We keep asking why the average individuals mental health is on the decline and this is a big part of it.
Some of us have been doing this since we were children, replacing work with school. The only way you can manage all of this is by multitasking everywhere possible. You only socialize while at work or school, and all the while you’re probably either working on something or you’re on your phone. You clean and tidy at the same time as you cook. You speedrun your showers, a time that should be somewhat relaxing.
Even assuming you do actually get those full precious 8 hours of sleep, your brain isn’t going to be rested enough.
Something has to give. It’s not possible to do everything every day.
Got it. Showering and washing is just for weekends.
For me that’s sleep. Learn to only sleep a couple hours a night during the work week and you’ll get tons of your time back. You’ll also always feel like crap and fall asleep at your desk when it’s slow. Insomnia is great!
Its even better when you work >10 hour days so sometimes it genuinely is deciding between sleeping and eating when you get home.
I miss working 4 10s and always having 3 days off Now I often work overtime due to being on call or just understaffed. I’m still expected to be at the office 5 days a week. I know what you mean though. I do all the cooking in my house and have the longest hours. That means we often eat out or eat junk food instead of a proper meal.
Wait: We only have to shower once‽
You don’t even need to shower daily unless you get dirty.
I shower daily when I need to leave the house and interact with people. The weeks I work from home, I’ll hit shower for a week. My partner does the same thing. We’re gross. But I love their grossness.
Meal prep can help shift some of that burden as long as there is fridge/freezer space for some of the elements.
I think we should get better at budgeting our work time.
It may sound daunting at first but when you want to work eight hours, first think : “can I afford this eight hours of work? Shouldn’t I rather be playing Monster Hunter?” and take good habits from there.
Maybe in the beginning try working 5 or 6 hours. Don’t rush it, but keep your determination.
You’ll slowly begin to perceive more opportunities as you grow in focus : “Instead of working another hour for my boss, I’ll write my own TTRPG setting or hit that solo queue”.
It’s hard at first but others made it. Why wouldn’t you?
Indeed, this was supposed to be satire, like you know, the opposite of “budget better” corporate initiative.
The privilege you have that allows to think we already have control over punching the clock.
That’s great go do that, what are the hourly workers going to when a reduction to 6 hours is a 25% pay cut on a wage that is about half a century behind inflation… That was before covid and the astronimical rise in cost of living recently
There’s people, a fucking ton of people, because of incredibly shitty wages, that cant buy a dozen eggs without needing to work 2 hours that same reduction you just spoke of is how much they have to work just to afford that
I wish I could, fam, I wish I could.
But in the meantime, I can write sarcastic posts for my Lemmy pals during my commute to my 8 hours of work for my boss.
P. S. : The sarcasm was a distant reference to this and other kinds of resembling discourse floating around today.
Mark it next time, the sarcasm was not at all obvious
Fair, but I thought it was a given on Lemmy.
Look egg Is on my face.
I misunderstood. But you can’t just assume sarcasm through text. It’s often easy enough to miss irl
And many people are somewhere in the spectrum so it’s just a really bad idea to assume your audience is in on the joke. I might be one of them if this was really that obviously sarcastic to the average person
You didn’t say anything that was outlandish or completely ridiculous.
Write your own TTRPG did not give it away?
With all the ridiculousness actively going on right now and some of the most outlandish things people genuinely believe, satire and sarcasm are nearly impossible to distinguish. Real life is too weird now for anything to be unbelievable.
Nice jab at toxic positivity.
Why are people responding to your post like it’s serious? It couldn’t be more obvious satire if it had a blinking neon sign that said ‘THIS IS SATIRE’ next to it. Sometimes satire needs the ‘/s’, but not when it is super obvious like this.
One must consider that irony is lost in text, I do suggest a THIS IS SATIRE indeed. Remember we are at the internet and X exists so, you can find the wildest shit my man
It is satire, but we wish it wasn’t and are reacting as such.
Unless you’re pretty advanced in your field, it can be pretty difficult to find a job that is willing to give you work hours on your terms like that.
