To think this ISNT gross and stinky

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I struggle in the morning. At night I run a bath, soak for a while then have a full body wash and shampoo and condition hair, blow dry it then sleep.

Morning I brush teeth, use a facial wipe for face and straighten hair.

have been told in general conversation eww that's gross, yuck I have to have a shower and do I not feel dirty.

Why would I feel dirty, my beds clean!

AIBU?

There is no way I would have time to shower in the morning. I get up early doors as it is and I have to walk the dogs, do the horses, chickens and sheep before the DC wake up. If I had to shower before all that I'd be getting up not long after going to bed.

I shower in the evening and then soak in the bath if i have time, shower before bath is essential as I usually am covered in mud

I find it quicker to have a shower than a wash in the morning- and it has to one or the other. If I have no time to wash & dry my hair ( I do that every two days) then I pop on a shower cap, jump in the shower, lather up face, underarms, fanjo and feet, rinse off, jump out and dry. I have a power shower which is really fast anyway, but having a shower adds only 4 minutes to my morning.

Another one calling bullshit on two pints of sweat a night.

I don't think it's gross and stinky. I think baths get you clean. But if you have a shower I would be jumping in it for a few minutes in the morning just to freshen up.

I genuinely do not feel fresh without a morning shower. Everybody is different.

However unwashed bodies do smell. Possibly they don't stink but they don't smell clean either. I use public transport morning and night, every day and can vouch for that.

Ehric - it's only fine for dishes in the uk. No other country encourages dirty water and soap in bowls to wash dishes. Everyone washes dishes in running water ( as do I but I am British)

Last time there was a thread on it, lots of MNers said they don't brush their teeth twice a day. Now that is gross and stinky. OP, YADNBU.

YANBU OP, the person who said that sounds immature, as the poster up thread said, one day they'll come to realise that everyone is different and will hopefully be embarrassed by what they said.

Am still laughing about the 2 pints comment. Honestly, if you wake up feeling sweaty then turn off the heating, open a window or get a lower tog duvet!

i sometimes shower on the morning, i spend half the week at my mum & dads and half the week at DPs, when I'm at my mum and dads I will shwoer on a morning, i cba when I get in from work and all I want to do is get into bed. at DPs I will bath on a night. I don't have time on a morning. I also sleep in my makeup. :D DP is pretty vile too, he will have a shower friday evening before work and probably not shower then until sunday night. He never, ever smells though. He sweats like a good un but never stinks unless we get down and dirty
Anyway, my hair gets greasy SO quick so I have to shower pretty much every day and will only shwoer on weekends if we go out
I love baths though, I sat in the bath and watched Twilight last week while DP was at work... BLISS

I come from a generation who used to take a bath once a week, on a Sunday. If you weren't that well off, you'd share the bath water.

Cultural ideas about dirt are very interesting. What are people's fears about not showering once a day. Is it:

a. You will smell
b. You will look dirty
c. You will be more susceptible to disease
d. All of the above?

Morning quick shower(stops the mosquitos finding me ), out in the garden back in sweaty so shower again . Get on with day Eve. shower n wash then soak in bath out of bath final rinse in the shower.
My bath is programmable you can set time you want it run, depth, temp and it will reheat and stay at just the right temp for as long as you are in it. Gotta love Japan( mosquitos suck tho)

I certainly feel more awake after a shower, more relaxed after a bath, but equally clean after either!

I tend to shower at night so that I can make sure that DP does too I am clean before bedtime shenanigans.

The last thing I need to be doing in the morning is faffing around drying and straightening my hair, so if I do it at night my morning routine is so much quicker. As the only person likely to be getting close enough to me to care is my DP, and he buggers off to work for the day in the morning, I'd rather be at my most fresh and fragrant at bedtime than waste it on the school run parents, who generally keep their distance from my arm pits.

