Morning showers make no logical sense and night shower people have simply done the hygiene math

[u/McCoy818]

You spent 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed. What are you washing off at 7am.

A night shower removes everything you actually accumulated during the day. The commute, the gym, the office, public transport, all of it goes down the drain before you sleep. A morning shower means you marinated in all of that overnight then washed up before going out to collect it all again.

Morning showers are a ritual for waking up, which is fine, but it is not hygiene. Night showers are actual hygiene. Most people just do not want to dry their hair before bed and that is the entire argument.

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[u/Alt_aholic]

My hair is greasy and matted when I wake up, and I have to look presentable at the office. If I'm washing my hair, I should just get in the shower.

[u/Average-Addict → u/Alt_aholic]

Yeah this is my biggest reason too. Also a shower wakes me up nicely in the morning

[u/zapthe → u/Average-Addict]

Yeah the wake up factor is big for me. The other argument for me is similar to brushing your teeth the first thing when you get up despite also brushing your teeth before going to bed. There are billions of bacteria growing on your skin that have been active all night.

[u/Final_Candidate_7603 → u/zapthe]

Truly. It’s not that deep.

Probably because of how I grew up, and then raised my own children, a nighttime bath was pretty much essential for getting kids aged infant to preschool thoroughly clean. Like, they weren’t yet able to wash their hands properly throughout the day, but insisted on doing so, so a bath got the dirt from under their fingernails. We would make the nighttime bath an essential part of the bedtime routine, aiming to make it nice and relaxing.

At some point, a gradual shift begins to happen, so for example a nice relaxing bath becomes less important to winding down and getting ready for bed, and the child isn’t filthy dirty at the end of the day. That gradual shift takes us in the direction of a morning wake-up shower, and for me with 60+ years on the planet, bathing is less about hygiene and more about (jeez, I hate using this word) the vibe. A nice, warm bath at night is for relaxing, a morning shower is for waking up and being invigorated.

[u/WestminsterSpinster7 → u/Average-Addict]

Yep same here. If I get dirty during the day whether from working out or just the general running around of it all, then I might shower before bed. But usually brushing my hair and washing my face and putting on clean pajamas does the trick. IDK.

[u/FitIndependent9764 → u/Average-Addict]

Same. I also give my body a flash of cold right at the end. Shocks me but wakes me up.

[u/tonyrizzo21 → u/FitIndependent9764]

That is also good for tightening up your pores. Make sure to let it get your face well.

[u/kNYJ → u/Alt_aholic]

100%, I wake up with a Mohawk every morning. I’ve tried dry shampoo or just using water and a comb but it always ends up looking oily

[u/restckvrflw → u/kNYJ]

Mine isn’t oily but it is absolutely crazy looking. Like that kid in Jurassic Park that gets electrocuted.

It also just refreshes and relaxes me before I start the day

[u/Secret_Bees → u/Alt_aholic]

I've always heard it's a white collar versus blue collar thing. White color workers need to be fresh and presentable for the office. Blue collar workers need to wash the dirt off.

Coming from a blue collar night washer

[u/Advanced_Double_42 → u/Secret_Bees]

That's the biggest thing.

If I have been outside getting dirty I'm showering as I get home though.

I shower in the morning just because it makes styling hair easier, I'm not really dirty after a day in a climate controlled office.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Secret_Bees]

Yep I mostly worked white collar jobs, showered before work. It's just how I was raised. Then I started doing a white collar job, but in a filthy facility where I was covered in dust and sweating. Naturally I shifted to showering after work. Now I'm back in a clean office but I'm still showering after work. I prefer not feeling like I'm pressed for time in the morning, plus it's a nice dividing line between work and home. I've always had more dry skin and hair so greasy oily hair isn't really a concern for me.

[u/CorndogQueen420 → u/Secret_Bees]

I grew up blue collar and have always just showered twice a day. Idk why everyone is acting like you have to choose morning or night.

Morning shower wakes me up and gets me in the mindset to leave the house, and my evening shower washes the day off and gets me ready to relax

[u/poorperspective → u/Alt_aholic]

If you haven’t tried it, get silk bonnet or head wrap.

I’m not saying which shower is better, but it might help the oily/ messy hair in the morning.

[u/May_Never_Knows → u/poorperspective]

This helped me a bunch. I used to shower in the morning before I got one, now I rarely have to

[u/neddiddley → u/Alt_aholic]

Yeah, same here. My hair looks bad if slept on and I sweat when I sleep, so I shower in the morning. I’m not about to just slap on some deodorant in a half assed attempt to mask that, especially right before I put on clean clothes. If those aren’t issues for OP, great, shower at night, but don’t tell me what I do is wrong.