The 10k steps you do them while doing the other stuff lmao
Break it out into 168 hours per week:
56 hours of sleep
45 hours of work (include the potential for working a bit longer each day)
5 hours of commuting to/from work
6 hours of exercise/gym
2 hours of grocery shopping
7 hours of cooking and other food prep
7 hours of eating
1 hour of laundry
2 hours of general cleaning around the house
2 hours of other general choresThat’s 133 hours per week. You still have 35 hours for socializing, hobbies, other activities you enjoy, or just plain sitting around and relaxing (with a book, with TV, etc.) if you enjoy that. And some people can fit in part of those needs in terms of overlap: white collar jobs that don’t mind if you buy something for yourself online during the day, restaurant jobs that cover a shift meal, physical jobs or commutes that reduce the amount of time you might need to get exercise outside of work, etc.
For me, I actually really enjoy cooking (and eating) so I probably spend more time on those than is strictly necessary, but it doesn’t feel like work to me.
I’m probably lucky in that I spent some time working in restaurants that gave me a ton of kitchen skills (not just the actual ability to prep and cook delicious food quickly, but the sense of meal planning on a strict budget that reduces food waste), and makes me appreciate the regularity of a white collar job schedule that actually fits with circadian rhythms and the flow of the rest of society.
Kids make it harder, though. A lot of that 35 hours per week carved out gets totally eaten up with a second commute to daycare (5 hours), bedtime routines (7 hours), extracurricular weekend activities (5 hours), and extra cleaning (5 hours), a second load of laundry (1 hour), and extra chores (2 hours), leaving you with only 10 hours per week of hobbies/leisure.
At that point you’ve gotta find the time from somewhere. I personally dipped to 7 hours per week of sleep around that time, dropped my gym attendance to around 3 hours per week, and started paying to outsource some of the cleaning (a weekly service) and cooking (more takeout/restaurants) and shopping (more grocery delivery).
But the magic, for me, was that my kids are really fun. They leave me with less time for other things but I love them and that part feels less like a chore. And they’re a forcing function in that I have to be home when they’re asleep 3-4 hours before my bedtime, when I don’t have anything better to do than clean a bit, do a bit of meal prep, and watch a lot of TV with my spouse.
Cool, now can you break down Elon’s week? I have always wondered how he can be CEO of two companies, be involved with five other, raise twelve children, be the top player on two major video games, be a meme lord on Xhitter, consume more ketamine than a large rave party, fix the US government, be an amazing designer, and engineering all sorts of technical things.
I’m pretty sure Elon Musk is miserable. He is always raging around, he is annoyed by the slightest critique. I bet he spends most of his free time online, reading articles about himself and hating that everyone hates him
You don’t have to do all of that every single day
And there are weekends, holidays, etc.
Besides you can squeeze in some of these as a part of your job, like walking.
Yeah. Buy and cook bigger portions, so you don’t have to do that every day. You absolutely don’t need to hoover every single day like come on. Same for laundry.
I guess these are things they say need to be done, but I got the impression with how they said the hours of the day that it was stuff to be done every day, which is just ridiculous. There’s not enough time even when you are being more sensible about this, but that’s a good reason to try to be efficient.
It is impossible. You never get to be on top of everything. Since there is always shit that needs to be done. It is often called the productivity myth. More discipline or a better system won’t lead to less work and less stress. Since new things just keep coming.
You just need to accept that life is like this and that it’s completely impossible to forever finish your todos. So therefore you should just schedule down time and don’t feel guilty that you still need to finish things since it is a never ending stream of things to do anyway. Just prioritize the most important things.
Good take.
Let’s see. Earn a living, take care of yourself, take care of your household, and add in taking care of other people. That is only like four full time jobs.
I’m starting to understand all the poly relationships I’m seeing.
Well 1/3 of those meals is inside your 8 hours of work
Many jobs easily hit 10k steps, if yours doesn’t consider a treadmill.
Let’s say 2 hrs of commute total. If your job us more than that, re-assess your choices.
Dinner can get solved by just meal prepping and thinking ahead. So 10 minutes to warm up a prepped dinner.
Breakfast is often very easy as a meal, maybe 10 minutes spent on it.
