Not to shower every day?

[Sausagedog27]

Just looking at threads about drought and how long it takes people to get ready and it got me thinking. I shower every other day (unless of course I've been particularly active or done something requiring need to shower ie gardening). I don't smell (as far as I know- dh says I don't!) all my other friends shower daily. Is this something we need to do daily or is it a society thing? I remember parents saying it was a weakly bath for them etc. with the drought situ I'm just wondering if this is contributing. Would you daily showerers consider reducing? Hmmmmm!

I spent seven years of drought (sounds biblical...) in inland Australia. We let the grass die and our cars were filthy bur I don't remember anyone talking about giving up their showers.

One suggestion I remember being made, if you do want to save water, was to put a bucket in the shower to catch the water as it is warming up. Then you can pour it on your brown grass.

I roll out of bed into the shower, no matter what I'm doing. This morning I overslept by 50 min but I still had a two minute shower. I skipped hair ironing and breakfast instead.

I'm an absolute dirt box then

I don't have a shower so never have one.

I have a bath/hair wash a couple of times a week.

You may well hold your noses but the upshot of that is I'm now a middle aged bint but my skin is Loverley

I think it is bonkers to shower every day, especially during a drought. I think the answer is to put water rates right up so people take some fecking responsibility for their environmental impact.

Come the apocalypse, all those people who apparently can't survive without washing their hair and showering and then washing the towels EVERYDAY will be the first against the wall....

YANBU. I shower most days because I have very greasy hair, also helps me to feel fully awake along with lots of and quite honestly i am a bit over weight and do get a bit smelly if I don't.

I can't imagine showering every day - FREAKS

(BTW that wasn't directed at you, birthdaygurl)

Come the Apocalypse, I will find a plastic bucket, pop holes in the bottom, fill it with clean water from a sparkling stream, warmed by the sun's rays, hang it from a tree and clean myself off. Followed by my very hygenic family.

Ever other day, some of you will be begging for a go on my bucket and I will make you do my chores before you can wash your minging selves beneath my home made shower. Ha

I think it's bonkers to shower every day too, there is just no need unless you're a coal miner or a farmer or something grimy.

We probably have about 4 showers a week and the kids are only bathed on Sunday and Wednesday and none of us smell bad.. well.. we might smell a bit but only of human beings which is what we are.

phooey. Droughts are cyclical. They sort themselves out. But you'll be remembered as smelly forever.

And, when its been 35 degrees for a few weeks and there's no air-conditioning in your building (because it's supposedly environmentally friendly - phooey, again) then it's bonkers not to shower several times a day.

Yes but who wants to smell like a human? It's bad enough we have to poo on a regular basis. I wanna smell NICE me, and I don't want to smell staleness off other people, esp when I'm trying to eat... Stale biscuit is a bit too much of a euphemism for my liking

Oh and I don't overuse water: get wet, stop shower, lather up, wash off lather. Job done v quickly and with v little H20.

I take it you all have lovely glass fronted shower cubicles and power showers, then. Just popping in the shower isn't so easy when it's a tepid dribble hanging morosely over the bath, that drains water round the side of said bath straight out onto the floor, and if you're not careful, through the plaster of the ceiling of the dining room below. Not so nice or easy an experience when you have to duck down to get your head underneath the spray due to the shape of the bath, or risk spraying the entire bathroom. Could have a bath, of course, it only takes 30 minutes to run one of those. Could replace the bathroom, too, only a couple more years of saving.

So yes, filling the sink and having a good wash IS often a practical and sensible option, one I do each morning.

I dont shower every day because I cant cope with the whole hair washing/drying faff every day....

shower caps DONT work!

Reading this thread with a kind of horrid fascination. I'm very much in the shiney camp and have a bath and shower morning and night. If very tired, I perhaps skip the bath. DH is similarly clean - although just showers mostly.

I'm sorry, I just cannot accept the position that if you never wash your hair then the natural oils work and it looks gorge. That just can't be the case - I have never seen a picture of a cave(wo)man with lovely silky bouncy hair. They look like greasy frazzleheads.

Yes LeQueen. Just yes. Re the smells

Showers do use less water than bathing, certainly on average. If you are curious, just put the plug in the bath (assuming it's a shower over bath, ofc :) ) and see how much it fills while you shower normally. My showers use less than a quarter of what it takes to fill my bath, and that's on a day when I'm washing my hair. Obviously this doesn't apply if you're living in there, taking half hour showers. A post-workout shower is less than 5 mins for me, it's about 10 mins if I'm washing my hair.

Bathing is just steeping in your own filth anyway. There, someone had to say it.

Not if you have a bath and then rinse yourself off in the shower Cake!

Yes, that's what I do when I do have a bath, shiny I can't stand the thought of all the soap and bleh and whatever it is you scrub off the sides of the tub just clinging to me.

I shower every day (sometimes twice if I go to the gym/exercise class)
I wash hair every second day (dont need a shower cap to keep hair dry - just dont put your head under the water!)
I make up for the water use by re-using bath towels several times and going a couple of weeks between washing the bed sheets!

Daily showers here.

Turn off the shower when you're wet. Lather up. Switch it back on to rinse. It saves a lot of water.

leQueen did you c&p all that from the last 3 or 4 threads on the same subject? I swear I've read it all word for word.

I shower every day, wash hair everyday and wash my towels after every use. I don't see the point of showering every day but leaving yer towels to dry thus redistributing the dead skin towelled off originally.

Disclaimer : I don't care really

Nope, every other day is my aim, although sometimes every 3rd day is my reality. For example, I should have a shower today, as it's been 2 days, but as I am intending to go to the gym tomorrow, I probably won't bother. In summer, I sometimes manage every day, but have never felt the need to be part of the twice daily brigade.

our hot water went off over the weekend. I didn't like it at all and bathed on sat night and had a shower at neighbours sunday night and stripped washed in the mornings.

I like a shower in the morning.

I was paranoid about being smelly but I think you are right and I probably don't need to shower everyday but having to strip wash and boil a kettle was a real pain.