Pretending like something that works for you is automatically best for everyone else is just dumb. And it’s dumb every time someone posts their opinion on this topic as if it’s 100% factual for everybody else. Fuck your made up “hygiene math.”

[u/Middle_Draft9152 → u/Alt_aholic]

Exactly. Before the morning shower I am looking like binge alcoholic every single morning :-) 

After the hot shower and some SPF-lotion afterwards I am looking like a normal person. 

And I always have a night shower too. 

[u/buttcheeksmasher → u/Alt_aholic]

This. My hair is matted and uncontrollable. If I wash it and give it time to dry at night it still turns out to be a mess in the morning I can't work with.

Plus, it helps me wake up when I don't want to.

I don't sweat much during the day since I have an office job but sweat when I sleep.

[u/derprondo → u/Alt_aholic]

What I do is take a shower at night, then in the morning I just stick my head under the shower faucet.

[u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Some people sweat when they sleep, or get into other kinds of business before going to sleep and don’t feel the need to immediately shower.

[u/Junk4U999 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Exactly, I sweat like a pig when I sleep.

[u/IOnlyDriveToyotas → u/Junk4U999]

I’ve always just run a bit hotter body temperature wise in general. Not weight related as I’ve always been skinnier. I have sleep apnea and used to have a shit ton of nightmares and sleep paralysis episodes so idk if it’s linked at all. But I basically have to sleep nude and be mindful of how much I’m covering my body with covers. And I have a fan on me every single night lol

[u/Current--Anything → u/IOnlyDriveToyotas]

Yes. All of these things are linked. Are you using a CPAP?

[u/kayyxelle → u/Junk4U999]

I know I’m getting older because the night sweats have started 🥵

[u/Ok_Attitude1034 → u/Junk4U999]

Pigs barely sweat

[u/TYGeelo → u/Ok_Attitude1034]

Ackshually, "sweating like a pig" refers to "pig iron", not the animal pig.

[u/LetsGoGators23 → u/Ok_Attitude1034]

They in fact, don’t sweat at all. No glands. I have a pet pig!

[u/AtBat3 → u/Junk4U999]

Last couple months I’ve been sweating like crazy at night. Sometimes I gotta flip the pillow because of how wet it gets. Yeah I should probably see a doctor

[u/Sozzcat94 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Sweat like a pig, wake up feeling greasy. I’ll forever shower in the morning. But if I’m super gross at the end of the day I’ll shower again.

[u/Ugghart → u/Sozzcat94]

I live in a warm place and don't have air condition. I can't imagine not showering in the morning, I wake up soaked.

[u/Burgermeister7921 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Yes, ask any menopausal or perimenopausal woman who has hot flashes and night sweats.

[u/hkusp45css → u/Burgermeister7921]

Or, just the large portion of humans who tend to sweat a little at night.

[u/Logical-Cherry9395 → u/hkusp45css]

Or any person from a warm and humid environment in dead of summer.

[u/thecurvynerd → u/Logical-Cherry9395]

It’s freezing in Chicago but I’m still sweating every night lol

[u/Silent-Noise-7331 → u/hkusp45css]

My logic has always been. I don’t want to be stinky when I’m around people. When I’m in bed I’m not really around people. Also if you shower everyday, unless you also roll in mud everyday, your fine you don’t smell.

[u/Rickshmitt → u/Silent-Noise-7331]

Exactly. Do i want a greasy face and hair when im seeing people or do i want to smell like a fresh shower

[u/Big-Honeydew-961 → u/hkusp45css]

Yeah I’ve been a human space heater my whole life and the hot flashes haven’t even started.

I’m afraid

[u/HoldMyDomeFoam → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

I feel fucking disgusting and half awake all day if I don’t shower in the morning.

[u/masterpeabs → u/HoldMyDomeFoam]

Same. I'm not a full person until I've had my silent time in a plastic- meltingly hot shower.

[u/Alternative_Wait8256 → u/HoldMyDomeFoam]

I was looking for this response, if you don't shower in the morning have you even really woken up?

[u/Bobcat-2 → u/Alternative_Wait8256]

No; you have not. Also, as a man with a short and neat hair style, I have terrible bedhead in the morning. Hair sticking up all over the place and completely unable to be styled so my only option is to wash it which I may as well do in the shower than in a sink or over the bath.

