How much time do you give yourself in the morning to get ready?

[acebatonfan]

I typically leave the house at 6:15-6:25 if I have 8AM work/classes. I'm often up by 4-4:30 (often around 3:45, because I hate being woken up by my alarm), exercise until 5:30-5:45ish, and then I start getting ready (about 30-45 minutes). I put on a cup of coffee before I start getting ready, so by the time I come back downstairs the coffee has cooled down enough. My lunches are prepped over the weekend, so all I have to do is throw it in my bag (I eat breakfast while going up to school, but if I have to eat it at home, it's already prepped). All major chores are done the night before.

There were some times last summer where I was waking up at 2:30-3AM for 6:45AM clinicals (wake up, exercise, get dressed, eat breakfast, and a longer commute than if I was driving to school).

 

[Kitty 34]

When I worked 45 minutes to an hour. That gave me a few minutes of DIS time, too.

 

[BLAZEY]

M-TH I get up a 6:15. 20-30mins to read the news/check facebook etc. 20 mins to shower and dress. Badger DD7 to get up, dress and eat. as I have to drop her off at school before I got to work. Thankfully both are about a 5-10min commute but when the weather is nice we walk. We leave at 8am. On Friday's I can sleep in as DD is at the Inlaws and the take her to school.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Alarm goes off at 6:40. I leave the house around 7:45-7:50ish.

Shower, (partly) blow dry and iron my hair. Put on makeup. I do read the news online while I eat breakfast (usually toast). Usually I throw stuff into my lunch bag which I premade the night before. Put the coffee on. Put the dog out.
Make sure the kids lunches are ready to go and that they are up as I leave the house. If it wasn't for the kids I could probably do it in 45 minutes. I would LOVE to be that type of girl who could get away with not washing their hair everyday or just putting it into a ponytail. Ain't ever going to happen. Ever. Would be nice as that would save me a good 20 minutes daily.

 

[Lyricallie]

So I can pick my hours as long as I arrive by 10am at the latest and do my 7 hours plus 1 hour lunch.

So quite often I'mm get up at 8:30 and walk in at 9:00, it's about a 25 minute walk. Today I slept in and woke up at 9:00 though and jumped on the bus which take 15 minutes! so was in for 9:45

Only takes me 30 minutes to get ready!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

1 hour. Wake up 5:45am, out the door roughly 6:45. This includes making lunches and taking out the dog.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

it takes me 40 minutes to get ready. That does not include breakfast. That takes an extra 10 minutes or so.

Thank goodness I no longer have to get up at 5:30am to be out the door by 6:20am to be to work at 8am. Traffic stinks when you are going from a suburb into Atlanta and back home again.

 

[ols386]

I get up at 7:15 and leave by 7:50. I shower and wash my hair everyday, get dressed and leave. I don't have a real job anymore, I watch my grandson, 9 hours a day, 4 days a week. I thoroughly enjoy watching him.

 

[scdak]

Work days up at 6:25am, out the door (dressed, hair combed, bladder emptied, teeth brushed) at 6:32 and I clock in at 6:38 every day I work, I live 4 left hand turns from work........so coming home is accomplished in about 3 minutes since its all right hand turns and I don't have to wait on any traffic Days off...........shoot, I get up when I want to, do as much or as little as I want to and have been known to take a few naps just to recover from 12 hours at work!

 

[tvguy]

I get up at 2 am, and I am at my desk at work at 3 am.
In that hour I eat my breakfast while checking my work e-mail, and the local online edition of the paper, shave, brush my teeth, get dressed and drive 13 miles to work.

DW gets up 90 minutes before she has to be at work, because she likes to read for half an hour when she get up.

 

[Jennasis]

We get up at 6:10am and begin work immediately (feeding and turning out our 30 horses). We are typically done at 7am and DH then showers and gets ready for his day-job, he leaves by 7:45am, getting to his office at 8am. I work a part-time job a few days a week which starts at 8:30am so I have to leave by 8:15am. I use the time between 7am and 8:15 to shower, eat breakfast, do our business accounting and prepping the bank deposit or bills to go out. Then I like to watch the Today Show while I eat breakfast before heading out.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I need about 2.5 hours to be ready to leave.

