View Poll Results: From out of bed to out the door for work, how long?

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  • 15 - 20 minutes

    11 23.40%
  • 25 - 40 minutes

    16 34.04%
  • 45 min - 1 Hour

    8 17.02%
  • Longer

    12 25.53%
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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA (Buckhead)

    Men - How Long to get Ready for Work?

    From the time you get out of bed to the time you walk out the door for work, how much time elapses?

  2. #2
    Usually wake up early enough to have a comfortable amount of time... shower 5-10 minutes, shave/ fix hair/brush teeth etc 10 minutes, dress 5-7 minutes, make breakfast, have coffee, read the news, hour and a half... so about 2 hours for me - if I needed to I could get away with 20 minutes.

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
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    Atlanta, GA (Buckhead)
    Quote Originally Posted by ForeverBlowingBubbles View Post
    Usually wake up early enough to have a comfortable amount of time... shower 5-10 minutes, shave/ fix hair/brush teeth etc 10 minutes, dress 5-7 minutes, make breakfast, have coffee, read the news, hour and a half... so about 2 hours for me - if I needed to I could get away with 20 minutes.
    That sounds awesome but I can't make myself do it. At night, I have to force myself to go to bed (like now). In the morning, I have to really force myself to get up.

    -EJ

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    ← Bay / Valley ↓
    Missing option: <15 minutes. Takes me 3-5 minutes to wash my face and brush my teeth, another 5-7 minutes to shower/dry. Then another 3 minutes to drive to work.

  5. #5
    I don't usually head into the office till 10 or so, so that usually means more than 1.5 hours. Lately I've been trying to get my lazy worthless self up at the ungodly hour of 7:30 to get a run in before work, but I still don't head to the office till 10.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Watching carolina Go To HELL!

    Ah, the three S's

    It all depends on how long the first S takes...

    Shower: 10 minutes

    Shave: 5 minutes (Norelco rotary, as previously discussed in another thread)

    Plus a few minutes to brush my teeth and 5 minutes to get dressed.

    The last parts take ~20 to 25 minutes. The first part, well it depends on whether I'm reading the morning paper or not, among other things.
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
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  7. #7
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Brevard

    Long as I want...

    I don't work at a "job" anymore......ah me....

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA
    Quote Originally Posted by OZZIE4DUKE View Post
    Plus a few minutes to brush my teeth and 5 minutes to get dressed.

    The last parts take ~20 to 25 minutes. The first part, well it depends on whether I'm reading the morning paper or not, among other things.
    So, if you dress last, how do you get the paper!?

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Lexington, KY

    Red face The Naked Thread

    Quote Originally Posted by DevilAlumna View Post
    So, if you dress last, how do you get the paper!?
    At least Ozzie dresses ... now after re-reading the post of hc5duke, ... well ... umm...

    For shame, Ozzie, not shaving while you're driving!

    To bring in another thread, I can't stand the folks who do make-up while they drive. They're not just doing it at stop lights (at which point, when the light turns green, they're still in mid-mascara), they're doing it on GA-400!! Couldn't you take another 5-10 minutes and do that at home?

    My problem isn't the amount of time it takes me to get ready. It's the traffic. Oh no ... I sense another poll.

    Cheers,
    Lavabe

  10. #10
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Watching carolina Go To HELL!
    Quote Originally Posted by DevilAlumna View Post
    So, if you dress last, how do you get the paper!?
    The paper gets delivered to the house. I either go out to the mail box and get it dressed in my PJ's and weather appropriate outer garment, or my wife, who usually leaves the house before I get up (she left 30 minutes ago), brings it in for me before she leaves. I'm self employed and work at home, so unless I have an early customer appointment (I'm in sales), I don't go out to an office in the morning.
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
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  11. #11
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    St Augustine, FL
    5 min - facilities
    5 min - take dog outside
    5 min - juice and fruit
    45 min - run and floor exercise
    5 min - stretch
    5 min - yogurt and juice or water
    20 min - teeth, shower, dress
    90 min - out the door

    can do it in 20 min when needed to catch early flight or get in for early meeting

    would really like 2 hours, but have a 45 min commute so getting up pretty early already, usually 5:45 am. It's dark again since they changed the friggin clocks.

    skipped my run this morning (rest day), that's why I have time to post

    "I love the smell of victory in the morning!"

  12. #12
    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    To bring in another thread, I can't stand the folks who do make-up while they drive. They're not just doing it at stop lights (at which point, when the light turns green, they're still in mid-mascara), they're doing it on GA-400!! Couldn't you take another 5-10 minutes and do that at home?
    EarlJam apologizes.

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Orange County, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by hc5duke View Post
    Then another 3 minutes to drive to work.
    You should walk

    For me its however long I have left before I have to leave the house to get to school/work on time. Usually up my 7:30, out the door by 7:55. (I should walk too.)

    PS - who brushes their teeth anymore? Thats so 1982.

  14. #14
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA (Buckhead)
    Quote Originally Posted by billybreen View Post
    EarlJam apologizes.
    Ha Ha, very funny.

    I would never put on make-up while driving. I've slipped my black laced silk stockings on while in traffic before (no one can see you do that). But I'd never put my make up on where others could see me.

    -EarlJam

  15. #15
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Austin, TX

    Not a morning person

    I'm answering for my husband who is not a morning person.

    Alarm--7AM
    Snooze
    7:25--up for his morning devotional and prayers
    7:35--OJ and unloads dishwasher
    7:40-8:15--brush teeth, shave, shower
    8:15-8:30--breakfast: oatmeal, swiss chard [odd, I know]; makes lunch
    8:30-8:35--dishes
    8:37 out the door

    And it really basically happens like this every day.

  16. #16
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Winter Park FL
    Usually get up, then get the kids up, make them breakfast, eat breakfast, use facilities read newspaper and shave all at the same time (I'm multi talented). Iron shirt for the day, brush teeth, shower and dress. Hour and a half on a normal day. If I need to, and wife irons, I can do it in 20 minutes.

  17. #17
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Los Angeles
    There is a correlation between this and the one about women, as I often get up before my wife but I let her get ready first. As a result, I tend to mess around in the morning on the internet etc. For a while I watched an episode or three of Lost before hitting the shower.

  18. #18
    Do none of you drink coffee? I gotta have a 2-cup drip or I can't make it to work.
    ~rthomas

  19. #19
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    ← Bay / Valley ↓
    Quote Originally Posted by rthomas View Post
    Do none of you drink coffee? I gotta have a 2-cup drip or I can't make it to work.
    my coffee maker (french press) is at work

  20. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by rthomas View Post
    Do none of you drink coffee? I gotta have a 2-cup drip or I can't make it to work.
    I hit Starbucks at 1 or 2. Helps break up the day and get me over the hump.

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