How quickly do you get dressed after getting out of bed?

@free_man (7330)
United States
February 8, 2010 8:26am CST
I used to get right out of bed and get dressed and hair put up. I hated this I really like to hang out and not get dressed till 9-10am. We get up sometimes pretty early like 3-4 in the morning but sit around in our night clothes till we have to get dressed and ready for the day. Which is nice on those days we plan to stay in all day. So when do you get dress after getting out of the bed? Do you jump in the shower and then get dressed right away? Or do yo lounge around in your night clothes till you have to get dressed?
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• United States
9 Feb 10
i use to get up and get dressed right when i got out of the bed. now i just chill around for about an hour or two before i get a shower and get ready to go anywhere. i just dont seem to rush in the mornings anymore.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Brandy and welcome to my lot. I hate to get right up and get dressed now that I am older I like sitting around drinking coffee and relaxing till I know I have to get dressed. I used to have to rush too. And I hated it.
@tess5162 (66)
• United States
9 Feb 10
I like to lounge around now that I have a job where I work from home. I still have to get the kids off to school so I usually throw some sweats and a shirt on and when I get back home, I put my hair back up, slippers on get out my laptop and sit in front of the TV until its time to go pick up the kids. I love it!!
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Tess and welcome to my lot. What kind of job do you do from home? It is nice to lounge around in sweats.
@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi ess that is a great job. Wish I could get a job like that but I don't know enough about computers to do that job. I haven't had a regular job in the system in over 14 years. Been a carpenter for that long and work for myself.
• United States
10 Feb 10
Have you ever considered going back to school? Since I am a single mom of two kids its more convenient for me to go to school online. I have already received one degree online and plan on going back to school this fall to further my education.
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
1 Mar 10
Hi, free_man. I usually will just lounge around until I get dressed. And then I will take a shower. Because when I first get up, I will eat and then feed my kids. During the weekdays, my son has to go to school so I have to be up with him at 6 in the mornings.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
19 May 11
Hi Cream. I used to get up right away and get dressed but lately been taking me a lot longer to get dressed. Especially when it isn't going to be a good day outside. Or when we aren't in a hurry to go anywhere.
• Canada
9 Feb 10
Im very lazy in the morning. First thing I do is make my coffee, then breakfast, then shower, then I might watch the news, weather and then I'll get dressed. But since I work at home now, I dont have to get dressed, can sit in front of the pc in my pj's all day long :) I like it a lot and hate when I have to go out. But its usually after my work, so I put on my jeans, sweater and off I go.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi MagicalBubbles. Wow sounds like a good life. Wish I could find honest work on the net so I wouldn't have to get dressed an go out. Especially during the winter months. Not so bad when it is warmer outside.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Magic. I wish I could find a job I could do at home but not likely to happen don't know how to find a job on the net that I can do at home. Been looking for years guess I don't know what to look for.
• Canada
9 Feb 10
I sure hope you DO find something so you can work from home. Yes its great, especially in the winter.
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@visalusha (131)
• Australia
9 Feb 10
Getting up from bed is totally different from getting ready!! We will get ready only if we want to go out. So after getting up from bed there are some important work that needs to be done with the night clothes :-). Once I took bath, I will take 30 mts to get ready. This include combing, deodorant, dressing and shoes. But as soon as I got out of bed I would like to wander with night clothes, I don't know for what but still love doing that.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Visalusha and welcome to my lot. I hate to have to jump up and get dressed and go out right away. But there are those days when we do have to be in a rush. Oh well as long as I can stay undressed I will take advantage of it.