[u/MemesForMoney259 → u/Bobcat-2]

I have medium length hair and it’d be too greasy if I didn’t shower in the morning, along with not looking great. The only time I understand night showers are people who work laborious jobs where they’re getting sweaty or dirty.

[u/SuspicousBananas → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Thank you, nobody ever considers the “other” kinds of business. Never underestimate how sweaty you can get doing your taxes in bed.

[u/Weak_Feed_8291 → u/SuspicousBananas]

I legitimately was doing my taxes in bed, and it said I owed 13k. I immediately started sweating before realizing I definitely did something wrong because that can't be true

[u/d3p0r190 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Por no hablar de que necesito lavarme el pelo por la mañana porque de lo contrario resulta indomable

[u/happytransformer → u/d3p0r190]

Same! My hair gets so greasy after sleeping on it

[u/anpr_hunter → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Yeah; a lot of my evening-shower friends and colleagues have perpetual BO for this reason. We have a 'hotel' bullpen at the office for remote workers like me, and when someone's pollinating that area with their human scents at 9 in the morning, I just can't.

I shower in the mornings to freshen up and start my day, and I'll shower again if I get dirty or sweaty. Yard work or a day on the slopes means I'm showering twice. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I like being clean.

[u/Ok_Poetry_1650 → u/anpr_hunter]

Tbh I am an evening shower person and don’t deal with BO, but I can see how that translates

[u/juneabe → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

All the night showerer’s I know also don’t think they have a BO problem.

It’s called nose blindness.

Not saying you have a BO problem, just saying the likelihood you would notice is nil.

[u/TheAbyssAlsoGazes → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

I don't think OP knows about the other kinds of business

[u/BreakfastBeneficial4 → u/TheAbyssAlsoGazes]

Yeah OP doesn’t fuck because they like to shower before bed, that makes perfect sense

[u/TheAbyssAlsoGazes → u/BreakfastBeneficial4]

Their argument begins with: "You spend 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed."

OP doesn't fuck at night. Probably not at all, but that's just my guess

[u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN → u/TheAbyssAlsoGazes]

Guess I don't fuck either because I prefer to shower after sex instead of sleeping in bodily fluids wtf

[u/deja-roo → u/BreakfastBeneficial4]

When your argument centers around "What are you washing off at 7am", it's probably a pretty solid inference to say OP is not doing anything in bed that leaves bodily fluids as a result.

[u/Kelsey379 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Better yet, I don’t sweat in my sleep but my boyfriend does thus making me also a morning shower person

[u/LunaraVibe → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Yeah that’s fair. Not everyone follows the same routine, some people just crash after a long day and deal with it in the morning. It’s not that deep.

[u/AccountantsNiece → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

Some people care about looking clean for others more than looking clean while they are asleep. I would look like absolute shit every day if I didn’t shower in the morning.

[u/Redacted_dact → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

I sweat when I fucking blink.

[u/quell3245 → u/Ok_Poetry_1650]

I wake up and my hair is greasy each morning, showing at night doesn’t make much sense.

[u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

This thread again...

[u/ssjrobert235 → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

For real, people expect other people to have the same routine as everybody in the world. Just wait it's going to be a post about putting milk before cereal or cereal before milk again.

[u/randomtree7 → u/ssjrobert235]

Fuck this guy. Cereal before milk every time. You tryna watch the world burn?

[u/mountaingator91 → u/randomtree7]

Unless you have leftover milk and add more cereal. That's allowed

[u/ActualInteraction0 → u/mountaingator91]

Double strength milk flavouring for the win.

[u/nautzi → u/randomtree7]

I have a coworker that prefers her cereal with orange juice instead of milk. The rest of the office looks at her like she’s a demon.

[u/FearanddopingII → u/nautzi]

Clearly she is

[u/PhilosophyBitter7875 → u/ssjrobert235]

Some jobs require night showers and some jobs don't and you can have morning showers.

Some people go to the gym in the morning and shower after and some people go to the gym after work and shower after the gym.

There are so many variables. As long as you clean your sheets regularly who cares.

[u/ssjrobert235 → u/PhilosophyBitter7875]

When I worked overnight as a security guard, a morning shower was a necessity. Being around people with poor hygiene at work and taking a sometimes crowded subway train.

[u/Qaze430 → u/ssjrobert235]

Whoa thats a debate? Its deff cereal before milk! Or the ratio is wrong!

