The ‘perfect night’ at home includes a 19-minute shower: poll

November 14, 2024

This one is for the homies.

Homebodies who prefer chilling out in their humble abodes to hanging out at the club can now do it right by following this formula for having the “perfect” night.

Returning home from work by 5:30 p.m., washing away the ills of the day with a 19-minute shower, scarfing down copious snacks and kicking back on the couch with your feet up by no later than 6:42 p.m. — they’re all musts for the most enjoyable evening in this winter, per a recent poll by UK haircare company, Timotei.

The survey asked participants to share the factors that help them relax, taking the average of their responses to delivery a foolproof formula for the ideal night-in.

“As we move from summer into the chillier months, it seems many [folks] are keen to slow down and be gentler to themselves,” Cleo Hector, marketing manager for the brand, said in a statement.

The mane experts survey 2,000 people to determine the most popular post-work relaxation preferences of 9-to-5ers.

Researchers found that a whopping 74% of the nearly-burned out breadwinners look forward to having “nothing to do” once they’ve clocked out from a shift.

A staggering 66% admitted to feeling more comfortable at home, while 53% said that staying in is “more peaceful” than going out and 48% copped to enjoying the opportunity to fully unwind after surviving the daily grind.

And of those who like to de-stress at their address, an eye-popping 55% desperately hope to avoid uninvited visitors during the hallowed downtime — although their live-in loved ones and family pets are welcome, for the most part.

Solo decompressing is a post-pandemic trend that may never come to an end, thanks to Gen Z.

A recent report from Princeton revealed that a growing number of adults in the US are now spending 10% more time at home than they did in 2003.

“Changes in Americans’ daily routines induced by the COVID-era should be seen as an acceleration of a longer-term trend: the rise of time spent at home,” wrote study authors. “Results show that from 2003 to 2022, average time spent at home among American adults has risen by one hour and 39 minutes in a typical day.”

“Time at home has risen for every subset of the population and for virtually all activities.”

And the nationwide swing away from interpersonal socializing can be partially credited to 20-somethings — many who became of legal drinking age during the global health crisis — who don’t even know what fun it is to grab a half-priced drink with pals after a long day on the job.

“If you said ‘happy hour’ to 95% of [Gen Z]…they would look at you and say, ‘Hey, Boomer, I don’t know what happy hour is,’”Eugene Remm, co-founder of Catch Hospitality Group, previously told The Post.

The restauranteur explained that Big Apple dining and drinking has drastically changed as since the pandemic, owing to New Yorkers’ newfound penchants for going home.

“Everyone has pivoted their habits.”

Here’s a list of the top 15 most beloved at-home relaxation pastimes, according to Timotei.