Whats the longest youv'e ever gone without showering (and why?)

SparkyTech

Whats the longest time period you've ever gone without a scrub up? And what was the reasoning behind your lack of hygiene?

My own faux pas: 6 days at a music festival. Squalor, beer, sleeping in my hoodie and pot noodles were the order of the day. Lenor & Persil well and truly in order upon my return

UglyBolloxFace

SparkyTech wrote: »

Whats the longest time period you've ever gone without a scrub up? And what was the reasoning behind your lack of hygiene?

My own faux pas: 6 days at a music festival. Squalor, beer, sleeping in my hoodie and pot noodles were the order of the day. Lenor & Persil well and truly in order upon my return

127 hours due to being trapped by a boulder...the smell of vinegar from my balls was overpowering. Almost as bad as losing my right arm.

shofukan

INB4 Never










(also..: never)

Friday to Monday at electric picnic. Got my hair done though :pac:

Dudess

Two days - music festival in France. Misery.

Agricola

If im diein with flu or otherwise under the weather, I could go 3 or 4 days without hittin the shower.

Sunnyisland

Since wednesday to this saturday Reason, to give some new life to the natural oils of my body, To much washing & cleaning your body with all that soap n **** washes the natural oils away.:D

Hamiltonion

4 days at Sziget in Hungary last summer. In 40' of heat, yuck

phasers

It really doesn't bother me not washing for an extended period of time.

Obviously I shower daily but if I'm at a music festival or somewhere disgusting with filthy showers then I just have a whore's bath and I feel fine. The only thing I hate is having greasy hair, but then I just use dry shampoo and stick it in a ponytail.

SparkyTech

realies wrote: »

Since wednesday to this saturday Reason, to give some new life to the natural oils of my body, To much washing & cleaning your body with all that soap n **** washes the natural oils away.:D

Or you could use some body creme to moisturize your skin and invigorate your senses

*Note: This may or may not be advertising linguo

Wolfe Tone

Does this include when you where a kid?

UglyBolloxFace

realies wrote: »

Since wednesday to this saturday Reason, to give some new life to the natural oils of my body, To much washing & cleaning your body with all that soap n **** washes the natural oils away.:D

Really? Does that work? (you'll have to excuse my ignorance, I know nothing about this).

Have you not smelled like **** all week so?

Latchy

About 2 or 3 days but then the Army doesn't put hygiene at the top of it's list when your out in the field cold , wet , unshaved and starving

Run_to_da_hills

About a year when the shower was broken, took baths instead.

Desire to Aspire

Fourteen days when I was on holiday in Spain. It never occurred to me to shower, seeing as I was in the swimming pool every day and that seemed to do the job.

SparkyTech

Desire to Aspire wrote: »

Fourteen days when I was on holiday in Spain. It never occurred to me to shower, seeing as I was in the swimming pool every day and that seemed to do the job.

Did the chlorine not make you all wrinkly?

Desire to Aspire

SparkyTech wrote: »

Did the chlorine not make you all wrinkly?

No, not at all.

Setun

Dudess wrote: »

Two days - music festival in France. Misery.

Was it worth it?

barbarians

2 full weeks. I was only about 10 though so I just wasn't really as aware of proper hygiene as I should have been.

Main reason for not showering was because I wasn't arsed

Busi_Girl08

2 days in Irish college. 6 girls, one shower

xoxyx

SparkyTech wrote: »

Whats the longest time period you've ever gone without a scrub up? And what was the reasoning behind your lack of hygiene?

My own faux pas: 6 days at a music festival. Squalor, beer, sleeping in my hoodie and pot noodles were the order of the day. Lenor & Persil well and truly in order upon my return

Same as a lot of other people here - I went for a few days without a shower in a festival. Felt scuzzy! When I finally got a hot shower (on the Sunday of Electric Picnic), it was one of the most beautiful moments of the weekend. To this day I have a lot of great memories of the festival, and getting under that hot water is definitely in the top five!!

Busi_Girl08

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

. 6 girls, one shower

Ooh errr

Sunnyisland

Ugly Bollox Face wrote: »

Really? Does that work? (you'll have to excuse my ignorance, I know nothing about this).

Have you not smelled like **** all week so?

Yep it works ok, but its preferable to be by your own in the house or whatever as its not very hygienic.

MagicMarker

Don't remember how long it was, maybe 5-9 days, hiking in the US, good times.

Up-n-atom!

I'm really bad for washing if I'm sick - if I've got a bad virus/vomiting bug I'm not moving! So it could be up to 1 week/10 days, which is gross - I probably smelled like death, but I couldn't detect it so it didn't matter:p

tman

From Wednesday morning up until Monday evening every time I go to Glastonbury
There is no feeling on the planet like just standing under a power shower after that... Almost better than sex!!!!

