I shave my face most days. Sometimes on the weekend I’ll skip a day. I sometimes forget about that, and while doing my post shower routine, I’ll start putting aftershave on.
Edit: Brush teeth/floss/mouth wash. Shave. Shower. Deodorant. Aftershave. Brush hair.
Any other order would be confusing. And wrong. Just wrong.
And now you know the origin of the phrase “to get off on the wrong foot.”
Adding: Some speculation on the phrase’s uncertain origins: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/150300.html
Why would you floss AFTER brushing? Flossing loosens all the yucky between the teeth stuff, brushing gets rid of it. It would seem to me that the mouth wash wouldn’t be enough to get rid of the flossed-out ickiness.
Hmm. I’ve never really thought about it. Maybe I’ve been making a mistake my WHOLE LIFE!
Guess it’s off to googleland, unless a dentist wants to weight on…
The ADA does seem to agree with you:
I always thought brushing knocked off the big chunks, so the floss could scrub down to the enamel better …
Oh for crying out loud! The next thing you know, you people will be advocating hanging the toilet paper backwards!
Define “backward …”
Good Gawd -
Attention Kids!
(as explained to an MBA in 1986)
How to Shower:
First:
Wash face, neck, ears - anything the washing of which will introduce soap into hair
Rinse
Do shampoo
Rinse
Apply conditioner
(now, you are supposed to wait 60 seconds, right?)
During the next 60 seconds, wash all body parts not washed previously.
Rinse top-down
Dry top down.
You’re welcome
Do you put in coffee, then cream … or first the cream, then coffee?
Nope.
I like my coffee the same way I like my roads. Black.
There was a passage in one of the earlier “Harry Potter” books that I loved - Harry was going to meet the Chinese girl whose name I’ve forgotten, and he gets all self-conscious and starts thinking about his arms - “Oh my God, my arms - they’re just hanging there - why are they just hanging there like that?!?” ![]()
ETA: I’m glad I’m not the only one who forgets if they’ve washed their hair/face/back/whatever already. ![]()
Those are all old lady names.
Cream first, then coffee. That way, I don’t dirty a spoon, because the movement of the coffee stirs the cream.
And after several years of drinking coffee, I know how much cream to put in the cup, so I don’t have to add, stir, evaluate, repeat.
I always shampoo before I was my face and neck, but I don’t use sudsy soap on my face.
[blush]It took me 30 years to figure that out[/blush]
Shampoo, conditioner … then I turn the water off … scrub body and face … water back on for a full rinse. I only dry in winter, never in summer.
You think I’d trust my drying to some young, nubile babe? Ever put a shirt on when your back was slightly damp? shudder
So, I’m thinking about this thread when I went to get coffee … so I poured my cream into the coffee-maker instead … that’s a mistake … what a mess … guess I’ll drink beer this morning.
Heh. This reminds me of a sweet little old lady who was in a work group I was facilitating. We were learning about flowcharting, and I split the group into two teams and had them flowchart taking a shower.
As we began the activity, I said, “Now, we’re all grownups here. There are probably things some folks do in the shower that others don’t. Let’s stick to the basics.”
So later the little old lady’s group is walking us through their flowchart, and she gets to one point and says “And here’s where you turn on your vibrator.”
Silence for about two seconds, and then the room erupts in pandemonium. Grandma Jane has taken this discussion to a whole 'nother level. It’s a good 90 seconds before I can get the laughter subdued.
I said, “Now, remember, we talked about how not everyone does the same things in the shower …”
And she comes right back with “Well, then, you don’t know what you’re missing!”
That did it. Grown men were flat on their backs laughing like loons. One lady, probably in her late 30s, almost choked to death because she was laughing so hard. I gave the group a ten-minute break to try to calm down.
Much, much later, I learned Grandma Jane was referring to the WaterPik showerhead she loved so much.
Suuuuuuuure she was. ![]()
I’m sure she was. Handheld showerheads make fantastic masturbatory tools! Um… or so I hear. 