Shower is 30 minutes.
You don’t need to vacuum your house every day, wtf lol.
So that still leaves you 5 hours for cleaning/tidying, and personal time.
And thats on weekdays, why do people that post this sorta stuff always glaze over weekends existing.
Your post glazed over:
- the time it takes to use the treadmill
- the time needed for personal stuff at home (banks, bills, maintenance, planning)
- shower is indeed 30 minutes from picking the clothes to dropping them in the hamper. Thats on days theres no other maintenance,
- the time to buy the food you want to prep (that’s if you didnt spend a considerable amount of time budgeting and couponing on this economy)
- the time to prep the food you just made, the big enough freezer to store it, the containers and the time to store and organize it.
- if you have pets, vacuuming regularly is a thing
- we haven’t mentioned anything about friends and family time, nevermind everything that comes with having kids
- you’re forgetting every other human aspect of how doing stuff works, 4 x 2 hour tasks never take 8 hours whatever it is.
- if you have to get/drop off your car at the shop, plan for holidays, trips, gifts, birthdays, events
- we’re not even getting into working 2 jobs because 1 doesn’t pay enough (which is the reality for most).
By your own admission and being generous with the above, we spend more than 80% of our time subsisting, which becomes increasingly more difficult the less money you make. What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?
You’re making the rich man’s equivalent argument of “just don’t be poor”. Even if the numbers aren’t exactly as she put it, the point remains the same. This is /r/personalfinance level disillusionment
the time it takes to use the treadmill
No, I was saying using it during work if it’s a sedentary job. It’s becoming pretty normalized for people to use treadmills + standing desks for a couple hours a day at their desk jobs, if needed.
I use one and easily hit 15k steps literally just sitting in on zoom meetings, for example. Makes it less boring.
banks, bills, maintenance, planning
This should be something that only comes up 1-2 times a month and takes like 5 minutes. And thats if you haven’t bothered to just setup automatic payments. If you spend more than 5 minutes on this sorta stuff maybe you are just bad with tech? It’s literally 6 button clicks for me to pay my phone bill right now.
the time to buy the food you want to prep (that’s if you didnt spend a considerable amount of time budgeting and couponing on this economy)
You shouldn’t be grocery shopping every. sngle. day.
Maybe the reason people in here struggle so much with their time is it sounds like they have no capacity to plan out and get all there weeks worth of errands done in 1 single outting on Saturday afternoon.
I go out early Saturday, get my errands done for the whole week, and get home and meal prep it for the whole week.
I usually have an entire month of meal prep in the deep freeze of various meals. I prep a month of food each week but a different meal, that way I usually have 4-5 totally different things in the freezer to mix and match.
Then all my meals take literally 3 minutes to warm up anytime I wanna save time.
I still make nice meals, usually on days where no other tasks were needed and I have extra time.
What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?
I’ve been deeply entrenched in poverty. I worked as a dishwasher in kitchens for 5 years getting myself through school. I had barely anything to my name, I lived in a shit apartment, I didn’t own a vehicle, I didn’t even own a bike for awhile.
I still had no issues saving my money and setting funds aside.
Every. Single. Person. I have ever met who complained about money, and I met countless people working in kitchens over 5 years, from all walks off life, all had 1 thing in common.
They spent money in really stupid fuckin shit. They talked about how they had no money but they smoked or drank, or drove to work from 20 blocks away, or got speeding tickets, or smoked weed, or went out partying every weekend, or showed up to work with a monster energy drink and a pepperoni every morning, etc etc etc etc.
You know how many fuckin meals you can make yourself for the same cost as one energy drink a day?
I have never met someone who complains about money that I haven’t been able to point out dumb shit I personally watched them buy.
But I point that out and I’m the asshole. Dude. Just fuckin stop buying stupid shit, stop wasting your money.
At first I really thought some people just truly were fucked but… no, I saw way way way to many people living life like this to just realize that… no.
The average person os stupid as fuck when it comes to managing their money. They’ll drop $4 on a single energy drink and then complain that potatoes are $1.75 now.
B r u h.
