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question for those that stripwash instead of shower

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eggyfart · 05/05/2019 19:27

our monthly water bills going up! so decided to stripwash instead of shower daily, but I use the shower for hair wash days (2- 3 times a week). Well just used the sink, feel lovely and clean. But I did seem to get a bit of water on the floor!

So tell me stripwashers how do ya do it!

OP posts:
bluebluezoo · 07/05/2019 17:29

IWhat I'm struggling with here is how anyone knows how someone else washes.

If someone smells bad, my assumption would be that they haven't washed, not that they have washed in a way that is different to how I do it. I just can't imagine asking someone how they wash and yet loads of people are saying that they know the person on the train strip washes, or the person on the hospital ward strip washes etc. How do you know?*

This. You can’t possibly know if someone smells because they showered 3 weeks ago, or yesterday.

I once read on here that a poster could smell when someone hadn’t washed their bra. How? Does an unwashed bra smell different from an unwashed T-shirt?

It’s individual anyway. I had a flatmate who bathed once a week. She did not smell. At all. I had a colleague who would be slightly BO whiffy by the end of a long day- didn’t come in smelling so definitely showered every day.

Those who can smell the difference between a strip wash and a shower, or a daily shower vs every other day, must have undergone extensive training.

I used the tube every day for 15 years. I never came across all these supposedly unwashed masses.

And yy to this idea that women’s fannies stink if not washed 5 times a day and after every toilet trip.

ReganSomerset · 07/05/2019 18:34

@FiremanKing

What an insightful, witty comment. Please, do go on.

FiremanKing · 07/05/2019 18:39

@ReganSomerset

Your description of the dirt/sweat/whatever trapped under the rolls of fat made me feel quite nauseous. Shock

Motheroffeminists · 07/05/2019 18:43

Well obviously you have to lift the folds otherwise they aren't being washed. Creases get sweaty whether skinny or fat (underarms, groin, butt crack) so you'd hope that no matter what size they are that people would wash everywhere rather than just the bits they can see. Once you get to morbidly obese then there's the issue of being able to reach Sad

FiremanKing · 07/05/2019 18:48

I would imagine that once you get to a certain size/weight you would have to rely on carers washing you properly which must be soul destroying.

FizzyGreenWater · 07/05/2019 18:58

Madness. I strip wash DC in the morning, takes about four times as long as my own 30 second shower with soap in hand.

Strip washing - faffy and takes longer and not as good and if you have a very quick shower, it doesn't even really save water.

NameChangeNugget · 07/05/2019 19:06

Its funny how we become siloed in our thinking.

Had showers for probably the last 50 years and wouldn’t dream of choosing a strip wash over even a 2 minute blast under it.

hazeyjane · 07/05/2019 20:03

Blimey the forensic detail about the on this thread is a washing perverts dream

How does everyone feel about the cat wash? Only when desperate of course....

question for those that stripwash instead of shower
ReganSomerset · 07/05/2019 21:06
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IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls · 07/05/2019 22:54

@isabellerossignol i am a nurse ... i tend to know how the women in my care attend to their self care ... its my job Hmm

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 08/05/2019 08:57

@isabellerossignol i am a nurse ... i tend to know how the women in my care attend to their self care ... its my job hmm

Of course but people under your care are presumably in hospital and therefore unwell... We're talking about the general population here, not people in hospital who arguably are more likely to be strip washing over showering due to the circumstances.

IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls · 08/05/2019 23:06

No @FormerlyFrikadela01 - i am a specialist nurse , and people would have no need to strip wash other than choice.

isabellerossignol · 09/05/2019 04:38

You gave me the Hmm face as if it was obvious that as a nurse you would know how people wash, so I assumed you meant that they were too ill to shower.

I know you're going to think I'm being sarcastic but I'm not. I've been in hospital loads of times (unfortunately) and have sat at the bedside of a very elderly parent and dealt with all the talking to nurses stuff because he was too confused to communicate. Never did anyone ask how I or he washed. But it might have been nice if they had because it would perhaps have avoided the hellish situation we found ourselves in of having a care package arranged for him only for them to insist that they weren't allowed to help him wash, he'd have to do it himself and he was perfectly capable. Which was tricky for a man so ill that he couldn't sit up.

Biancadelrioisback · 09/05/2019 06:42

have done it. Our shower broke and we had to wait a week for a specific part so we have stripwashes in the morning. I hated it! I was absolutely freezing and the bathroom just got soaked. Annoyingly DH doesn't smell (except when he plays sport!) And he could get away with having a bath three times a week while I was having to stripwash the best I could.

How do you all stay warm while doing it? I left the house just pissed off every morning that week

MariaNovella · 09/05/2019 06:45

Please don’t do this. I took a plane twice last week and both times had to sit next to really stinky passengers.

ReganSomerset · 09/05/2019 08:01

Please don’t do this. I took a plane twice last week and both times had to sit next to really stinky passengers.

And what's that got to do with basin washing?

FiremanKing · 09/05/2019 08:03

@MariaNovella

You asked them if they strip washed?

MariaNovella · 09/05/2019 08:04

People need a good soak to get properly clean.

isabellerossignol · 09/05/2019 08:10

People need a good soak to get properly clean.

How does the property of water change according to whether it comes from a shower or a tap?

ReganSomerset · 09/05/2019 08:10

No, they don't. There's more than one way to wash so you don't smell, but I'm not going into all the discussion again. Go RTFT. If, after you've done that, you have any new comments or questions that have not already been addressed, then by all means post about them.

DoryNow · 09/05/2019 08:19

Wow lots of bodyshaming going on here, judgy pants a lot of you! Surely its better for someone to wash daily by whatever means works best for their needs/ abilities than not?

Do whatever works for you !

MariaNovella · 09/05/2019 08:32

It’s got nothing to do with the property of water and everything to do with the property of (dirty) skin, which needs to be softened in hot soapy water and scrubbed in order to remove sebum, dead skin cells, bacteria etc.

VoteJadot · 09/05/2019 08:41

Of course a strip wash wil save water. You're looking at about fifteen litres for a two-minute shower. And how TF do you know smelly people on the train have only had a strip wash? Did you ask them?

longearedbat · 09/05/2019 08:46

So now not even a shower is enough and we need to scrub our skin daily in hot soapy water...
What are all these excessive clean freaks going to do when water becomes a scarce resource?

ReganSomerset · 09/05/2019 08:48

@MariaNovella

Sure, if you've gotten filthy and have ingrained dirt on you. For day to day, a flannel, soap and water will do the job.