AIBU to think it's perfectly fine to not shower everyday?

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The Loose Women were mortified when Stacey Solomon and Saira Khan revealed that they did not shower everyday....the latter only once or twice a week. AIBU To think it's fine not to shower every day? I certainly don't unless the weather's dead hot. Surely got to be good for the environment, water bills and skin to not be running the shower everyday. False vanity by the Loose Women maybe?

You can cross examine me all you like, I am saying that I can tell when people are not as clean and fresh as they might be. You can say that I'm wrong. In the end it doesn't really matter because I won't change my mind and neither will anyone else on this thread, presumably.

I'm not 'cross examining' you. I'm just asking how you know how often your colleagues shower, and how you can reach definite conclusions about people's personal hygiene routines from inspecting their cuticles.

@Aprillygirl My name is a björk song. Anything else?

@Vulpine As you were then!

You realise not everybody has a shower, or is mobile enough to use it without assistance?

I don't know of anyone that lives in a house without a shower in this day and age (I'm not in the UK). If anything, it's more usual not to have baths anymore.

And clearly mobility is not the issue for many on Mumsnet (maybe it's a UK thing?!), preferring instead to sluice their undercarriages on the loo, for some reason.

Just get in the shower. It's so much more satisfying and efficient at getting you clean. If you're worried about conserving water, make it a quick one.

If you enter a public toilet straight after someone else and there's an after smell that's not shit or B.O there's only one other thing it could be.

Again, are you sure that's not used sanpro? That definitely does have a strong smell (shades of my post natal ward coming back to me 😬).

@Aprillygirl My name is a björk song. Anything else?

Yep, I can't believe that profuse sweaters who's fannies and arse cracks honk to high heaven if they're not scrubbed clean every 12 to 24 hours are bragging on here.

I must be quite lucky that I'm not sure I've come across all these hordes of unshowered folk that other MN can detect the moment they leave their house!

@Aprillygirl I just think leaving a build up of smegma, urine and feases for days on end is gross. But to each their own.

I must be quite lucky that I'm not sure I've come across all these hordes of unshowered folk that other MN can detect the moment they leave their house!

An MNer can tell when a complete stranger has last showered - down to the hour - simply by observing them from out their living room window.

I just think leaving a build up of smegma, urine and feases for days on end is gross.
Jesus you make it sound like people are schmearing that stuff all over like body butter.
(It's faeces by the way)

I genuinely find these threads fucking weird. Of course you should shower every day.

I do smell a bit if I don’t wash bits and pits (and underboob) everyday or have a shower. If I’m not intending to go out though I often won’t bother. I do though even if I’m just going to pop to the corner shop which will see me out of the house for all of five minutes.

Smelly ladies toilets are the sanitary bins having not been emptied, it’s blood on the tampons and sanitary towels not smelly vaginas

I shower every day. I couldn't not, I would stink. A colleague once laughed at me because I wash my work uniform every day (work in food environment). Again I couldn't not.. it's stinky, damp with sweat and dirty after every shift.

I have a big bath on the weekend and the freeze portions of it for when I'm in a hurry in the week.

*Potatopia

I have a big bath on the weekend and the freeze portions of it for when I'm in a hurry in the week*

😂😂😂

I don't have a bath in this house, this talk of long soaks is making me nostalgic.
I am having a long weekend away soon, I am very excited about scrubbing the hotel tub, unloading my bag of lovely salts, creams and candles, soak for the weekend.

I shower as I need to. It tends to revolve around exercise patterns. If it's hot, sweaty weather, I may have a couple of quick body showers in a day that are enough to wet the body, apply soap and rinse. At other times it may be multiple days, possibly with extra strip washes as needed.

DH is much greasier and smellier than me. He needs to wash daily and sometimes he does need sending off for a second shower in the evening if he's had a sweaty day. For some reason car travel is the worst for him and builds a stagnant sweaty smell. Fresh exercise smell is not so bad.

We are in danger of using water supplies in the UK at an unsustainable rate in the not-so-distant future. While we have sufficient supplies of water at present, it still costs energy to heat and recycle water. Excessive showering just because is not free of consequences.

Having worked with the public, it's a low proportion of people who have a particularly noticable smell. Sometimes it's the musky smell of poorly laundered clothes if drying well is an issue. Sometimes its the ingrained smell of a smoker with other body odours mixed in- they've probably lost too much of their sense of smell to be able to notice. I doubt you could really tell the washing patterns of the majority of people.

I always find the obsession with how often people shower a bit weird. Just because someone isn’t showering every day doesn’t mean they’re not washing. What difference does it make whether the water is coming from a tap or from over your head? My grandpa was a manual labourer and used to wash at the kitchen sink 6 days a week and he never smelled bad and as far as I know didn’t drop dead for not having stood under a shower.

People who shower every day (morning) do so out of habit, it's their routine. They don't do it because they're dirty or smelly.
I bath most nights to relax, not because I'm dirty, and shower weekly when my hair needs a wash.

As someone who's always suffered from eczema since tiny I've grown up knowing that bathing/showering every day is bad for your skin and can strip it of essential oils by doing so.
Once or twice a week for me to keep my skin nice!

mobility is not the issue for many on Mumsnet

There are lots of disabled people on here, and lots with caring responsibilities for disabled children and older family members. You are actually being quite offensive now with your ablism. Do you really think that all old people smell, and all disabled people smell, just because they can't negotiate a shower?

Well blatantly it is fine for anyone who showers every other day, there is simply no rational argument that it isn't fine, it's just none of anyone else's business.

In this day and age, you should be showering every day if you are physically able to and have access to one.

No excuses.