Wow. I feel incredibly unstructured after reading this! I like a lot of variety in my "routine". I am definitely not a morning person - I plan an extra 30 min to an hour to hit the snooze button and convince myself that I can't stay in bed. Some mornings I shower and some I don't. Sometimes I get dressed first and then put on makeup and do my hair and other times I stay in PJ's or robe while getting ready. I also alternate whether I do my hair or makeup first. I only wash my hair every 3-4 days (my hair behaves better when it's not too clean). It definitely takes me an hour if I have to shower and blow dry my hair, and it takes about 30 if not. I never eat breakfast until well into my work morning. I am trying to cut my snooze time in half so I can exercise for half an hour in the morning. (And by try, I mean that I did that this morning. I'd like to have hope that this will become a habit, but I don't have a good track record with structure and routine. Ugh!) Oh wait, I do have one consistent thing in the whole process - coffee. Always coffee - as soon as possible.

30 minutes to an hour, depending on whether I shower and wash and dry hair and have decided ahead of time what to wear. This includes taking meds and breakfast. DH takes care of the dog and starts the coffee. A more leisurely morning includes getting on the I-pad to check YLF, email, etc. it is interesting to read everyone's routines.

Ideally and most days, I wake up extremely early so I have time to:
Drink copious amounts of coffee and write comments such as these.
Practice yoga.
Shower, followed with hair scrunch and layer one of skin care (8 min total)
Eat breakfast
Layer two of skin care/makeup, get dressed
Deal with child issues as they wake up
Out the door around 8am

My actual 'routine', is really variable. It all depends.

If it's a bakery day, it all starts with getting up, throwing on dog walking clothes, brushing teeth etc. That's 15-20 min. Then a walk, which will include coffee and a pastry for my entertainment. That's about 45 to an hour. Maybe I'll putter for an hour or two and eat again about 11:30 am. Then I go down for a nap. Then I jump up at 2, dress in 5 (I'm a uniform dresser here), another 5 to pack a work snack, 5 to say bye to Lilypup. That's 15. If I'm late, I skip the snack packing, so that's 10.

It sorta just gets worse from there. If I've got an at home writing project, it's five. Because I basically get up, microwave hot water, open the backyard door for Lilypup, and get working.

If it's a day off, where I'll run errands, maybe I'll take a half hour and wear an actual free form outfit. But this may or may not happen before the dog walk.

If I'm going to the doctor's I have to allow for 45 minutes, because I'm going to go to McD's. I need a treat to go into the city and sit in traffic...

Since I'm at the gym most nights, I shower and moisturize after my workout.

Weekdays I'm up at 5:45. Coffee and breakfast while I empty the dishwasher and put lunches together (DH does a morning shower and makes the bed). At 6:20 I brush my teeth, wash my face (just water), moisturize (SPF, sometimes tinted), sort my hair (with curly hair, less is best. I usually just use a 'fro pick to lift flat spots.). Get dressed (clothes picked out the night before from capsule picked out on the weekend!). I'm out the door at 6:45.

I'll put lippy on in the car while waiting for the train. I get my lashes and brows tinted.

One hour: shower, dress, makeup, breakfast (includes several cups of coffee), read newspapers (local, SF Chronicle, NY Times), feed dogs, let dogs in and out several times. Quick walk for dogs add 30 minutes.

1-1.15 Hrs.
Breakfast with YLF usually takes 30-45 mins, followed by shower and dressing.
If I wash my hair add another 15.

To do everything ...maybe an hour....make coffee...make packed lunches, have breakfast etc. My dressing etc is quick. I also shower late at night and not in the morning. I pretty much wear the same thing so pop it on and brush my teeth ..make up takes 3 or so minutes...a bit of foundation, eyeliner, eye shadow and mascara. any other time is taken stretching out the coffee etc and finding my stuff.

Thank you everyone for answering!!!!!!! This has been wildly helpful to me. I was reading your answers and thinking 1) it doesn't have to be an hour getting fabulous in front of the mirror and 2) I can friggin' spend the extra 15-20 minutes a day on me to greet my day on my terms. I imagine if I decide on a routine and actually do it repeatedly it will flow faster. And If I put my clothes out ahead of time.

ps- how I marvel at those of you who don't have to wash your hair every day or who shower at night; I have repeatedly tried both those tactics without success.

I became a shower-at-night person when I started living with the guy who's now DH. He takes a loooong shower every morning. It's not worth fighting over who gets the hot water. Also, he doesn't like breakfast, so I eat mine while he's in the shower. So my morning is:

1. Feed dog, let dog out in the yard.
2. Make coffee and toast for me, still in PJs or robe at this point. This is when I check emails and blogs and such.
3. Let dog back in.
4. I also make DH's lunch and lay out his clothes (he's like a large child; he just changed jobs and went from extreme casual to office-casual and doesn't know how to dress himself anymore).
5. Wash face, brush hair, brush teeth, put on sunscreen.
6. Choose an outfit and get dressed. Try to remember to drink at least 8 oz of water before I head out the door, or at least to fill a bottle to take with me.
7. Lip balm and perfume, if I remember.