@free_man (7330)
• United States
19 May 11
Hi Visalusha. The only time I am not dressed right away is when I know we don't have any plans to go anywhere early in the day. Thank God we aren't going anywhere early this morning....LOL
• Australia
15 Feb 10
Yeah that rite. Nobody like to get jump up from the bed dressed up rite away. But there are some situations like that which makes us to do so :-). If you got up late on a weekday then definitely you need to jump out the bed and get dressed up immediately to avoid the scoldings from your manager LOL :-)
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@phoenix8606 (4942)
8 Feb 10
hi free_man! I also want to be free like a bird :) I get dresses very quickly after I get up, maybe for 1 minute or less, because I am not vain person, so I don't care about my look, I only care about my hair, it is the most important to me :) I just get dressed up and go to the bath. I first dressed up and then go to brush my teeth and like many others, who first brush it and then get dressed :)
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
8 Feb 10
Hi Phoenix. I like sitting around in my night clothes I don't like to get dressed right after I get up. I had done that for years and never had a moment to just spend time doing nothing real important. When we are sitting in front of the computer watching the Preacher we watch I usually braid my hair for the day and then get dressed as soon as the preacher is over.
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8 Feb 10
hi! WEll, i never have sited in my night-clothes because I don't feel comfortable in it and that's why I get first dressed and than I do what I have to do :)
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Phoenix. To each thier own.
@joy358 (491)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
It really depends... If its a work day or when I don't have anywhere important to go to then when I wake up I immediately shower and get dressed in about twenty minutes or less (if I'm late ). However, if its a weekend/restday and I have nothing important to do, then I tend to get lazy. I lounge around the house in my sleepwear for house and only take a shower if I feel like it .
@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Joy. I love to take my time when I don't have anywhere to go or anything special I need to do. So on those days I only dress if we are going to have company. I don't put on make up at all when I am going to be at home all day. Unless I feel my husband needs to see me looking better then just plain lazy me. Then I will dress early and put my face on and even prefume. The whole 9 works. If you know what I mean.
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
9 Feb 10
It is so hard for me to wake up in the morning, so it would take me quite a while to get up and get dressed. And then of course I would need to shower and all if I have not done so the night before. It takes me about a good thirty to forty five minutes to get up and get dressed and then it also depends on what time of the day that I am getting up and what is planned for that day.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Trisha. That isn't a lot of time to get ready to get out the door. I can get ready pretty quickly. But on those days we aren't going anywhere and we don't have company coming over I don't get dressed till I just have to. When it is cold with snow on the ground like today I put on my long johns and then sweat pants of course my shoes but t shirt long john shirt and sweat shirt if I have to go outside. Want to stay warm when outside.
@myzire72 (1154)
• Singapore
9 Feb 10
I am the kind of person who loves to put my alarm clock on snooze several times before I want to get up from bed. Therefore, when it's really time for me to get up and prepare for work, I usually have only about half an hour's time. That leaves me with no choice but to get changed as quickly as I can.
@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Myzire. I have never ever used an alarm clock in my entire life. I wake early and have always been one up and ready before everyone else. Well there is a reason for that you had to learn to stay ahead of one or another of my brothers and sisters if you wanted to get in the bathroom. You had to get up early to beat the rest of the family in there or it took all day to get all of us ready to go anywhere. Well not all day but too long to keep mom happy.....LOL She wasn't a happy sort of person anyway. So if you wanted to stay on her good side you was ready and out the door before the last person.
• India
9 Feb 10
i get dress quickly after getting out of bed with 2 minutes i get dress
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Pradeep and welcome to my lot. I only get dressed right away if I have to or it is the warmer months of the year cause then I want to get dress and out the door. ASAP and I am always in a hurry during the summer months. Always got some place to go. But during the winter months I don't want to be anywhere but at home relaxing doing what needs to be done but still have time to just play.
@wishuluck (233)
• Lithuania
9 Feb 10
after i get out of bed, i stay in my pyjamas around an hour and only then i get dressed. Sundays i usually just put a dressing gown on :)
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Wishluck and welcome to my lot. I like sitting around in my pj's when it is winter time but when the warmer weather comes around I will be dressed as soon as my feet hit the floor. I like getting out early in the morning to get the grass mowed or the flower beds weeded. Get the yard work done and the house work done and the afternoon is ours to play at the swimming hole.... Yeeeeee Haaaaaaaaa!
