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

[WeWantSweet]

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..

Well thanks for sharing something no one asked or wanted to know @WeWantSweet

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I do shower every day but I only wash my hair twice a week because it never gets greasy.

If the OP feels happy with her personal hygiene - who are we to judge.

That's a point Jesamine but why the op chose to share such information with us is beyond me.

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A bath once a week was very standard especially for children until the 90s.
It really wasn’t. I was born in the 70’s and had a bath every day.
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Quite right. I was born long before you and a bath a day was quite usual for most people.

It's mean to ration hot water (and an instant shower doesn't use much), ration something else like fags and booze.

I was a child of the 60s and remember once a week baths (Sunday night before The Onedin Line/Poldark/All Creatures Great and Small). Started showering every day as soon as I worked out how to get the shower to produce more than a trickle of icy cold water.

I don't shower everyday, but once a week is a bit grim OP. I shower mostly every other day and am lucky to be one of those rare people that don't get BO see: linky But I am very aware of body and would wash before sex or a doctor's appointment, for example. Once a week?

Gross. I shower daily and don’t believe I’m harming the environment. I shower for about 5 minutes each time. I walk in, get myself wet, soap up, scrub, wash it all off and walkout. No messing about singing and standing under the showerhead daydreaming for 20 minutes.

By the way, sharing bath water with your DP is properly minging and your one weekly bath probably uses almost as much water as my accumulated weekly showers but I’m cleaner and smell better.

I don’t think you’re doing it for environmental reasons, I think the real driver is poor hygiene standards and laziness.

@ Sarahlou63 thus the word thoroughly after a week.

Im assuming you don't have a shower OP? If I only had a bath I wouldn't have one every day as it's too much faff and too much hot water. I would have a thorough strip wash every day though. I would question how fresh you can smell on your regime, unless it's very cold where you live.

I was born in the 70s and bathed every day.

I have a friend who swears bling that no-one needs to wash their hair mroe than once a week. I can smell her hair across the room.

Colleague at work expounds on limited washing because of the environment. We had to give her her own office (and because she leaves at 2 pm her room gets sprayed afterwards).

People can tell. They do notice. And if they say nothing (to your face) it is because they are simply too polite.

I am guessing the OP does not wash her clothes very often either for the same reasons?

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

They do know. Trust me.

I'd rather never wash than get into used bath water

People do smell if they don't wash daily, unfortunately.

I was a child of the 60s and remember once a week baths (Sunday night before The Onedin Line/Poldark/All Creatures Great and Small)

Me too - all five of us using the same water. Yuk.

Don't remember my parents ever bathing and we didn't have a shower in our house until mid 70s.

I shower every day, it doesn't take long. I wash my hair twice a week through as it is very dry and doesn't get greasy. If I need to wash it more often I do. Washing once a week is grim but your choice.

I was a child in the 70s and once a week bath was the norm in our house, and the same for most of my friends. We had a strip wash daily, but hot water was expensive and took literally hours to heat up, so a bath was once a week on a Sunday evening.

I find it hard to shower every day as my baby is very clingy. I would wash your armpits everyday though as strong sweat is hard to get out of your clothes.

Horrendous.

A bath once a week was standard up to the 90s for kids - I don't disagree with this we had one or two a week always one on a Sunday difference was we had a stand up wash at the sink every day.

I've found that people who say " I wash once a week / don't use deodorant/ don't wash my armpits - and I DON"T SMELL BAD " , they always smell terrible. Not just bad, disgustingly bad. And people are too polite to say anything.

PIL (pots of money) double dip once a week, and that's it. The same back scrubbing brush they use has been on the side of the bath since I met DH at 20. I'm 48 in a few months so that's says it all.
They don't smell sweaty, just musty. The whole house does. You can smell it as you walk up the drive.

I was born in the 1950s and have had a bath or shower every day of my life.

Bravo OP people's excessive use of water is ridiculous and according to Thai guardian article the country will
Have a serious shortfall within 25 years

We never used to wash ourselves or our clothes as much and our new consumer driven standards are a threat to our future.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/18/england-to-run-short-of-water-within-25-years-environment-agency

I used to work with a colleague that said what you have put in your OP almost word for word. She reeked. Sweaty back and neck and.....
I used to organise the rota and I used to make it so I worked with her as little as possible, especially in the summer. It was a public facing role and people used to complain.