What's your morning routine?

7 years ago

Mornings are something we all collectively experience, but the steps we take to ready ourselves for the day ahead will inevitably vary for each of us!

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Are you an early bird - someone who wakes up over an hour before you are due to leave the house, ensuring you have enough time to: go to the gym, walk the dog, shower, eat breakfast, flick through the papers/news with a tea or coffee and prepare your lunch? Or, does snoozing the 20, 5-minute apart alarms you've set until you have to run out the house toast in hand, more accurately describe your mornings?

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7 years ago

Wake up; coffee; 2nd coffee; third.....

You get my drift ;-)

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Daisy England
7 years ago
Alarm goes off at 7. We take in it turns to pop downstairs, make a cuppa and bring it back to bed to drink. Half 7 I get in shower, he still lies in bed. 8 o'clock it's breakfast time. Weekends are slightly later but same format.
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agasparotto
7 years ago
I wake up at 7:30 to leave by 8:45 (work is 15 minutes walking distance), I have coffee, shower make up, dress and always get to my work 5 minutes late!!!! Time flies by in the morning! :)
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7 years ago
Alarm 6.30 so I can snooze for anything up to 30 mins. Shower, hair, makeup & dressing takes between 30 to 45 mins, pack my lunch & feed cat in around 10 mins. Drive to work 20 mins. Arrive around 8.15 which gives me plenty of time for a coffee and a good natter with colleagues before clocking on and starting my day in a relaxed frame of mind. I'd hate to arrive with only minutes to spare before starting work. I'd be too flustered and often the only real chance for a catch up with my colleagues is before 9 o' clock and I really value that.
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Ecoflap
7 years ago
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Dundrum 16
7 years ago
Wake up at 6 o'clock and make sure my daughter is on the move. Make us each a cuppa and empty the dishwasher while she's in the shower, take my coffee back to bed and peruse Houzz, news headlines and email whilst I'm drinking it. Doze off when she leaves at 6.45am. Shower when my alarm goes off at 8.30am, then get dressed and have a second cup of coffee in the living room. The joys of being retired!
Tameha Nazim
7 years ago
Morning starts around 7 30 with rolling the blinds and making the bed. Then I negotiate with my almost 4 year old to come to the bathroom and get dressed. Then I change the baby and get dressed myself. Once everyone is ready we go down for breakfast and start the day.
msdjs70
7 years ago
up at 7am first things first a coffee then get ready and try and get my lazy son up and out for school before setting off for a hours drive to work . Happy days
Balbir M
7 years ago
Alarm goes off at 6.40am, wake up to see if daughter is up and getting ready for school, back in bed and keep hitting the snooze button until 7.10am. Get dressed, drive daughter to school at 7.30am, back home at 8.30am. Cup of tea and croissant then shower and dress and back in the kitchen (also know as my office) to start work.
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Effie and Luca
7 years ago
So much work can be done in the morning while the world sleeps. Ironing. Tidying. Washing up. Washing in. emails. Planning - kids, work. I dream that one day I will do these things instead if hitting the snooze button 7 times, when I am awake and procrastinating and no longer able to sleep anyway!! I'm hoping my gentle shift to a vegan lifestyle might wake me up....and maybe get me off my phone at night and give me more energy and possibly more hours in the day etc etc! Pinning a lot of hopes and dreams on the new diet tbh!!!
Renáta Kozáková
7 years ago
alarm set up 6.30 but snoozing till about 6.50 :) then having a cup of tea, shower and read something - very often it is the houzz newsletter! ! :) i usually leave by 8.15 having to walk 15min to get to work . that's my morning :)
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7 years ago
Partner leaves for work about 8 and leaves me a cup of tea on the bedside table. By the time I wake up it's cold (the tea) but I drink it anyway while I read the morning paper, still in bed. May even go back to a little snooze. However on working days it's up at 7, into the bathroom, back in kitchen with morning paper and cup of tea by 8 out the door at 9.30 to get to work by 9.45. I LOVE my cup of tea and newspaper in the morning, best part of the day.

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