• United States
9 Feb 10
Ohhhh I am a lazy, lazy one about this subject!! I like to sit on my computer, drink my coffee answer a few posts and then I will get a shower and dress. This can take as little as an hour or sometimes I don't get showered and dressed until 10 or 11am. Working from home has spoiled me. I had to go out yesterday to an appointment and realized that I have a very limited wardrobe. I have plenty of sweats and t shirts but nothing really acceptable in public. LOL I will need to go shopping soon enough, but first I need a bit more coffee and maybe I will post a few more things! LOL
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Msjanetjones and welcome to my lot. Must be nice working from home. That would be awakard to not have much to wear out in public. Have fun posting!
@Sloompie (23)
• South Africa
9 Feb 10
in the week I jump out of bed into the shower, but over weekends I like to stay in my nighties for as long as I can because thats the only time you can acctualy relax and get into the weekend spirit.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Sloompie and welcome to my lot. It is nice to get dressed when you want to instead of when you have too. I do love those days when I can just be home and do nothing much.
@sknsknskn (393)
• India
23 Feb 10
no.....atleast......10-15 min.....i had to dressed up...when i wake up from bed/.......
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
23 Feb 10
Hi Sknsknskn. I can get dressed quickly too. But if I don't have anywhere to go I stay in my long johns till I have to get dressed. Or I get too cold.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
9 Feb 10
In a usual day the first thing I would do after getting up....is doing some work on computer...login to mylot.. check my mails.... then have my breakfast ...and only when its time to leave for office...I would take shower and get dressed up...
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Sumanadep. I do love to have a shower before I go to work that way I smell all fresh and it wakes me up really fast to shower early in the morning. But I would rather take a shower late in the evening so I don't have to early in the morning especially when it is cold outsied. Burrrrrrrrrrrr.......LOL
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
For me by five minute I will dressed before to bed.I first wash through face towel and water with soap by doing that I feel not sick.
@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Ebuscat. I can be dressed and ready but it takes me at least 30 minutes. I have long hair so I french braid it everyday so I look decent. That takes about 15 minutes but the rest I can have done in less then 15 minutes if I don't have to do a lot of cleaning up. I wash my face and brush my teeth and that don't take long. But if I have to take a shower it will be at least 45 minutes to get everything done on time.....LOL
@dobstar (56)
9 Feb 10
I usually try to wake myself up an hour before the time to go out. I like waking up slowly, stretching my legs, etc. I'd love to go to the bathroom to take an early shower and then I can start getting dressed. So, I think I need about 30 minutes after I wake up to get dressed to get out to work.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Dobstar. Always a wise ideal to strech first thing. I used to always be in a rush to do one thing or another but. I really like being more laid back and enjoy the rest of my life.
• Indonesia
9 Feb 10
For me, it depends on the day. From monday to friday, because i have to go to work. I usually get dressed very quickly, because i always get up late from my lovely bed. Maybe it will take 15-30 minutes. But on the week end, sometimes, I only use my night clothes all day, from the time i wake up, until i sleep again. Because on the week end, i'm very lazy to take shower.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Hi Luvlymee and welcome to my lot. It is always nice when we can have those weekends to just kick back and relaxe. I know what you mean about Mon thur Fri. I used to have those kinds of hours. But since we work for ourselves we work when we get a chance to work. We don't have a thriving business yet but when someone calls we don't turn it down. I am lucky though t shirt and jeans for me when we do work.....LOL it sure is sweet.
@neha1987 (58)
• India
9 Feb 10
hi i just cant get dressed as soon as im out of bed. i first need to come to my hall sleep for 10 min then go to my dad s room and sleep then go talk to my bro then newspaper and then i get dressed .. i just take my own time
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Neha and welcome to my lot. Your morning sounds wonderful. I wish my dad was still around I would love to sit and chat and drink coffee with him. He was my buddy.
• Singapore
9 Feb 10
I don't really need to take much time to get dressed. Usually I slept with T-Shirt and pants so when I wake up, I just need to brush my teeth and wash my face and I'm ready to go out. Somehow, my hair also stands out neatly after sleeping so don't really need to comb as well.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
9 Feb 10
Hi Minotaur and welcome to my lot. I don't think I could sleep in a T shirt and pants. I would be too warm. So I sleep in my night gown and that is enough for me. I wish my hair would stay in place while I slept but have to brush it every morning I don't want my husband to think ill of me when I look a mess.....LOL