Everyone can tell your economic background from your comment. Now youre just making the boomer avocado argument. People should he able to afford amenities and shouldn’t have to grind that hard for small things. Our parents and grandparents sure as fuck didnt.
People aren’t having trouble making ends meet because theyre buying energy drinks. Thats the view the media wants you to have to you turn your anger towards them. People forget the first country the nazis invaded was their own.
I told you my economic background whether you wanna believe it or not.
People aren’t having trouble making ends meet because theyre buying energy drinks.
I’ve personally worked with dozens of people that literally fit this exact description.
Dudes that would unironically chug 2 monsters a day and then complain about how tight money was.
Mate you just blew 1/7th of what you made today on two fucking drinks
Then they’d ask me if I wanna get drinks with them after work.
These are extremely real people and honestly, the quantity of people I met who lived like this VASTLY outnumbered people closer to my lifestyle.
Simple shit love me going “I don’t drink” “I don’t party” “I don’t smoke” “I don’t have a car, I walk to work” and etc would fucking blow people’s minds.
“What do you do all weekend???” “Uh, play video games, work out, read, watch anime, go for hikes, pick up extra shifts…?”
Also don’t even get me started on the even worse people that constantly always complained about money, yet always were trying to get other people to take their shifts for them, get cut early, etc.
“I don’t understand why I’m not getting any shifts” Mate you literally keep giving them to other people, you understand you actually have to work to get paid right?
Sorry but this was like easy 60% of people I constantly dealt with at every fuckin job I worked. You get like 20% of people busting ass actually giving a fuck. 20% quiet folks that work and keep to themselves, and then like 60% of people that you honestly have to ask yourself “how the fuck did this person even make it this far”
I regret to inform you that if you think I’m bullshitting here, you may just need to look in the mirror and confront the fact you are in the 60% group…
5 hours to live the rest of your life day to day.
What if you want to work out? That leaves 3.5 hours. 30 minutes to put together breakfast and dinner. 2.5 hours. Any errands you need to run? House or yard? Family or kids? God forbid you want to take care of yourself at all.
Yeah…their complaints are completely valid.
Because people use the weekend to recover from the week, some of us are chronically ill you know? And are trying not to have another burnout. (Yeah I already had 2 and I’m not even 40, yay capitalism)
I already covered breakfast and dinner mate.
Working out is personal time yes, you are now engaging in extracurricular activities and… what? Complaining you don’t have more time for extracurricular activities because you spent your time on extracurricular activities?
You shouldn’t need to run errands every single day, if that is happening that’s an organizational you problem, figure your shit out better.
I already covered chores. You aren’t cleaning your entire house every day, if that is happening once again that is a you problem.
Normal people maybe tops spend 20 minutes tidying per day, with one big day of tidying on weekends for 3 hours or so tops.
If you are spending more than 20 minutes tidying every single day, you need to re-assess how you live your life. Stop being so messy.
Taking care of yourself, spending time with family, enjoying life, all easily fits into 4 hours on weekdays
You then get 2 entire days on weekends to also spend an extra 8 hours+ on personal time.
I dunno what to tell you, stop mowing your yard everyday I guess? You only need to mow every 2-3 weeks?
Like wtf are you talking about lol
Well here’s a lot of people’s schedules:
8 hours for sleep. 30 minutes to get up and get ready, 30 minutes for breakfast and cleanup, 30 minutes to work, 8 hours work + a 1 hour unpaid lunch, 30 minute drive home, 15 minutes to swap out of work clothes and 1 hour work our plus 15 minutes to get undressed and cleaned up, 30 minutes to make/eat dinner. That’s like 2.5 hours for any sort of you time.
If you think 2.5 hours of personal time per day is acceptable, more power to you. Most people don’t. Sure, you get the weekend but most people out of chores and errands until then, and you don’t really get any sort of necessary downtime.
…that last 2.5 hours quickly disappears when you have any sort of family. The next question becomes, do you think 2.5 hours with your kids and wife is enough time to develop a great relationship?
If you think 2.5 hours of personal time per day is acceptable, more power to you.