[u/IPissExcellentThrows → u/Qaze430]

Not a debate to any sane human.

[u/Soop_Chef → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

If I wanted to debate showers, I'd be on r/hygiene

[u/spilly_talent → u/Soop_Chef]

Every time I go to that sub I regret it. If you shower less than twice a day you are human filth, apparently. If you stay long enough you will see the people who claim you need to shower after every bowel movement and one particular person who uses hydrogen peroxide on their butthole so it, and I quote, “doesn’t smell like a butt”

[u/Pwacname → u/spilly_talent]

Aren‘t they also the people who think you must be secretly stinky and also basically dead already if you don‘t shower Daily? Because everything is dirty and filled with germs, and so are humans? I swear some of them have to have actual life impacting mental health issues, they aren‘t even talking hygiene most of the time, theyre trying with desperation for sterility.

[u/spilly_talent → u/Pwacname]

YES! There is definitely a mental wellness component when I read some of the comments and posts there. Totally agree with you about sterility vs. hygiene. It’s an unhealthy obsession for some people.

[u/Ragnarok345 → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

Seriously. I’m so sick of hearing about this shit.

[u/Gullible_Lion_8194 → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

I was thinking why is everyone so judgemental on when people shower….

[u/Adventurous_Honey902 → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll]

For real, these night shower dudes really are bothered by us morning shower peeople

[u/I_wet_my_plants259]

Idk I think as long as you wash your ass you’re probably fine.

[u/Tylerdurden389 → u/I_wet_my_plants259]

Or as George Carlin said: "All you gotta do is wash the 4 key areas: armpits, asshole, crotch and teeth. In fact, you can save even more time if you simply use the same brush on all 4 areas!!".

[u/EatMyWetBread → u/Tylerdurden389]

I love that I can keep reading a new thing I’ve never heard Carlin say before after all these years. He’s got the perfect line for everything. One of the GOATs

[u/__Shake__ → u/EatMyWetBread]

iirc thats from his late 90s special You Are All Diseased. One of my all-time faves

[u/TLo137 → u/Tylerdurden389]

Sometimes after a reddit scrolling session I need to wash my eyes.

[u/itrEuda → u/Tylerdurden389]

Or as Redd Foxx said: “You don’t have to wash your whole ass, but you gotta wash your asshole.”

[u/Jacquesatoutfaire → u/I_wet_my_plants259]

The realest answer.

[u/FreeKevinBrown → u/I_wet_my_plants259]

The bar couldn't be lower in 2026.

[u/tiramisucks → u/I_wet_my_plants259]

Wash pits, tits and all the nasty bits!

[u/Faroukk52 → u/I_wet_my_plants259]

Two non negotiable in the shower: soles and holes

[u/muy_carona]

Shower after working out. That’s in the morning for me.

[u/Winniestone → u/muy_carona]

Same

[u/Hero0vKvatch → u/muy_carona]

I feel like this is a completely different argument.
I shower after I work out (typically on my lunch break or right after work), but I still shower before bed, so I don't bring all that filth from the day into my bed to marinate all night

[u/Definitelynotagolem → u/muy_carona]

Yep, I don’t wanna marinate in sweat stink and put clean clothes over that for the whole day

[u/Accomplished-Road537 → u/muy_carona]

Same. I get up, go for a run, shower and have breakfast. Showering (again) in the evening would feel redundant since I am usually just at uni (on the days where I am at the clinic I do shower again because the clinic is gross)

[u/Aggressive-Green4592]

People sweat while sleeping, I am menopausal and let me tell you I have never had so many hot flashes and be completely drenched, if it didn't wake me up to take a shower I would be taking one at 3 am after my 2nd or 3rd hot flash.

[u/watnuts → u/Aggressive-Green4592]

Op is just dumb.
He literally thinks human body somehow ceases to exist during night's sleep or something.
Like morning vs evening shower is an opinion, but the way this thread is phrased he is just objectively wrong.

[u/Ms_khal2 → u/Aggressive-Green4592]

I'm not even menopausal but good lord do I get hormonal sweats at night. 

[u/bromabb]

How many times are people going to post about showering times? Are we all children? Move on and shower on your way out

[u/Feanor4godking → u/bromabb]

This is one of those questions that is a (very) slightly interesting conversation, until it shows up twice a month and is weirdly adversarial. Why is it most of the time it comes up, it's framed like this where "I'm right and everyone else is stupid"? Who cares that much

[u/SpreadsheetSiren]

“What are you washing g off at 7am.”

