Do YOU go 3 or more days between showers ???

[Don selleck]

my oldest son and I were framing a dunkin dounuts in north detroit somewhere middle of august very hot that summer, In the middle of a black asphalt parking lot, on a 5 way corner congested as hell. end of day we would switch out our soaking wet clothing before the 2 hr ride home. One day I had changed short underwear slipped on some flip flops, jumped in the truck realizing I didnt change my seat soaked shirt pulled it off while sitting in the truck the weight of the shirt flipped around and got the kid right in the face, I laughed for while even though he was punching the hell out of my side and arm, The good old days

 

[GTXDAN]

I have a miserable sense of smell. Probably a blessing in many ways. But made me paranoid in my trucking driving days, smelling trouble often ment the game was over. Burning brake linings, I used the fire extinguisher, burned up transmission, not so cheap.

I have a terrible sense of smell too. I blame mine from back in the 70s & 80s working on diesel trucks and tractors we would run them in the shop during the winter with the doors closed until the exhaust was so bad you couldn't breathe and your eyes were watering. No exhaust clearing system back in those days.

 

[GTXDAN]

Shower every morning to wake up & get the nights 'stank' off
if I sweat, & I usually do a lot, I'll shower after golf
or after working in the garage or yard, sometimes 3 times a day

I hate humid weather, sweaty a-- crack & ball pits weather
I hate the humidity back east or south east even worse, like a sweat shower

most women I knew showered at a min 2 times a day
wash their hair at least once daily
shave their legs reg, & the bikini strip
wouldn't think of going without some sort of clean up routine
even when camping out

Now shaving, I can do without if need be,
I have a goatee anyway, have a full beard sometimes too
I do maybe 2-3 times a week max
I let the stubble grow, don't care as long as I'm not going anywhere
if I am, then I'll shave
I'm a stickler about brushing my teeth several times daily
& even cutting my hair & beard regularly too
HYGENE people HYGENE

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I've said the same sh-t as most here, 72hrs WTF ?,
are people that stinky, that lazy,
I have to prod my dad 88 y/o to shower, guilt him into it, sad really
he wears a catheter & can really stink, just struggles a lot
but he for the past 10 or so years, he didn't shower as much as he should
even when he was traveling a lot (must have stank bad)

I'm not around a lot of people anymore,
I'm getting to become a recluse, a home body my buddies say
rarely leave my compound (let alone my county), except to go shopping or golf...
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I thought the humidity was pretty bad here in GA until I went to Singapore to work. Basically on the equator. Holy crap is it tuff there. The temperature and humidity are about the same every day in the 90s. You walk out of the hotel in the morning and it just slaps you in the face.
Makes you wonder how those guys did it in WWII. Some tuff sob's.

 

[AR67GTX]

I love our swimming pool in the summer. Go for an early morning jog - then jump in the pool. Work in the garage awhile until my clothes and self reek of garage perfume - then go jump in the pool. Mow the lawn once the dew has dried - then jump in the pool. Unfortunately those days are growing short as Oct approaches.

 

[Kern Dog]

I had a pool at my last place. It was great for a quickie cool off...

After work in the summer, I often changed my shirt for the ride home. The work shirts would dry and end up all stiff as if I had sprayed them with some glue or something.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

or something.

We don't want to know...

 

[jimbosride]

I couldn’t wait to take a shower when I was in the hospital for 2 months. I would’ve like the “sponge baths” more but the nurses weren’t like the ones that I pictured in my mind.

 

[Kern Dog]

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

I couldn’t wait to take a shower when I was in the hospital for 2 months. I would’ve like the “sponge baths” more but the nurses weren’t like the ones that I pictured in my mind.

They were too girly huh

 

[5.7 hemi]

Yeah, that was it. Lol!!

 

[Cranky]

I didn't read most of this.....geeeeze but I understand why some didin't.....

 

[1967coronet]

All the years working in the packing plant i showered at the end of the shift.
Used to see guys put their street clothes back on without a shower and go.
I have no clue how they could do that.
There was always a line for the showers , we had 12 or 14 spray heads so it went pretty fast.
There was a time in my life were it just was not possible to shower each day.
Since then I've been in the shower each night.lol.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Trying to sleep with dirty and greasy skin is uncomfortable. When I've watched TV shows like The Walking Dead I think of how terrible everything would smell. Not just the zombies but the live people too.
Years of construction had me showering every day of the week because I came home looking and feeling dirty.
I knew a guy, he was sort of chubby....He took a shower when he woke up, one after getting home from work and one before bed. That dude never stunk.
Who is buying this deodorant? Vegans? EV owners?

Whenever I watch shows like that and you know people must be stinky and then there is a sex scene I always get grossed out. Also anything that take place in medieval times has me picturing the smell.

Dad used to say that back in the day poeple took a bath once a week whether they needed it or not. He was born in 1924.

My dad was a little kid who grew up in WW2 Germany, they didn’t have hot running water. Baths were once a week and the grossest part is the kids would all use the same tub of water, he was the youngest so he got it last.

I thought the humidity was pretty bad here in GA until I went to Singapore to work. Basically on the equator. Holy crap is it tuff there. The temperature and humidity are about the same every day in the 90s. You walk out of the hotel in the morning and it just slaps you in the face.
Makes you wonder how those guys did it in WWII. Some tuff sob's.

I have a friend from Singapore who always complains about the humidity there and having to take multiple showers to feel decent.

 

[Geoff 2]

I remember watching a British comedy....
One bloke says to the other, 'Have you had your bath?'
Other guy says, 'It is not Wednesday yet...'.

 

[Kern Dog]

In Smokey and the Bandit, there was a scene where a motorcycle cop got ran off the road and landed in a small body of water. A bystander said to him... "Don't you know it ain't Saturday?"

 

[themechanic]

Whenever I watch shows like that and you know people must be stinky and then there is a sex scene I always get grossed out. Also anything that take place in medieval times has me picturing the smell.

My dad was a little kid who grew up in WW2 Germany, they didn’t have hot running water. Baths were once a week and the grossest part is the kids would all use the same tub of water, he was the youngest so he got it last.

I have a friend from Singapore who always complains about the humidity there and having to take multiple showers to feel decent.

I was born in 61. My brother and 4 sisters shared bath water until we were too big to fit in the tub together. Ir was pretty common back then, even in the US.

 

[bandit67]

My Mom, one of six, never had running water till she was a teen ager. They all took a bath in the same tub of hot water boiled on a wood stove. She said at least the three girls got to bath first. It's true, dirt doesn't kill kids she said....the smell , maybe.....

 

[WileE]

I think it’s a ploy to get people used to the idea of using less water…can’t elaborate more in this forum.

Showering together is also economical.

 

[DeltaV]

Running water and electricity wasn't as common during the 20th century as a lot of people think it was.

Anyway, for me, a minimum of three times per day; and up to five during the hot months.

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I run across stinking/seeking people every week here in Georgia. Typically, the people (any age, but usually older) that come in from the "hollers"...poor country folk.

 

[icetech]

Eww.. and no.... every morning at 5:40AM.. scalding hot.... And sometimes at night depending how hot it is and how long/hard i drum after work