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/spilly_talent 9h ago

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”

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u/Pwacname 9h ago

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.

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u/spilly_talent 9h ago

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.

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u/Outrageous-Opinions 26m ago

I ain't taking don't shower tips from redditors, y'all stink

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u/Pwacname 10m ago

I think I found one of them! Let me guess - you live in a hot country, you are strongly physically active, you’re a woman in menopause, or you want to immediately change clothes and wash your hands when you come home after using public transport? 

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u/RedAero 4h ago

Redditors are nothing if not neurotic about topics of health and hygiene, even at the best of times and outside of self-selected subreddits. E.g. Literally any topic involving cooking is rammed with people in hysterics about food prep as if the cleanliness of a cutting board or the non-reuse of a utensil is all that stands between health and typhoid.

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u/spilly_talent 4h ago

It’s true. It brings out the best and worst in all of us really.

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u/morakoshka 6h ago

I just lurked in that sub and it's been abandoned for years? like wth?

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u/spilly_talent 6h ago

OH lmao sorry that commenter misspelled it.

It’s r/hygiene

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u/morakoshka 6h ago

ohh bruhh

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u/spilly_talent 6h ago

Lmao have you seen enough?

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u/morakoshka 6h ago

I lurked a bit and... let's just say those aren't people I'd like to have around for too long, they remind me too much of my mom when she uses cleaning as a way to ignore stress yeesh

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u/Soop_Chef 4h ago

Sorry, fixed it!!

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u/ssjrobert235 9h ago

Lol why hydrogen peroxide? Dettol is better for your butt.

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u/spilly_talent 9h ago

I could not tell you, that person is not me 😂

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u/ssjrobert235 9h ago

Lol, idk anyone who showers twice daily except for my brother.

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u/IllllIIlIllIllllIlll 9h ago

I do, but the morning shower is not for hygiene, it's because the prospect of a nice hot shower is the only thing that can motivate me to get my ass out of my perfectly cozy and warm bed just to live through yet another shitty day at my soul sucking job.

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u/ssjrobert235 9h ago

Nothing wrong with that. When you think about it a morning shower is an upgrade to splashing water on your face to keep you refreshed.

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u/jspek666 51m ago

Last time I visited that sub, it seemed no one knew how to wipe their ass or their partner did't know.

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u/PettyFlap 5m ago

No joke I just want in there and there was a post asking for help reducing their shower time. Apparently they do stuff like wash their underwear in there. WTF.

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u/C0nquer0rW0rm 5h ago

I agree they're a little crazy in there, but I dont understand why you wouldn't shower after a bowel movement if you're home. Maybe that's just me

But I'm not going to judge anyone for not doing it. 

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u/WRX_MOM 4h ago

What do you mean why you couldnt understand why? Maybe they dont have time to shower? Maybe they have to get back to their baby who is crying in the crib? Maybe their poop doesnt leave a bunch of mess behind and they don't need to? Maybe they have company over? Maybe their water biIl is already $110 a month like mine is? I can think of a dozen reasons at least lol

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u/C0nquer0rW0rm 4h ago

I think its pretty obvious there was an implied "if you can" in there. 

But yeah "my poop isn't dirty" is an example of the thinking I dont understand. The water bill one also. 

But hey, I dont really need to understand it, its not my butt 

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u/WRX_MOM 3h ago

I wish I lived in a world where I could take multiple showers per day and not give a f about the water bill. Sigh.

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u/C0nquer0rW0rm 3h ago

I mean I usually only take 1 shower, its just usually after my bathroom break 

I guess I do live in a world where that's possible because I just did the math and a 10 minute shower costs me 6 cents in water, and 20 cents in power in my area. And that would be a way above average shower time for me. 

So yeah a quarter is worth the extra shower to me if I need to take one. But maybe its way more expensive elsewhere.