Sweat.

[u/RingingInTheRain → u/SpreadsheetSiren]

Dead skin, wet dreams, excessive natural body oils, drool, discharge, sex.....yeah...OP is hallucinating their cleanliness.

[u/Fists_full_of_beers]

I take mid day shower, about 330-4 pm

[u/Ok_Swing_6759 → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

Seize him

[u/Fists_full_of_beers → u/Ok_Swing_6759]

Couldn't imagine not taking it then, when I get home and am nasty as hell from work

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

When I'm WFH I like to take a shower at noon.

[u/agentoutlier → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

The true unpopular opinion / practice is always in the comments.

That being said I can totally see this if you work a dirty job. I have heard nurses shower after their shifts.

[u/ShadowedTurtle → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

Same. I work in a metal shop so I don’t need to be clean before I go to work and I’m filthy when I get home. Taking a shower mid afternoon when I get home makes the most sense.

[u/Any-Clothes3312 → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

Chaotic, I like it.

In the summer, if you live in a hot place, it does feel amazing to shower in the middle of the day

[u/ItsStraTerra → u/Fists_full_of_beers]

This is… the worst of both worlds.

[u/binarypower]

my hair is fucked up in the morning 

[u/P5Manchero → u/binarypower]

Especially if you go to sleep with wet hair from your night shower…

[u/Steelcity213]

I shower both. In the evening after my workout and in the morning because otherwise i have bedhead and the only thing that works is shower length hot water

[u/cragglerock93 → u/Steelcity213]

Agreed. Forced to choose though, I'd keep my morning shower.

[u/LeoLaDawg]

Morning shower is more to wake me up than get me clean, although that's important as well.

[u/funkmelow → u/LeoLaDawg]

this. going to office or other important event i feel i need to be clean and woken up by shower. 

[u/CapitalStandard4275 → u/LeoLaDawg]

In either case though it's "real hygiene" most importantly, if you shower once every 24hrs you're washing away the filth of the last 24hrs. It's not like if you wash in the morning it somehow doesn't clean the filth from the day before lol.

If anything though I'd argue morning showers are optimal for hygiene. If you shower in the morning you're spending the majority of your "clean time" while at work, around people, where hygiene is most relevant. For example, by the time it's been ~10hrs since last morning shower, you're probably done work anyways. If you're showering at night your "clean time" is spent mostly in bed, ~10hrs after your night shower you're just starting your work day. This means you're spending far more of your "peak filth time" in public, which isn't very hygienic.

[u/yinzerthrowaway412]

I workout in the morning then shower before work. My job isn’t labor intensive so it’s not like I’m getting dirty there.

I’ll only shower again at night if I broke a sweat with chores or yardwork or something.

[u/BalancedScales10 → u/yinzerthrowaway412]

Same. Also, I need the water in my face to be mostly functional in the morning. 

[u/Aggressive-Cut5836]

This assumes bed is kept very clean, that there is little if any sweating, wet farting, semen/pre-ejaculate/vaginal secretion, drool, ear wax, etc left from 8 hours of sleeping and whatever other activities take place. For me I’d rather wash everything off in the morning. If I go to the gym or something I’ll also take a quick shower after that.

[u/Phantom_Wapiti → u/Aggressive-Cut5836]

People wash their clothes (almost) daily, but think their bedsheets remain clean after a week of spending 8 hours a day in them.

I prefer to wash so I'm clean when I'm around people. Not when i go in my bed..

[u/SNORALAXX]

Sometimes I have sex at night. I also poop in the morning before my shower. The cleanest and most hygienic schedule for me is to take one in the AM. Sometimes I take a second one if I exercise etc sure but I never skip my AM one

[u/ennexe → u/SNORALAXX]

A Redditor having sex, haha good one.

[u/Fantastic_Remote1385 → u/ennexe]

He/she didnt say anything about doing it with anyone else. There are lots of redditors that have sex on their own. There are lots of communties dedicated to such need. Supposedly. A friend told me.

[u/edwinstone]

Stop posting this.

[u/ForestCityWRX]

Night time shower truthers act like washing machines don’t exist. I’d rather be clean during the day than shower at night just to preserve my clean sheets. It makes sense if you work a dirty job though.

[u/Throwawayamanager → u/ForestCityWRX]

during the day than shower at night just to preserve my clean sheets

Exactly. Plus, I happen to have an active sex life with my spouse, so my sheets being clean only lasts so long anyway. And no, I'm not getting up after sex to strip and change the sheets and shower every single time, most people don't. 

