I started out writing today's post thinking it was going to be about what time you put your pajamas on at night. This firecracker idea came out of my mother insisting that 2:30 in the afternoon is a perfectly respectable time to start thinking about going to bed. Therefore 2:30 p.m. is probably when you should put your pajamas on.
One of my sisters, Pink Tool Belt, on the other hand will not, NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES put her pajamas on before she has eaten dinner. To her, if your life has degenerated to the point where you eat dinner in your pajamas you may as well never take them off again. In fact you may as well stop brushing your hair and saying excuse me when you burp sausage burps. You have given up on any sort of civilized life.
Coming in from the diagonal opposite corner of crazy is my sister Fish Pedicure, who would live in her pajamas if she could, but would look perfectly civilized the while doing it because ... she irons her pajamas. With an iron. As if they're a cotillion gown.
Me? I don't really have any firm beliefs when it comes to nightwear other than the fact that I wear it.
(This is where my post on "What time do you put your pajamas on?" took a turn)
You see, my pajama research led me to a rather startling statistic.
30% of North Americans SLEEP NAKED.
As in, they do not wear a thing. Zero. No underwear, no flannel, no EEK, WHAT IF THERE'S A FIRE AND I HAVE TO RUN INTO THE STREET tee shirt. Nothing.
As you might have guessed, that number is higher for men than women so they're the ones bringing the average up. I don't think anyone is surprised by the fact that more men than women sleep naked. Men would ride roller coasters naked if they thought they could get away with it. Shop for toos, get gas, chat with the neighbours? Naked , naked, naked.
One thing I don't understand is if you sleep naked how do you get ready for a night of Netflixing? Do you get cozy and comfortable in your naked? You just take off your regular clothes and be naked? What if you have food delivered or decide to start Netflixing at 4 in the afternoon? Are there bands of humans wobbling around their homes naked Netflixing all hours of the day that I don't know about?
I can't even fathom this sleeping naked thing. Not at all. It would be cold, it would be weird and I feel like I'd need to wash my sheets WAY more often than I currently do. To me, not wearing pajamas robs a person of the 3 BEST parts of their day; the moment you think about putting your pajamas on, the moment you actually put your pajamas on and the moment you lay on the couch with your pajamas on.
Having said all this, you have not yet heard the MOST disturbing thing. There are some people out there who make fun of those of us who wear pajamas. And they're just as stunned by our behaviour. My reading led me to articles written by Millennials who apparently think a 2 piece pajama set is a quaint, geezer thing. Like making your way to bed by the light of a candlestick and sleeping in a long, cone shaped nightcap.
Why do Millennials think this? Because apparently ... according to some random study I found ...
65% of Millennials sleep naked.
I suspect it's because they lack the focus to be able to pick out a pair of pajamas. But that's just the guess of a geezer.
Of course now I HAVE to know how many of you sleep naked. And also, if you do wear pajamas, what time do you put them on? Are you a Betty, thinking the earlier the better? Or a Pink Tool Belt, where wearing pajamas before dinnertime indicates you've probably spent time in prison?
Me? I favour 2 piece pajama sets in white and I generally put them on around 7:30 or 8 p.m.
Have a good weekend!
Nekkid as a jaybird.
Comfies go on directly after the shower as soon as I get home from a physical and dirty job.
I might need to run to the garden for bits and bobs to make supper, and the featherheads food is removed from the coop at dusk because the neighbour is apparently raising rats.
Summer, linen or good cotton sheet.
Winter, either patchwork quilt or duvet.
I've tried sleeping naked, but with off and on incontinence issues (I'm 71), it's just too uncomfortable. There's the moisture issue that makes an already warm bed very icky. Even when sleeping with my SO I cannot be completely naked. I'll skip the tee, but the bottoms stay on until he takes them off.
Millenial here! I LOVE pajamas. And the earlier to put them on, the better. It could be my asexuality, but I don’t like being naked. There’s just nothing better than taking off your normal clothes (and of course, your bra) and putting on a comfy pair of pajama shorts and oversized T-shirt. I would never sleep naked. If I got too hot at night, I’d just turn on the fan or remove a blanket.
