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!
Kootenay Kat
I'm a 61 year old woman and hate wearing anything to bed, never have...never will...its naked all the way for me. I know that's a frightening picture for some folks but that would probably fall under the category of "not my problem". I own 1 nightgown, which I only use if I'm visiting someone, and that's only if I think I absolutely have to. I also sleep naked when I'm camping by the way. I always have something handy that I can grab and slip on to make the inevitable trip to the outhouse in the middle of the night. I'm actually surprised the stats are so low.
PS. I have never worn a bra either. Horrible torture devices. I am eternally grateful for not being a triple D!
Erin
I'd say its 50/50 or 40/60 depending on the season, pjs vs buff. PJ's are for hanging out in around the house and if it's too chilly at night ( although they normally get ditched overnight because our down duvet is super warm & I'm 44 ;) ) .
Eileen
I like your approach...thinking about getting cozy in pj's, getting into them and lounging around and snuggling up in them in bed. It's genetic, I think. My grown daughter feels the same way.
Stephanie
I'm late to the party, but this reminded me of a song my sisters and I used to sing when we were kids (to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic):
Oh I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot
and I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not
and sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall
I jump right in between the sheets with nothing on at all!
Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, what's it to ya?
Springtime breezes blowin' through ya, with nothing on at all!
Bruce
I'm a New Orleans boy, so I've been sleeping bare or in boxers for as long as i can remember.
One night strong winds blew my "unlocked" door in and the neighborhood watch person yelled up from my foyer to see if anyone was home... well I made it downstairs so fast, i don't think i was fully awake yet but was happy it was a boxer night. True story.
Erika
Being 27, i enter into the millennial category. And i do sleep naked. Plus i sleep with only a comforter, nothing else. Or just nothing at all during summer, as i don't have AC. So i lay naked on my fitted sheet and sleep like that, yes.
BUT. but i do wear PJs as well. When i wake up in the morning, i'll put on my pj, then later on, after breakfast and when ready to start my day, i'll dress with real clothes. When i come back from work, after supper and when ready to relax, i'll wear my pj that i will take off when ready to sleep. When watching netflix, it depends. If i do a netflix session in bed, it'll be naked, yes.
As of the fire possibility. Oh well, i think i will have time to grab the robe that is hanging next to my door and if the firefighter is the one waking me up and saving me from the fire, be it, he will see me naked and i'll just have to hope it's a cute one lol
Lynn Caughey
I sleep in my jammies. They usually go on just before I go to bed. However, sometimes I have a PJ day in which I never get out of them. Those are the days I usually do gardening in the back yard and watch HGTV all day.
Hannah
Pajama pants only. I sleep topless and have for the past 15 years. Mind you, I think I am technically a millennial, but only just barely, so that's probably my inter-generational internal strife warring it out.
Angela
I am a cami top and boxer shorts type of girl. I've tried nightgowns and the nude route, but never felt comfortable with either. I am very hot-natured, even in cold weather, I wake up hot about 1/2 way through the night. If I do get cold, its before bed and then the sweat pants and hoodie gets brought out, lol!
Here is the part that embarrasses me: I can stay in my PJs for days! I work from home, so there are many days where I make the choice that I don't care, and work in the same clothes I went to sleep in.
This is going to have to change shortly because we just got webcams for our work computers :-( I've already told my bosses that I'd better get some notice for any conference calls, or they are going to see me at my very worst! :-D
I haven't seen my coworkers for 3 years now and haven't missed them at all! I really don't want to see them now, so I guess I'll have to start wearing a tshirt while working and (horror of horrors!) will have to start combing and styling my hair again.
Amanda
I sleep naked. I’m s chick and not a millennial. I own lots of pajamas, love them and wear them during cozy couch/Netflix time, then take them off before I go to sleep. I absolutely friggin HATE having clothes on under the covers that twist and pull and leave elastic marks the next morning! Naked allll the waaaaay
Susan
If I'm laying around, whether I'm watching tv or reading, I shower and change into my pajamas. It's usually around seven this time of year unless it's snowing or cloudy or raining. Tenish in the summer unless it's raining or cloudy. I go to bed fully covered. I sleep curled up and don't like the feel of flesh on flesh. Since menopause, I get too hot and it does feel gross. A layer of nice crisp cotton keeps me dry. In the summer I'll wear a bra tank top with the bottoms and use the pajama top for warmth or modestys sake. I barely move in bed but nightgown always end up around my waist, so they're out. I once made the mistake of wearing flannel pajamas on flannel sheets. I couldn't move. It's like wearing Velcro.
Michele Morrison
Non-jammie wearing me looks forward to getting in her robe. And I schlep around that way from about 8pm on (when I can get away with it).
Marti_J
I am so glad I got here before the weekend was over in order to comment while... yes... wearing my pajamas.... which, of course, I remove before getting into bed to go to sleep.
Thank you for asking!
Karen
You're a millennial! I had no idea! ;) ~ karen!
canadamsel
Pyjamas? How uncomfortable. If you toss and turn - as I do - they get bound up in the sheets. Ugh. Have been sleeping au naturel since I was 15 (never told my mother - and if she knew, she never mentioned it). So comfortable! Flannelette (or fleece) sheets mean my bed is cozy in winter. Ditto for the bathrobe I wear when binge Netflixing… which sometimes starts as early as 4:30pm. And being Canadian, even though I don't wear them, they're pyjamas.
Karen
Well, lol, I'm Canadian too. And to me they're pajamas. :) ~ karen!
Emily
TV watching is most improved by removing my bra (i'm large).
I live with my young adult son, but mostly he ignores my TV shows, so I'm alone.
Lately, as a typical geezer, I discovered that in the summer I really prefer a lawn cotton, sleeveless, calf-length gown. I didn't even know the name of lawn cotton until a couple years ago.
In winter, I'm liking full-length flannel nightgown. But much of the time I just wear yoga pants and whatever older knit top is available.
Hope Smitherman
I haven't worn PJs to bed since high school (I had leaky windows and would get so dang hot in the Alabama summers.) Somehow I converted my husband too. He was always a boxers-and-t-shirt to bed guy before that. As for not ever wearing PJs...when we have guests in the house, we do wear pajamas. And, there are definitely some cozy PJs-on-the-couch times, but those come off before we get into bed. I couldn't imagine putting on PJs every night before I was getting ready for bed though, either.
Christine F
Sometimes I wear more clothes to bed than I do all day in regular clothes lol. I start out with everything on and peel things off as I warm up. Then towards the middle of the night I start putting them back on haha. I tried sleeping naked but just could not get comfortable for some reason. I wear tee shirt, sweatshirt, yoga type pants, socks lol. I change into pjs when I’m done going out for the day or it’s dark. This time of year it’s 5:30 lol.
Fonda Rush
I sleep half naked...an A-shirt on top, and socks if it's cold. Nothing in the middle.
Lori Darling
Sleeping nude and swimming nude are the same, in that once you've dropped the clothing, you will never, ever, NEVER, want to do either with clothes on again, for the rest of your days. I am ruined for life, and an eternal embarrassment to my husband and any stray houseguests.
carole
95% naked.
Linen sheets.
Thin linen blankets.
In the winter, wool blankets on top of the linen blankets.
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Best way to sleep.....ever.