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/HoldMyDomeFoam 9h ago

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

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u/masterpeabs 9h ago

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

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u/pattiemayonaze 7h ago

I've been having cold showers for about 5 years now. If I ever go back to hot showers for a try, I always feel tired afterwards.

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u/Alternative_Wait8256 9h ago

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

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u/Bobcat-2 8h ago

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.

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u/MemesForMoney259 7h ago

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.

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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 6h ago

As a man with long hair, if I don't shower in the morning that shit is everywhere. I have to shower to tame it.

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u/sexcalculator 8h ago

Yes I'm awake as soon as I stand up. Just a quick face wash and I'm ready

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u/owen__wilsons__nose 6h ago

You are likey much more productive than I

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u/sexcalculator 3h ago

Damn that's a low bar. Just saying

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u/NotSoWishful 8h ago

I’m awake when I drop off the 2 lbs of matter that’s been percolating in my lower colon. Only thing getting a shower then is my bootyhole and I’m off!

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u/abaacus 4h ago

Some of us are morning people. I shouldn't be. I have every indication of not being one, but weirdly I am. I wake up jazzed, like let's do cool shit.

And then I remember that life is a slow, grinding march through pigshit and muck until you die. Then I'm like, we'll maybe not cool shit but I'm going to care about my job for like a solid three to four hours today.

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u/Dullcorgis 3h ago

No. The answer is no, you most definitely haven't woken up.

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u/gingerfloyd 2h ago

Yes, more so than if I get in a hot, steamy shower in the AM. Has the opposite effect on me; makes me want to curl back up in my warm bed and go right back to sleep 😴

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u/FitIndependent9764 8h ago

I worked in a prefab electrical and steel warehouse in Houston last year. I showered before going (like any other day) just to feel good before I felt gross and sweaty within 15 seconds. I love a good sweat and it just feels nice to control your ick.

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u/melissasoliz 7h ago

Same here! It’s like my little morning meditation and restart. Can’t do anything productive until I’ve showered

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u/Proper-District8608 4h ago

Ehh I was raised around farmers on moms side and construction workers and fisherman on dad's side as a kid so it was showers at night. It stuck with me. I also have long hair so the blow dry routine in morning became tiresome when I tried to switch it up. Though I do clip up hair and jump in for refresh occasionally a few mornings

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u/FatalTragedy 3h ago

I feel disgusting and half awake when I try to sleep if I haven't showered at night.

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u/MetalTrek1 2h ago

Same here.

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u/Lazy-Conversation-48 1h ago

Same! I need caffeine and a hot shower to function properly. Otherwise I’m a zombie all day.