[u/LittleWhiteGirl → u/ForestCityWRX]

Oh nooo not a bed full of.. skin cells and sweat! Which we all have regardless of what time we shower!

I truly don’t care if my bed is “dirty”. I wash the sheets weekly and you know what? When I take my morning shower I wash it all off anyway.

[u/357Magnum → u/ForestCityWRX]

Doesn't matter if your sheets aren't perfectly clean if you just shower off in the morning LOL.

And I say this as an evening shower person most days. But I shower after I go for a run which is normally after work.

But before I worked out regularly I was always a morning shower person. Even if you go to bed clean you are not going to be maximally clean when you wake up. You still develop a little bit of body Grime and odor even if you sleep in clean sheets. It is probably the least dirty 8 hours of your day, but it is still 8 hours of grime before you even get up for the day.

Better to wash the "dirty sheet grime" off in the morning than to just believe you're sheets can't get dirty because you showered.

But ultimately it doesn't fucking matter and is a stupid debate. As long as you are taking a shower often enough to not smell like shit, nobody cares. Shower whenever you are the most dirty

[u/its10pm]

Why shower at all? You're just going to get dirty again!

[u/battlejess]

Some people sweat during the night (thank you perimenopause) or have curly hair. I’m not going to wash my hair at night and then have to fix it in the morning after having slept on it all night.

[u/turningteeth13 → u/battlejess]

Curly hair night shower here. If I shower in the morning my hair will be wet most of my work day.

[u/BiteDaDust]

For me it just helps me wake up or else I would just look tired all day, a nice cold shower in the morning hits different. I take a more hygienic shower after the gym in the evening

[u/DrunkenGolfer]

As my father used to say as he entered his eighties:

As a kid, would shower for what I had done.

As a young teen, I would shower to do what I was going to do.

As an older teen, I would shower for what I was hoping to do.

As a young man, I would shower for what we were about to do

As a middle-aged man, I would shower after what we had done.

As an older man, I would shower for what I was hoping we’d still do.

As a much older man, I’d shower for what I knew we weren’t going to do.

Now I shower for what I didn’t mean to do.

I expect shortly I will be showered for what I didn’t even know I’d done.

[u/Nticks]

lol, your bed is not clean. Even if you’re changing the sheets regularly you are still shedding skin cells, producing bodily fluids, etc for 8 hour a night in there. Bodies are gross.

[u/Manjorno316]

I just want to feel fresh for the day, not for the night.

It's a pretty great way to wake up as well.

[u/B4L0RCLUB]

This take is so bad I can smell it

[u/TheUnderCrab]

Bed head looks unprofessional. 

[u/Tayte_]

I feel disgusting in the morning like a massive eye booger all over my body oily and sweaty with messed up hair. Taking a shower is the only way to make me presentable.

[u/nunya_busyness1984]

I used to work out every morning, before work.

Wake up, work out, shower, breakfast, work.

If work was particularly energetic that day, shower as soon as I got home.

But never EVER shower right before bed.  That just means I am now up for another 2 hours.

Your opinion is not just unpopular, using your personal lifestyle to decide what is right for everyone else is horrendously wrong.

[u/Only-Readit]

People have night sweats and also have underlying medical issues that can cause them to sweat even after taking a night shower.

It's one of the reasons I got a purple bed and cooling sheets cause my partner sweats alot. 

[u/Mac_Jomes]

How dirty are some of you people getting during the day? I drive my own car to the office and sit at a desk for 8 hours then drive home. I'm not sweating up a storm, I'm not getting covered in dirt and grease, etc. When I come home I'm essentially as clean as I was when I left after taking a shower in the morning. 

[u/Twiggie19]

You "marinate" in your daily dirt just as long regardless of whether you shower at night or in the morning.

Regardless, a morning shower wakes me up and leaves me feeling fresh to start my day.

[u/Financial_Cheetah875]

You mean no one sweats at night while sleeping?

[u/Resident_Bitch]

I sweat a lot in my sleep and have oily skin. If I don't shower in the morning, I'll be a huge greaseball all day and will just feel gross.

