Not only does this save water because you’re both in there but I think it often saves water because you kind of hurry each other up. Maybe its just us but my boyfriend finds himself the conduit to a speedy shower for me. I mean…usually…
Our son had really dry skin - and a little eczema - so on the advice of his peditrician when he was little we only bathed him once a week. Meant less steriods or whatever the hell we needed to medicate him with when he broke out. He was a little kid - he didn’t really get that dirty and he didn’t stink. Most of what he covered himself in was food - or what came off with a diaper wipe.
Other mothers would be horrified if I admitted this in public - obviously I was not caring for my child! Bathing was basic hygenie. You’d have thought I’d admitted I only changed his diaper once a day.
He’s eight, the eczema has cleared mostly up, and he needs a shower every other day.
(Me, shower every morning, except on the occational Saturday. Sometimes an extra “relax bath.”
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who doesn’t bathe my kid every single day - usually it’s just once or twice a week. He doesn’t have eczema or anything, but since he doesn’t get really sweaty, doesn’t run around outside (yet) and get bugs in his hair and dirt all over himself, as far as I’m concerned, once or twice a week is plenty as long as I keep his hands clean and his face relatively clean (relatively because of the food he gets on it and the drool). Now if bathing him every day would help him sleep through the night, I’d reconsider, but I tried that and it had absolutely no effect.
Nope, not the only one. Mine gets a bath 2-3 times a week, when he’s gotten especially dirty from playing outside or whatever. It varies from week to week, though he always gets one Sunday night. He doesn’t need a bath every night.
Daily, in the morning. I literally look homeless if I don’t - hair goes crazy, skin gets super greasy, and I stink.
While I usually shower every day, I simply rinse the majority of my person. I only wash my pits, groin, or any other bit that has become soiled in some fashion. FWIW, I have nearly no acne or other skin issues. I actively get a wash on saturdays, or as necessary.
Okay, for the most part you all have restored my faith in humanity.
I don’t know, lately it seems like I’ve been smelling people more :eek: . That funky, unbathed kind of smell. I wonder if people actually CAN smell themselves when it gets to that level.
Or is my nose getting sensitive? It HAS been 6 months now since stopping the nicotine.
Add to it the rising temps and humidity and the scents are wafting all over the place.
:::::::::::::feeling the need to hop in the shower right about now:::::::::::::::::
Every other day, whether I need it or not. I am told I have the faint aroma of baking bread on the third day.
I shower every morning if I’m going out to work or to be with other people. Showering at night doesn’t help because I have no air conditioning and I often sweat at night.
If I’m just hanging around the house, or camping, or something like that, I’ll skip the showers, but my hair turns into a 50s greasefest. No matter what, I’ll find a way to wet a washcloth or something and wipe off my face in the morning. Otherwise it just feels icky and oily.
:eek: When I finish working out, whatever I’m wearing goes right in the laundry hamper and I shower immediately. The smell of sweat is not a pleasant aroma.
I could take a shower, go to bed, sleep four hours… and wake up with greasy hair and a greasy face, in such a manner that there is no way that I could look remotely professional-looking without taking a shower. So yeah, I shower every weekday morning for sure, and I shower before I go out on weekends. I usually end up showering twice a day, because I go to the gym at lunch… and again, after squeezing in a few miles or an otherwise good workout, I gotta get back and be civilized.
I used to just shower every night (I have a thing about washing my day off) but had to start taking two a day. I have super-greasy skin and really fine hair - it doesn’t take me too long to look like a wreck. I can use about half a dozen of those powdered rice-paper squares before noon, soaking them all the way. I can sweat through two applications of Mitchum easily.
On the one hand, it’s really gross. On the other hand, I have a feeling I’m going to age very, very well.
Just for clarification, while I may not stink, my workout clothes definitely have a sort of rancid stink to them that I refuse to inflict on anyone.
I only wear microfiber shirts for running, to cool as well as minimize the stink (cotton is evil to sweat in), and I immediately put the day’s running outfit in the laundry once it has dried out a bit.
I used to think it was gross not to bathe every day. Now I shower about three times a week and only wash my hair two of those times. If I actually get dirty somehow I’ll take an extra shower, but that rarely happens. If I notice that my pits stink, I’ll wash them at the bathroom sink. I am fairly active - I ride my bike to work and go for walks a couple times a week - but I don’t find that I ever smell too bad. During the winter, I take a hot bath about every other night, but I don’t usually wash in the bath - I just soak. I don’t feel compelled to take hot baths in the summer, though.
I strongly believe that America over-bathes, but my strong sense of smell tells me that this might not be such a bad thing. There was a lady at my old job who probably bathed once every other month. If she came in looking like she had wet hair from just stepping out of the shower, 99% of the time it was actually grease. Her body aroma is the most disgusting smell I’ve ever smelled, and I had to sit by her (until my incessant complaints to my boss forced her to move stinky coworker into a corner) every day. I’m so glad I don’t work there any more.
I shower daily, because it wakes me up in the morning, and I’ve often been peed on, spit on, barfed on, or slobbered on, either the previous day, or during the night. Once I’ve had my morning shower, I’m ready to begin my day.
Gee, what a lot of squeaky clean people.
In the winter, I take maybe two showers and one bath per week, unless I need more. (The shower before and the shower after going in the pool I’m counting as one shower.) I can’t relate to these people with fine hair that’s greasy–my hair is very fine and never greasy unless I forgot to wash out the conditioner. My hair, my scalp, and my skin all rebel if I wash too often in the winter.
Summer, different story. I don’t like air conditioning, I do like heat, and I also like to feel fresh, so the usual thing is twice a day–but they are mostly quick little rinses except for those odor-collecting areas. I still only wash the hair after swimming, though.
The Thais will bathe at least three times a day, sometimes four or more. Westerners are stereotyped as dirty and smelly because we don’t, although it’s the travelers staying in the backpacker ghettoes like Khao San Road who have fostered that reputation.
Oh, and I should add that I’ve encountered some pretty smelly Thais, so they don’t all adhere to their washing regimen. Whenever I come across one that reeks, I have to laugh at their cultural perception that Westerners stink and they don’t.
Once a day, unless I don’t shave. If I don’t shave in the shower, my face and neck strongly dislike it and turn red in revolt.
If I don’t shave, or if it’s like 5 before I decide to start the day, then I may not shave, but the shower happens. Yeah, that’s an extra nugget of knowledge.
I shower pretty much every day – I only skip if I’m not going to be leaving the house at all that day. However I often end up feeling itchy and sticky if I do that. In summer I might add a second quick dip if it’s a scorcher and I’m feeling especially gross.
It wasn’t always thus – back when I had no social skills I used to shower less often, and finally had to be tactfully informed this was not a good policy.
That’s about how long it took for Dad to “grow his nose back.” His sense of taste, too.