To reduce the number of showers I have each week

[Lov]

Let's be honest here. During lockdown probably most of us that worked from home rolled out of bed to their laptop and started the work day (in pjs)

I believe my need for showers daily took a nose dive. Don't get me wrong I went old school and did a daily clean with a flannel and yes still brush my teeth twice a day. I was showering twice a week.

Now back into the swing of things, working face to face (twice a week) I find my routine has stayed the same and the need for daily showers has gone. Obviously if I go work out I will do but I'm talking daily no.

What's other people's experience? Has everyone resumed normal life or are there people out there like me who are now content doing a flannel wash instead of a daily shower????

I am waiting for the gross comments but honestly I don't feel worse for it and my water bill has dropped!

Shower when you want. Why do you need people online to tell you when you can and can’t shower?

Personally I could think of nothing worse than a strip wash - even after the many many hundreds of threads on mumsnet with people insisting it’s oh so quick and wonderful.

What's wrong with shower gel!

Based on 40p a shower, then a daily shower is approx £150 year. Or for a 4 person household £600 year. (Pre increase prices) so cutting that to every other day for that family saves £300 a year.

Peanuts to some but not to everyone

When I spent four days hanging off Mount Everest by the tips of my fingers, then two weeks in a Nepalese hospital, too weak from starvation to move followed by a convalescent break in a yurt in the middle of the Californian desert during water rationing season, I still managed to shower daily with good quality soap and hot water. You have no excuse.

I see a daily shower as a luxury now. For the planet and my pocket. We are a every other day unless exercise/sweaty day. Sitting in front of a laptop generally does not cover either of those.

This clean obsession is part of what’s killing the planet. It’s not just water, it’s all the chemicals used to ‘clean’ and no doubt you all then scrub your shower with more chemicals when you’ve finished.

Well no absolutely not my experience.

I shower daily. Takes minutes.

Fucking around with a flannel and warm water from the sink for a strip wash probably takes far more effort.

For people, with no illnesses or disabilities or factors that make a daily shower difficult, but choose to wash infrequently then yes I will judge you. Rank.

I shower every day. Twice on hot days. I feel gross if I didn't. Not saying your gross its just my personal preference and definitely in the summer. You probably won't notice but your colleagues will.

followed by a convalescent break in a yurt in the middle of the Californian desert during water rationing season, I still managed to shower daily with good quality soap and hot water. You have no excuse.

The fact that you found it necessary to have a daily shower in the middle of water rationing says a lot about you (and it's nothing to do with cleanliness!!)

I tried not showering and dressing properly for work in the start of the pandemic, but i didn't like it. I have adjusted though. I wear nice things but they're much more casual and comfortable, and i shower before dressing, but i don't do my hair or make up to the extent i did previously. I now do in 10 min what i used to do in 45 min. For me whether i do the evening shower, which i always did when arriving back home from work, is the one that often doesn't happen.

@Lov

" Let's be honest here. During lockdown probably most of us that worked from home rolled out of bed to their laptop and started the work day (in pjs) "

Nope. That's not what happened in my household.

Shower 1-3 times a day depending on if I've been working or exercising.

That said, my usual shower is only a minute long, and when i wash my hair then it's 4 or 5 min.

My routine didn’t change shower wise. Well actually it did in lockdown 1 as I did couch to 5k so more showers. I shower every other day, as I have to straighten my hair after washing it so don’t want to do that daily. Always shower before office days. I don’t smell at all.

Every other day is fine for a lot of women I think, plus ideally a strip wash of the vital bits on the interim days, although a daily shower is arguably less hassle than a whores bath.

Less than every other day and I suspect one would not smell as fresh as we expect people to smell these days..

How is it rank for dp but not for me?

Can’t believe what I have just read on this thread!

Not for everyone

And maybe it is minging if don't shower every day because you sweat more, get more dirty etc.

But an average sedentary lifestyle won't make you particularly grubby or sweaty or have you contacting uncleanliness. So for some it's absolutely not minging to shower every other day.

The fact that you found it necessary to have a daily shower in the middle of water rationing says a lot about you (and it's nothing to do with cleanliness!!)

maybe give the yurt post another read 😂

So you're saying that one shower a day isn't enough?

I shower almost every day (only settle for a wash if I've showered later the previous day) because I enjoy it, not because I think it's absolutely necessary.

I never stopped having daily showers. I'm not a smelly person, but I feel a bit grubby if I don't have a shower every day. Also, I have very fine, straight hair which starts to look greasy after 24 hours. I have no objection in principle to not showering every day though- it just doesn't suit me.

So on these occasional times, you always have another shower after? Even if you're out of the house?

Shower daily here, I used to shower twice daily when I had a physical job in a hospital. I'm overweight and get smelly if I don't shower every day.

I shower daily but I have horses at home and I daily muck out, poo pick fields, exercise them and stuff haylage. I do this in the evening so I’m physically clean in bed and don’t smell of eau de horse (which I love, but husband hates). I think most people in this situation would shower daily. Can’t remember what I did pre-horses. Seems such a long time ago. Probably the last time I had money too!