3.5, why do people work out for an hour and then pretend that didn’t count as personal time.
That literally was how you chose to spend your personal time lol. You spent almost a third of your personal time working out, why the fuck do you think you have less…?
3.5hrs of personal time is plenty.
Also even then, you shouldn’t be going to the gym every single day
I’m not a gym rat but even I know you are supposed to take breaks every couple days.
People keep bringing things you only do some dats to the table and treating them as something you do every day.
“What about 30 minutes of vacuuming” and stuff lile that. MATE, do you vacuum your house every day?! What in the hell lol
3.5hrs on weekdays and 11.5 hrs on weekends is tonnes of personal time.
Maybe spend less time doom scrolling on Instagram or something, I dunno.
This is just goofy. I’m not going to say your wrong for thinking that 2.5-3.5 hours is remotely acceptable to live a healthy and fulfilling life during the weekday. Many people would disagree with you and would like more time to spend with family, to develop themselves, to disengage from work, to relax, to explore, to learn. I’m not going to fault people for wanting more from life.
I also would love a million dollars.
But everything you mentioned isn’t the discussion
It’s people going “I don’t have time for anything”, mate, you do.
Honestly today so many people I know who complain about having zero spare time also are sending me memes on Instagram and shit all the time simultaneously.
Like, I also fuck around on my phone for an hour or two every day.
But at least I don’t try and bullshit and pretend that’s not what I’m spending my free time on
Like if you complain about not having free time via the act of posting about it on social media you are already kinda outting yourself on where your free time magically went to…
Stop bullshitting, you’re doom scrolling on your phone, we all are
The only difference between us is I’m not posting pretending I don’t lol
If you really can’t figure out how on earth you fit a 20 minute vacuum into your day and post about it on Twitter, can you maybe guess what my first advice is probably gonna be…? >_>;
Man, life would be so much easier if I liked the taste of boot half as much as you do.
The other comments summed up the fallacies of your “argument” nicely, so no need to repeat them.
Maybe just get good?
If i didn’t have any free time to myself possible when I was making minimum wage, how’d I manage to full clear so many video games while putting myself through school, or watch… God I actually don’t think I could count how many seasons of anime.
Guess it was all just a dream?
To be honest I’ve found the more money I make the less time I have, cuz I keep buying shit that takes up more and more of my time. I should probably consider decluttering a bit…
A few points-
My job is at a computer. A height adjustable desk and a walking treadmill have revolutionized my life, so good call there.
Shower may be 30 minutes, but you forget the time it takes to mentally prepare to shower. You forget the time spent staring at yourself in the mirror going over every flaw and or singing and dancing. And then once in the shower the time it takes to stand under the hot water and go over old arguments to come up with the ideal comebacks you should have said. When else am I supposed to do that. Though lately I’ve been using my tablet to watch TV in the shower, so this increases my shower time to about 40 minutes, but I also knock watching TV shows off my list. That was on the list right?
Most people probably don’t have to vacuum every day. personally my family keeps bringing home animals. Animals with hair. I’ve found I do need to vacuum every day and it’s still not enough and all my clothes are always covered in cat hair and they get into my feet as sharp little hair splinters. Please send help.
If you live alone then sure that leaves you five hours. If you have kids you’d better spend those five hours with your family! You get maybe one hour after they go to bed, if you’re lucky and they went to bed on time and stayed there. You’re probably going to need to take the time away from sleepy time.
And weekends are when you make up for that sleep deficit. Oh wait, you can’t. The kids get up early and need breakfast. The dogs need to eat and go out. Your wife made plans for all of you. Enjoy your day with the in-laws. What was that you were saying about glazing over?
If I’m showering that day (if I have to go to the office) my shower is six minutes or less hahaha
If I’m showering on a non-office day, the mental preparation is indeed a very long time. But my actual shower is still under ten minutes.
tl;dr - This is in fact possible if you are a joyless robot
All of my time was the mandatory parts.
The remaining 4 hours is the fun parts, but I never claimed it’s four hours straight.
Obviously yeah, some fun there, some fun here, but 4 hours a day of straight up extracurricular time, on weekdays, is tonnes to be fine.
