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

[HugoFirst]

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

Strip washes are fine, you just need these.

What about those people that wash themselves everyday and wear clean clothes but are allergic to deodorants? do they deserve the insults?

With you olibeansmummy,

Just because someone thinks you have B.O., does NOT mean that you do not wash properly.

Lol at kind old Aries. Dont be fair ;)

So the stuinkers WASH yet smell?!

Not sure about 'stuinkers', they sound a bit different.

Hear, hear olibeansmummy!

And, no, Asinine, nobody else had made that point, I agree with you. That is why, I guess, there are sections on the old DLA form regarding help needed for personal hygiene. Don't know if the new assessments will take that into account though

I have mobility problems and very dry skin so I am of the stripwash brigade too. Because I cannot raise my legs to a basin or bend to wash them, I have to wash my feet in a bowl while sitting down.

I have two differently coloured flannels, one for above and one for below the waist. When I have finished washing at the basin I wash out both flannels with very hot water and hang them up to dry.

And clean clothes every day!

Personally, I like to feel clean and if that means two showers a day then so be it.

There should be no reason for someone to smell.

Some people just have a permanent air of grubbiness, don't they? I think it's sometimes due to smoking and drinking, and probably diet too. You can tell just from a photograph if somebody honks. I do feel very sorry for people with a medical condition though- so humiliating.

Hugo I'm not normally fair and kind

My brother used to hang around with a load of crusties who held such views. He was the same. It was either put up or cut contact.

I have actually laughed out loud on this thread. Nicklebabe is a scream. I could not imagine anything worse than strip wash, whatever it is...it sounds so vile.

Below comment from Nicklebabe had me OMGGGGGGGGGGG

compo i use my last day's knickers to wash my bits.

Ariesgirl - I used to know a fair few from the Convoy and had never heard/thought that the general smell of human being was actually a political statement! Wow!

I never asked, and some would definitely smell much worse than others which I put down to genetics, I just figured it's fuckin' horrible to have to strip wash with nothing but a bucket of cold water!

Also, it's easier in those conditions to subscribe to the Medieval idea of clothing when it's cold ie. keep the same stuff underneath and add a new layer to the top! See North Norfolk for details, where it's too cold to actually wash at all for 8 months of the year

The man at the Royal Mail sorting office smells very very badly. When you open the door to his desk/window the smell hits you. Fortunetly its a very small space probably 6'x3' so it doesnt look odd standing at the door pretending to keep and eye on DC in car. I notice that others do this as well

I once encourntered a man behind a security screen who smelled out a large HALL type room ( hem hem)

at people preferring to wipe their bits with yesterday's pants than have a shower! Just Surely bacteria will have found overnight? How can you rinse doing this strip-wash thing?

I commute by bus and being pg have heightened sense of smell. The BO/bad breath/ciggies smell of a morning is not the best.

Yes indeed Mandy, it was a way of cocking a snook at the petty bourgeoisie who impose their middle class values on society and deny all that is natural. Apparently.

A agree goodegg, the washing with dirty knickers is gross. I don't believe anyone would actually do it.

Apart from the man who sat next to me in the library and smelt very strongly of poo, the smelliest people are the smokers - much worse than BO.

Lots of students compete to be smelly and disgusting. When I was a student I didn't change my sheets for a whole year - they didn't smell.

The only time I've ever strip washed is in deepest winter when the boiler has broken, so twice, in ten years.
I used every flannel and towel I own and still didn't feel fresh.

Grim.

I must also point out that I did not put dirty knickers anywhere near me.

Nickelbabe, you say you rinse the dirty keks in very hot water first?
Surely that tells you something?

Nickel I'm confused - you get up, pull yesterdays dirty knickers out of the washing basket and then wash them in hot water and then use them to wash your body?

I can't imagine why anyone would want to wash themselves in something that has been festering in the dirty linen basket overnight.

(Checks armpits) Nope, not me!

Netto, I hate strip washes too. In fact, when our boiler broke down I braved a freezing shower rather than a strip wash.
At no point did I consider washing myself with my dirty undergarments.

This "yesterdays knickers" thing reminds me of my mil , she can go on holiday for 2 weeks and wear the same pair of knickers the whole time.

She washes them out at night and hangs them up to dry and then puts them on again the next day and so on.

I suspect there is some underlying need for routine involved.

BodyOfEeyore, that's why I specified, 'deepest winter'. Any other time and I've just had a cold shower.