(Also, to Karen, vegetarians aren’t bad)
I HAVE to wear pajamas. As you said, it's cold and weird not to. That said, I change clothes as much as Lady Mary at Downton Abbey. When I wake up, I change out of my pajamas (shorts and a short-sleeved shirt because of that menopause thing!) into long sleep pants because when I'm not flashing, I'm freezing! Then I get dressed for my day. If those day clothes are nicer (like work clothes), when I get home, I change into something I can putz around the yard in if it's warm. Then I'll change into long sleep bottoms again for the evening's relaxation festivities, usually after supper. If it's cold, I skip that first step and just change into the sleep bottoms for the evening. I call them my "soft clothes." THEN, right before bed, I change into my pajamas because you know . . . cold and stuff, at least until I'm raging hot for 15 minutes!
Once upon a time I used to be an avid nude sleeper as well as a bit of a nudist and the thought of so much as ever owning PJs much less wearing them never crossed my mind. Besides, I lived in a house in rural Americana where I could get away with roaming around naked with the curtains wide open and no one would be anywhere close by to see.
After I lost my home (due for the most part to business closure and the death of my wife) and ended up homeless for a bit, I got used to sleeping fully-clothed while sleeping on family members' couches and in tiny bedrooms in households where I was surrounded by kids.
Almost one year ago exactly, I finally got into a VERY old-school upstairs apartment in a crowded urban area where I'm surrounded by neighbors and five restaurants, a coffee shop packed with college kids during business hours, a Walgreens, and a gas station. That has made going nude impractical unless I keep the drapes drawn and the blinds shut during the daytime hours. Which, frankly, makes me feel like the "weird naked guy" lol. With the exception of the summer months when it gets hotter than a matchbox, the apartment itself is extremely chilly and drafty during most of the year - even when the temps outside are well into the 70s - and there are only a couple of floorboard heaters for warmth. That makes sleeping naked extremely uncomfortable on cold winter nights.
On the other hand, I eventually grew tired of sleeping in my jeans and sweatshirts or flannel shirts. Not to mention the massive loads of laundry I've had to haul down the street to the laundromat now that I'm working (and the apt. is not furnished with a washer or dryer BTW). Sometimes those loads have accumulated as much as 2-3 times a week and take a good couple of hours of my precious time to babysit at the laundromat.
Needless to say, I'm beginning to love sleeping in and wearing PJs all day. They are cozy and warm and, unlike nudity, no one bats an eye if you parade around open windows or come down to the family dinner table in your jammies. In fact, you may encourage others to do the same! hahaha.... And it's far easier to haul a bag full of PJs down to the laundromat than it 2-3 bags full of heavy jeans and flannel shirts in addition to work clothes.
I'll admit I do miss sleeping nude and going nude all day, but not that chill....Brrrrrr!
I wear my Birthday Suit. Its nearly 48 years old and is wonderful to sleep in! I understand completely the idea of pajamas though......I have a pair of cotton shorts and a comfy roomy sweatshirt that I wear in the evenings and look forward to putting on everyday/all day. I put them on nearly as soon as I get home in the evenings (if I don't have stuff to do outside). I make dinner and eat in them, relax at night in them, and take them off for bedtime. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
I don't sleep naked.... maybe because I don't have privacy people in our house will know if I be "Naked" just akward if they see me naked until the afternoon because sometimes I woke up Already in the middle of the noon. but Great survey though, I tried taking off my shirt because the weather is so hot then my dad came in my room he said what are you doing "!!?? are you doing some porn""" lool
Naked here
Ok first let me get this off my chest: Gross? Really?
I sleep naked because I find pajamas restrictive and uncomfortable, and often times way to hot. Nothing is better than jumping in a chilly shower then climbing into a bed of fresh sheets and a soft blanket. Occasionally in winter I will wear a shirt and shorts, and if I'm feeling ill I will wear jammies in case I need to run to the toilet (if I didn't live with a roommate I would).
In terms of the fire argument, if my house is on fire I have much bigger issues than my neighbor's potentially seeing me naked. Any other potential evacuation or emergency I will have time to grab my robe which hangs on the back of the door.
Pajamas are the worst invention for nightwear I have ever seen, or worn. It's bad enough to spend most of the day in clothing that bunches and wrinkles and sticks to my sweaty body, but to continue the torture at night is just too much, too, too much. I toss and turn and with pajamas it's like twisting the pajama bottoms around my legs like corkscrews, to say nothing of the top fighting every move I make—arm above my head, feeling a tight restriction where the fabric is digging into my skin.
I tried the doing normal things naked once. But something felt off. I ending up spending the whole night in nothing but pajama pants.
When your under bed covers nothing is exposed so sleeping naked feels very normal . Unless you sleep above the covers.
