and has no sense of urgency or getting ready on time. She takes that long just to eat a bit of breakfast and put her uniform on whilst being constantly reminded. It's painful!