To shower every day or not?

[Greenballoons]

Do you shower every day or not?

I am not showering every day and I come from a country that very few people shower every day!

I dislike being wet and as a kid I didn’t shower everyday too. Maybe I don’t do it because I was not taught to do it as kid.

Those who shower every day do you also shower your kids everyday?

And those you shower every day do you get your hair wet or shampoo them everyday?

I wouldn’t be able to do this everyday!!!! Many British people I know shower every day (either morning or night) and I find it so hard mentally and physically to invest time on that on a daily basis given everything is in such a fast pace.

I would never sacrifice time from my sleep to shower in the morning!

Quite the opposite I think - Mumsnet is the only place I know of where grown adults are naturally fragrant and don't need to wash their bodies every day. Everyone I know in real life accepts daily washing as part of life.

Personally I like to shower everyday. I usually shower before bed. I think it's completely fine for people to shower less than that if they feel they don't need to, but OP (sorry to be so bold) don't your intimate areas get a bit smelly? I assume you must was 'down there' daily? Especially when you have your period (if you have them).

My kids have a bath every other day.

Lucky you can afford the heating and the water bills

Shower most days, in the evening after I've exercised. Occasionally skip a day (if I haven't exercised)
Hair washed twice a week and I tie it up in the shower to keep it out the way and have the shower head at neck height!
I think if you properly wash then it's easier to skip a day - I use an exfoliating cloth with soap, and really get under my arms, feet etc then use a shower gel and use a antiperspirant that's applied at night. Rather than swishing a bit of shower gel on my hand and expecting to be clean

So I’m not British and this is most emphatically not a thing where I’m from. We shower or we bathe, but I have no idea what ‘a wash’ is, if it differs from those things and these responses aren’t making it much clearer.

Sink wash washing armpits and bottom. Those are the bits that tend to get smelly

@IMissVino how does this not make it clear?

Quick daily shower- shower cap on. Wash hair 3 times a week.

Ah finally, someone with common sense!
(Although be prepared for the mums net onslaught of perfectionists telling you your dirty, gross, smelly and everything else!)
Full disclosure, i bath/shower (and wash my hair at the same time) every 2nd or 3rd day.I don't enjoy the 'getting wet' or the general palava of it all either.Like you say it would be a pain having to sacrafice relaxing time in the evening or sleep in the morning EVERY DAY! And often i wouldn't have time even without sacraficing those things....not sure how anyone else does tbh.
I don't have a dirty job, do anything 'outdoorsy' or play sports that make me sweat...I live quite a sedentary sort of lifestyle.
The exceptions are when I'm on my period (when I shower daily) and if its a particularly hot day in the summer and I get sweaty/sticky with suncream/dirty feet from wearing sandals etc)
My young DDs are bathed every other day, often daily in the summer as they are less covered up by clothes, so get grubbier.
DH showers every day in the week as he has a physical job and gets sweaty.
I don't think we are being unreasonable.

I have a daily morning shower, DH has a daily evening one. DC have a shower every day too and the odd bath.

Having fresh smelling skin and hair really gives me a boost, I love the green or blue Pears bar soap

I shower every morning because I am 100% confident I smell nice afterwards and I like the routine of it.

I have a friend who always likes to berate people for showering too much- she's one of these that likes to say we don't need to shower everyday and wears natural type deodorants. I once got too close and the whiff from her armpits was disgusting!

@Greenballoons This is a pretty intense topic on MN. I find it interesting that this is your first thread, and your comments are honestly starting to cross the line of believability.

I shower twice a week and have never smelled bad - and I live with people willing to be honest with me about it. They let me know during the couple of very hot weeks we get if I'm getting ripe earlier than usual.

Sorry but this is really awful. You'd wait until other people have to mention that you smell before you shower? Why would you not just do it daily and avoid this embarrassment for you and for others?

I shower every 3 days as a minimum and on a weekly basis as a maximum.

Going a WEEK without a shower?! 🤢🤮 Bet there's a lot of flies buzzing around in your house @Greenballoons

Because personal hygiene??

This. ^ Glad someone else said it.

I shower daily, anything less is a bit gross in my opinion. Wash hair 2-3 times a week. Kids washed daily as their hand and face get sticky and they don’t always wipe bums properly!

@IMissVino think of people who are unable to move from bed and have to be therefore cared for in bed. You can be clean without a shower or bath! Plenty of hot water, a flannel, and soap
You lather up the soap on a damp flannel and then rinse using the flannel, dry off
Kind of like hot cloth cleansing on your face but your whole body
When I started as a carer I hadn't washed someone before but it's just common sense really

That does make it clear, thank you. However, that wasn’t said in response to me, it was said to @Greenballoons. I didn’t see it, as I didn’t scroll up and read every comment by and to every poster on the thread, and was just responding to the people who had tagged me. Do please forgive me.

What is this obsession with showering. I grew up in the 60's nobody had showers because houses didn't have them so it was a bath and most people had 1 bath a week and I can tell you people did not smell.

I shower every day before bed. Sometimes my shower lasts at most a minute. I like to get the dirt and grime of the day off before getting into bed.

I also find if I don’t shower, my skin gets extremely itchy.

Oh come on.

It doesn't take an hour to wash properly each day. A shower can be 2-3 minutes.

No, you don't have to wash your hair or shaves your legs every time. 😒🙄

And yes it's obviously pretty disgusting to only shower once per week.

I don't believe this post is real having read this update.

shared water too

I'm in my 50s and when I was growing up people didn't shower every day. The only shower we had at home was a rubber thing attached to the bath taps for hair washing. I don't remember exactly how often but I certainly didn't bath every day. We couldn't afford it. I washed thoroughly and I didn't smell. Neither did my friends

Same here growing up, but I think we probably would have all smelled a bit to modern noses, we just didn't notice it on each other at the time.

I love having a shower most days, sets me up for the day and is the smallest of luxuries. I sometimes skip a day if my skin is feeling a bit dry, but I don't like to do that often.

@IMissVino I'm sorry, I was getting wound up by some of the responses on this thread and was unreasonably short with you.