 

[klacey1]

Depends. I am definitely not a dawdler in the morning. I prefer to get up, get ready and go. I set my alarm for a different time almost every day depending on when I need to get to work. I work 9-5 but am by far the most productive in the morning, so if I have a lot of work, I'll go in at 7:30.
I can get ready--shower, doing hair, full face of makeup, business outfit--in 40 minutes. If I'm in the mood for breakfast, I'll set my alarm for one hour before I need to leave. In that situation, I'll get ready, scramble some eggs, eat standing up in my kitchen, put on my heels and be heading out usually 50 minutes after waking.
Oh, and I've never snoozed an alarm in my life. I usually wake up naturally before my alarm, but either way, once I wake up, I shoot out of bed immediately.

 

[Cubbiecakes]

My alarm goes off at 6:45 and I head straight into the shower. Out of the shower by 7:15, dressed, have breakfast, and lunch packed by 7:30. I stay home and putter until 7:50 when my honey gets ready to leave as well. Generally at work before 8:05.

 

[dotfurio]

About 45min to an hour, including packing lunch and yelling at the kids every 5 minutes to get moving.

 

[xlxo]

About 2.5 hours

• I need my morning Disboards time
• breakfast is an important meal.... don't have servants.... Need to cook it
• I need to occasionally sleep in

What time do you need to leave the house? I would be getting up at 3:30am if I needed 2.5 hours.

My latest job has me leaving the house around 8:45pm. While others start earlier in the office, I take the later shift.

• got tired of being asked to work late.... it became second nature to start late in order to work late.
• by the time I hit the roads..... congestion starts to thin out as parents have dropped off the kids at school.
• by starting a few hours late..... I save gas money in not defrosting my car on winter mornings.
• by going home after 6:30pm.... traffic congestion thins out on the return trip home.... again saving me gas. I also get quiet time to finish things with less disturbances from co-workers.
• less road congestion.... means less stress, less road rage, and less money wasted on gas

 

[sasywtch]

If I gave myself too much time in the morning, I'd be thinking of excuses not to go to work
People in the NE area found my back way to work so I have to hit the freeway by 7 otherwise, I'm spending 20 minutes to go 5 miles.
I bathe/shower the night before as I've never been a morning wake me up shower person. 6:15 first alarm goes off, I may get up at 6:25. Take my medication, take the dog out to find a pole, give dog/cat their treat, get dressed and out the door by 6:50 to be at work at 7:30.

 

[kaytieeldr]

About 2.5 hours

• I need my morning Disboards time
• breakfast is an important meal.... don't have servants.... Need to cook it
• I need to occasionally sleep in

Allow me to introduce you to http://www.eatthis.com/overnight-oat-recipes-for-weight-loss (ignore the weight loss part of you want)

I always tell my hairdresser to make it a "wash and go" style. I have natural wave to my hair and as long as I have long layers, the cut works with my natural hair. By the time I get to work, it is almost dry on its own. I def. don't have time to do a blow dry and style.

I need a new style/cut. Any chance of a picture of the back of your head to take to a salon?

 

[Aliceacc]

I'm a morning person. I love the quiet of early morning when I have the house to myself.

I get up at 5, and I'm typically on the computer, showered, dressed, hair and makeup done, by 5:30. I have half an hour before I'm upstairs, getting the kids up and ready. Depending on the day (and my 16 year old's Driver Ed schedule), I'm out the door with them at either 5:45 or 7 am.

So technically I'm up for 2 hours before I leave the house, though if it were only me it would be absolutely doable in 30 minutes.

 

[Southernmiss]

I wake at 530 when dh gets up. I read news, catch up on Dis or Facebook until he leaves at about 6:20. On school days, I make sure kids are up at 630 then proceed to get ready. Takes me 30 minutes to shower, dress, and do make up and hair.

I listen to GMA while I wash dishes, pick up the house, plan dinner, make my breakfast and lunch.

I leave about 745 for an 8 minute drive to work.

I like to wait until the kids leave for school at 740 because there's always a last minute 'Oh yea mom I need...or I forgot to tell you...or can you sign this...'