Alter-Ego

8 Days during a festival in Belgium. I was in amsterdam for a few days before and didn't shower because I was always drunk or high there.
When I got to the festival in belgium I didn't shower because the showers had a 3hr queue during sober time. The pong off me was unreal, especially after 4 days in the 30degree Belgian heat. Its the crotch that stinks up the worst!

Lemsiper

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

6 girls, one shower

Google is only returning results for 4 girls 1 shower.

Sprrratt

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

2 days in Irish college. 6 girls, one shower

Go on...

SparkyTech

Sprrratt wrote: »

Go on...

:eek:

poppyvalley

realies wrote: »

Since wednesday to this saturday Reason, to give some new life to the natural oils of my body, To much washing & cleaning your body with all that soap n **** washes the natural oils away.:D

Kind of agree with you,R, theres also the fact that if your immune system is TOO clean, it can cause allergies, like you wash away all the good bugs as well as the bad ones, then the immune system starts fighting with itself. Moderation...give the shower an odd skip,say every 2nd day and a good hoor's bath in between keeps stink at bay(poetic;))

Kasabian

3 weeks while visiting some distant relatives but I did wash in a barrell each day so it was fine.

CrazyRabbit

Several weeks. Though, I was in intensive care/recovery & got regular bed baths.

Aoifey!

10 days because I had the swine flu.


My boyfriend has went up to 3 or 4 weeks without a shower

Metallitroll

lets see i haven't showered in about 10yr. radox muscle soak does not permit it

ArmaniJeanss

Three weeks beneath a rock in the Beqaa Valley, my job to take one shot that would change the world.

Wait, I've said too much.

captainjack

5 weeks in Mexico.

Not a shower to be seen although I was in the seawater for about 4-6 hours every day.

Took a week to become crust free once back in civilisation.

pragmatic1

A week. Who knew balls could smell of fish.

pajor

6 days
November 2009, when the water was shut off in Cork.

Only flushed the toilet about once a day too

wyndham

Aoifey! wrote: »

10 days because I had the swine flu.


My boyfriend has went up to 3 or 4 weeks without a shower

Nasty. You'd need a Jacobs Cream Cracker to go with the amount of cheese on his helmet at that stage.

Monife

About 5/6 days when I was really sick. Felt manky though!

Goldenegg

wyndham wrote: »

Nasty. You'd need a Jacobs Cream Cracker to go with the amount of cheese on his helmet at that stage.

That just made me gag.....

orourkeda

15 Minutes.

Damn OCD

kelle

We didn't have a shower when we were growing up, until I found a shower apray in a carboot sale at the age of 14 which you attached to the bath taps. Before that, it was a bath once weekly!

punchdrunk

Glastonbury,about five days

had to rely on wet wipes and bottled water,felt manky at the end of it

Poor Craythur

Around 10 days, during a hospital stay when I hadn't eaten in a week, so was very weak, as well as having a gaping wound that couldn't be covered because it had heal from the inside with the dressing changed daily so couldn't bathe.

Was too weak to even care, TBH. And the oil did my hair good actually.

Poor Craythur

Dudess wrote: »

Two days - music festival in France. Misery.

I regularly don't shower for two days. But boyf says I'm freakily unsmelly. He's blinkered, methinks.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

10 days in 40 degree heat in Africa doing foot patrols/mobile patrols in towns that people have never heard of.

All things combined it was a very sweatty experience. I forgot my babywipes.

Anyway..ended up with a bad case of crotch rot, either side of my balls were cut from the friction which in turn got infected and discharged smelly green goo.

When I eventually was able to shower, it was sooooo feckin painful, i ended up on my knees crying in the shower like the scene from the Crying game.

pragmatic1

benwavner wrote: »

10 days in 40 degree heat in Africa doing foot patrols/mobile patrols in towns that people have never heard of.

All things combined it was a very sweatty experience. I forgot my babywipes.

Anyway..ended up with a bad case of crotch rot, either side of my balls were cut from the friction which in turn got infected and discharged smelly green goo.

When I eventually was able to shower, it was sooooo feckin painful, i ended up on my knees crying in the shower like the scene from the Crying game.

Yuk.

wyndham

Goldenegg wrote: »

That just made me gag.....

Thats funny. It made her gag too when her boyfriend whipped it out.

Clooney1

16 days in a Somalian jail. It took Irish embassy 2 weeks to get to it from Tanzania. I never got an explanation why it took so long but I was very smelly.