How often do you bathe ?

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Sat on a night out with the girls discussing personal hygiene..... I wash twice a week. Some are saying this is too much , some too little ?! Thoughts please ?
New poster, this is light hearted.

There is no right or wrong answer to this question, but in our house everyone showers in the morning, and has a bath/shower in the evening.

On the contrary. I'm guessing you're quite unfit, otherwise standing on one leg whilst sticking the other in the sink to wash would be a blatantly obvious idea

Surely that’s absolutely nothing to do with fitness? It’s about flexibility.

We have lyme ticks and pets, everyday in the shower...bathtub: bleh

Nope. Daily showers here, I have depression and find psychologically a shower helps me, wakes me up.
I did used to work with a lovely lady who only bathed once a week. She stunk. There's no nice way of saying it, she smelled of stale b.o and sweaty bum.
The week she was on her period was the worst, that was really bad. I once got in a car with her, I couldn't breathe.
She was so nice, no one had the heart to say anything until a manager complained and spoke to her gently.

Think some of the replies are a bit harsh. Twice a week might be acceptable, depending on the individual, I would never say it was too much though!

When I'm in the full swing of my workout routine(usually 5-6 times a week for 3 quarters of the year at least) , definitely shower every day, sometimes twice if I've worked out twice that day. Maybe not on rest days, depending. Try not to wash my hair too regularly as it's very curly and dry as fuck, condition wash it quite regularly instead of full on shampoo.

When I'm not working out, like atm, probably shower 2 -3 times a week. I don't really sweat and don't ever get b.o, even after working out. And I've never needed to use deodorant (weird I know) though I do use a fragranced body powder to feel fresh anyway. My partner is a religious daily showerer and a clean hygiene freak and he agrees I don't need to wash as frequently and I never smell (trust me, he'd tell me!!). I think some people just don't need to. My sister on the other hand absolutely has to shower every day, you can really tell if she doesn't.

I shower and hair wash every 2 to 3 days and on the inbetween days I wash at the basin (face, neck, armpits, downstairs lady bits). Can't imagine not washing pits n' bits every day!

I will never, as long as I have a hole in my arse, understand why someone who has no specific issues with taking a shower would not just take a shower rather than go through this complete faff of standing at a basin every day and washing almost all of yourself anyway.

When my boiler broke this summer I had to strip wash using water from a kettle for a couple of weeks and it was a right pain. Especially trying to wash my feet, and feet do need washing daily, just as much as armpits and undercarriages do.

I have a strong sense of smell and do sometimes smell people, but how on earth do you know those smelly people have gone specifically one day without showering? Are you all suggesting every other day bathers have a particular scent?!

I just assumed some people are very smelly due to being ill/very overweight sweaty/diet etc or have not washed in a long time.

Once a year. On Christmas morning .

I do however, shower every day, twice a day

In the 60s and 70s it was perfectly normal to have a once a week bath

Not where I came from. I was born at the end of the sixties and I grew up being taught to wash or have a bath daily, every kid I knew and every adult did the same. You might not have, but the reason no one you knew smelled is because they were all washing themselves daily. You have to go back a lot further than the sixties before people didn’t wash daily.

You really don’t PP. My DM and DF (Both from very different classes and slightly different areas of the UK) have both told me that growing up in the 60’s it was baths once a week on Sundays and a strip wash in front of the sink otherwise. One of them grew up poor in an area where the houses in the next street along had outdoor toilets shared between 3-4 houses! is it really that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that they may not have had a daily bath? My other parent was quite well off and they still only had weekly baths because it was the norm.

Are you from the UK PP?

logans I agree.

I grew up in the 60s and weekly baths were the norm with all my friends- my family, my cousins( 38 of them from 7 families).
It costed money to have daily baths, heating the water, owning that many towels, laundering etc.
Daily strip washes were the norm.
My OH has a bath once a week, with a daily strip wash and he is perfectly clean.