Whether that’s sounding time with your family, singing in the shower, jerking off, or taking a nap, whatever.
5 is incorrect. Most people have an unpaid lunch, not part of the 8 hour workday, so that’s 4 hours left to do everything else.
Because you used your weekend researching,shopping and meal prepping, meals only take ten minutes to take out and get ready, but you skipped actually eating which is 30 minutes for dinner, and 10 for breakfast. If you have a family dinner is an hour, breakfast is 30 min. No family - 3hr20min With family -2hr30min
Housework- you say 20 minutes which for men is pretty accurate - they average 19 minutes a day, but women average 49 minutes a day. Single Men down to 3hr Women with families down to 1hr40min
The average time it takes to fall asleep is 10-20 minutes. That’s not part of the 8 hours. 15min Add 15 minutes for using the toilet a day 6-7 times urinating (average) plus hand washing. Minus 1/3 happens at work. 10 min. Add 5 minutes to poop. 15min Additional grooming - the absolute minimum is to brush your teeth twice a day, dry and brush your hair, do a professional style, coordinate a professional outfit, iron, and dress. Nail clipping, sunscreen, whatever. This stuff takes time. 15 min absolute minimum a day if you have low standards for your appearance and don’t have a very professional job. Up to an hour if you do. That’s 45 minutes minimum (though realistically you’re not doing all of that at Max efficiency every day. Single Men down to 2hr15min Women with families down to 55 min
any additional chores (maybe not daily, but at least once a week you have to do an unusual task like replacing work clothes, buying medicine, home repair/maintenance, oil change, need a coat. Maybe some weeks there’s nothing, but other weeks, three things happen.
So if your boss calls you for a scheduling issue, or you want to bathe your child, or your pet throws up, you’re easily down to no time at all for yourself after you’ve slaved away for maximum efficiency.
Forget volunteering. Forget religion. Forget getting to know your kids, or dating, or self improvement.
I cannot imagine a world where I think regular average people have enough leisure time.
I can easily see that kids will eat your time like crazy, but otherwise? I have 5-6 hours of free time a day during the week, 8hrs of work, 8hrs of sleep (including the 30-60m it takes me to fall asleep), 30m lunch break, 2x25m commute. Like 5 mins spent making food in the evening (either just bread in which case it’s even less, or just something quick like noodles. 10-15 mins if I feel like making the sauce myself). Eating is semi-free time since I’ll usually watch something during. 5 mins of shopping on the way home every 2 days or so. 10 mins or so for brushing teeth in total since i tend to space out during. 1min quick shower that doesn’t touch my hair. 1-2 mins brushing hair. Once or twice a week 20-30min shower including washing and drying hair to be dry enough. Take out trash like once a week takes 5 mins max.
There are some things where I save time by using money (vacuum robot, eating out for lunch, grabbing food from the bakery when I’m too hungry to skip breakfast like I usually do), but that wouldn’t even add up to an hour a day.
I still think everyone should work less because imo it’s very possible to do without leading to deficits in anyones life. But like wtf are people doing.
From 6am to 6pm every action I have to take is in service of the job I have. My alarm goes off because I have to be up for my job, I need to shower and do all my morning routine stuff for my job. I am out the door just after 7 to have enough time to snag a breakfast sandwich and some bottled tea for breakfast, for a 45 min commute into work, work for about 4 hrs, get an hour for lunch where about 10 minutes is spent walking from my desk somewhere nearby for food, about 40 minutes for ordering, waiting for and the eating food for the same ~10 min walk back to the office for another about 4 hrs of work before the ~15 min it takes to pay for parking and leave the building for another 45 min commute putting me back home at about 6pm before I change into my comfy clothes. Now. I have less than 4 hours before the exhaustion finally fully sets in an I go to sleep. And some dinner would be nice so that’s another hour or more.
From 6am to 6pm every action I have to take is in service of the job I have
That’s not a job anymore mate, ngl.
I hope it brings you an extremely deep sense of fulfillment, joy, and satisfaction.
Or it pays you enough money you can retire by the time you are 30.
