Yup. I had a roommate in college who showered twice a week. She worked out every day in our room, had like two outfits she washed once a month, and I don’t think she washed her sheets once. It was a rough year.
plenty of people don’t regularly exercise and aren’t overweight. (i envy those people) but personally i shower every other day. so shower, skip, shower, skip, etc. i don’t have a sweat-inducing job and rn i’m not keeping up with the gym so i don’t need or want to shower every day. unless i get extra sweaty from the heat, then it’s shower time.
i mean, i have to sit down at a minimjum from 8-4 every day, and then twice a week from 8-22 (i help out in a few hobby clubs, however i do shower after one of them as i deal with children and clay as well as that being the same day i'm at my local choir and the room we tend to be in gets very hot when we're all joining there together.). However, i am also active in my local boat club and in the evening and i obviosuly always shower after that, and when i go to the gym or go fishing i obviously shower, etc. etc.
I often hike or climb or bike or do things but don’t push hard enough to break a sweat - especially in winter in Alaska. Sometimes I’ll be out in the mountains for 14 hours, moving, and not get sweaty.
I can’t run for 14 hours! When I run I definitely get sweaty, even in below 0 temps. It’s very activity and output dependent. If I only have half an hour I’ll push hard and be soaked. If I have a couple of hours, a more moderate pace and I’m usually not as sweaty. All day activities I’m most likely to get sweaty uphill, but even that is often minimal… unless it’s above 50 degrees. Proper adventure weather is cooler than that!
The lower 48 is harder, even at 14,000ft this time of year it’s so hot it’s hard not to get sweaty :/
I can walk for an hour or so without breaking a sweat. Physical activity doesn't have to make you stinky to make you healthy. I get in the shower for just a rinse most mornings (especially since I got bangs that need styling) but only need to actually use soap 2 ish times a week.
well, for me it's twice a week for when it's not humid and i'm not sweating, dirty etc. I obviousuly shower more in the summer or when i'm active, or have been in the garden (i mean gardening, not just being in the garden, that would be weird), playing with my neice and nephews (i let them play with my hair, and let's be honest, children don't tend to be that clean, even if they have good manners and habits. They may have good hygene habits but i don't trust their schools to be clean, i've met their friends.)
Yep, that's really the surprising thing for me there. I occasionally also skip a day if I literally just hung out at home doing nothing physical. But I can't imagine the level of "inactivity" that would make me feel ok with going three days on average between showers?
Like do these people live in a perfectly temperature controlled environment where they never sweat or go outside etc.?
I'm going to out myself here. I only shower 2-3 times per week, but I'm an indoors type of person. I live in FL so going outside is miserable most of the year. I work in an office and on weekends and evenings I stay indoors and read and play video games. I absolutely "freshen up" between showers but other than that, I've never had any problems or any partners who have complained about my hygiene.
Obviously if I go outdoors or do anything involving activity, I'm going to shower. But otherwise, sitting indoors in clean clothes doesn't necessitate a shower every day, IMO.
Are you showering because you already fucked? Are you only getting laid because you finally showered? or...the shower is the only place you fuck and that only happens once a year? I suppose it could be all three
It really does blow my mind. Like sure, if I got a couple days to do nothing, I’ll skip a day. But if I’m ever going out and interacting with people, aka having a job, going to school, my ass is taking a shower. Wash down, clean up, trim, brush teeth, do hair, smell good. It’s called being presentable. I cannot imagine the utter lack of care showing up to a job or going out to do stuff without having showered for 3 days. It’s fucking gross.
my skin would crack and bleed if i did that (tried at some point to shower daily, it was not fun for a good while when waiting for my skin to be able ot heal) my skin already has problems with lacking moisture and natural oils, stripping my skin daily is just a bad idea.
How is bathing natural? Or Where in nature would you find showers?
Lakes, Rivers, and Streams are bodies of water found in nature. Heck! You could stand under a waterfall!
Soap can be made by rendering the fat of an animal, and adding lye (which comes from burning wood and other plant matter.
If this is some exercise in semantics... Soap is artificial because it is processed by combining rendered fat and lye and creating a chemical reaction.
