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

bidibidi - i find the smell of car fumes overwhleming sometimes - I have a shop on the High Street, and cars go right by the front door.
you have to have the door open in the warm weather because the glass front makes it stifling, but when buses and lorries go by, it's awful

So you use something dirty to try to make something clean?! Don't you have delicate lacey knicks or do you wear flannel material knickers

compo - and my fanjo is fragrant, thanks!

I know when I smell by the way, and respond to it. When I was pg I had two baths/showers a day due to my smelly fanjo! I know if I need to brush my teeth or whatever, I hate showers but I'm not an oblivious stinker. I usually have a bath before bed and a strip wash in the morning.

i have big cotton knickers - and i do rinse them in very hot water before I start!

Wouldn't it be easier to just run a shallow bath or have a shower? All this faffing about with flannels dirty knickers, buckets and cups

I can't bear smelly gits, especially the smell of dirty hair. Then I stand behing them on the train and am compelled to look at their hair and ears.

i am a sweaty git, but don't want to be a smelly one so use driclor to avoid the sweaty pits and feet. And wash every day, ususally a shower in the morning and a bath at night. And clean clothes every day.

I grew up with someone who thought a weekly bath was sufficient and it was disgusting so am OTT with the cleanliness now. There is no need in this day and age to go round being a smelly git.

I don't think it's people who are having strip washes you need to worry about - that's how my parents wash themselves and they don't smell. It's people who don't wash at all for several days, or their clothes you need to worry about.

Our shower broke once and we managed for six months without one, baths and washes at the sink. No-one had BO.

It's just what you're used to! DH is used to water in buckets and sloshy cups so that's what we have, and I realised I prefer it to a shower. As long as you're clean and fragrant, who cares?

Overuse of the word git there

is the sweatiness linked o your sheet OCD Goml?

I don't see how running a bath is easier than filling the sink up with hot water and standing on a towel!

our house doesn't have a shower and is not likey to have one either for at least 10 years (council house)

I'd love a shower though, nothing like a good bath however a shower makes me feel ultra clean and fresh. I do sweat a lot, I have problems in work where I'm sure I stink I can smell myself yet I have a bath, wear deoderant etc etc. I do have a physically demanding job though and our shop is always very hot and so I sweat, its horrible.

No, I don't sweat hugely because i plaster myself with driclor (and probably doing myself harm in the process) because I am so paranoid about being sweaty. It's great stuff, but if I go away and forget for a few days the sweatiness comes back with a vengeance.

I loathed myself as a teen before I discovered that stuff.

The sheets OCD is just because I like the smell of clean sheets really.

OMG you wash with dirty knickers?
Tell me that's a joke.

Anyone can have a shower, mine cost £7, it's attached to the taps with a wee thing to attach it to the wall.

no, it's not a joke.
it works well.
(i've always done it and I don't smell like a whore, and i don't get problems down there, so i can't see a problem)
(i don't sit around in the dirt in my knichers- they're always covered with my clothes...)

Has it already been said that people with depression, morbd obesity, mobility problems, or learning difficulties may find it challenging to maintain personal hygiene if they do not get help from other people?

I don't necessarily think it's all down to how often you have a shower (it certainly wasn't the norm to bath every day when I was a teenager in the 70's) +++++ I find some people repulsively stinky, but then talk to others in the same group and they have no problems at all. +++++( I don't really say 'did you think he was a complete stinkpot?')

I stood behing a lady in the supermarket in Saturday and she absolutely reeked. There is no need for it at all and this wasnt just a bo smell!

I still remember being most put out by my parents as a child because my brother and I were the only children we knew who had to have a shower/bath every day.
I also still remember the smell of my friend's unwashed hair/bodies.

I just don't think I could rub my day before's pants on myself.
Why would you do that?

There are some people who don't shower often because they think it is making a stand against modern society's artificial rules. Our noses have been programmed to think that anyone who smells of..well... human being, actually stinks and is therefore a social outcast. I don't understand people who are actually personally offended by this, who regard it as a insult, the way some people are speaking here. Fair enough, your nose can find them a little smelly, but the insults and horrible names being tossed around are a bit I hate the smell of cigarette smoke on people's clothes - I find it as horrible as BO, but wouldn't start a thread on it. I would get flamed.

Different people live differently. These aren't generally the people you find working in offices anyway.

Just trying to be fair :)

Yes I did do something about it but not until I actually KNEW you could get stronger deoderants. Before that I just washed obsessively and sprayed enough deodorant to form a new hole in the ozone layer! Which didn't work. I just wish people weren't so quick to judge :( if you KNOW someone doesn't wash then fair enough but don't just assume.