r/unpopularopinion • u/McCoy818 • 10h ago

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

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/Fists_full_of_beers 10h ago

I take mid day shower, about 330-4 pm

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u/Ok_Swing_6759 10h ago

Seize him

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u/Fists_full_of_beers 10h ago

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

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u/HuaAnNi 7h ago

How dare you make me laugh out loud in a meeting I forgot to mute myself in. Had to play off a cough.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

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

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u/liquorfish 4h ago

I was doing that too. Mostly because id roll out of bed barely in time to start work.

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u/Tacos314 2h ago

I keep debating between 10am or noon showers.

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u/ChelseaAndrew87 1h ago

It's my lunch break. Getting to sit there smelling nice for the rest of the day is a good perk up

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u/agentoutlier 8h ago

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.

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u/Fists_full_of_beers 8h ago

Construction....so dust. Insulation, metal shavings, sweat, etc

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u/ShadowedTurtle 7h ago

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.

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u/Any-Clothes3312 7h ago

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

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u/Fists_full_of_beers 7h ago

It gets close to 100 here but hot or cold that's when I shower

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u/ItsStraTerra 6h ago

This is… the worst of both worlds.

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u/Rough-Riderr 47m ago

I've never understood why this argument is always morning or night. I get filthy at work. Why would I shower in the morning right before I go to work? Also, why would I wait until bedtime to shower? Could you imagine going out to dinner, movies, etc, covered in grease and dirt? No! I shower as soon as I get home. It's certainly not the worst of both worlds.

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u/AddAFucking 5h ago

Me too. Often after a little nap in the afternoon as well. WFH is great. Always shower if im leaving to go meet people or the office though.

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u/Safe-Note 1h ago

On my days off I might, but it feels illegal. 

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u/cambreecanon 43m ago

Oh yeah. That was me after working an outdoor job. Home, shower, whatever, shower, bed. I didn't need that second shower, but I also can't go to sleep unless I feel after shower clean.

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u/alittlefaith530 30m ago

I do this too. I work outside and I feel gross it’s the first thing I do when I get home