When Do You Get Dressed?
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (99409)
United States
March 29, 2025 8:50am CST
I tend to be an early riser, usually getting up around 5am or 530am, and rarely sleep in. I like to have the whole day ahead of me. It wasn't always this way for me. In my younger years I was a night owl, and long preferred second shift over any other shift offered.
I've been an early riser now for at least two decades, and I think a bit longer than that. It mainly changed for me when I suddenly found myself on first shift when I was working for Coca-Cola, and I simply never looked back.
As for when I get dressed, it depends on what I have to do. But generally speaking I usually get dressed around 9am or so, just wanting to be prepared for my day and refreshed.
When do you get dressed? As soon as you get up or do you wait a little bit? I even get dressed when I have no place to be.
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@moffittjc (124082)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Mar
For me, it all depends on the situation, what I have planned for that day, and for who else in the house.
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@moffittjc (124082)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Apr
@porwest I pretty much do get dressed every single morning, since my daughter lives with my gf and I. Most of the time it's just basketball shorts and a t-shirt, just to make myself somewhat presentable.
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@GardenGerty (163331)
• United States
29 Mar
Today, I did not get dressed. I am doing house stuff, have not even been outside and I took a nap. I also have done some meal prep for the next week or so. No need to get dressed to dry laundry, fold laundry, cook, etc. But in the past I never would have done this. I had a headache for a large part of the day. Usually I am dressed before 6 a.m.
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@1creekgirl (43446)
• United States
30 Mar
Good gracious, I'm not even up at 6am if I can help it!
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@porwest (99409)
• United States
4 May
@1creekgirl I am usually up around 5am or 530am no matter what. Take that! lol
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@marguicha (226241)
• Chile
29 Mar
Noiw that I´m retired I shower and get dressed very late, after I have done all my chores. When I worked, it depended on what I had to do during the day.
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@marguicha (226241)
• Chile
30 Mar
@porwest I was always a night owl. I had to get up early for work but did not like it. Now I get up late, do my chores and only then take my shower and get dressed.
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@porwest (99409)
• United States
30 Mar
@marguicha I was a night owl when I was younger. That changed the older I got.
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@DaddyEvil (147168)
• United States
29 Mar
Since I live with my daughter, I'm always wearing shorts and sleep in shorts. I usually sleep during the daytime and am awake at night. I take my morning meds around 5:30 am, eat something and then go to bed... I don't sleep well so am up every two to three hours and check into myLot when I wake up.
If we have something we need to do outside the house, then I actually put on clothes that won't embarrass either one of us and out we go.
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@1creekgirl (43446)
• United States
30 Mar
I'm not a morning person. Unless we're going to church or somewhere that we're leaving the house for, I sometimes don't get dressed until mid morning.
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@JESSY3236 (20457)
• United States
1 Apr
I usually get in the shower and dressed after my mother leaves from work unless I have a doctor's appointment.
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@paigea (35945)
• Canada
30 Mar
@porwest I do shop at Walmart though it's rare. I treasure our local businesses.
Funnily enough, the people I see shopping at Walmart are the same people I see at the high end shops.
There are only so many people in a small city and only so many shops.
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@lovebuglena (46146)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Mar
5/5:30am is too early for me lol. I prefer to get up around 8am. Although that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes I turn off my 8am everyday alarm and fall back asleep. 
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@lovebuglena (46146)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Mar
@porwest Sometimes it feels that way.
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@LindaOHio (187720)
• United States
30 Mar
I rarely sleep; and when I do, it's in my casual clothes. I can answer the door at any time without being worried about how I'm dressed.
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@LindaOHio (187720)
• United States
31 Mar
@porwest I wear a cotton short sleeve top and very stretchy loose fitting pants. I sit in my recliner, so I don't move around if I should happen to fall asleep.
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@porwest (99409)
• United States
31 Mar
@LindaOHio I could see how that could pass to sleep in. Not like you're wearing jeans or something like that to bed.
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@Shivram59 (40672)
• India
29 Mar
Like you I'm an early riser; too. Usually I feel comfortable in casual cloths. I get dressed just before I open my store. It is around 8.30 a.m. In summer I wear light dresses.
