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

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

Always?

I didn't know of that word until I was a teenager and even then I pronounced the "w". How very shocking. My family called it a "lick and a spit" which is obviously much more wholesome

Child of the seventies I had a bath and hair-wash once a week until we had a shower installed.

My husband really doesn't sweat, one of his jobs is hard, physical labour but he just...doesn't, he doesn't even need to use a deodorant.

I bloody do but I think if you think too much about sweating it actually causes you to sweat.

I don't think there is anything wrong with washing at the sink. There is soap, water and a flannel involved. My hair gets very dry when I wash it every day so I do it every other day.

I tend to shower every day when commuting on the tube....that black gunk of london gets into everything.

To be honest I think there are loads of people who are just cleaning freaks. Yes wash everyday but how somebody does that is up to them and should not provoke juvenile name calling.

Lololol at discomfort at wet pubic hair! nothing thus posted has moved me from my position that soap is a good thing and showers are positively heaven-sent. I am judging those of you who claim not to smell after a quick daily wipe over with some water. Showers are not some weird modern Western invention, they are the washing machine/Hoover of the self-washing world, and phobic reactions aside, I cannot understand why you wouldn't use them.

Dammit, missed the filthy home suggestion. Yes, would love to join. Thank you. See you there

May I suggest building it in a festering swamp.

Er hang on limitedperiod, do you mean to tell me there are people out there who use towels only once?

Nooooooo

I don't understand anyone strip washing unless they had no other option. It's a bit clatty as my mum would say.

And washing with yesterday's knickers possibly wins the prize for the strangest mumsnet admission ever.

What do all these people who are traumatised by unwashed bodies do with their pets? Do Fido and Tiddles get a daily shower too?

For any one who sweats a lot, try giving up caffeine. I almost never sweat unless I'm seriously exercising since I gave up. I used to sometimes break out in a sweat if I went for coffee with friends, which I found embarrassing but didn't make the connection until I gave up caffeine for other reasons.

Wilkinsons, I have trouble walking in there without gagging, such strong smells of soap & disinfectant by the door, I could write an essay on how awful it is. One soft play place we went to had a horrendous smell of disinfectant stuff in the toilets, this little girl kept going on to her mother about the stink, but Mum insisted it was the smell of "cleanliness". No, it's not. It's a rank odour meant to mask other things, it doesn't mean the place is adequately hygienic in any way.

I don't use shampoo, nasty stuff and my hair does not like it. can I join the smelly house please?

i dont use shampoo either so im in. i hate smelling other people too but only the fake smells. perfume and aftershave are just loathsome and make me feel really ill. people on the train in the morning reek of the stuff.

'fetid baufers'
'Filthy fucking sketter'
'I could smell her clopper when I walked into her office'
'smells of bum'

have all made me spray coffee on my laptop.

So childish. But so fecking funny.

I hope you used an anti-bac wipe to get it off your keyboard - think of the germs! :)

AwesomeWellies. We give our in door cats a bath every week

Any one who dose not have a wash everyday is a stinker and even more fifthly as we are woman and have periods it would make me puke to know someone bleeds every month for almost a week but dosent was their lady every day how foul

Oh, the germs.

Never knowingly used an anti-bacterial anything in my life. Do people not realise that the less practice you give your body at dealing with germs, the less effective it will be?

I draw the line at washing with yesterday's knickers though.

very true lady

I don't allow antibacs in the house, and am no clean freak by any stretch of the imagination despite what those up thread would like the think.

But the washing with dirty knickers was just too weird not to have commented on.

(In fact, I feel a bit odd being referred to as a 'clean freak'..... I'm about as far from that as you can get I feel the urge to post up pics of my manky bathroom to prove those posters wrong!)

Apparently so Aries.

I tried washing my cat once . I decided life with a mildly smelly cat beat wiping my blood off the walls.

maypole - you bath your cats ?

blimey!

My mum tried to bath a cat once after it fell in a coal bunker. I think she still has the scars and the cat wasn't much cleaner afterwards.

Luckily mine all wash themselves constantly so I've never had to attempt it.

You only need to wash your cats if a) they have rolled in farmyard manure or b) they are so hopping with fleas you need to drown the feckers before applying the squirty thing on the neck. Otherwise the danger of lacerated hands and arms is too great and they keep themselves perfectly clean on their own.

Oh in the Stink House by the way, I think that any products used should be non-perfumed ones. Perfumes and aftershaves are outlawed.

one of ours is moulting at the moment.
I told DH to hoover him.
He was worried he'd get sucked up into the hoover.
I'm more worried about cat hairs all over the blimmin' duvet cover.

I had to bath a cat once, too.

He fell down the back of a refrigerator that was full of fluff/lint and he was covered in it.

It was in the US, so his front paws were declawed (no, I didn't do it! He was like that when we adopted him).

He was not happy.

But it was pretty funny :o.