Or it’s one of those “1 month on 1 month off” kinda jobs.
Otherwise wtf.
I broke down my daily schedule. Jesus fuck read the entire fucking comment.
This is the reality of a corporate job.
If I didn’t have an 8-5 with 1hr lunch break job I wouldn’t be setting my alarm for 6am to give me eblugh time for my morning routine, I wouldn’t commute for 45 min each way, I wouldn’t spend an hour for lunch close to the office.
Yeah the job on the clock is 8 hours but it’s 4 extra hours of doing shit to get ready for, and going to and from between home and the office.
None of what you said is in antecedent to what I said.
I still stand by everything I said.
Cool, if you know my schedule so well, then where are those 5 additional hours in the day? Because I’m not seeing them in my schedule.
And do you even know what the word antecedent even means?
Yes.
I don’t know if you just straight up didn’t read what I wrote or what, but if you go back a reread my proof posts, you’ll see nothing you wrote has anything to do with anything I actually said.
And still continues to be so lol.
No, I and everyone else in this thread read what you wrote and all of us are calling you out as a dumbass because you don’t understand how every additional step in a schedule acts as a time sink that robs hours from the day.
This is like the opening monologue to Trainspotting
Except the punchline isn’t heroin, it’s just living a fulfilling life.
On a side note, I always thought Trainspotting was a horror film. I was very surprised to learn tons of people view it as an anthem.
I always thought it was about railway enthusiasts.
Half of those aren’t daily
But also, that isn’t all.
Yeah a shower a day is way over the top
Maybe for you. That really depends on the person and their skin type though.
I was being humorous, I shower on average twice a day.
But like meal prepping, I save time by having 14 consecutive showers every Sunday evening.
Yeah, I stink after a day of work, but I’d probably get away with once every two days if I had a desk job and drove to work.
Honestly jealous. I can go from freshly showered to glistening like a ham in 12 hours even when I’m not exerting myself and temps are mild.
Now add to that
- dripping and picking up the kids from school
- dressing them up for school
- cooking dinner for them and coaching after them
- giving them a bath
- putting them to need and reading them a story
- ACTUALLY SPENDING TIME AND PLAY WITH THEM
How is that even possible? No wonder that people are having less kids
Dripping kids from school
That’s so illegal
My partner had twins 15 months ago. It’s been an epic couple of years.
Dermatologists have confirmed many, many times that a daily shower is unnecessary for healthy skin. Hair experts also don’t recommend a daily shampoo for most people.
That said… it can be hard to tell when you stink (olfactory saturation / incrementalism)… so I don’t actually have a shower schedule recommendation.
I wish I could not shower everyday. I barely sweat at all so you’d think I could, but instead my skin and hair get so oily, that I have to take a medication for it. If I don’t take it, the oil builds up on my skin and makes my eyes sting. Sometimes even just after a few hours. :(
But I am careful to not use products in the shower that would strip my hair and skin completely.
Neat, same thing happens to me but didn’t know there was a treatment available! What medication is it?
Spironolactone. Talk to your dermatologist. It’s mainly prescribed for hypertension, but it works really well for this too. It’s the first treatment I was prescribed that really helped. It’s also used to treat baldness.
Check the side effects though. It isn’t often prescribed to men because it could cause undesirable side effects such as lowering testosterone and increasing breast tissue growth.
Ahh stinging eyes from face grease, how I hate you and having acne at nearly 40.
I always think it’s from my haair initially too. Hey I’ll put my hair up and won’t have to worry about it! ow ow ow ow ow eyes ow, wash face. Ahhhhhh.
Still don’t shower daily. Once every 2-3 days is good for me. 4 if I’m lazy.
Use antiperspirant correctly and if you have a sedentary lifestyle, it’s an easy game unless you giant, fat, and sweaty. Usually have to be combo of 2 unless your parents rolled the genetic snake eyes and you get scumbag genetics.
You can also wash yourself outside the shower to freshen up. Saves water and is good for your skin.
No, you misread. They said shower once. Total. Not per day.
This person thinks
But doesn’t shower.
This person stinks
They have no shower thoughts. A sad life.
