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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 211 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've seen a lot of shower thoughts, but this thought is the showerest

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about "welp, time to poop"?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago
[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I was thinking the same thing, but with the word *showeriest

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Right up there with 'oh, its got selenium huh?' And 'what the fuck is argan oil'

[–] cattywampas@midwest.social 167 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And then forget in 5 minutes cause I was in the shower.

[–] blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then remember immediately the next time you get in the shower. Vicious cycle.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago

Or just rinse, save some shampoo for tomorrow.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do this with tooth paste.

I’ve started buying two tubes at a time because I can’t be trusted

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 11 points 1 week ago

My husband buys the toothpaste. When mine runs out I take his so that he will always know if the closet stock is empty. If I took one from the closet, and it was the last one then we might be left without. When we get low, it's a game where we are constantly stealing the tube back and forth . I like to think this game helps him remember to get some more.

[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is why I set the bottle in the bathroom sink after having this thought. Its hard to ignore something so out of place and in the way

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Toss it over the curtain so that it clatters to a weird spot that is hard to miss.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is what I do. Works well.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

adhd life hack: do weird shit so you can trust you'll remember it and become free to forget things

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Then when you go to use the sink you set it aside cause you need to use the sink and it's promptly forgotten again.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Hard, but still doable.
Source: personal experience

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[–] GeekyOnion@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This, right here, is the highest quality "Shower Thought" I've ever encountered. You win!

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do they win? Hopefully shampoo

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Took me about 5 seconds to get this.

So....not a LONG time, but I'm still ashamed it wasn't instant.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Then you put the extra bottle you bought away, and realize you really should have checked the cabinet, and now you have 3.

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Thank you for making laugh in the middle of my life loathing rant 😂

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've had the same bottle of shampoo since 2016. It's outlasted my hair.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

That could have been part of the problem, yeah

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

This is why I subscribe

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dog Food

looks at 40lb bag engages spatial reasoning how many cups are left in this bag..... 7-10 days....

looks at 40lb bag engages spatial reasoning how many cups are left in this bag..... 3-5 days....

looks at 40lb bag engages spatial reasoning how many cups are left in this bag..... probably 2 days....

looks at 40lb bag engages spatial reasoning how many cups are left in this bag..... fuck 1 day.... takes 2 days to get ship.....

Well gal, chicken it is....

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Cries in ADHD. I do this all the time with my cats lol

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Auto ship from Chewy solved this for me heheh

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All her food comes from chewy and I've tried this.

You know we should try auto order.

Orders food

Comes in just fine, But we've misguessed on the reorder date.

We'll just single order a second bag so that we've got one in stock. It's kind of ridiculous to have 68 lb of dog food around but it won't go bad that soon.

Single bag comes in, 3 days later reorder bag comes in...

Dog: btw I hate this dog food and I'm not eating it anymore

O.O

Add some crumbles in: nope

Add some wet food in: nope

Gravy, chicken, start doing food theater.

Dog: The dry food is now poison

In the middle of trying to solve this we get another reorder.

Chewy lets us cancel and donate that bag to the local animal shelter.

We change over from a duck version to a salmon version, dogs been eating it fine now for 2 years.

I love chewy to death but between our own incompetence and our dogs fickle eating habits...

I've started baking chicken thighs from Costco. $1.79 a pound, They are easy to debone and a $20 package fills four tall deli containers. The dry food is now a condiment for teeth health. And if it runs out she can Make it just fine on meat for a couple of days.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Haha, fair enough, I never had a picky eater yet!

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

"These shower floor tiles seem slippery"

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Shower thoughts in the shower? Hmm...

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This, but every evening a week straight until the bottle is actually empty and then I walk around with greasy hair until I get weird looks from people at the mall, at which point I remember to buy it.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago (14 children)

It is either that or you go buy shampoo, then put it somewhere in the house where you forget all about it and go buy another and forget all about that one too and then you run out of shampoo and are like "oh fuck, I need to buy shampoo" and you manage to remember and come home with a third bottle and then the others start popping up in weird places over the following days.

I am at the end of one such misadventure. I am almost finished with bottle number two and bottle number three disappeared from the kitchen for weeks and reappeared recently in my couch and I put it in the bedroom so I am reminded of it's existence everyday now. Eventually it will find its way to the bathroom.

Everytime I'm at the store and I pass the shampoo aisle I have to remind myself that Mr couch shampoo is still very much full and very much on its way to the bathroom.

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[–] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And how many bottles are still in your closet? Because that's always the first thing you should check after thinking that particular thought.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I have three bottles, still sitting neatly in their half of the 2 pack packaging. It hurts.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] underline960@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.

Back before covid, like June of 2019, I bought a whole bunch of soap, shampoo etc. figuring that stuff has a very long shelf life. I'm actually still working through the stocks I bought, I've probably got enough bath soap to last into the 2030s.

I decided not to buy a bulk lot of toilet paper, not knowing I live in the dumbest timeline.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

shower turns on

Why do naked people periodically stand in my space and start the moisture

I gag

oh right

good thing humans do this I mean..

shower noises

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