Hate showering & washing my hair-Do you shower every day?

[Dontfeelchristmassyyet]

Don’t know why I hate i?! Does anyone else?

I shower on working days (3 x per week) and if meeting up with friends etc, but if i’m off for a while, I don’t, is that gross? I could easily go a week if only doing school drop off and food shop, dog walks

What about your bits and pits? They’ll be minging after a day.

I hate it too, but I also hate the feeling of not having one. Constant battle.

I have a bath every day and wash my hair every other day. My armpits would smell otherwise and I couldn’t not wash my bum and bits and feel happy and comfortable! Seems lazy to me and personally I’d feel gross!

I shower every day and wash my hair every other day

feel the same op and on the odd occasion treat myself and have a day off and enjoy my smelly days

I do wonder when people say they can notice an ‘unwashed’ odour from people whether it might sometimes be their clothes. DP’s parents shower every day, as does SIL who lives with them. But when there is laundry hanging up in the utility room, there’s always a really musty smell. Whether the clothes are washed on the wrong cycle, or the machine is overstuffed or not enough washing powder used, I don’t know. But when they put the clothes on, their body heat causes the musty smell to diffuse very strongly. It actually makes me want to gag, but I’m a bit over sensitive in the smell department!

Yup. You have to do that much surely?
I only shower a couple of times a week as it dries out my skin but I do a ' bits and pits' wash every day. Face gets 2 washes a day as I usually wear make up.
I only do my hair once a week as it's also very dry.

I remember when I had COVID really bad though and I couldn't wash for over a week.God, i felt absolutely minging!LOL😂

I hate it too. I don't shower every day

What I personally don't understand is how people find it easier to do some kind of sink wash, as opposed to just walk in the shower and be done with it.

Sounds like more faff and not gaining any time. How much easier can it be than just.. using the shower, water/ soap/ water again. Done. No splashing, no mess, no nothing.

@ThatChristmasMug I find showers far more 'faffy'. All that splashing and water flying everywhere.
I hate standing under showers, all naked and vulnerable as well (I have horrible eyesight without my glasses so I don't enjoy that aspect either).
Not to mention this time of year it's cold, at least with a sink wash I can undress in sections and stay warm!

@TenWeeCaramelJoeys that smell is awful. I used to have a lovely colleague who either didn’t dry her clothes fully before wearing or maybe overloaded the machine & I felt terrible for her but sad for myself sitting next to her. I keep my washing machine as clean as possible & door left open to air etc, but I fell asleep Monday evening & forgot the clothes were in the machine until this morning, put them on the heated airer & radiator (optimistically) & the smell through the house was disgusting as they warmed up. Everything is on its second soak in the bath in 2 litre of vinegar topped up with hot water & the machine went on the hottest wash, god knows what bacteria has grown in there the past day, I found a wedge of cotton wool blocking the drain hole which can’t have helped matters. If the smell is still in the clothes after this vinegar soak they’re going in the bin. I can’t understand how people get nose blind to that smell

Not to be mean but maybe no one would say if you did. I know someone who doesn't wash and it's pretty obvious - bad smell within 1m - and really hard sitting next to this person while eating. So maybe ask someone for an honest opinion?

Have a think for a second or two about why some people might find it easier to wash in the sink.

Mobility? Disability? Another perfectly valid reason?

They're not just waiting for some bright spark to pipe up with 'why not just walk into the shower?'

nice try, but that wasn't the point at all and you know it.

Nice try? Can you explain? I'm not 'trying' anything.

While you're there, explain why 'that wasn't the point' and how I should know it.

Do you basically mean 'I obviously didn't mean disabled people'?

I can give you the answer to that.

Autism.

Makes the sensation of water touching your skin highly unpleasant for some people.

A wet flannel is far more tolerable.

Nothing to do with convenience.

During lockdown I started showering every other day, and now my DD is away at uni unless I’m going out (other than walking the dog) I still may only shower every other day and on the very odd occasion go a third day. I do feel mucky though and wouldn’t subject another person to me! I wash my hair twice a week as it’s very thick and wavy and doesn’t need washing more often.

LOADS of people only wash their hair once a week.

OP I sometimes struggle especially in winter. Unfortunately - or maybe fortunately - I have very greasy hair so have to wash it every other day.

I'm sure if my hair wasn't greasy I'd easily go three or four days sometimes.

You can be perfectly clean without showering/bathing. Soap and water and a sponge or cloth are just as effective. Some people prefer that.

'Nice try'? Tf?

Yours was yet another mindlessly unthinking ableist comment and you got called out on it.

"That's not the point and you know it" sounds an awful lot like - as the pp pointed out- "well obviously I didn't mean THEM."

Keep on digging.

Yep, sounds similar to when I was a kid in the 70s except we didn't have a shower till some way into the 80s.

Even relatively recently it was common for lots of families to have a “sink wash” that dealt with pits and bits, and a proper soak once a week. That worked fine for most people, and it’s only relatively recently that people have got much more fussy about daily showers.

I like to shower every day, but that’s because I sweat and legitimately smell if I shower less. I have family members that barely sweat and have never worn deodorant, and smell like fresh bloody laundry even after three days without a shower. It’s not fair, but that’s the way the dice fell. That being said, my hair only needs a wash once a week.

If you’re in the latter camp, you do you. If you’re in the former, maybe save the non shower days for weekends at home!

I don't like showering either, but I make myself do it. I'm not always a daily shower person, but i try to shower every other day. I've been doing well this week, and showered daily since Saturday. I don't know why I feel this way about showering, as I always feel better afterwards, but sometimes I just can't face it.

@Halfwaytheree

can you recommend any nice shower products? Hopefully stuff that’s not too expensive!

"My dog doesn't smell". 🤣🤣🤣

I hate the faff of washing my hair, so wait until it looks dirty ( about 6 days).

However I’d just feel dirty not having a shower and washing pits and bits…
Don’t you even use a flannel OP?