How often should I shower?

[grosstonotshower]

Ok so I'm having a few drinks with friends last night. We are all female a mix of parents and non parents. One friend mentions she is struggling to find time for o shower every day since she had her baby. I said "well I don't shower every day without a young baby," All of my friends looked at me in horror. Apparently even the ones with kids shower daily. Full disclosure I have two dd one under five and I work part time. I shower on work days plus one extra day so usually three times a week my days off usually consist of playing at home, walking dog, school run and maybe park. I would shower extra if exercising/having sex/on period etc. I bath my dc three times a week. My oh works out every week day so he does shower more than me. AIBD? (Disgusting 😂)

I shower every day feel grotty otherwise
Wash hair only every other day if i can get away with it

Yes but how do you know that? What life experience exactly are you drawing on?

The experience of ‘lady doth protest too much’.

Buy a clue, DrSbatso.

I learned a long time ago that there are people on MN who have issues around cleanliness.

Don't feed them @DrSbaitso

@AllThePogs

I learned a long time ago that there are people on MN who have issues around cleanliness.

Some posters just have issues fullstop!

[quote PurpleRainlnTheSky]@DrSbaitso

Ah, so not showering is an anti-capitalist statement.

LOL, what a lame excuse eh?

I can't imagine WHAT would make anyone not want to shower every day. It's just grim.

What makes me LOL (but cringe too) is that these deluded individuals actually genuinely believe they don't smell They do.

I feel sorry for the people who have to share a home with them, or sit next to them at work. And for the poor individuals having to sit next to them on public transport. [/quote]
If you smell after not showering every day then you have a much bigger problem than someone who showers every other day but doesn’t smell.

I feel sorry for the people you share a home with should your shower breaks down.

@AllThePogs

I learned a long time ago that there are people on MN who have issues around cleanliness.

Yes, and they’re the ones who protest how clean they are and how often they shower and how they wash their towels every day.

@Arabellla

Yes but how do you know that? What life experience exactly are you drawing on?

The experience of ‘lady doth protest too much’.

Buy a clue, DrSbatso.

I can't, I'm wasting all my money on shower gel and propping up the moisturiser capitalists.

If I get one, though, I'll pass it to the person who thinks it's amiss to mention being clean on a thread about showering, makes up utter bollocks on the spot and then has a tantrum about it.

[quote Arabellla]@PurpleRainlnTheSky

You just contradicted yourself in your own post! Good one. 👍

I said 'showering is NOT a modern phenomenon.'

You said 'what you on about, it's been about since the 1960s/1970s.'

So it's not a bloody modern phenomenon then IS it?! hmm

The 1960s and 1970s are not modern times FFS. It's 50 to 60 years ago!

🤣 Sorry this is so stupid it’s hilarious. Of course the 1960s/70s are modern when you look at human history. It’s just a blink on an eye in the context of human time on Earth.[/quote]
WTF . I was a child in the 1960s - that is modern times. We moved into a house with an indoor bathroom in 1957- we had a bath, no shower. We moved to next house in 1968 and we had a pink rubber shower which attached to taps and shower curtain there.

@DrSbaitso

makes up utter bollocks on the spot and then has a tantrum about it.

Thanks, you’ve described @PurpleRainlnTheSky to a tee.

I can't imagine WHAT would make anyone not want to shower every day. It's just grim

Not very imaginative are you? Sensory issues, lack of hot water/cold bathroom, skin issues such as eczema could all make showering daily unpleasant even if you wanted to. Do you think people with eczema are disgusting?

WTF . I was a child in the 1960s - that is modern times. We moved into a house with an indoor bathroom in 1957- we had a bath, no shower. We moved to next house in 1968 and we had a pink rubber shower which attached to taps and shower curtain there.

That’s what I said, they were modern times

It's only through mumsnet thst I've come to realise how low my standards are, from towels to indoor shoes, showers etc, I've broken all the mumsnet rules, I am officially 'grim' and 'minging', but very healthy

So many threads on people not washing today. It's so grim.

@PattyPan

I can't imagine WHAT would make anyone not want to shower every day. It's just grim

Not very imaginative are you? Sensory issues, lack of hot water/cold bathroom, skin issues such as eczema could all make showering daily unpleasant even if you wanted to. Do you think people with eczema are disgusting?

I've asked that. Well disabled people..her response was no comment. Vile.

@PattyPan

I can't imagine WHAT would make anyone not want to shower every day. It's just grim

Not very imaginative are you? Sensory issues, lack of hot water/cold bathroom, skin issues such as eczema could all make showering daily unpleasant even if you wanted to. Do you think people with eczema are disgusting?

Well said. Some people are so far up their own arses they have zero empathy for others.

@PurpleRainlnTheSky

Don't feed them *@DrSbaitso*

I can't help it. I'm stuck on the world's most boring Zoom meeting.

Besides, as long as someone isn't antisocially and unhygienically dirty and smelly, I don't care how often they shower. It's honestly nothing to me. I'm just a bit surprised because I really did think daily was the norm, assuming no problems. And kind of amused at how it's now become about being anti capitalist and posters just making up shite about things they have "found".

My doc told me not to shower or bath everyday as it is bad for my skin. I have a quick wash every day and shower or bath every other, unless it's particularly hot or I've been doing gardening etc. I don't care how often others choose to wash, as long as they don't stink it's up to them.

I shower 5 or 6 times a week. I'm not a sweaty person at all. I have to be really really working out to break a mist, I don't sweat when hot either. I also don't smell much. It's a genetic thing (as in there's actual genes which cause more or less BO, propensity to sweat etc). Some people just smell more quickly than others.

@DrSbaitso

It’s ‘lady doth protest too much’ all over again. You don’t care. It’s honestly nothing to you. You’re amused.

It’s all a desperate attempt to prove lord knows what.

@Idontknowlondon

I shower 5 or 6 times a week. I'm not a sweaty person at all. I have to be really really working out to break a mist, I don't sweat when hot either. I also don't smell much. It's a genetic thing (as in there's actual genes which cause more or less BO, propensity to sweat etc). Some people just smell more quickly than others.

A lot of body odour is caused by normal human bodily functions . You don't need to sweat to smell !

@VelmaandShaggy

This just proves that Mumsnet is not representative of the sane, fucking normal real world in which people do not shower 'at least once a day!!!!' thank god

I really don’t think having a daily shower is out of the norm. I’d say the exact opposite, it’s generally normal and accepted behaviour.

What I would say is odd mumsnet behaviour is how people seem to know every detail of their loosest acquaintances washing habits including how they merrily scrub their under boob with a wet flannel in the morning. How on earth do you know it’s not the norm for people to shower daily. Who has told you they don’t and why has that come up?

I've asked that. Well disabled people..her response was no comment. Vile.

@PurpleRainlnTheSky has rightfully been deleted.