Usually my toddler wakes up sometime between steps 1 and 2, which means helping him potty, get dressed, (sometimes) eat something, brush hair and teeth, etc. It takes me a little over an hour to get all three of us (or 4 if you count the dog) ready for the day.

If I have to: 15 minutes. I have my clothes ready the night before. In the morning, shower, product in hair (short hair helps and I don't blow dry so just scrunch up with product), makeup. The longer version is about half an hour when I do full makeup and linger and enjoy the warm water in the shower.

Wow, most of you are
faster than me. My schedule is at least an hour and more like Aziraphale
except I have 4 doggies, not kids. When
I wake up, I go outside with my dogs and clean up their poop (remember 4 dogs)
and play with them to burn some energy. That
doesn’t include exercising, which I do for 30 – 40 min after I go outside with
my dogs.

20-35 minutes, depending on whether I'm washing my hair that day or just refreshing it. Shower, dry/style hair, minimal makeup, dressed. I try to figure out what I want to wear either the night before, or while I'm showering.

I need very exactly 40 minutes. Not one minute less, not one more.
Shower;
Contact lenses : A stressful moment! Must often do it all over again because of a particle bothering my eyeball;
Moisturizer: Mixing a pea size inexpensive cream with the (large) pea size overpriced high end sunscreen;
Hair de-tangling, product, blow dry, a painful, fastidious process.
Brows: Penciling one, then the other, using the gauge, then realizing they are not even and one is too dark, rubbing them off, trying to start over, decide there is not enough time, rubbing again, dotting concealer on the now redden area; Feeling discouraged because now they look paler than before.
Make-up finally something fun - but must hurry. So frustrating! Concealer, mascara, blush, powder, done.
Dressing: Slipping on one set of clothes; Deciding against one element; Having to change everything because then nothing else works; Adding jewelry; Sighing loudly and profusely (this is why it's a very personal, solitary process); Checking for bra showing, see through zones, neckline too low, hemlines, odd wrinkles, defects etc; Sometimes having to change entire outfit again because of one defective or less desirable element.
Footwear: Try on two or three types of footwear; Finally decide on one; Remember I have to stand up and run around in it all day; Swap for my most sensible shoes; Realize my whole outfit is destroyed; Swap back to my first choice; Swear (softly!) because I don't find my shoe bag in order to elegantly carry the sensible pair - for when I can't wear the cuter ones anymore, which I predict will be around 2 pm.
Finding a suitable purse: Saying out loud: "Where is my phone?"; Grabbing my phone; Remembering the need for a purse; Hitting my head with my hand; Checking the metal on my jacket /buckle /etc.; Eliminating half of available options ; Looking for an ideal purse I have in my mind but not in my closet; keep looking and wasting time, but the purse in question is not showing up because it doesn't exist; Finally falling back on one of the two same purses I wear 90% of the time which is either black or tan; Making sure I fill it with the correct minimal items.

In the winter, I must also add a coat, boots, winter accessories... and do this 10 minutes early so I can remove the snow from the car. It's exhausting and I wonder how is it that I still do it!

Krish -- you and I are decision-challenged sisters! Never do I get through a morning routine without at least one major change in plan.

When I worked at Uni -- a more traditional schedule, I took 45 minutes for it all -- including breakfast, helping kids get ready, and checking email and YLF! If I needed to dry my hair -- an hour.

I still wake up an hour before I need to leave, in general. And I do have a routine:
1. morning stretch
2. Quiet Time -- just 10 minutes. In my world, God's not a morning person either
3. Shower -- moisturize, brush teeth
4. Get dressed -- change my mind three times, which means rehanging
all the rejects
5. Makeup 5 minutes
6. Hair -- just a quick brush and scrunch, unless I need to blow dry
7. Reading, walking the dog, checking email, social media and YLF, with what time is left.

(I should mention that I get up at 6 to help my 8th and 9th graders get ready for school. We make lunches together and check signals for the day --- just because they're 14, that doesn't mean I don't want to send them off with a hug. If my schedule allows -- I go back to bed until 8! That's when the above sequence kicks in!

Krish, thank goodness I am not the only one who is like that! Everyone else's routines seem so flawless. Mine is like yours...lots of changes, lots of things not working out and having to start over, etc.

I would hazard that it takes me at least an hour to get ready in the morning. And I even shower at night and live alone. But I have a lot of health problems, so I have to go slow, and I also have to make sure that I eat a good breakfast that isn't rushed. I also spend a decent amount of time on my hair (15 min.?), because if I don't add a little water and conditioner to my hair in the a.m., it will be bone dry within hours and just hang there.