I've always thought this was a white-/blue-collar discriminator. Shower before work to be presentable to clients; shower after work to clean off the grime and sweat.
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This might be a bigger variable than anyone thinks.
When I worked in a kitchen and came home smelling of old fries, I couldn't go to bed feeling like that.
Yuuup. When I worked BOH, shower after work. When I worked FOH, shower before work.
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It’s the same for white collar if you’re heavy or just an oily fella.
Not necissarily blue vs white collar. Probably more just customer facing vs not. I'm a service tech so I'm blue collar but I'm also directly interacting with customers so I need to look presentable at least at the start of the day. So I normally do a morning shower so I look presentable to customers but sometimes I wind up crawling around in unspeakable filth or working up a major sweat at work so if that's the case then I will do an after work shower in addition to the morning shower. But I'm customer facing so the morning shower is a must.
I just shower whenever i feel like it. Sometimes night, sometimes morning. Sometimes both.
This person gets it. "When I need one"
You must live in the cold right,
Where I'm from you need to shower every day at a minimum to not smell so bad that you get told you can't enter a business
That all depends on what you call cold. In summer, it can get to 45°c. But at the moment it’s about 20°c and i’m freezing. In winter it gets to 3-4°c overnight. Plus I don’t really do anything except sit on the couch watching stuff, reading, or lemmy. Not doing stuff helps to stop the smell.
I see i get similar weather with massive humidity. Unfortunately I work outside so I need to shower twice
Both you smelly heathens
Night.
Bringing your daily dirt to bed is a no go and if you plan on relations with a partner......you better be clean.
Morning. I sweat so much in bed since I started taking SSRIs.
A night shower is good for sleeping, I find, but it's not something i do often. For me, a morning shower is essential.
I've always had weirdly unmanageable hair, so it needs to be rinsed so it won't go full Einstein. Plus, a shower wakes me up and helps me feel ready for the grind.
I also do this 30-second cold blast at the end that I picked up on somewhere and masochistically enjoy.
Plus, I have levo meds that need to be taken about half an hour before coffee/breakfast, so the shower and getting ready give me a sufficient time window.
Night because I don’t want to filth up my bed and I’m too lazy in the morning.
Both. Can't do anything until I'm rid of the night slime, can't fall asleep until I'm rid of the day grime
Night. I have a hard time getting ready in the morning, and the last thing I need is to be late to work AND have wet hair the entire morning. But being nice and clean before bed helps me sleep.
Aaahhh. Clean and sleepy. ☺️😪
Both, every day.
That seems like a lot of water.
Depends on how long they are in the shower for. 😜
Night, because I don't like going to bed dirty
Night, because I work in factories. Also because I'm not waking up early to shower before work
Sweated before or was at work: Evening night
Need to be extra fresh/clean: Morning shower
Both.
Morning, I get too warm most nights which makes me feel sticky.
Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.
Preferably both. But if I have to choose only one, definitely night. Keeps the bed clean, and helps me sleep a bit better.
I am not an office worker, so I end up getting pretty filthy at work so I shower at the end of the day, not the start.
I worked at a sugar factory, and then an assembly line for CV joints and half-shafts. I wasn't allowed to sit on any of the furniture when I got home until I showered. Don't miss that. Or third shift.
Showering before bed makes the most sense so your bed and those who share it stay cleaner... With that said, I'm a dude with short hair who sleeps on his side and it will stick up in weird places after getting up. I would have to spend almost as much time dousing, combing, and applying product to have it be manageable and look decent. So I shower in the morning.
middle of the day.
I do a hoe bath in the morning and shower before bed.
Depends on what shift I'm working. Day shift I'll shower at night because I don't have time in the morning. Night shift I'll shower in the morning.
I definitely prefer showering in the morning, (I also prefer night shift) a good shower just generally feels like a good start to the day. It helps me wake up and gives me time to mentally prepare for the day.
Theoretically, I'm all onboard with the night shower arguments. I'd love to be a night shower person. But I don't think I'm physically capable of waking up in the morning without the shower routine.
I run to work and back, so both
After I exercise which is usually late afternoon.
Yeah, I wake up, morning routine, run, shower, work, small lunch, nap, wake up, afternoon routine, and if I have a night job I shower again. But the exercise really dictates. If I don't run in the morning I probably save the shower until sometime around 5pm.
Both are valid and it's amusing how often people will attack others over their choice.
Frequent night sweats and not being a morning person make morning showers mandatory for me. My night meds which make me sleepy make night showers dangerous for me. I'd rather just clean my sheets more and stick to morning showers. They're safer and they help wake me up. Plus, I can't in good conscience show myself at work if I haven't washed my ass since getting up.
Both
Both. Sometimes a third.
The morning one is the long one, the central part of the 20-minute shit/shower/shave trifecta. Then there is the afternoon one, to rinse off the work-grime before starting the evening. If outdoor activities are on the evening itinerary, a third one: rinse off dust, sweat, urushiol oil (poison ivy), check for ticks, stretch sore muscles, etc.
But on the rare, lazy saturday? Fuck it.
Night. Getting out of bed in time for work is hard enough. Showering in the morning would mean I need to get up even earlier.
Both
I leave for work just after 6 AM, so night.
Baths, in the pm
Showers, when you need them
End of my day, I tend to get dirty at work and I exclusively do 12 hour shifts. So, showering after work is an absolute must. I work a rotating schedule that is a 50/50 split of 7a-7p and 7p-7a. I don't like showering right when I get up. I just wanna get up and go.On days off I shower in the afternoon after the gym.
Personally? I prefer evening unless otherwise needed/wanted: I kinda just like it but also deodorant works better when you put it on the night before.
A lot of the time I end up showering in the morning though because I ran out of time the night before.
Usually morning if I have to be somewhere that day. Otherwise whenever I can get around to it.
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