How long between waking up and leaving house?

[perezso]

Generally, I give myself two hours to drink coffee, do my hair (I have very long, thick hair which I blow dry into submission) and makeup. I don't have a massive beauty routine (just primer, foundation, liner, blush, mascara) but I do like to take my time. It does feel like a massive waste of time though but I guess I enjoy the "me" time..

Also, if my hair is "clean"/looking decent it cuts my time down to 1 hr 10ish.

Yes I have no kids..yet.

I allow 1.5 hours on weekdays

07:00 - 30 minutes to get myself up, shower, hair, makeup, clothes
07:30 - 30 mins for breakfast & making packed lunches
08:00 - clear up & put on dishwasher
08:15 - sort out laundry & put on a load of washing

Plus time for miscellaneous stuff like form filling, finding lost musical instruments, PE kits etc.

Leave the house at 08:30

I like to have about 2 hours too - gives me time to check emails, fuss the cats, have a cup of tea and breakfast without rushing, do my hair and make up, tidy up the kitchen etc. without feeling rushed. It also allows some extra time in case the trains are delayed and I need to leave earlier than I had planned.

I mostly work from home so don't need to do this every day though - when I had an earlier start I used to allow myself about an hour and fifteen minutes.

No kids.

Do you know what, if you are happy doing that, then it doesn’t matter how long you take, or what anyone else thinks, it’s your routine, and that’s fine.

Gym morning days (Mon, Weds, Fri): up at 6:15am, brush teeth, wash face, make tea for my husband and I, leave his on the counter topped with saucer over it to keep it hot. drink my tea while getting dressed in gym kit, brush hair and out of the door by 6:35/6:40am

Non-gym morning days (Tues, Thurs): up at 6:40, shower/teeth/hair, do makeup while drinking tea, i can be ready by 7:20 or so but often wait for my husband so we can leave for the station together, about 7:40am.

20 minutes without a hairwash, 40 with.

10minutes in the bathroom (wash hair, brush teeth, dry, dressed)
5minutes make up
Make pack up
Make sure DD is getting dressed
Put tea in slow cooker
Dry hair
Out the door

Plenty of shouting too

Good grief! 2 hours to get ready in a morning?!

When you have kids, you will need to get up at 4am to get yourself AND them ready.

I get up about an hour before I go out.

DC's have grown up and independent, so its just DP and me. If I'm working in the office, I'm up at 6.45 for a short run with the dog, then shower, and then ages messing with my hair and makeup, followed by breakfast and cups of tea. I aim to be out of the house by 8.15. If I'm working from home, its similar but minimal time spent on my hair and minimal makeup. Yes I know I'm a slattern but lifes too short. I go through periods of thinking that I'll have my hair cut really short to minimise hair time, but can't bring myself to do it.

Normally, and including snoozing the alarm twice at least, up to 1h and 15 min.
So, about one hour if I get up straight away.
45 min if I don't get distracted with MN during breakfast or wash my hair.

In a rush, 15 min. But it won't involve breakfast and only a flash shower.

2 hours.
But an hour of that is before I get the kids up.
I take an hour just to get my shit together. This will never change.
At best I can do an hour and 30 mins and that's if the last 30 mins involve doing what I normally do for the second hour.
I am always crap in the mornings... Need to be better but also a night owl

Without kids and distractions I could manage about 40 mins, including shower, but that would feel tight. On a normal day with kids 2 hours is more realistic (though never feels like long enough)🤭

I can be up and out in 15/20 mins : shower , dress , take pills . If I’m having breakfast first that adds about 10 minutes . I never wear make up and my hair just gets washed and dried .

50 mins from waking to leaving.

1. wake baby for breastfeed (I hate waking him, but I hate feeling engorged more) takes 15 mins
2. pass baby to DH and get washed and dressed 15 mins. I have a long (driving) commute and thick wavy hair and I find that towel drying it and then rubbing some serum through it followed by an hour’s drive with the blowers on has the same affect as using a hair dryer
3. eat breakfast and drink tea both lovingly prepared by DH. 15 mins
4. teeth, makeup (bronzer, mascara, blusher) leave.

I am very lucky that my husband has a short commute and a later start than me so he does all morning baby wrangling!

Mines an hour and a half, coffee sat in bed, feed cats, get baby ready for nursery, make up and hair etc, make lunch

I hate rushing, it makes me jittery and anxious. No kids yet so have the luxury of time to myself. Alarm goes off at 6.20, get up somewhere between half past and quarter to, have tea on the sofa and read the internet. Partner has to be at work at a certain time whereas I just need to get there before 10, so he goes in the bathroom first and I wait until he's left to start getting ready. Usually in the bathroom by 7.15, leave house by 8.15 so the actual getting ready takes an hour, but I like to wake up slowly first.

If we had another bathroom I'd probably start getting ready at 7, but as it is I hate being in the fug of his shower/deodorant while I'm trying to get ready, so I leave it until he's out the door.

I get up at 5.40am and leave the house around 6.20ish. I shower, minimal makeup and blow dry my hair. Only myself to get ready as my DH has already left by then and I can't face getting up any earlier.

I leave at 7:45. Alarm set for 6:30 and spend 30 mins drinking coffee in bed while reading online news. 45 mins to actually get ready.

two hours,

i hate rushing, i have two cups of tea, breakfast, cup of coffee
feed dog, guineapigs, make kids sandwiches, drive anyone who needs driving, walk dog if time.
make my lunch. do dishwasher, ideally, put wash on.

all in 2 hours

generally have a row discussion on mumsnet in that 2 hours too

DP and I working together to manage DD (21 mths): up at 6.20, leave house at 7.50.

I have first wash and dress while he gets baby changed and dressed then goes downstairs and has his breakfast, feeds the cat and minds DD. I am fully ready by 7 latest (no blow dry, no make up). Then I give me and DD breakfast, wash up and brush our teeth. I have to leave at 7.50 to get to work for 8AM, but usually have to chase DP up at this point as he will still be titivating his moustache or standing around with his shirt off because he's too hot to put it on or some such nonsense. He then has her to play with and do any odd jobs until 9 when they go to nursery.

He can throw the whole thing out though by deciding to have a morning dump first thing, meaning I don't get in the shower until after 6. 30 (and then have to wash in a fug of trumps ).

@fourcorneredcircle can I have your husband please??? Particularly with the

20 mins hitting snooze, 30 mins to get ready and go...

Having said all that we forgot the alarm once (it's fairly nominal as baby almost always wakes us first) and typically she decided to sleep until 7.15. That morning I was still somehow in my desk by 8 so just shows it can be done!

Weekdays during school terms:
5:00am - Get up and get on the treadmill.
5:20am - Go out and put chickens out, feed chooks and collect eggs.
5:30am - Put first group of dogs out for run. Shower. Dry hair.
6:00am - Swap dogs and put others out for a run. Straighten hair.
6:15am - Swap dogs. Get DS out of bed, convince him to put on school uniform, shoes and brush teeth.

6:30am - Do my makeup (DS is still getting ready and brushing teeth).

6:45am - Put dogs away. Get lunches out of fridge (packed the night before). Feed cat and goldfish.

7:00am - Leave home.
7:20am - Arrive at work. Use time before the bell rings at 8:50 to work on lesson planning, get admin work done and deal with additional requirements such as ILPs.

First thing in the morning - 10 mins to get dressed and feed the children and pets, then I go outside and do jobs
Afterwards - 30 minutes to undress, shower, dress, put a load of washing on, have breakfast then out the door to take kids to school.