What is it for you: a morning shower or an evening/night shower?
According to the Sleep Foundation, 42% of U.S. adults shower or bathe in the morning and 38% bathe or shower in the evening. Women are more likely to shower before bed, while men are more likely to shower in the morning, right after waking up. [We’re not sure what the other 20% do.🤔]
Some people start their day by jumping right in the shower and don’t feel quite “awake” if they haven’t. Others like to save their shower for the end of the day—perhaps it makes them sleepy or they would rather get into bed clean. Which is it for you?
Morning, gets my day started right.
When traveling and camping by RV, before bed. At home, depends.
Moi aussi!
OMG. Another “who really cares” poll that I didn’t bother answering. DM, if again you take umbrage with my opinion, it is my understanding that you are on the RV Travel staff and have access to my email address. I know one of your frequent authors got my email address when I posted after an article I had some suggestions to a dilemma the author mentioned. If we are going to “disagree” over an opinion that I may have, perhaps we should keep it between the two of us. We are both adults and can have a civil discourse without hostility, or without suggesting someone got up on the wrong side of the bed.
If you disagree or dislike the survey then just move on and dont leave any comment but it is now obvious your egging on to get some sort of reply. So my suggestion to you is disconnect and move to another cloud you might find solitude for yourself and your happy place
No offense Skip, but I am not in need of your advice. And truthfully, I am happy, outgoing, and do not need solitude. Have a nice day and I hope you can find solitude since you found it necessary to “scold” me.
It seems like there always has to be one.
BUT ….you did answer this poll with your rant. Unsubscribe from the RV travel email list and you will dwell in your own dark corner undisturbed
Hi, Carl. To tell you the truth, I have nothing to do with the poll questions, and sometimes they make me roll my eyes. However, it’s difficult to come up with 365 questions specifically relating to RVs and RVing each year, so I can understand why they frequently digress from the main topic here at RVtravel.com. However, again, there have been almost 1,200 votes on this poll and 21 comments so far today, including your 2 comments and 3 in response to them. BTW, I didn’t give your email address to anyone. Also, a civil discourse without hostility is a very good thing. I have always been very easy-going and lenient, and certainly never hostile. That’s even more true as I get older (77 now). Plus, at this point, I’m very happy to be able to get up on either side of the bed.🤣 I just think that’s a silly saying. Take care. 🙂 –Diane
Our first Home was a Mobile Home with a 20 Gallon 120 Volt Water Heater. We had to split the shower time so I shower just before bed and the wife showers first thing in the morning. When we are on the road, we both shower in the afternoon in the campground showers, I hate getting cold and that is about the time the showers are cleaned.
Why would someone shower in the morning, work/play during the day, and then get in bed? Yuck! Always shower before bed.
It depends. Normally I shower in the morning and she in the evenings. But I will not go to bed dirty. If sweaty, dirty, etc an evening shower is a go.
I farmed until I was 40 years old and was dirty when I got in at night and always showered as soon as I got home. The rest of my work career as a mechanic I continued to shower as soon as I could when I got home. Now if not doing anything to get dirty or sweaty I shower in the morning, if working as soon as I am through for the day. I prefer to sleep clean.
A shower in the morning is the easiest way to deal with my hair, which is quite a scary sight when I first get up. Cats and dog don’t mind, they’re just hungry, but I think I’d frighten most humans.
That’s funny. My wife says that same thing to me in the morning.
In the late evening. After being active all day, it’s time to get the days dirt and sweat off. Plus, it relaxes me and makes it easier to fall asleep.
Before I retired, it was of course after a hard day at work, or fishing. Nowadays it’s in the morning.
At home, I much prefer to shower in the morning, my husband in the evening. We’ll shower at other times if it works better.
We don’t use the shower in our small travel trailer, so we end up showering at whatever time works in a campground. My husband will shower as soon as he comes back from a backpack or long hike – one memorable one when he came back covered in soot after walking through an area that had burned comes to mind too.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to shower before bed, rather than take a sweaty stinky body to bed? may improve your relationship.
I grew up in the country on a hobby farm and now live on it and keep things “up.” Our routine was to work outside, often getting quite dirty, if not filthy, after school and on Saturday. Our retirement routine is much the same. I have always taken a bath after the workday ends to avoid making the sheets dirty, grimy, or filthy. When in school — undergrad and grad — I did morning runs before class and showered afterward. I also showered after the afternoon workout. If a teammate needed more miles on a particular day, then I might run a third time at night and shower afterward.
I never have understood how those who shower in the mornings can get in a bed of clean sheets with a dirty body….. just doesn’t make any sense.
Agree.
Depends on where you work! I work in an office environment so unless I go home and do yardwork I’m not what you would consider dirty. At times we have to move equipment or pull cable then I feel I need a shower after I get home. Not much grunge accumulates behind a keyboard all day, although I have been known to spill my coffee once in awhile. 🙂
When I worked it was morning and evening but now it’s mainly in the evening.
Same with me.
I quit showering every day after reading an article by a dermatologist several years ago who said that showering every day is the leading cause of skin and scalp problems in the US. He wrote that it strips the body of all nature oils and such that’s purpose is to protect the body and has lead to increases in issue of dry skin and skin disease, including cancer. He said the early settlers “Saturday night” bathing was ideal.
Since retiring from camp hosting I usually shower mid-day after a lazy morning and before afternoon errands. Ife is good.
Shower in evening or after work day. Several years in the Navy where we were sometimes on water restriction and no shower after working in the engine department where temperatures were routinely in the 90s. Once I was no longer in I promised myself to never go to bed dirty again. I have kept that promise to myself, except for days that I did absolutely nothing but sit and read all day.
Water hours SUCKED!
If you had asked while RVing I would have said evening. At home it’s always morning for me .
Shower in the evenings after all day hopefully being outside, and going to bed all cleaned up at night
I just wait until no one is looking.
Before retiring from the Navy I was required to be freshly clean shaved each day. Shaving makes my skin raw so a shower after soothed that. So I just am in the habit of showering each morning and only showering in the evening as needed while home. When we are camping we shower when we get around to it since we have no schedule to keep. If I have been out on the lake fishing I’ll grab a quick shower after to clean up and wash off the sun screen, bug dope, sweat, etc.
Learned many moons ago in college – If you want hot water shower at night!!!!