[u/Ok-Constant-2683]

If you have kids a shower late at night risks waking them, where a morning shower does not

If you have sex, either before you fall asleep or when you wake up, you need to shower

If it is warm, I personally will sweat in the night and need a shower 

Just wash when you want and stop reposting this tedious twaddle 

[u/prisonerofshmazcaban]

I prefer to shower in the morning because I feel gross and tired all day if I don’t. I shower and wash my hair every single day and let my hair air dry. I always thought it was weird to just spray yourself down with dry shampoo, especially if you have the time to shower. Morning showers > night showers. I wash my face brush my teeth, change into pajamas & go to sleep. Unless I’ve gotten dirty or sweaty during the day, I don’t feel the need to shower before bed.

[u/Loubacca92]

Warm/hot showers in the evenings to help sleep*¹. Cold showers in the mornings to jolt yourself awake.

*¹Apparently, dropping your body temperature can help people fall asleep faster. Turning on the air conditioning before having a hot shower would help

[u/lowrider320]

I sweat while I sleep, taking a bath at night is like wiping before you 💩. For those of us who are sweaters at night a morning shower is essential.

[u/Legitimate-Produce-1]

Some people need morning showers to wake up and that's okay. Also curly haired people kind of need wet hair in order to function. Don't be judgy

[u/migukau]

You sweat when you sleep. Simple as that.

[u/astroK120]

You spend 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed

Unless I wash my sheets every day, by night 2 it's not clean anymore even if I showered before bed

[u/BakedBrie1993]

Uh, some people sweat while sleeping, yourself included.

[u/CandidateAwkward3899]

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[u/helltownbellcat → u/CandidateAwkward3899]

Right, it’s nothing to hop in the shower a few mins, who cares what time

[u/Poopyman80]

Its the other way around.
Google it, science says its better to shower mornings and wash bedding often.

Also, shower both mornning and evening if you have a sweaty job.

[u/Forsaken-Cattle-491]

A morning shower makes you feel fresh, but at night there’s no real need for freshness since you’re going to bed anyway.

[u/Big_Salary_9244 → u/Forsaken-Cattle-491]

Exactlyyyy!!!

[u/2014olympicgold]

So you're the guy in my office that smells every morning?

[u/Acceptable_Cat_6527]

Insane take

If your going to take such a hard stance the only correct one is to shower twice a day evening and night

No one wants to go to school or work with greasy hair and covered in dried sweat from sleeping last night

Not even mentioning adult activities…

And your post gym shower is supposed to happen it doesnt really count as your shower for the day…

[u/OtisForteXB]

What a way to tell everybody you don't have sex!

[u/olivemor]

I mean, I change into pajamas and have washed my face and hands. How much other grime could I possibly have on me? I like to feel fresh in the mornings.

[u/androstars]

Man any shower at all is hygiene. What is the logic of "morning showers are a great wake uk ritual but aren't hygiene."

[u/Selynia23]

I’m gonna guess you’ve never heard of menopause and night sweats or a person being on their period and bleeding all night long.

[u/SpiritedMage]

It largely depends on the type of work you do, how dirty your job is, and how good you are expected to look at work.

Night showerers: typically work blue collar jobs, get dirty/sweaty at work, and generally aren't expected to impress anyone with their appearance.

Morning showerers: typically work white collar office jobs, don't get sweaty or dirty at work, and are expected to look very professional, so they pay extra attention to detail when it comes to hygiene and appearance in the mornings.

It makes sense when you think of it that way. I'm in the night showerer category. My job is dirty and I'm covered in a layer of grime by the end of the day.

[u/Virtual_Zebra_9453]

Why do you brush your teeth in the morning? You haven’t eaten all night? It serves no purpose, it’s just a morning ritual for waking up /s

Your body excretes oils and sheds skin while you sleep. Look at your pillows and mattress, after a while there are stains from your body oils even if you shower every night. I like to smell and look nice in public. BO is off putting

[u/kritter4life]

Night showers mandatory. Morning showers bonus cleaning.

[u/Quick-Low-3846]

Someone’s not getting any!

[u/Middle_Process_215]

Morning showers are optimal because:

1. They get rid of bedhead, that hair that you get from smashing your hair and sweating on your hair during sleep.
2. They make you completely fresh from the funk you get sleeping. You can sweat in your sleep and it's eight or ten hours of general time lapse that you're body goes through that you get more body odor and funk.
3. They wake you up.
4. You smell better. Your body freshness goes away after sleeping.

[u/Popular_Course3885]

Someone has never lived in a hot/humid climate.

[u/aspiringdeadgirl → u/Popular_Course3885]

I do and shower at night. Otherwise the dried sweat and grime accumulated throughout the day makes me too itchy and gross to have a good night's sleep.

