Do you shower/bathe mornings or evenings?

18 years ago

I like showering in the evening. We have a nice garden tub but I rarely use it, showering is so much easier for me. DH likes to shower mornings, so do our kids when they come to visit.

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User
18 years ago
Evenings here. I don't have that much energy in the a.m.
bestlawn
18 years ago
Always did it mornings even if I did the night before for ~ahem~ particular reasons. LOL
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lydia1959
18 years ago
I always a hot shower in the evening right before bed. If I am cold, it takes me forever to fall asleep. I have Hypothyroidism and I'm sure that is what cause me to feel so cold even in the warmer months.

DH takes his in the morning.
wildchild
18 years ago
If I have to be somewhere early I shower the evening before. Otherwise I shower before going out.
msmarion
18 years ago
In the morning and in the evening here, I only wash my hair in the AM.
azzalea
18 years ago
Depends upon what I'm doing.

If I'm cleaning or gardening, I generally get up, put on yesterday's clothes, and work until noon, then shower and put on clean clothes for the rest of the day.

If I'm going out, I shower first thing in the morning. Can't stand to put clean clothes on a dirty body (and even showering the night before doesn't cut it for me).

Of course, there are days when I may indulge in a second bath or shower. If it's really hot, I'll spend the afternoon in a tepid bath (we don't have AC), or if I do something to get sweaty later in the day, I always shower again.
trishaw
18 years ago
I have to have a shower in the morning or I don't ever wake up. I do take lots of baths in the winter evenings as well.

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glenda_al
18 years ago
Cannot go to bed without a bath!
pattico_gw
18 years ago
I prefer to start my days fresh...

I can always wash off before bed...but if I get all snuggled in the covers I'll sweat...I'd rather sleep alone with my sweat than wear my sweat all day where others have to smell it.

patti
golfergrrl
18 years ago
No set time....when I feel like it.
kframe19
18 years ago
Shower?

BATHE?

What are you, some kind of high society maven?

:-D

Mornings. I don't feel human if I don't have a shower in the morning.
mrsmarv
18 years ago
Mornings...I don't like the idea of sleeping for 8 hours (and possibly sweating under the covers) and then going through the day for another 12 hours without showering. Get up, shower, and spend a comfortable work day, knowing I smell like a rose LOL.
bulldinkie
18 years ago
I bathe morning and evening.
western_pa_luann
18 years ago
Evening.

I see no point to going to bed with the 'grime of the day' stuck on me for another 8 or 9 hours.
I wash it all away and snooze in nice clean sheets....
kayjones
18 years ago
Like Glenda and Luann, I just couldn't crawl into bed without a nice bubble bath daily - HATE showers! When I was married, if circumstances warranted it, I would take another bubble bath - oh, how I miss those days!
paula_pa
18 years ago
Evenings. I work out after dinner so it would be pretty nasty if I didn't. For years I was a morning workout/shower person and couldn't imagine it any other way but having a child changes things. When Nick was a baby and I was up all night I couldn't trust myself to make time to shower in the morning. Now, DH is gone before I get up in the morning so I can't see having to shower and get Nick and everything else ready on my own.
ronf_gw
18 years ago
Saturday night for me.... whether I need it or not.

Seriously, in the evening; I get pretty grungy working and get cleaned up when I come home.

Ron
Mystical Manns
18 years ago
Morning baths for me ...a nice hot bath is a wonderful way to slowly wake up. Finish with a little shower to rinse off, and I'm good for the day.

I only shower if I've been working in the yard or doing something hot & sweaty and just need a quick cleaning.
czech_chick
18 years ago
Same reason as Luann - I always take an evening shower.
grammahony
18 years ago
I shower in the morning. If I work out in the yard, I'll do another one later in the afternoon. Sometimes I'll re-shower and do my hair if I'm going somewhere.
Leslie
FlamingO in AR
18 years ago
In the evening, I absolutely cannot sleep if I feel the least bit dirty or sticky. And I don't like to get wet in the AM.
judy_jay
18 years ago
Always in the evening. Never had enough ambition to do it in the morning when I get up & get ready for work. I'm not a morning person & it takes me a few hours to really "wake up". I may be at work physically but the mind hasn't clicked in yet. :-)
Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
18 years ago
Before I go to bed at night. I also, like to shower after morning housework.

Gayle
bearcat_va
18 years ago
Shower every morning and I wash my hair and dry it, too. But, I have a feeling that I will have to move it to the evenings very soon!
angelaid
18 years ago
Shower in the morning. If I'm cold or don't feel good, I'll take a long, hot, bath before bed.
Kathsgrdn
18 years ago
Morning showers on days I work. Unless I have somewhere to go on days off I shower later in the afternoon, because I walk on the treadmill and get sweaty.
patti43
18 years ago
Usually in the evening. We turn our heat down to 60 or below at night in winter and it's too darned cold in the morning. I use Oil of Olay liquid body wash with lavendar and it's supposed to relax you. I think it works!
lindaohnowga
18 years ago
Mornings.
In the summer, if I am hot and sweaty, then I shower again before bed.
jennmonkey
18 years ago
I wish I could shower in the morning, but I have a really hard time getting out of bed in the morning, so I usually end up doing it in the evening.
luckygardnr
18 years ago
Now that I have a hot tub, I shower in the evenings so I don't have those chemicals on my skin all nite.
jannie
18 years ago
When I was working, I showered and washed my hair every morning. Now I'm retired and I shower any time I feel like it. Don't want to be a smelly old lady!
Marcia Thornley
18 years ago
I shower or take a bath in the evening.I have to get up too early to do it in the morning. Most mornings I can get away with just dampening my hair and a quick blow dry. There are some mornings however when I really need to soak my head and completely blow dry. I envy people who wake up without bedhead!
Also I spend a good deal of my day in and out of the warehouse so I feel I need a shower in the evening. I won't go to bed feeling dirty.
clubm
18 years ago
I shower in the evening if I have work the next day. If
not in the morning.
caflowerluver
18 years ago
I prefer leisurely morning baths, but don't always have the time so take showers. But when it is hot and I have been doing lots of outside work and I am sweaty I will take another one in the evening right before bed.
Clare
Toni S
18 years ago
It depends what I'm doing that day. In the summer I will usually bathe in the evening because of gardening and outdoor activities. In the winter, the morning works well. If I know I'm going to be around others, teaching or visiting, a shower with my smellies just prior is a good thing!
Eliza_ann_ca
18 years ago
Showers wake me up and baths relax me,so it's morning showers and evening baths.That is unless I've been doing grungy gardening work etc...in that case a mid day shower comes in handy also.

Do you shower/bathe mornings or evenings?

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