in thinking that there is no real reason for most people to SMELL is there?

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unless have run a marathon etc.
WASH yourselves and please wash your clothes you stinkers

Does this mean I never have to wash my hands after I've finished gardening too?

lovely!

Most of the general public who stink either have sweating issues, don't wash at all or don't launder their clothes properly.
There was a thread on MN a while back about how long MNers were leaving wet clothes lying in the washing machine and a surprising number were leaving them in for DAYS then drying them to wear. If that doesn't make you smell like wet dogs I would be really surprised.
Dirty habits like that are much more likely to make you smelly than having a strip wash now and again instead of a shower.

I agree with Aries about everything

what the fuck though. If it gets you clean, it gets you clean. Can't believe anyone would have an ishoo with a strip wash. It's still a WASH right?!

As a writer I frequently skip baths, showers, and knickers of any kind.

So...filthy commune basic rules....first draft; feel free to add your own

*Spillages of a neutral nature and colour may be mopped up with dirty laundry.

*Items of dirty laundry may be used for dusting purposes.

*Dressing gowns may be used for drying cups and other immediately-needed crockery. Just our own or can we use each other's? You might not want to use mine, as it is often liberally coated with dog hair...

*Hand washing after pooing and before food preparation please - other times at members' discretion. I don't always wash hands after peeing either - if no urine or genitalia contacted my fingers, why do I need to?

*Dogs and other assorted animals to be allowed to co-sleep, if desired by bed occupant. Same goes for sofas.

*If it's yellow,
Let it mellow.
If it's brown,
Flush it down.
Can't do this with ours, unfortunately, as it's a very stupid design where you pee on the porcelain, not into water, so it'd smell if you didn't flush. We have quick flush though.

*Garden grubby hands perfectly acceptable, as long as not preparing my dinner..

Any more??

• washing must be done at 30 degree in mixed washes and hung on line to dry
• ironing is banned unless required for work clothes
• food dropped on floor is to be blown once to remove dirt and then eaten
• anti bac spray/wipes are banned

Sarfeasticated "Hate the smell of air fresheners, fabric conditioners and highly scented bubble baths."

God, me too! Strong chemical smells give me a terrible headache and nausea. I've had to ask DP to change back to his previous deodorant before, when he's tried a new one, as it made me feel ill. I'm very limited in what perfumes I can wear too, and can't spend too long with highly scented people - I find that just as unbearable as people with BO, tbh. The smell of some people (sweaty or unwashed) does make feel ill, but as I said up-thread, I assume that they have a medical condition or social/mental health problem, rather than that they're too lazy to wash or have a strip wash instead of a shower sometimes!

And air fresheners are just revolting - make me feel ill within minutes!

No airfresheners in the House of Grubby!!

can I use antibac spray/wipes once a week on the loo and kitchen surfaces please? I know there's more bacteria on the computer keyboard, but I just have a thing about loos.....

I agree with all the others!

I can't walk down the detergent aisle in the supermarket either - yuk - nasty chemicals - makes me feel quite suffocated.

Also.... I do wash towels at 60 degrees when I remember....
I'll stop that though; better for the environment.

OK ILYT but only once a week. :)

hmm, highly-scented people make me vom - especially older ladies who wear very powdery-smelling perfumes.
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ILYT - yes, once a week, but no more.

The dried up bits that fall off spring onions, parsley etc and gather at the bottom of the fridge are okay left for a while, aren't they? Also tomato stalks that look like spiders.

ps I've washed now and am even wearing deodorant. Yesterday's clothes though, because they don't smell unless you are a human bloodhound and I'm not going anywhere for a few hours.

My family have always called a strip wash a "whores wash"

OK ILYT

• towels and sheets at 60 degs then.... but that's it! you'll be suggesting steam mops next.

Limitedperiodonly your point about onion skins etc brings me onto mouldy food. I always chop mould off of old cheddar cheese and eat it. I hope no one is going to suggest that I stop? 'tis a family tradition. My grandmother would painstakingly cut the brown bits out of an apple and eat it, even if 80% of it was bad. :)

most cheese is grown with mould on, so that's fine.

as long as you don't eat the mould.

I'm afraid I'm another one who can't get over the knickers thing. It has to be one of the oddest things I've ever heard,.

How,and why,would it even cross anyone's mind as a possibility? I can't imagine having a eureka moment where I think, I know, I'll wash myself with my knickers,clean or not. It's like deciding to exfoliate with one's cat imho. Just bizarre.

Since giving up smoking my sense of smell has become really sensitive and I really notice if someone is a bit whiffy.

I especially hate when you go into the toilets at work just after someone else has used it and you can smell their bits. There's one girl in particular who isn't that fresh down there and I can always tell is she's been in the cubicle before me.

Rock - it's a standard passed down from mum - she did it that way, taught me to do it that way, and I never questioned it because i never had any hygiene problems.

Madonnawhore: honestly, that really is tmi.

at exfoliate with the cat!!! brilliant!

Bibbity, my post is too much tmi but washing with dirty knickers isn't!!?

bibbity... have you read the rest of the thread?

Far worse on here tbh!

sarfeast it has been known but I'm spooked by stories of unseeable filaments of mould reaching far down in the cheese or bread like the aliens taking over bodies in War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise version). I cut squishy bits off tomatoes though. Those vine tomatoes are bloody expensive.

I don't really notice people who are really smelly or dirty on a day to day basis. If I do I just move away - or maybe superclean people are moving away from me.

In a restaurant I did once ask to be moved away from a table of men who'd drenched themselves in so much aftershave I could taste it in the air.

I don't wear perfume any more and DH has never worn aftershave. It's nice being with someone who doesn't and I really notice it when people do.

Lots of 'reallys' in there.

I think we've established that nickelbabe doesn't dip used sanitary towels or toilet paper in the slop bucket and give herself a once over.

Washing with my knickers isn't something I've ever thought of but I have dried myself on towels I've used more than once which is not a million miles away.

I know there are some people on here who'd never do that but it surely isn't that unusual.