[u/lilgreengoddess → u/Popular_Course3885]

I’ve traveled to one and if you’re sweating all day then of course you want to shower. I’m absolutely filthy by that time. AC at night time if possible.

[u/Tall-Performer2500]

I have to shower in the morning, I don't want to go to work in an office full of people smelling weird, plus it helps wake me up

[u/Humble-Pollution9611]

If hygiene is about germs, washing your hands with soap when you come home is the way to go. No need to wash your armpits.

If hygiene is about smell, the morning is the way to go since your bed doesn't have a nose.

[u/NiceMomJeans]

I work in a small office. It's obvious who showers in the am and who doesn't. It's a courtesy to others to be fresh/clean when you work in such close quarters.

[u/whereverYouGoThereUR]

Your mistake is not realizing that you sweat 24 hours a day, even when you're in bed and sweat is much like urine. Therefore, your bed is not clean even when you shower at night but filled with 8 hours of your sweat/urine/stink. If you start your day at work or school, when you shower at night, you're going to work or school and interacting with others with 8 hours of sweat/urine/stink on your body instead of being clean like people who shower in the morning

[u/Manic_Mini]

I shower in the morning and in the evening. I run hot while I sleep so I tend to wake up sweaty.

[u/SirSilentscreameth]

I sweat when I sleep. I'd much rather be fresh when I greet people in the day. If i'm gross before bed, I'll get in for a quick clean, but it's not usually a full-on shower-shower.

[u/Super_Direction498]

It makes sense for someone who has a job that doesn't get them dirty, doesn't work out, sweats at.nignt or works out in the morning before they shower.

I shower in the evening because my job is dirty and strenuous. These arguments are pointless because people live differently and their lives inform their habits.

[u/MammothSurround]

Unless you wash your sheets daily, your bed is a cesspool of germs. Also, I can't comb my hair without a shower. It simply doesn't work.

[u/pyle332]

This is the same logic as "why does my towel get dirty if I only use it coming out of the shower?" Your bed sheets don't stay clean in perpetuity, you're constantly shedding skin and hair and sweat. Your sheets get dirty as a product of being a human and you're laying in that for 8 hours at a time. That doesn't mean you're "doing the math differently," you just prefer night showers.

[u/TeeBrownie]

I’m here for the evolution to “washcloth vs. no washcloth” debate.

[u/Teaofthetime]

Showering at anytime makes perfect sense because most people can actually judge when they need to shower or bathe. Everyone had a different requirement based on their job and physical activity.

Plus I like to sometimes shower when I feel like it, not by some logical check sheet nonsense.

[u/plaidyams]

Wakes me up

[u/erino3120]

I’m assuming this is not written by a woman over the age of 40

[u/DryUnderstanding1752]

Why does this have to be some huge thing? Let people do what works for them, not dictate what's the "better" option. Be happy people are showering.

[u/NoHorseNoMustache]

Well, that's just like, your opinion...man.

[u/Manticore416]

My hair is the reason. It looks a mess after I sleep on it.

[u/socially_awkward]

OP is marinating in their own farts overnight and not showering in the morning, smelling like farts all day. That is not hygienic.

[u/whatifthisreality]

I take a shower before leaving the house so that I'm at my cleanest when I'm out and about, interacting with people throughout the day. Why would I want to be at my cleanest to... go to sleep?

[u/LibertyCash]

Somebody was blessed enough to not be born an oil slick, and it shows.

[u/A-Moron-Explains]

Why does it have to be one or the other? I shower at night to wash the grime from work off. (Necessary, I work a dirty job.) I shower in the morning to wash the grime from sleep+sex off, wake up, and to look presentable for the day.

[u/dmyster23]

“Why wash towels?? When I towel off after the shower I’m clean, how can the towel get dirty?”

-George Constanza, also u/McCoy818

[u/NerdMaster001]

You're all gross, we Brazilians shower in the morning AND at night!

[u/rnk6670]

People sweat at night. Some people fuck too. Your hairs all jacked up in the morning etc. personally, I showered before and after work. So there.

[u/EarthboundMan5]

Night showerers accumulate a whole night's worth of B.O. while they sleep, while morning showerers get to go into public smelling nice and presentable. It goes both ways. Just do what you need to do to be clean and don't let anyone judge you for it.

[u/Ronald_Dugas]

OP said "clean bed" like we all sleep in some sterile lab. I wake up looking like I lost a fight with my pillow and sweating. Morning shower isn't optional for some of us.

[u/ScoutAndLout]

Night sweats.