Do you shower every morning?

Boom_Bap · 31-05-2017 09:48AM

Every morning, the exception to this is on a Sunday if we are going for a hike, I'll save the shower for after that.
Alot of evenings as well, but that's only if I've been cycling, running or playing football.

brevity · 31-05-2017 09:48AM

I couldn't shower every day, my skin would be a mess.

Every other day is fine.

Kimbot · 31-05-2017 09:50AM

pilly wrote: »

Older people come from a generation when they didn't have showers don't forget.

My grannies house didn't have a bath until the mid 70s and even then she had only had one once a week.

She washed herself at the sink though and I don't remember her ever smelling.

A few months back there was an article somewhere on the internet about a girl that completely gave up showering. It was an intersting read so I shall try dig it up

Outlaw Pete · 31-05-2017 09:51AM

And waste all those sexy pheromones? Not a chance.

Kimbot · 31-05-2017 09:51AM

Not the article I mentioned but another one that gave up the showers:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/jan/23/throw-in-towel-stop-showering-helpful-microbes-skin

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 31-05-2017 09:53AM

It wouldn't be unusual for me to shower three times a day. Commute to work on a bike (about 1 hour each way), shower when I get into work, shower when I get home from work and shower again late evening if I go training (gym, footy etc). It helps that I sweat like a pig in a bacon factory though.

Edit: Just to add - they are 2-3 minute showers, if even that. In, splash splash and out type jobs. Otherwise my skin would be wrecked.

Shenshen · 31-05-2017 09:54AM

Yes, absolute minimum. Though I sometimes go for a swim before showering, depends on if I have the time in the morning and the tide is in.

And I would shower after excercise - be that cycling or cleaning the house or digging the garden. So that's almost every other day in the afternoons, too.

GingerLily · 31-05-2017 09:55AM

I don't always shower on a Sunday until the evening, there's something very liberating about mixing up your every day routine on the weekend.
But I shower before work every morning, especially in the summer, nice way to start the day.

Shenshen · 31-05-2017 09:56AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Not the article I mentioned but another one that gave up the showers:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/jan/23/throw-in-towel-stop-showering-helpful-microbes-skin

So, in a nutshell, he stopped showering and started smelling....

ILikeBoats · 31-05-2017 10:00AM

Yes every morning before work.
Maybe not on Saturdays if I'm going doing jobs etc.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 31-05-2017 10:01AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Not the article I mentioned but another one that gave up the showers:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/jan/23/throw-in-towel-stop-showering-helpful-microbes-skin

Wise man, he certainly won't have an big electricity bills :pac:

pilly · 31-05-2017 10:03AM

When the water charges come back we won't be all so clean!

Surreptitious · 31-05-2017 10:07AM

There is nothing as nice as a hot/cold shower washing off the day then getting into clean pjs and freshly washed sheets and snuggling up. On a hot day it's a cool shower and on a cold day it's a hot shower. Some sprightly fruity shower gel, nice shampoo and you're laughing. All the ladies knows what I'm talking about.

whoopsadoodles · 31-05-2017 10:08AM

pilly wrote: »

When the water charges come back we won't be all so clean!

I wouldn't compromise on hygiene and just generally feeling good because of the few pence it would cost to do so.

pilly · 31-05-2017 10:13AM

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

I wouldn't compromise on hygiene and just generally feeling good because of the few pence it would cost to do so.

It was joke whoops.

Bored Accountant · 31-05-2017 10:16AM

I shower every morning. Just feels manky to leave the house without showering.
U sweat more in bed than during the day, so need to feel clean starting off the day.

When I used to get public transport to/from work, I knew I was stink especially on a hot day from sweating, but what could I do. I had showered that morning.

And obviously if I have done any exercise, or work in the garden, that warrents another shower!

JillyQ · 31-05-2017 10:30AM

I shower every morning and after using the gym or pool. I just don't feel right in the morning if I don't. Used to work with a guy who only showered once a week and loved to eat garlic in the end the smell from him was appalling we had to have a talk with him about it.

31-05-2017 10:45AM

I have a 5 minute shower every second day where I turn the water off when it isn't wetting/rinsing. my hair/body. Having a hot shower every day is luxurious and an unnecessary use of water and energy to heat the water. This compulsion to shower every day, sometimes more than once, only came about in the last 10/15 years. Also I can remember that prior to the mid 2000s it was normal for children and adults to wear the same clothes for days on end- now people seem to wear them once and throw them in the wash. Shows the power of culture - when people started to get spoilt during the 2000s the rich started to wash their clothes after minimal wearing and the sense that this is normal began to spread downwards on the socioeconomic scale, similar to how the norm of having a shower every day spread. Every second day is more than often enough.

31-05-2017 10:56AM

I agree with onionbelt. It's very important to have good hygiene but this obsession with constant showering is silly in my opinion.

