# What is the longest you have gone without a shower?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 2, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-you-have-gone-without-a-shower/237976 "2004-04-02T23:27:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-you-have-gone-without-a-shower/237976/61 "2004-04-07T00:29:29Z")

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Probably like 14 years—showers were a rarity in small town Texas back in the forties and early fifties. Baths, yes; showers, no. After my parents bought a house with a shower, I never looked back—I probably haven’t had a tub bath in forty years or so.

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**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-you-have-gone-without-a-shower/237976/62 "2004-04-07T00:37:25Z")

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Seems like I remember a bout with the flu in which I didn’t bathe for about 3 days or so. It was that lay-in-bed-and-heave-till-you-see-the-angels kind of flu.

Reading this thread has made me feel dirty, though. I’m going to go get in the shower.

No, really, I am …

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