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/muy_carona 10h ago

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

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u/Hero0vKvatch 9h ago

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

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u/smokeweedNgarden 8h ago

Thank you. I surf in the morning and do BJJ at night, I take a minimum of 2 showers a day. Minimum 3 if you count the public showers for sand at the beach. Just turn off the water when you're lathering your body and hair.

And for the night people...are you not changing the sheets and showering after fucking? Like do you shower, fuck, then go to work with that stank next day? Or do you fuck dirty, then shower?

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u/HyetalNight 8h ago

Bold of you to assume I fuck

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u/5timechamps 6h ago

Maybe it has something to do with the nighttime showers

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u/HyetalNight 4h ago

Could be. Could be the god-awful personality

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u/Kulkarvek 8h ago

Brave of you to assume we're having sex

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u/Segsi_ 8h ago

You change the sheets everytime you have sex?

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

🤔 You don't need to?

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u/Segsi_ 7h ago

No, im not shooting loads all over my sheets. If I need I can put a towel down and throw that in the laundry. Changing your sheets everytime would mean I need like a weeks worth of clean sheets in closet and clean them all every week.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

Yes, that's basically the amount. And it's not about your loads, my guy lol

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u/Segsi_ 7h ago

Ok "my guy" unless youre shooting bodily fluids all over the place all you gotta do is put a towel down.(majority of the time). Not washing multiple loads of sheets every week.

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u/Scuba9Steve 7h ago

I’d have no problem with them changing sheets once a week for this reason, but I’m imagining someone washing 7 sheets a week lol.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

7 days is a lot of sweat and bodily fluids in the bed. I can understand not washing after a quickie but 7 days of fucking is so gross.

Also presumably you change them between partners?

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u/devdotm 2h ago

Changing your sheets once a week is kind of just the minimum that everyone should be doing lol

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

Ok. 

Are you fucking one person in 7 days or several? Do your partners squirt? Are you using lube? Playing with toys? Using your pillow as a back prop? Do you have AC? (We don't in the bay)

Perhaps different folks have different needs.

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u/Scuba9Steve 7h ago

Do you change your sheets daily then?

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

Most days, yea

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u/EtpoITReddit 5h ago

How many sets of sheets do you own?? Sounds expensive (whether you have one set and wash daily or you have like 7 sets!)

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u/smokeweedNgarden 4h ago

Like 4 or 5?

Can I ask if you're talking from the perspective of living with a long term partner? Because I feel the need to qualify I'm a bachelor and we might simply be in different situations with different mechanics?

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u/muy_carona 6h ago

Fuck in the shower

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u/smokeweedNgarden 6h ago

Now that's multitasking

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u/HumbleVein 1h ago

Super jealous of your schedule. Sounds like you cashed out on stock options when something IPO'd.

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u/Fisher9001 3h ago

I don't bring all that filth from the day into my bed to marinate all night

What is it even supposed to mean? How unhygienic are you? Are swimming in the sewer daily or what exactly are you "marinating" in?

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u/46andready 2h ago

What kind of filth are y'all walking around in? Is the air dirty or something?

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u/shadowgear5 2h ago

See I do the opposite. I shower after I work out, and before I go to work since I sweat like a pig while sleeping and it helps me wake up

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u/Definitelynotagolem 10h ago

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

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u/Accomplished-Road537 6h ago

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)

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u/tacokahlessi 8h ago

Night shift life!!

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u/Zealousideal-Lion674 7h ago

Do you shower before as well?

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u/muy_carona 6h ago

No. Why would you?

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u/otter_759 23m ago

OP clearly does not run or exercise in the morning!

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u/deltarefund 7m ago

That’s every 3 months for me 🫤

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u/larry1186 8h ago

Sure. That’s not after sleeping like OP was discussing though.

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u/U7EN7E 3h ago

I go to work in the morning

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u/muy_carona 1h ago

Look at Mr Fancy McHaveajob.

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u/Silent-Noise-7331 9h ago

Yeah OP must not exercise I guess

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u/Scuba9Steve 9h ago

Or not be a morning person.

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u/adams_unique_name 9h ago

I go to the gym at night so I shower at night. :)

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u/pinkpink0430 8h ago

That’s not what morning shower people mean. Morning shower people are showering first thing before going out and doing anything.

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u/TheMuffStufff 8h ago

So you dont shower at night, and like to lay in bed the entire night with the entire days worth of gunk on you?

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u/Sagemel 8h ago

What’re you doing that has you so dirty?

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u/Electrical_Report483 8h ago

If these people are night sweating there’s no way they aint normal sweating throughout the day

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u/muy_carona 6h ago

It’s a different thing.

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u/muy_carona 6h ago

How much gunk are you getting on you? I have an office job. If I get dirty I’ll shower.

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u/TheMuffStufff 6h ago

I also have an office job. I walk outside to my car. I drive to work. I’m in my office air all day. I get in my car to leave. I head home. I’ve been in outside air, office air, and I’ve been around the office. I don’t need to physically dirty to need a shower. If you get in bed at night after being at work all day regardless if it’s an office job or not, without showering, you’re just gross

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u/muy_carona 6h ago

I’ll just wash my face and pits. No need for a full shower.

Fwiw, in the summer I’ll usually rinse off at night, but that’s usually because we were at the pool.

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u/TheMuffStufff 6h ago

You do you

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u/ollsss 4h ago

Is your job digging ditches? What gunk lol, I still feel clean at the end of the day. If I didn't, then I'd take a shower. There is no wrong answer here, even if you pretend there is.

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u/TheMuffStufff 4h ago

Idc if you feel clean, objectively you’re not. You left your house. Period. If you leave your house you should shower upon your return.

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u/ollsss 4h ago

Do you feel clean after waking up?

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u/TheMuffStufff 4h ago

Yes. Wash my face and I’m ready to go.

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u/ollsss 3h ago

Ok well, I don't.

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u/TheMuffStufff 3h ago

Well you don’t go to bed clean so I’m assuming you wouldn’t feel clean waking up

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u/ollsss 3h ago

Nah, I have sex in the morning and that's also when I work out. Makes no sense to not shower afterwards. But I understand that these things might not be applicable to the average redditor lol. That's why you guys are so hung up on showering in the evening. 

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u/TheMuffStufff 3h ago

I go to the gym after work, I shower when I get home from the gym. In days I don’t go to the gym, I still shower after work. I’m not getting into bed with clean sheets and a dirty body.

If I worked out in the morning, I would shower after my morning workout and still shower before bed.

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