31-05-2017 10:59AM

I think people pretend to themselves that they shower because they'll stink otherwise. In reality most people know they don't smell bad after 1 day and instead they shower regularly because it's pleasurable to stand under hot water when it's a bit cold and makes them feel psychologically cleaned in some sense, a sense that "now" I can get other stuff done, or something. They are so used to (albeit unconsciously) experiencing constantly pleasurable lives that the thought of having to have a lower baseline level of pleasure in their everyday lives is not an option as far as they are concerned and so they don't like it being pointed out to them that their indulgence wastes the planets non renewable resources. They probably had one bath a week shared with their siblings when they were children growing up in the 90s and so have a sense of an individual hot shower being a sort of treat they can keep having.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 31-05-2017 11:02AM

I work Monday to Friday and would not feel right going to work without a shower. Saturdays and Sundays are different. I don't tend to shower Saturday mornings as I generally have housework/gardening/painting etc to do anyway, so I would save my shower until after the jobs are finished.

Sundays are a different matter though, to be honest. I would tend to have a lie in and not usually bother with showering at all, unless I'm going out Sunday afternoon or evening, which is rare. I don't think I smell badly on a Sunday..............

AudreyHepburn · 31-05-2017 11:04AM

I shower every evening - I have to get up early for work as it without trying to fit a shower in each evening.

I don't wash my every day however because it gets greasy. I usually do it every second day.

31-05-2017 11:05AM

Every second night usually, sometimes might go 3 days. I absolutely can't stand morning showers don't know how people love them so much or appear to think they can't function without them. There is also no need to shower every single day, how its become so prevalent is nothing but social conditioning.

retro:electro · 31-05-2017 11:06AM

I shower in the evening. Love getting into bed feeling all clean and nice, I sleep better. I would shower every single evening and would feel like a manky turd if I didn't. Having said that, if I did skip it on one occasion, I certainly wouldn't smell or anything.
I'd say the smelly people you meet on the bus are foregoing more than just a daily shower. Skipping one morning shower wouldn't cause one to reek- I'd say these people just avoid washing altogether and aren't all that into their personal hygiene in general.

dbagman · 31-05-2017 11:25AM

Sleeper12 wrote:

Everyday but not necessarily every morning. I'm a tradesman and imagine usually pretty ripe getting home from work so that it is the best time to for me

Same as. Showering in the morning would be a waste of time given an hour later I'll be filthy again on site.

RayM · 31-05-2017 11:51AM

I have a warm shower every morning because it wakes me up and helps me to look and smell beautiful. Between showering, drying and getting dressed, it only takes around 10 minutes.

Shenshen · 31-05-2017 11:54AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think people pretend to themselves that they shower because they'll stink otherwise. In reality most people know they don't smell bad after 1 day and instead they shower regularly because it's pleasurable to stand under hot water when it's a bit cold and makes them feel psychologically cleaned in some sense, a sense that "now" I can get other stuff done, or something. They are so used to (albeit unconsciously) experiencing constantly pleasurable lives that the thought of having to have a lower baseline level of pleasure in their everyday lives is not an option as far as they are concerned and so they don't like it being pointed out to them that their indulgence wastes the planets non renewable resources. They probably had one bath a week shared with their siblings when they were children growing up in the 90s and so have a sense of an individual hot shower being a sort of treat they can keep having.

Lots of speculation there - I grew up in the 70s and 80, and daily showers were the norm for us then, too.
That said, I prefer showering hot just for a few moments, and then cold.

RocketRaccoon · 31-05-2017 11:57AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Lots of speculation there - I grew up in the 70s and 80, and daily showers were the norm for us then, too.
That said, I prefer showering hot just for a few moments, and then cold.

A daily shower in the 80s? I remember getting a bath on a Sunday evening and that was it.

pilly · 31-05-2017 11:59AM

Shenshen wrote: »

Lots of speculation there - I grew up in the 70s and 80, and daily showers were the norm for us then, too.
That said, I prefer showering hot just for a few moments, and then cold.

Ah you must have been posh Shenshen in fairness. No-one I knew in the 70s and 80s had a daily shower for a number of reasons:

1. A lot of houses didn't have showers
2. If you had a shower it usually wasn't electric so you'd have to turn on the immersion to heat the water-woe betide if you asked Mam could you turn it on every day.
3. Same as 2 applied to a bath, hence kids all having a bath together.

Shenshen · 31-05-2017 11:59AM

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

A daily shower in the 80s? I remember getting a bath on a Sunday evening and that was it.

Well, I remember they were shallow baths until we were old enough to shower on our own around 6 years old - which in my case would have been 1980.

My mom told me stories about weekly baths when she was little, in the 50s.

Do you shower every morning?

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