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I don't shower every day, and wash my armpits every other (24hr deo)

211 replies

WeWantSweet · 01/09/2019 21:04

I have a bath once or more a week, depending on double dipping with my partner. It's really ok, no one will notice the difference, apart from the environment..

OP posts:
WeWantSweet · 01/09/2019 21:43

Just try it, you won't smell and no one will know.

OP posts:
Schuyler · 01/09/2019 21:44

This isn’t serious...

Hennysmommy · 01/09/2019 21:44

Wow you probably smell..
Totally minging 🤮

Ellie56 · 01/09/2019 21:45

Hmm Yeah right.

CatToddlerUprising · 01/09/2019 21:45

Do you apply the deodorant in the morning or at night? If it’s the former it won’t work nearly as well

timshelthechoice · 01/09/2019 21:45

Nope, you smell. And going for a week and double dipping with your kipper cock boyfriend, your work colleagues must need Fabreeze.

I feel sorry for HCPs who have to deal with kippercocks and minging fannies and the smell of arse. They don't get paid enough.

BobTheFishermansWife · 01/09/2019 21:46

I wouldn't be able to function if I didn't have a shower in the morning... Although with the amount of sleep I get I don't really function very well anyway

tinkerbellla · 01/09/2019 21:47

Kipper Cock GrinGrinGrin

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 01/09/2019 21:48

I genuinely can’t imagine not showering before work in the morning. It takes less than five minutes, and I need it to wake up as well as clean myself. My colleague has a bath at night, then a “quick wash” (her words) in the morning, and I just don’t get it. (She has a shower at home.)

YesQueen · 01/09/2019 21:49

@Judystilldreamsofhorses I don't like showering in the morning so I shower at night. Plus if I wash my hair it takes hours to dry so it's better to do it at night

PapaShango · 01/09/2019 21:49

You’ve probably just become immune to your own smell! Anyone would smell after a week, especially as it’s summer. There’s just no excuse for it

Ravenblack · 01/09/2019 21:50

🤢🤢🤢

NoTheresa · 01/09/2019 21:51

What is the aibu?

VladmirsPoutine · 01/09/2019 21:53

What is it about Sunday evenings that brings out all the trolls? Like clockwork every Sunday evening.

tryagain22 · 01/09/2019 21:54

hmm

I don't shower every day, and wash my armpits every other (24hr deo)
Femodene · 01/09/2019 21:54

Honestly everyone will know and you’re forcing them the breathe in your greasy unwashed smell, your genitals would be stinking as well, some poor fucker is probably looking up employer handbooks right now on how to get you to not inflict your stench on other people. Minging.

Lunafortheloveogod · 01/09/2019 21:55

Just going to flick some zoflora about as a holy water substitute for this.

You smell, people won’t tell you because it’s rude, you might not be able to afford enough gas/soap, it might be medical.. they don’t know and they don’t want to look like a twat.

I hope oral isn’t a strong point in your relationship shudders

NoTheresa · 01/09/2019 21:55

timshelthechoice

Nope, you smell. And going for a week and double dipping with your kipper cock boyfriend, your work colleagues must need Fabreeze.

I feel sorry for HCPs who have to deal with kippercocks and minging fannies and the smell of arse. They don't get paid enough.

Dear god, your post in all its dubious glory is far more rank than anything the OP has suggested. I suggest you should try washing your mouth with Fabreeze (sic).

Whatnotwot · 01/09/2019 21:55

Try it, you might be surprised

Since the menopause, the only thing that might surprise me would be how rapidly a whiff of my armpits would clear a room.

In the recent hot weather I’ve needed an additional wash and fresh application of industrial strength deodorant mid afternoon. Truly I’m not so cruel that I’d want to inflict my stinky, unwashed stinky pits on my family, friends or unsuspecting members of the public.

Likethebattle · 01/09/2019 21:55

You do smell, people do know. I can actually smell myself in the morning after sleeping.

Plus sharing bath water is vile, full of someone else’s sweat, skin particles, microscopic bits of poo and wee etc.

My exes mum and dad always left their water in the bath for anyone else to use...confused the hell out of me why the bath was usually full.

YouJustDoYou · 01/09/2019 21:55

My friend does exactly this. Her smell is unpleasant, to the point the children have asked why she smells bad. She says she "doesn't need to" - she does. We all do.

busybarbara · 01/09/2019 21:59

A bath once a week was very standard especially for children until the 90s. With the environment and water as it is we might end up back there

SuzieQ10 · 01/09/2019 22:02

I have a colleague who is proud to admit he only showers for a couple of minutes every three days and washes his clothes on a 30degree short wash after several wears. He's very concerned about the environment and water waste (or IMO lazy and oblivious).
He absolutely reeks. Terrible BO. No one wants to sit near him but everyone is too polite to say so. It's very unpleasant and uncomfortable for the rest of the team.

Sarahlou63 · 01/09/2019 22:02

@gingerginger2

Quite right.

CodenameVillanelle · 01/09/2019 22:03

Your vulva and anus will be proper rank. You're a wrong un