Weekly Pointless Poll #2: Bathing

I'm an evening guy. Some people say they shower in the morning because it helps wake them up, but showers are so relaxing to me they usually just make me want to go back to bed.

I grew up bathing in the evening before bed. Also you don't have to change the bed sheets as often if you go to bed clean.

In the summers, if I don't have A/C, I'll bathe twice in one day just to cool off. I'll also bathe more if I'm sick, since laying in a tub of hot water just makes me feel better.

Whenever I feel gross. This can be more than once a day if I work out in the afternoon or evening.

For me bathing in the morning has nothing to do with waking up, I do it because of my hair. It's a mess when I wake up and the only thing that helps it not look like a mess is to get it sopping wet. I have just stuck it under the tap on rare occasion when in a rush. Second, and again with the hair, my hair is quite oily and it will start to look a little disgusting before the end of the day if I shower in the evenings.

That's what my husband does. He's got curly hair, so the only way to control it is to wet it in the morning and immediately pull it back into a ponytail before it has a chance to curl up again.

I do it in the morning because I found that when I realised I was tired and I wanted to go to bed, I wanted to go to bed.

Usually my hair is a little bit longer and it curls slightly out near the ears (the ole "wings" look). If I don't shower in the morning, one or both sides will be completely flat and it will look bad, but I can always remedy that by just wearing a baseball cap. When I was working in a cubicle farm with a business dress code, I had to shower in the morning. Also I'm generally a sweaty guy so I don't always smell great after a night of rolling around in sheets and blankets (plus other nightly activities).

I bathe in shitb0ners.

Nope.

When I was in high school I had to shower at night. If there was even 5 seconds in the morning when my stepfather wanted to shower and couldn't because I was in there, he would go berserk. Since then I've had a distaste for showering before bed.

I'm not sure how people bathe in the morning. I hear a lot of the justification is that you sweat at night, and that means you wake up dirty, but I don't want to sleep in my sheets with all the dead skin cells o' the day and whatever shit has clung to me. Seems like sleeping in your 16 hours of dirt accumulation would be exponentially worse than 8 hours of sleeping in clean sheets.

Also, it takes fucking forever to masturbate in the morning.

I used to shower before bed because I hated having wet hair in the wind in the morning; sleeping on it let it dry overnight. (That became less of an issue when I cut all that damn hair off.) I started showering in the morning when I moved to a dorm in college, and there were a lot fewer people to see me scurrying through the hall in a bathrobe at 7am than at 10pm.

Watch as the data for these pointless polls are used for nefarious purposes. MrPants is plotting something.

Morning, because I need to shave in the morning. It's a lot easier when the skin has been hydrated by a nice hot shower...

Morning, because the man I share my bed with is a gigantic baby about my huge mass of hair when it is wet. And it takes forever to dry, even if I use a hair dryer (which I generally don't, mind you, because I am fucking lazy).

Wait, you don't want razor-burn?

I prefer day showers but the moistened post-shower face (or legs, I guess) makes a shave so much better, and shaving in the middle of the day is just silly.

Before bed, which with my current schedule means morning (because the husband works nights). Though if I'm going to be going and having an adventure or something, I'll shower when I wake up.

I do shower in the morning during the summer though, because I sweat at night like you wouldn't believe.

If it's a BATH though, gotta be evening. Especially with some lavender and neroli bath salts <3

No, I assure you they're truly pointless. Or are they? The answer is yes. Or is it?? Wait, I forgot what we were talking about.

Morning, helps me wake up, and I too "do" my hair (to the extent I do anything to it) right after the shower and before work.

I'll take another quick one if I get sweated up exercising or whatever, just a rinse really. When I plan my life right, I wake up, exercise, shower, then start the rest of my day.

I shower in the mornings, particularly because I wake up, exercise, and then shower. I also often take one after I hike, to wash off the dirt/sweat/possible poison oak/bugs.

I do often take baths in the evenings, though.

Quick shower in the morning, and another before bed.

I voted midday, but only because that is how it works out given my afternoon/evening normal work schedule. So I don't usually shower first thing when I get up, but later as I get ready to go to work. If I was working in the morning, then I'd be showering then.

Another related poll topic would be whether people bathe/shower every day.

I live I'm the tropics, so twice a day is the norm. One in the morning to wake up, and one after work cos well, equatorial humidity in monsoon season can be a real bitch.

Really hoping the results of that poll are 'everyday'.

Shower, every morning. Mostly because I feel icky and my hair is a mess.

I considered posting that as the poll question, but I sort of don't want to know. For instance, think of how a Like from Elyscape would feel if you knew he only bathed once a month.

Morning, because I get a raging case of bedhead and trying to tame it with water and comb is enough work that I may as well just hop in the shower instead anyway.

After working out. So in the week that's evenings but at weekends it could be whenever.

Shower in the morning to wake me up and a short one in the evening/night or else I can't get to sleep.

I will normally shower in the morning so I'm fresh as the proverbial daisy (assuming daisies also have access to showers and soap). The exceptions:

- after exercise. I always shower after a workout because I get all sweaty and gross.
- if I'm sick I like a nice warm soak in the tub in the evening. In fact I only bathe in the evenings because a morning bath seems kind of weird and they usually take too long on a workday.
- if it's hot during the day I will shower before bed to avoid climbing into the sheets all sweaty and gross (like exercise but without the effort).

This concludes my mini-bathing blog. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Bonus content: I use Dove for Men because it smells purty yet manly.

I dont shower every day. It's not good for you, unless you need it (exercising a lot or something). I shower every other day, on average.

My hair would be perpetually wet if I washed it every day.

"morning" which is actually closer to mid-day on my current schedule, but I always try to shower before I do something during the day. During College I was much more lax on that whole rule. it used to be "Whenever there was a shower free", which could have been at any point.

I keep reading this as "weekly pantsless poll". I blame Bill Dungsroman.

If it makes you feel any better, and I suspect it might, I wasn't wearing pants when I posted it. Nah, just kidding, I had pants on. No underwear, though.

Yeah, we get that you want to be the new Elhajj. Good luck with that.

Oh, is that it?

Morning. For reasons, my mother also has to be out of the house for me to be comfortable.