AIBU to think showering daily in hot weather is normal?

I don’t shower daily, @Mcmach1 - I can’t, due to long covid disability. I have a good wash and use an effective antiperspirant, and a nice perfume, and I do not stink. I am 100% sure - I have asked my dh to be honest with me and he has assured me I don’t smell.

That's why we got showers, so we don't have to have a strip wash. Showing your age there

Absolutely this, I shower daily because I enjoy it, but I don’t think it’s necessary to stand under running water every day to be clean and fresh.

The thing is, there are so many people I encounter who smell unwashed (on public transport, in the office, in shops etc) that there must be a lot of people who either don’t wash regularly, or think they are washing properly but aren’t. It’s clear that they can’t smell themselves, otherwise they’d do something about it. I try to avoid this scenario by having regular showers.
Of course there are people who can’t shower daily, before I get pounced on. But for the majority, a quick shower is easier and more effective than a strip wash.

You are being ridiculous, people don't get any of those from strip washing.

Once a day here but sometimes twice if it’s really hot (over 40c not in UK). When I lived in UK for a few years my then sister-in-law told me off for showering every day when we stayed. I then realised they had 1 shower over 5 days, yuk.

Some people have disabling health conditions and struggle to shower or have a bath every day. Just standing in a shower or getting in a bath isn't easy or even possible for everyone.

There are other ways to keep clean like Brad Pitt famously using baby wipes when he's too busy for daily showers allegedly, or having a 'french bath' or strip wash, or using no rinse body shampoo but hard to find one that doesn't stink or cost a fortune...

If you wear pure silk next to your skin you don't stink, and it's perfect for sensitive skin, just have to watch out for discounts and sales.

Some people even both need and have AirCon at home. Air/ground source heat pumps that both cool and heat are eco friendly and still VAT free to buy and have installed 'til March 2027.

You’re basically saying that everyone who can’t physically bath or shower is “stinky”. Trust me, they’re not
I’ve cared for people that haven’t been able to shower or bath for decades. They don’t smell. Because they wash or are washed
as long as somehow you are getting soap and water on your skin, it doesn’t matter how you do it

A bath? You stinky and you don't know it.

However many times you do/do not shower is not a question of reasonableness. Shower as often as you want and your water bill can stand and let others do the same. Why is there this obsession with monitoring other peoples' eating/hygiene/child rearing practices? What ever happened to minding your own business. It's become a lost art, IMO. Thus endeth the rant. Am I being unreasonable?

I have been known to have a quick, cool shower twice (sometimes 3) times a day if it's boiling and I'm overheating

Is day showers not normal for the majority? I would not feel awake or clean without my morning shower first thing every day. And in this weather I have 2/3 cold ones a day!

...not washing is grim. Doesn't have to be a shower.

Sigh. Very nice to call people like me who can’t shower daily ‘grim’, @DJKATIE. A little empathy wouldn't go amiss.

As I’ve said earlier on this thread, I keep myself clean and fragrant, without daily showers.

Morning shower then evening shower every day whatever the weather. Not showering at least daily is grim

I had three cool showers yesterday - it was glorious in this heat!

Shower and hair wash every day rain or shine. Might have a second shower tonight

I’ve said it several times on this thread - due to long covid disability I can’t shower every day, and on the days I don’t shower, I have a good wash. I use an effective antiperspirant and wear perfume, and I am not ‘gross’ or smelly. And I’m not nose blind to my own smell either - I get whiffs of whatever perfume I’m wearing throughout the day, but no BO.

I usually shower before bed and have a quick wash in the morn. Atm I'm showering 3x a day! Aircon in my truck is broken so it's 37°C and I'm wearing full safety gear - thick trousers/long sleeved acrylic shirt, and then hardhat and thick earmuffs once onsite.

I'm so sweaty I'm showering before the gym as well as after as stale sweat is a whole different thing to clean sweat once you get exercising.

Oh gross!

I shower 3 times a day in hot weather,once a day in cold weather. I refuse to either go to bed smelly or get up smelling gross

Be grateful. We wouldn’t have been able to have a hot shower just a hundred years ago, less!
Keep em quick and easy on the products. Productless on any subsequents ~ it’s a freshen up.

Couldn’t agree more! I had a shower first thing this morning. Been sat out in the garden most of the day, just been for a local stroll and got home feeling like an absolute sweaty mess. We’re heading out for an early dinner now with friends and I have absolutely just had a second shower of the day at 4pm to feel nice and refreshed for the evening. There’s no way I could’ve gone back out for a meal feeling so gross. My shower was ice cold and divine, and absolutely not a waste of money!

Our shower runs off the boiler and costs between 10-20p for a 5 minute shower.

Absolute bargain 😁

No I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ but like another poster said even if I did I don’t think it would change my ways although I’ve just checked our electricity cost for yesterday on the app and with 6 showers as my son and gf also had one and normal everyday other electricity useage cost £2.37 which I’m not unhappy about cos I think 58p is standing charge