Do you shower every morning?

Shenshen · 31-05-2017 12:02PM

pilly wrote: »

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.

I never considered myself posh at all - it was the same for everyone at every sleepover I would be at, after all?
I did grow up in Germany, I don't think I ever saw a house without shower in my life. They don't do electric showers, though. Hot water is always on tab, you just pay for it along with your regular water charges.

31-05-2017 12:05PM

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.

Interesting - I'd imagine daily hot showers were rare back then, in Ireland anyway.

Edit: ah, you grew up in Germany

pilly · 31-05-2017 12:54PM

Shenshen wrote: »

I never considered myself posh at all - it was the same for everyone at every sleepover I would be at, after all?
I did grow up in Germany, I don't think I ever saw a house without shower in my life. They don't do electric showers, though. Hot water is always on tab, you just pay for it along with your regular water charges.

Ah that explains it.

31-05-2017 12:58PM

I remember being washed in the kitchen sink

31-05-2017 01:01PM

I shower and shampoo every morning, I swim or run every morning and I'm either washing off the chlorine or sweat. I still shower when I don't, because I like the fresh feeling. If it's particularly hot or I'm active during the day I'll often have a two minute shower before bed to freshen up a bit.

Mint Sauce · 31-05-2017 01:07PM

A shower in our house in the 80s, and even into the 90's, involved kneeling in in the bath tub, with a mixer hose connected to the hot and cold tap, trying to get that balance somewhere between scolding hot cold, and just right, and hoping someone in the kitchen didn't run the taps during it.

Sleepy · 31-05-2017 01:10PM

I'm not a morning person. You don't want to be around me until I've had my shower tbh.

MilesMorales1 · 31-05-2017 01:26PM

Yeah. Either you smell bad, or you just feel a bit greasy.

tinpib · 31-05-2017 01:37PM

In the last 3 weeks or so I've started having a shower at night as well as in the morning. Love it so I do. Lying in bed all clean afterwards, vegging watching utter nonsense, documentaries or pornography on my laptop after a productive day.

xzanti · 31-05-2017 01:38PM

I shower every morning and every night. In the morning to wake up and in the evening to relax, and of course for hygiene.

badabing106 · 31-05-2017 03:17PM

I shower 4 times per day and change my socks twice

Fathom · 31-05-2017 03:19PM

lawred2 wrote: »

Do you shower every morning?

That's a big yes.

IvyTheTerrible · 31-05-2017 03:21PM

Yeah, for cleanliness and to knock the cobwebs off.

seamus · 31-05-2017 03:29PM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I know someone who only showers once a week. I stayed in her house one time for a few days and had a shower every day, but she has no shower curtain. So every time the shower is used it creates a big mess in the bathroom with water everywhere. She won't buy one because she feels she is over 70 and that it's not worth the bother installing one for the few years that's left in her

After every shower I had she would spend half an hour or more cleaning the place up with towels unkown to me until I saw her at it one day. Then I stopped having showers there and I havn't been back there since. Despite only showering once a week her house is perfectly clean and she spends ages cleaning, polishing and tidying the place. Believes washing too often is bad for the skin.

Ah here. A shower curtain rail and a plain curtain with rings will cost you less than €15. Would you not just buy it and stick it up for the poor woman rather than leave her struggling at 70 years of age to mop up a bathroom every time she has a wash?
She's obviously not buying one because she can't afford to. Have a heart.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 31-05-2017 03:40PM

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

What did people do in Ireland before 'showers' became a common fixture in most Irish homes. (1960s, 1970s?)

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

Yourself isit · 31-05-2017 03:45PM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

A shower in our house in the 80s, and even into the 90's, involved kneeling in in the bath tub, with a mixer hose connected to the hot and cold tap, trying to get that balance somewhere between scolding hot cold, and just right, and hoping someone in the kitchen didn't run the taps during it.

That's what I have now.

Armchair Andy · 31-05-2017 03:47PM

I hate showering. Its a boring chore.
Once a week here and more if I'm doing dirty work.

Yourself isit · 31-05-2017 03:47PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

What did people do in Ireland before 'showers' became a common fixture in most Irish homes. (1960s, 1970s?)

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

Not my era but they did a generous sink wash concentrating on intimate areas.

Yourself isit · 31-05-2017 03:48PM

badabing106 wrote: »

I shower 4 times per day and change my socks twice

Unless you are exercising in between - seems excessive.

Armchair Andy · 31-05-2017 03:49PM

Yourself isit wrote:

Not my era but they did a generous sink wash concentrating on intimate areas.

We washed our arses cocked up in front of a mirror lest we miss any shÃ¬tty bits.

seamus · 31-05-2017 03:52PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

What did people do in Ireland before 'showers' became a common fixture in most Irish homes. (1960s, 1970s?)

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

I'm not one of the older ones, but a "hoor's bath" would have been very common. A washcloth, bar of soap and a sink of water, you clean your face, under your arms, maybe in between the legs and anywhere else that might be visibly dirty for whatever reason.

I have a mate who was raised in the 80s in a house with a perfectly functioning shower, but all the kids were made wash themselves this way before bed, with maybe, maybe a bath once a week. Parents came from proper old inner-city stock. He still does it now; if you meet him after work he'll go upstairs and "have a wash" with a cloth and sink of water.

travel hoang hoa · 31-05-2017 03:53PM

Can barely function without a morning shower.

pilly · 31-05-2017 03:53PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

What did people do in Ireland before 'showers' became a common fixture in most Irish homes. (1960s, 1970s?)

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

When I was a kid living at home it was a once a week job on a Saturday.

As a teenager it was whenever Ma would let you put on the immersion, you washed your hair bent over the sink with a mug.

When I moved into my own house, still didn't have a shower, used to have a bath every night, the luxury, thought I was living the high life. :pac::pac:

Once the electric shower came into fashion I didn't know meself, never out of it.

I've never lived in a house without a bath though, don't know how people live without the luxury of a soak in the bath every so often, nothing like it.

I've friends who have beautiful big wet rooms and they always have a bath when they come to stay in mine.

OldNotWIse · 31-05-2017 03:54PM

This again. Here we go with the blah blah fresh jammies, fresh bedclothes, fresh clothes, lots of hot water/ wont someone think of the environment etc. as well as prattling on about whether you should dry your crack before your back etc. :rolleyes::P

This topic really is the gift that keeps on giving.

travel hoang hoa · 31-05-2017 03:55PM

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

tayto lover · 31-05-2017 03:56PM

A fellow I used to work always said "only dirty people wash".

pilly · 31-05-2017 03:57PM

travel hoang hoa wrote: »

Can I put forward a question to some of the older members.

Did they take a bath every morning? Sinkwash?

Someone beat you to that question already.

OldNotWIse · 31-05-2017 03:59PM

WhiteRoses wrote: »

Nothing better than having a long scaldy shower just before bed every night, then coming out and putting on loads of moisturiser, tying the hair up wet in a bun and getting into bed with fresh pjs. Nothing beats it, it washes off the day.
Don't have time for showering before work but do have a quick wash every morning. I shower every evening before bed, though.

Getting into bed with wet hair? No thanks.

pilly · 31-05-2017 04:00PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Getting into bed with wet hair? No thanks.

As my mother used to say "you'll get your death".

OldNotWIse · 31-05-2017 04:02PM

pilly wrote: »

As my mother used to say "you'll get your death".

Well not even that but I imagine it would be uncomfortable and make you feel cold.

Do you shower every morning?

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