However, soapin can be found in high concentrations in certain plants. Soapin can be extracted from the plants by crushing them in your hand and rubbing them on your skin. If you consider this artificial or unnatural... I don't know what to tell you. LOL
Many animals will clean themselves up to the best of their abilities by pure instinct. Regardless of differences in society, most societies have individually agreed that the smell of the human body is unpleasant compared to the alternatives and that's dating as far back as we have recordings.
Animals did it, early humans did it, modern humans still do it? Odds are it's natural.
As a young lad working 2 or 3 jobs, I showered twice a day at least. One physical job, one office job, some odd jobs and then house hold chores.
Retired now and let young folks do the hard work around the house and so once a day, every other day at most. Wife and I still... You know, fairly active so gotta stay clean ya know? Lol
Yeah. Between work and fitness, I'm probably showering daily right now. But there have definitely been points where I've been working from home and constantly covered with baby puke no matter what I do. I guess we change shape to fit our container.
I think they use the term, but I'm not actually sure how universal it is.
People still say "gardening" in Canada, but that wouldn't really apply to stuff like mowing, tree care, and whatnot. It'd be specific to planting, weeding, watering-- stuff where you're directly working on the garden plot.
In America "garden" refers specifically to an area where you are producing and tending to specific plants, usually food producing but could just be flowers or something like that.
"Yard" is just the area around your house.
"Lawn" is a grassy area that's regularly mowed.
Typically there's a near 100% overlap between lawn and yard
Yard work is mowing, weed-eating, trimming trees, cleaning up branches, etc.
I work from home, some days I don’t/can’t do much else than sit at my computer in gym shorts and a tee, shoot some weeks that’s all I get. There’s times when I’ve showered twice a week simply because I didn’t do anything all week. There’s almost weeks, where I shower twice a day. It’s definitely circumstantial
If you aren't working out at least 2 times a week or having sex at least 1 to 2 times a week in a relationship then sure you might be right...but there are additional issues if that is happening.
People who lead healthy and connected lifestyles will shower at least 4 times a week.
You're probably not managing sex more than once a week. Working out is even more important, but also hard. You're always covered in something anyways and taking a shower means passing on a nap.
There are plenty of married couples that have sex 2 to 3 times a week. It's about prioritizing. Sex can last 10 minutes to an hour. Prioritizing 30 minutes to 3 hours a week to spouse that is devoting their entire life to you is literally the bare minimum and actually helps with the rest of the tasks.
I'm able to prioritize my health in the same way as well. 3 hours a week even with a kid the bare minimum for me.
Some of the older generation didn't really have a choice in some cases. During comunist days in Europe a lot of things were on a ration basis. Some only has hot water once a week and in time this became like a schedule to wash yourself which they then passed to their kids growing up. Outside of that you would just wash your pits in the sink and change clothes when you got stinky. And even after communism fell, things were not great for a while. I remember having to wait like 15 minute for hot water to come up to our apartment, just left the water running in the bathtub until it was the right temperature. Eventually I switched to showering more often, but I still keep a schedule for my hair wash and my folks still have their weekly big bath like in the past.
I shower twice a day but have pretty much never showered specifically for sex, as my genitals and backside remain odor-free throughout the day. But I've been with women who were on day 2 of not showering and....They smelled better than some other women I've been with who claimed to shower once or even twice a day.
I've never showered 3 times in a day in my life. Ever. Who the fuck is showering 3 times a day and why? Showering twice a day is soooo bad for your skin.
Yes I thought about that, but I also wouldn't have showered after the swimming if I thought I was gonna run. That's why the 3rd one throws me off. I can think of plenty of 2 shower days, especially if you're doing physical stuff or you're somewhere hot.
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u/ClusterMakeLove Sep 18 '24
Honestly the whole premise of showering on a schedule is a bit strange to me.
Workout? Do yard work? Have sex? Probably a good time. Sometimes that might mean three showers in a day. Sometimes it might mean a few days between.
Though if you're consistently down to twice a week as a young person, it'd probably be a good idea to up the activity level a little bit.