Pre-Order Your Hangover Breakfast Tonight
If you live in a relatively urban area, order yourself breakfast before heading out for the night. Seamless allows you to place orders several days in advance from most restaurants; you can also call. Make a simple hangover order: bacon and egg and cheese bagel, breakfast tacos, corned beef and potato pancakes – take out or delivery. And coffee. This will solve two problems.
1. It will lessen your regret for the last night’s actions.
You will be mad at Past You for drinking so much, but you will be grateful to Past You for thinking ahead of food. If you’ve ever refilled your espresso machine the night before, so one push of a button is enough before you crawl into the shower, then you know this kind of self-thankful.
2. It will make you stand up.
For this you will curse and thank the Past. Here’s one of Lifehacker’s core founding beliefs: Set forced deadlines wisely. And now you’re giving yourself a deadline to make yourself even a little presentable – at least presentable enough to open the door. By ordering a pickup, you forced yourself to leave the house so that the breakfast would not cool down.
Be kind to the Future and do not order food for an unrealistic morning hour. Pick a time that keeps you out of your Saturday night, morning that becomes day, a shower that never happens, precious hours in bed on Facebook when you were about to open the Kindle app.
Don’t order a delicious breakfast. Order what you want to get, for which you get out of the house. If you really love a healthy breakfast after a late night, order it! If you don’t do it, don’t do it. Self-help for a hangover is more of a harm reduction method.
Order a hangover breakfast at the bar or at a party in front of others during the first round. This is a light icebreaker, they will advise your order or tell you where you should order your breakfast tacos and they will find this breakfast trick much more impressive than it actually is.