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AIBU to think showering daily in hot weather is normal?

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TheOpalFox · 22/05/2026 14:44

I just had a shower as it’s boiling. My friend said I can’t believe you shower a few times a day? Lol she said even when it’s hot I bath once a week 🫢🤣

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singthing · 22/05/2026 17:13

Wondering if OP is suddenly going to post a massive drip feed about how she lives in the middle of the Amazonian jungle, while friend lives on an isolated Antarctic Polar research station.

momager1 · 22/05/2026 17:11

Live in a tropical climate so very hot every day. Morning time is a shower if hair wash day, other mornings. pits and bits. Shower every evening before bed to get rid of the days sweat otherwise cannot relax. Never wash hair at night because i air dry my hair (curls) and refuse to go to bed with wet hair

PeanutCat1 · 22/05/2026 17:10

Twice a day when it’s hot and either every day or sometimes every other day when it’s cold for me

redboxerclub · 22/05/2026 17:09

Hang in she gets a bath once a week? Does she not shower at all? That is really odd.
Shower in the morning and then at night if it’s really sweaty day but that is pros key a few times a year

Overworkedandknackered · 22/05/2026 17:01

A bath once a week? I’m a bit of a minger and even I think that’s ridiculous!

GethsemaneHall · 22/05/2026 16:49

LlynTegid · 22/05/2026 16:26

Baths once or twice a week may have been the normal up until the last few years of last century, but daily showers are the normal now.

This.
I don't care if my great great grandparents survived on one bath a week with water shared amongst the family. We all shower at least once a day in my house!

MasterBeth · 22/05/2026 16:40

redhatpurplehair · 22/05/2026 15:57

Has no one ever heard of a strip wash? In the days before showers how do you think people kept clean?

Good grief 🙄

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Yeah, and in the days before central heating it was freezing and in the days before gas boilers you heated a kettle on the stove to fill a tin bath in front of the fire...

But today, we have showers which are better and we don't need to rub our fannies with a cold flannel standing in front of the kitchen sink.

daisychain01 · 22/05/2026 16:37

I only shower once a month, whether I need it or not.

i sometimes have 1 extra shower a month if I've been training hard every day in this hot weather.

BlackCat14 · 22/05/2026 16:37

Showering daily in hot weather (or any weather) is normal I would say. But are you talking about more than one shower a day?

I had a shower this morning and was out from a walk from 12-2pm and got back and felt so horrible and sweaty and grim. So I jumped in ice cold shower for about 2mins and felt amazing and refreshed afterwards.

tryandbepositive · 22/05/2026 16:34

I live in the shower and only exit for food and number twos. Anything less is rank.

RandomUsernameHere · 22/05/2026 16:32

Once a day or a few times a day?

Doggydoctor · 22/05/2026 16:29

Wow washing once a week. You’d smell her before you see her. :-)

In our house we all shower every morning.
We all shower again before bed.
Id I’d have a messy day at work (vet) I shower before going home.

Our showers are all very quick 5 mins or less.

LlynTegid · 22/05/2026 16:26

Baths once or twice a week may have been the normal up until the last few years of last century, but daily showers are the normal now.

CustardySergeant · 22/05/2026 16:25

Lmnop22 · 22/05/2026 15:51

Isn’t showering once a day pretty much the norm whatever the weather?

I hope so. I have a bath daily, rather than a shower, but the principle is the same.

ChocolateAddictAlways · 22/05/2026 16:22

I think taking several short showers each day during a heatwave/very hot weather is completely fine (a Malaysian friend tells me this is the norm in the area she grew up in, the showers are really short, barely 2 minutes, you're just washing off the stickiness and sweat and of course, also cooling down)

gingercat02 · 22/05/2026 16:21

Showering daily is normal regardless of the weather, twice maybe if it's very hot or you have exercised, several times is excessive and wasteful i think.

CaptainMyCaptain · 22/05/2026 16:18

murasaki · 22/05/2026 15:13

A few times a day seems a lot. But once a day is totally normal. And one bath a week is rank.

This.

RampantIvy · 22/05/2026 16:18

I posted YABU for showering several times a day.

I shower every day BTW, not several times a day.

Shodan · 22/05/2026 16:18

Strip washes are an economical and efficient way to wash, if done properly, and eliminate the need to moisturise an entire body afterwards.

If you live in a very hard water area, and have dry skin, as I do, it's better than showering.

That said- I bath every day in the evening, and will shower if time is short. I will also shower if it's very hot instead of having a bath.

Whichever method is deployed, I think a daily wash is necessary for pretty much all people.

Happyjoe · 22/05/2026 16:18

Shallow bath with the shower on for me every morning, come rain or shine. In really hot weather and am going out, may have a quick shower then too.

Menopause. Gotta bath a lot so I don't offend those around me!

MrsBatshitRatshit · 22/05/2026 16:16

redhatpurplehair · 22/05/2026 15:57

Has no one ever heard of a strip wash? In the days before showers how do you think people kept clean?

Good grief 🙄

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What's so great about a strip wash? It's messier, takes longer and is less effective than a quick shower.

Boomer55 · 22/05/2026 16:16

TheOpalFox · 22/05/2026 14:44

I just had a shower as it’s boiling. My friend said I can’t believe you shower a few times a day? Lol she said even when it’s hot I bath once a week 🫢🤣

I shower at least twice a day, regardless of weather. 🤷‍♀️

Loopylalalou · 22/05/2026 16:14

I shower every morning to wash my hair, and every evening as part of my bedtime wind down. In summer, shower before getting ready for a night out.
Family joke that I’ll never die of any germs, as they never get long enough to do any harm.

Branleuse · 22/05/2026 16:09

If it's a heatwave in the middle of summer I will often have a quick shower several times, because it's the only way I can keep cool. It keeps me cool for hours to either have a swim or a cool shower

murasaki · 22/05/2026 16:06

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 22/05/2026 16:04

The fact is we don't need to have stand up washes at the sink any more! Things get easier, we don't need to resist that just because in days of yore they didn't have it so good.

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Quite, should I get a mangle for the laundry?

It's been said that one of the biggest contributions to women's lib was the washing machine. I'm not going back to finding a stream and some rocks to bang on my washing, thanks.

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