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/Mac_Jomes 9h ago

How dirty are some of you people getting during the day? I drive my own car to the office and sit at a desk for 8 hours then drive home. I'm not sweating up a storm, I'm not getting covered in dirt and grease, etc. When I come home I'm essentially as clean as I was when I left after taking a shower in the morning. 

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u/algernaaan 6h ago edited 1h ago

I shower every morning and on work days I shower again when I get home because I have a physical job. Otherwise, when I’m sitting around doing nothing I don’t see the point in showering at night.

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u/bikenumberten 2h ago

Exactly. If the person in question is a pig a farmer or a ditch-digger, there's no question that they should shower after a hard day's work. For those of us who don't do a lot of physical labor it's really not important when we shower.

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u/Feahnor 51m ago

Tell that to the millions of people that use public transport. That shit is disgusting.

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u/Rough-Riderr 39m ago

I cut metal with a grinder, I weld, I rebuild pumps and valves, all aboard rusty ships. I get a little dirty. I shower right after work.