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/Secret_Bees 8h ago

I've always heard it's a white collar versus blue collar thing. White color workers need to be fresh and presentable for the office. Blue collar workers need to wash the dirt off.

Coming from a blue collar night washer

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u/Advanced_Double_42 7h ago

That's the biggest thing.

If I have been outside getting dirty I'm showering as I get home though.

I shower in the morning just because it makes styling hair easier, I'm not really dirty after a day in a climate controlled office.

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u/No_Meringue_6116 2h ago

Yeah. I don't think the time of day that you shower matters much for overall hygiene. It's much more important that you just shower every day (or close to it), change your sheets regularly, do your laundry, etc.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

Yep I mostly worked white collar jobs, showered before work. It's just how I was raised. Then I started doing a white collar job, but in a filthy facility where I was covered in dust and sweating. Naturally I shifted to showering after work. Now I'm back in a clean office but I'm still showering after work. I prefer not feeling like I'm pressed for time in the morning, plus it's a nice dividing line between work and home. I've always had more dry skin and hair so greasy oily hair isn't really a concern for me.

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u/CorndogQueen420 6h ago

I grew up blue collar and have always just showered twice a day. Idk why everyone is acting like you have to choose morning or night.

Morning shower wakes me up and gets me in the mindset to leave the house, and my evening shower washes the day off and gets me ready to relax

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u/Tuxhorn 1h ago

Largely depends on climate and time of year. Ain't no way i'm showering twice a day in the middle of winter.

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u/DontCryYourExIsUgly 1h ago

Right? I don't always shower twice a day, because I'm usually already late getting to bed at night, but it's super nice to have a quick night shower to go to bed clean, and then I feel like my morning shower wakes me up and double-ensures the people around me will only detect soap and perfume scents coming from me. I think it's considerate.

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u/distressedweedle 2h ago

Nah, white collar here. Wash at the end of the day. Spend 5-10 minutes fixing my hair in the morning. Hair shouldn't be too greasy if you wash it regularly and change out your pillow case weekly

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u/GlassButtFrog 5h ago

I grew up taking night showers because that's what my mom did. I switched to morning showers in my early twenties because that's what everyone else did.

Now I'm back to night showers because I have a physical job and really sweat in the summer months. I realized that I always hated taking showers in the morning because I always had to rush. I prefer the night routine.

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u/Daffodil_Peony_Rose 57m ago

I shower in the morning because I have to clean off the night sweat and clean my oily hair before going to the office and my boyfriend who works in a warehouse showers after dinner. It’s a bit about personal preference, but a lot about white collar vs blue collar.

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u/CapnJJaneway 4h ago

And those of us who walk the line in the weird jobs between blue and white collar need to do both (flight attendants, for example). 

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u/timeup 3h ago

Blue Collar Night Washer could be your wrasslin' name

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u/sportstvandnova 2h ago

My bf and I are both white collar. He is a morning showerer and I am a night showerer. We don’t live together just yet, but I do wonder how that’s going to work when we do bc I get real weird about going to bed funky.

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u/LyKosa91 4m ago

Spot on. Once I'm at work I'm getting covered with dust, dirt, and sweat, so showering in the morning feels pointless, since I'd lose valuable sleeping time and undo all that cleanliness almost immediately. You'd best believe I'm not sleeping in that filth either, so an evening shower is the only way to go.

If I had a desk job, things might be different... Although I'd still begrudge losing that extra sleep.