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question for those that stripwash instead of shower

358 replies

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:
oldishladyinashoebox · 12/05/2019 08:54

@VoteJadot now that is a bit silly indeed

VoteJadot · 12/05/2019 10:32

No more silly than saying you smell bad if you wash every day, just not in a shower...

ObvsItsNotMe · 12/05/2019 16:57

I'd rather not eat than not shower. Don't understand it at all.

ReganSomerset · 12/05/2019 18:27

I'd rather not eat than not shower

Hmm I seriously doubt it. What use is a shower when you're dead?

Schnitzelvonkrumb · 12/05/2019 18:45

We had visitors staying overnight. Out of 4 adults and 2 kids, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who showered this morning. No one smelled!!

BlackeyedGruesome · 12/05/2019 18:46

You know when you have gone for a poo and washed your hands at the basin then you go and make breakfast/lunch etc, are your hands clean then? or do you have to shower?

FiremanKing · 12/05/2019 19:01

ReganSomerset

I'd rather not eat than not shower

hmm I seriously doubt it. What use is a shower when you're dead?
......

I’m corpsing at your reply! Grin

Sakura7 · 12/05/2019 19:05

BlackeyedGruesome Well according to some posters here, washing anywhere with just your hands is disgusting and smelly, so you're probably ok if you scrubbed your hands raw with a flannel.

I do wonder what kind of magnificent appliance they use for putting shampoo in their hair.

isabellerossignol · 12/05/2019 19:12

I fully expect some day to see a poster claim that she has an entire new skin for wearing indoors. You know, something like Silence of the Lambs. Since everything is so 'contaminated' by other people and they're all so filthy. It will be 'I peel my outdoor skin off at the front door and hang it up and hose it outside with Jeyes Fluid. I cannot believe people just wash in a shower with soap, no wonder people stink'.

OldAndWornOut · 12/05/2019 19:33
Grin
GirlRaisedInTheSouth · 14/05/2019 02:51

Genuine question to everyone who does this - is it real poverty that makes you do it?

I would like to know this also.

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 14/05/2019 04:52

Genuine question to everyone who does this - is it real poverty that makes you do it?

When i used to do it it had notjing to do with poverty. I lived with my parents and baby sister and had to leave for work at 5.30am. The shower was noisy and would wake up the whole house so I'd get a strip wash before work and a shower or bath at night.

ReganSomerset · 14/05/2019 05:59

Genuine question to everyone who does this - is it real poverty that makes you do it?
I would like to know this also

I have already answered this once, but as no one RTFT these days... No, when I've done it it's been due to lack of availability of a shower, to avoid waking someone or for speed.

VoteJadot · 14/05/2019 06:31

It's also more environmentally friendly as it uses much less water. Yes, even than a two-minute shower.

isabellerossignol · 14/05/2019 08:22

Or to avoid the steam from the shower making your hair go frizzy.

Sparrowlegs248 · 14/05/2019 09:04

Genuine question to everyone who does this - is it real poverty that makes you do it?

For me, I can afford to pay for water to jave a shower. What I can't afford at the moment is a complete overhaul of my bathroom to enable a shower to be fitted. There is no shower in my bathroom. No easy or cheap way of fitting one. Therefore I strip wash when I don't have a bath.

Ferfeckssake · 14/05/2019 09:34

oldishladyinashoebox Yer hootennanny GrinGrinGrin

mycatismeowican · 15/06/2019 10:05

Once puberty hits. It's essential to wash everyday

madcatladyforever · 15/06/2019 10:09

I'd sooner stand under the cold water only garden tap than stripwash.
My life is too complicated for this much faff in the morning. You only need to do a quick wash of bum and armpits in the shower then turn it off, literally one minute.
I economise by turning the boiler off all summer, I have an electric shower so it doesn't need to be on at all.

Beamazing · 15/06/2019 19:50

I would rather die than cut back on my baths. I have 2 a day, one full to the top at night to unwind, clean the grime of the day off, exfoliate my whole body and luxuriate, then I have another small one in the morning as I cannot imagine getting dressed and going out without washing. I'm by no means a high earner and am frequently broke but this is something I cannot compromise on. My children love being in the bath too, and I have no problem jumping in their water in the morning as they are clean from the night before anyway. Stripwashes, I could not do.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 15/06/2019 20:37

Just had our water bill: £65 a month, which seems quite shocking to me. What do other people pay?

shrumps · 15/06/2019 22:44

This thread reads like a time hop from the 1940s. 'Strip wash' ? I've never heard the like.

mycatismeowican · 16/06/2019 00:54

@Beamazing you bathe in cold water from the night before ? In winter?

motherheroic · 16/06/2019 01:37

My mom still washes at the sink, even though she has a shower installed. She doesn't smell.

DameDoom · 16/06/2019 02:20

My late mother was a martyr to the strip wash and -according to her- did not smell. You could smell the vagina smells through her clothes. It was rank.
There are two non-smelly strip washers at work - we know. They are grim