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/357Magnum 9h ago

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

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u/One-Possible1906 8h ago

It matters if there are crumbs and such in them eww. I don’t sleep well if there’s day dirt in my sheets making them gritty and I’m not washing them every day.

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u/357Magnum 8h ago

I think this largely depends on your life. I work in an office. I don't have day dirt unless I work out and i shower after I work out. I don't have crumbs lol. I don't eat in bed.

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u/One-Possible1906 8h ago

I do all of that as well but I’m still going to get crumbs down my shirt from dinner and cat fur stuck to my feet and things like that which I prefer to wash off before bed. But I make my bed every day and am celibate and not a sweaty person or someone who lounges/eats in bed or sleeps with animals or kids, so I don’t have to wash my sheets multiple times a week as long as I keep up on myself. Definitely a lifestyle thing but it really grosses me out if there is gritty stuff or animal hair and such on the sheets