Shower every evening before bed. If I swim in the morning 2/3 times a week I also shower there.
Sunday evening is bubble bath time
Personally feel dirty if I don’t wash like this

I am a 60's child and we all bathed daily, but I was from quite a wealthy background if that makes a difference, I mean maybe some people didn't have bathrooms (just guessing)

I remember bath night once a week, and then I grew up!
I can't believe people don't have a bath or shower every day. I am really shocked at this.
A strip wash sounds a right load of faff when you are probably standing next to a bath or shower.

Some years ago I did some work in a Scandinavian country. Quite a large group of us went over to work there, and when we got there we were given language training, talks about customs and what was expected of us. To my absolute fury we were quite bluntly told that we were expected to shower every day and that there had been complaints in the past about British people smelling.
I was outraged - of course Brits shower every day! We don't need telling! Then, to my horror, the people next to me started saying that they didn't want to shower every day, didn't see why they should... the girl next to me finally deciding to shower every day during the week, and then not at all at weekends to make up for it... I honestly felt embarrassed to be British at that point.

As for the poster who said that people who strip wash stand on one leg to wash their feet:

1. I bet most of them don't.
2. How much easier would it be to just get in the bloody shower!!!

My OH has a bath once a week, with a daily strip wash and he is perfectly clean.

I literally could not be intimate with someone like this.

You really don’t PP. My DM and DF (Both from very different classes and slightly different areas of the UK) have both told me that growing up in the 60’s it was baths once a week on Sundays and a strip wash in front of the sink otherwise

I think we are saying the same thing, that you washed daily, the op, from my understanding is not asking how often you physically have a bath, she literally washes twice a week, irrelevant of her methodology. However yes we all had daily baths in the seventies. As a baby I was bathed in the kitchen sink, at the end of the sixties.

Op, why are you “considering” changing, surely it doesn’t take much consideration, just give your self a daily wash in some way or another. A shower would be preferable as it’s hard to wash all over in the sink. Better than nothing, but time consuming and not very efficient.

I am sorry but I have to agree with migraleve

I wash everyday. Bath 2-3 times a week, and shower on the other days with a hair wash.

I would feel absolutely disgusting if I didn't.

I also agree with migraleve,

I recently suffered two broken bones and was forced to go five weeks without a shower as non weight bearing. So strip wash daily in downstairs loo and hair wash a couple of times a week over kitchen sink. It got the job done, but no way was I totally clean, nor did I feel it. It’s also a total pain in the arse to do, showering is quicker. I honestly felt like I might smell a little and was very self conscious about trying to be hygienic.

If uou don’t wash your hair for a week it starts to smell and you simply don’t rinse your body effectively washing in the sink. I don’t think anyone who has only had a strip wash for a week can claim they are perfectly clean.

I grew up in the 70s and did not wash every day as a child. I started showering daily when I reached puberty or thereabouts. I have applied the same principle to my own children, so 7 year washes when grubby (which to be fair is quite often!) and 12 year old showers daily.

My parents who are now in their 70s/80s still don't wash daily. I can honestly say I have never noticed them smelling and I see them rarely so it isn't a case of nose blindness.

Ditto my similar age in-laws don't wash every day. MIL strip washes a couple of times a week and showers once a week. She is disabled and showering is more challenging than strip washing (for those who consider strip washing a faff). She does not smell either.

IMO a lot of the angst about daily showers is generational. People who claim they can tell when others haven't washed is nonsense. Unless you go and ask that person, you have no evidence to support your claim.

For all the comments that the OP smells, read her first post again. She washed twice a week, and some of her friends are saying that this is too much. TOO MUCH,

Even the words “ daily strip wash “ are minging.

People who claim they can tell when others haven't washed is nonsense. Unless you go and ask that person, you have no evidence to support your claim.

Surely the stale smell is a giveaway?

My OH has a bath once a week, with a daily strip wash and he is perfectly clean.

'I literally could not be intimate with someone like this.'

Well I could be intimate with him, providing his strip washing was thorough enough, there's no reason think he'd be smelly or dirty providing washing was happening regularly somehow or other.

I just genuinely will never understand why people are unprepared to shower or bathe daily thinking it's some enormous effort, but they claim that they strip off and wash themselves all over in front of a basin of water daily.

Shower every morning.