# Do you shower every day?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 11, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378 "2015-02-11T12:35:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/21 "2015-02-11T14:34:17Z")
I shower every day before work as a courtesy to my co-workers. Many years ago my boss at my first office job kindly suggested that I might need to change my deodorant, so I realized that a morning shower before work is not optional.
On weekends, I skip a day, or two, if I’m just hanging around the house. In the summer when it’s hot and I’m sweaty because I don’t have a/c I have a quick shower to cool down and rinse off before bed, and then again in the morning before work.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/22 "2015-02-11T14:55:05Z")
No, I shower every day.\*
I feel stanky and greazy if I don’t have my morning shower.
\*Grammar nitpick: “Everyday” is an adjective, not an adverb. I am irrationally peeved by this error.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/23 "2015-02-11T14:59:56Z")
I am an everyday showerer, then.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/24 "2015-02-11T15:08:42Z")
I have to wash my hair every three days. On those days I take a shower. On the in-between days, sometimes I take a bath instead of a shower, because I like them, but everything gets soaped up and rinsed. Baths are as thorough as showers, and sometimes I take bubbles baths, and do a quick rinse with the hand held showerhead.
I cannot leave the house without a bath or shower.
Very occasionally I skip one, if I am sick and spending the day in bed and not going any place. When we had well water, and it occasionally went out, and I had to bathe in a basin with a couple gallons of bottled water heated on the stove, it was hell.
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### Author:  [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/25 "2015-02-11T15:08:43Z")
Another one for “every morning, plus after workouts, so twice a day for the most part”.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/26 "2015-02-11T15:10:57Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> \*Grammar nitpick: “Everyday” is an adjective, not an adverb. I am irrationally peeved by this error.
_slow clap_
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/27 "2015-02-11T15:21:58Z")
Roughly once a day. There is always the odd Saturday where I just don’t feel like it, but those are rare. I shave in the shower (whole head) roughly every other day. If I don’t shower I just feel, as **FCM** said, grungy.
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### Author:  [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/28 "2015-02-11T15:27:17Z")
At least once. If I sweat, then more.
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### Author:  [@LiveFree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveFree)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/29 "2015-02-11T15:28:11Z")
First thing that I do when I wake up
3 times per day when I work. Twice when not.
I won’t even go sit in the kitchen or living room in the morning without showering. Just feels grungy.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/30 "2015-02-11T15:43:51Z")
At least once a day; sometimes twice, if I’m able to get in a vigorous walk on my lunch break.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/31 "2015-02-11T15:49:49Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> I would think the results of this thread are directly tied to hair/hair length.
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> I have always had short hair, practically buzzed, and I think the results of not showering for a day or two are much less on my buzzed head than that of most women (and some men) who have long hair and can see/feel the results.
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> Anyone agree?
Nope. I’ve been in the army in one form or another for 27 years. My hair is short. I hate the feel of my head/hair if I don’t shower.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/32 "2015-02-11T15:57:21Z")
One shower a day and I’m golden.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/33 "2015-02-11T15:59:12Z")
Every morning, unless I’m feeling slothful over a weekend or on vacation. I don’t really wake up until I’ve had a shower.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/34 "2015-02-11T16:03:08Z")
I work at home, alone, so don’t need to shower every day. And I no longer sweat like a pig all the time, like I did before getting central air installed. Plus, my partner prefers me to have a somewhat “manly” aroma.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/35 "2015-02-11T16:07:27Z")
At the various living history events I do it often isn’t possible and sometimes during the winter when weekends are basically “around the house” I won’t bother. But for normal work days, yes - once a day or more.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/36 "2015-02-11T16:26:07Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> One shower a day and I’m golden.
/Slowly claps.
Well played my friend.
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### Author:  [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/37 "2015-02-11T16:27:37Z")
When I worked I showered every day, sine I retired more like every other day. Once in a while I skip 2 days in a row now. But I am not a sweater, in humid weather every day.
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### Author:  [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/38 "2015-02-11T16:33:55Z")
No, I shower every other day b/c our water is so hard my skin . When I turn my water on sometime is smell like bleach ! When I was health aide I had clients that had sponge bath most days and a shower once a week . The water is too hard on elderly people .
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/39 "2015-02-11T16:35:18Z")
I shower twice a week unless it’s been hot or I’ve been exerting myself. Most body odor comes from clothing, so I always wear clean shirts, socks, and underwear.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-shower-every-day/712378/40 "2015-02-11T16:45:03Z")
I shower most days, but not every day. Maybe 5 a week. Sometimes 6.
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