Ehric how do you get cleaner than a shower with a hair wash and soaping all over? And whatever ir is (preaumably some sort of antibacterialising all over) is it necessary? Im sure it doesnt mean that you're cleaner for longer.

I shower twice a day unless I'm ill. I work in a hospital with patients and get sweaty and grotty. I also, due to medication I take, get night sweats
so not showering twice a day is not an option for me. I have to say though I have an acute sense of smell and can always smell someone who just rolled out of bed and come to work and don't get me started on the smell of greasy unwashed hair

OMG tanukiton I want one of those baths! I hate it when you're all set up for a long soak and it goes cold...

People are so obsessed with washing. As long as you don't smell whats the problrm?

YANBU. Washing properly once a day should be plenty for anyone.

I feel cleaner after a bath anyway. Showers miss all the nooks and crannies that actually need washing.

Can't stand competitive cleanliness. OP YANBU in the slightest.

We are all different.

I (sadly) pass a homeless guy every morning on my way to work. He is always filthy, as in visibly dirty skin and clothes. I imagine he rarely or never washes. Yet he doesn't noticeably smell.

I used to work with someone who showered every day but smelt really, noticeably bad anyway. It was difficult sharing office space with him.

Sometimes my hair can go a week without seeing shampoo, I have mixed race hair so often dunk it in the bath (yes, my filthy, skin riddled, dirty bathwater) and give a scrub then I get out and dry all of me (body and hair) with the same towel. Sometimes I even blow my nose on the towel too, it does go in the wash afterwards. Showers and baths happen when we can fit them in and often its bits, under tits and pits wash for me. I wear clean clothes every day, deodorant and feel clean and non smelly.
My skin would shrivel up and die if I bathed twice a day and I'd be using a bottle of moisturiser a day. I know I don't smell and my skin is healthy.
Wash as you will people, you can't tell peoples washing habits by the look and smell of their bodies. I know people with hyper hydrosis who bathe constantly and are still smelly ( through no fault if their own) and I know the two shower a day people who wear the same jeans 5 or 6 times as they believe they're super clean... Whatever floats your boat

YANBU, I much prefer baths or showers in an evening.

I like sleep and my hair slightly fluffy.

Slightly less fluffy.

Cultural ideas about dirt are very interesting. What are people's fears about not showering once a day. Is it:

Personally, I'd point the finger at the Cosmo mag culture and this idea that we must be physically perfect under our clothes so that we're "shag ready" at all times.

Some people seem to think that people aren't clean after a bath. Because submerging things in hot water then washing them in soap is definitely not the way we wash pretty much everything we are aiming to get clean. It's fine for dishes but not bodies apparently

I would say it's the opposite. Many of us rinse our dishes in hot water after washing them in the bowl, dishwashers have a rinse cycle, washing machines have a rinse cycle, you wash the soapy water off of the car when you have washed it... what do we wash and then not rinse??

What's wrong with being shag ready - aka clean & non smelly?

YANBU

Dh showers every morning, if he doesn't he does take on a bit of a sheen. He perspires a lot and has greasy hair.

I have a bath every couple of days. I barely sweat at all (even when exercising, it's a bit odd). The only bit of me I wash regularly and meticulously is my hands (I'm more worried about the people who don't wash their hands than the people who bathe less often).

Dd has eczema and has a bath once a week (she is topped and tailed daily). Her eczema needs no treatment by day 3. On day 1 she needs lots of emollients or she suffers. She does not smell by the end of the week, she is still clean, and her skin is healthy. When she was bathed more often her skin was terrible and she was in pain :(

So in summary; wash when you are stinky or dirty, don't if you are not.

If someone cannot tell you are stinky or dirty by looking at you or smelling you, and they are only going by your routine, then they are wrong. Unless it is your hands that need a wash :o

stealth it's through sweating for a while, then scrubbing all over with a very rough mitt. Sheets of dead skin roll off you. Then washing with soap and very hot water. Your skin squeaks! And feels softer than a baby's bottom.