I'm a little late to the party here, but I LOVED reading all the comments!! I am 53 years old, and sleep naked! I would usually put on my lounge pants and a tank/cami (in the summer) - right after I got home from work, even before dinner(gasp!), unless people were coming over, or whatever... In the winter, same type of lounge pants and a sweatshirt!
Now that I'm retired, it's all I can do to put clothes on!!! I am in my jammies most of the time, unless I have to go out! Lazy?? No, just comfy!
As far as the top sheet discussion, I ALWAYS have a top sheet on the bed., I don't like the feel of a blanket on my skin, but a cool top sheet is wonderful! In the winter, the electric blanket goes on 30 minutes before bed to warm it up a bit, then off at bedtime!
Karen,
I am a 65-yr-old woman, and I have slept naked for YEARS. There is nothing that feels better to me than to crawl between nice, clean sheets, BUTT-ASS NAKED! I have tried since childhood to sleep comfortably in pajamas and nightgowns, but I can't find anything comfortable in having such garments wrap around my body and hamper my ability to stretch out and turn over in the bed.
Granted, I live in Oklahoma, and it gets damned hot down here, but I sleep naked in Colorado too. I simply throw an extra blanket on the bed when sleeping in a colder climate.
I too have two sisters, but neither one of them sleeps naked or understands why I do. I suspect they have just never tried sleeping naked and enjoying the freedom of sleeping completely unhampered by "night clothes".
As for what I would do if the house caught on fire in the middle of the night: I would grab that robe I keep at the foot of my bed. If I can't find it or don't have the time to grab it, I don't think I would really care if I had to escape a burning house naked. So I say: "Try it!"
LOL. You naked sleepers are as bad as vegetarians! I like my pajamas, I don't get tangled in them or feel restrained. I just feel cozy. :) I'm all for sleeping naked if you want to! I just prefer my jammies. And my hamburgers. ;) Ha! ~ karen!
Well, so many different ideas. I slept in a long sleep shirt when I had kids, light cotton in the summer and heavy cotton in the winter. When there was just my late husband and me we slept nude. Nothing gross or disgusting about it. Lots of cuddling and spoon sleeping. Miss that. These days I sleep in a long sleep shirt during the winter and a short one in the summer. Sadly, since I live with my daughter and son-in-law these days I need to wear more than nothing around the house while lounging, watching Netflex or TV, etc.
Since I spent 5 months in VT and the rest of the time in CA. my sleep ware changes with the seasons and venue. I have a heated mattress pad that makes me happy in the winter and use cotton sheets in the summer and flannel sheets in the winter. I can kick off sheets and blankets as the temp changes. I wash sheets every week (don't iron. LOL)
I love all the coments and laughs this blog generates and look forward to every one. Sometimes I'm laughing so much that my son-in-law wants to know what it is....how can we tell them how much something tickles us so much.
Keep it up.
Nightgown to mid calf and it goes on before I even feed the dog. If people drop over with out calling first, I'll put on a robe but I don't get dressed. I'm 62 and want to be comfortable when I'm home.
As soon as I come home from work I throw on my sweatpants and a tank top. And when it's time for bed they come off. I do keep a robe near by in case I need clothes in a hurry.
Opposites in this house. HE wears clothes to bed, shorts and a t-shirt. But I wear nothing. I did try though. I tried. It only makes sense. WHAT if there's a FIRE!? I guess I will have to wrap myself in blankets. If I wear clothes to bed they end up just waking me up either choking me or tightly wrapped around my bodice like a fine rolled cigar. And then I have to unravel and disturb my slumber. I just toss and turn too much for any PJ's.
Although I do concur with your comfort system. Both of us, as soon as we get home from anywhere, put on our lounge wear. Almost Pj's but still can be seen in public if some Mormon happens to knock on the door.
I've always slept naked. As soon as I get in from work, I put my comfies on whatever that may be depending on the season including pyjamas in the winter, which I then take off when I go to bed. Naked sleepers don't spent all evening naked in my experience although I guess it depends on the evening's activities :-)
It depends on the weather. If it is above 30 degrees and there is no ice on the ground, then I walk the dog right before I go to bed so no pajamas before then. But given the winter we are having, pajamas go on anytime after dinner and the dog needs to use the small fenced backyard I have.
A good day is having your fresh clean jammies on by 7:00 pm. A perfect day is when you haven't been out of them. since the previous 7:00 pm. And, you've gone through the drive in for sustenance. In Grad school, we'd have jammies only weekends. But, under no circumstances do you get out of the car to go somewhere. No Walmart at 2:00 pm with jammies. 'Cause tha's just wrong.