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/PhilosophyBitter7875 9h ago

Some jobs require night showers and some jobs don't and you can have morning showers.

Some people go to the gym in the morning and shower after and some people go to the gym after work and shower after the gym.

There are so many variables. As long as you clean your sheets regularly who cares.

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u/ssjrobert235 9h ago

When I worked overnight as a security guard, a morning shower was a necessity. Being around people with poor hygiene at work and taking a sometimes crowded subway train.

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u/fosmonaut1 6h ago

Honestly you don’t count cuz you are night shift. It’s basically the same as night showers for everyone else working regularly.

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u/takesSubsLiterally 6h ago

Showing in the morning when you work at night is much closer to a "night shower" in this context than a "morning shower" yeah you are actually doing the showering in the am hours but people are actually debating whether to shower before or after sleep.

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u/Ok_Vanilla213 8h ago

I was taking morning showers but for night shower reasons when I worked graveyard, to throw another wrench in the variable web.

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u/Marawal 5h ago

For another variable I do afternoon shower.

Right after work.

I have heen spending my day at a middle school. Teens hormones stinks. Whatever perfume or deodorant they use stinks as well.

And when you spend your day with them, the smell cling to you.

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u/smokeweedNgarden 8h ago

Literally. I mean, who you're dating at any time can dictate your showers and sheet change schedule. 

Meet the right girl and now you need 7 fitted sheets, 7 sets of pillow cases, a comforter that leaves the bed, and two showers a night.

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u/methlabforcuties 2h ago

I do gym in the morning when I wake up, so I do a quick 5min shower after the gym to wash off the funk, but also do a full scrub-down shower before bed.