# How often do you shower?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 16, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317 "2010-04-16T07:17:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/1 "2010-04-16T07:17:49Z")
This has probably been done before, but it can’t hurt to do it again. This time there’s a poll.
I personally shower after waking up every day on average, but sometimes I let it slip to every other day. If I’ve exercised in the evening, then I’ll shower once more in addition to after waking up. I don’t think I’ve ever showered more than twice in one day.
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### Author:  [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/2 "2010-04-16T07:30:29Z")
Once daily, in the morning, is normative. Sometimes I dispense with that necessity on Saturday if I’m just bumming around the house or running out for coffee or the like.
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### Author:  [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/3 "2010-04-16T07:30:34Z")
Usually once in the morning, sometimes again in the evening, depending. Mostly because sleeping messes up my hair and it’s just more convenient to wash it and dry it before I go to work in the mornings.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/4 "2010-04-16T07:37:16Z")
I try to wash every day… but it usually winds up happening every other day.
… I feel ashamed saying this, but if it weren’t for my long hair, I might shower every third day. 😛
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/5 "2010-04-16T07:43:34Z")
Only if I’m leaving the house for a reason other than shopping or going to work. So not that often.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/6 "2010-04-16T09:21:33Z")
I wash myself with a rag on a stick
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### Author:  [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/7 "2010-04-16T09:27:13Z")
In the morning, after exercise, after working in the garden - works out about twice per day.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/8 "2010-04-16T09:52:32Z")
It’s really a function of where I am. If I’m home, in Florida, it could be multiple times a day, especially in the summer, when even the simplest activity can induce copious amounts of perspiration. When I’m in Europe, especially when it’s cold, then it’s more like every 2-3 days. Unless I do something sweat inducing, then it’s after a work out as well. Of course I also spot clean in addition to that; I try not to let myself get stanky, even if I’m only around me.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/9 "2010-04-16T10:09:11Z")
Once every morning, but a second one in the evening if I’ve been working out during the day or am going out socialising. Weekends I get lazy though.
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/10 "2010-04-16T10:26:46Z")
At the moment I’m showering every second day. My skin doesn’t cope well with showering daily, particularly my back where the water lands the most.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/11 "2010-04-16T10:40:24Z")
Every day in the morning except for when I’m living in the tropics in which case I shower closer to twice a day.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/12 "2010-04-16T10:43:15Z")
Daily. I never really feel awake until I’ve showered, and I dislike how my skin feels when I’ve gone too long without a shower. On lazy weekends I might end up showering later in the day/early evening, but it’s highly unlikely that I’ll have supper without having showered.
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### Author:  [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/13 "2010-04-16T10:43:16Z")
Usually every morning during the summer, and every other day in the winter (more often and I get really dry skin).
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### Author:  [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/14 "2010-04-16T10:51:37Z")
I haven’t voted because there’s no option that suits me. I wash my hair every morning but I prefer a shower to a bath so I do that in the evening. I will have a shower if I have been exercising etc but often I’ll be exercising after work so that fits in with my evening bath plans. Yes, I like to make my life complicated.
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/15 "2010-04-16T10:56:45Z")
I love to go to my bed clean, so I shower before bed. I shower in the mornings if I’ve sweated too much during the day (rare). I shower more frequently too if by chance the day is complicated with lots of stuff to do.
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### Author:  [@BigDadWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDadWolf)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/16 "2010-04-16T12:40:24Z")
I shower in the morning, after my almost daily midday workout, and sometime before going to bed if I do yardwork or anything else else that works up a sweat. That comes out to more than twice a day on average. For what it’s worth my kids think I’m crazy - they hate to take showers.
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### Author:  [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/17 "2010-04-16T12:44:05Z")
Every other day works for me most of the year. Generally, I get too dry and flaky showering every day. In the dog days when it’s already too hot when I wake up at 6:00am I crank it up to one every morning, and sometimes a rinse in the evening just to cool down and be able to sleep.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/18 "2010-04-16T12:51:52Z")
Very odd. Generally, I shower twice a week. My wife showers every few days.
If I’ve been working and getting sweaty, I’ll shower more often, but since I work in a desk in an air conditioned office, wear clean clothes each day, and use antiperspirant, I don’t need to shower daily.
I doubt anyone here does, either.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/19 "2010-04-16T12:57:27Z")
Once morning, once evening. I just don’t feel clean otherwise. Plus I wash my hair at night.
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### Author:  [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-shower/536317/20 "2010-04-16T12:59:23Z")
I shower once or twice a day. In the summer it is usually twice. I can’t get into bed if I need a shower.
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