Do I really need to shower/bath EVERY day??

sparrer

Strip wash on the five days I'm at home, shower/hair wash on Sun & Weds, the days I go to my fellowship. I have a push-on shower unit over the bath which is very efficient and I sit on the bath board and take my time, usually about 15 minutes. On the other days I sit on the loo lid and wash at the basin. It takes about the same time but less water, two basins full, and as I'm very water conscious my metered bill is £13 a month.
The children used to be bathed every evening, when I was a child it was once a week.

fiftyeighter_2

I bath most days in the evening. My DD every day in the morning before college. Only ever shower in summer. Love my bath but don't spend ages in it. When I was young it was a tin bath once a week on a Sunday. And there were 15 of us.

CompBunny

We only have a bath.

OH and I bath every day (or every other day for me if I'm not up to having a bath) because I have horrific night sweats We share the water though to save money.

hauxwell

I have a bath every other day or so (don't have a shower) and don't often bother having a wash inbetween unless I have been doing something mucky. I am very unsweaty and oh says I am self cleaning

Oh usually hops in the bath water after me but he has a strip wash more often as he has a dirty job. I think people wash far too often

flamingo747

I am actually quite surprised, expected more money saving bath/shower avoiders hehe

Torry_Quine

I shower every other day and have a bath roughly ever couple of weeks instead of a shower. Find that's plenty and agree that for most every day or more just isn't needed for cleaning unless in a dirty job.

GlynD

CompBunny wrote: »

We only have a bath.

OH and I bath every day (or every other day for me if I'm not up to having a bath) because I have horrific night sweats We share the water though to save money.

I have great sympathy for you. Night sweats are a horrible thing. If you've never suffered you'll never know just how rotten it is. I've suffered a really bad reaction to drugs recently so was getting the sweating 24/7. I also take morphine and that causes me to sweat in bed.

With me not being able to use either the shower or the bath for so long it's been really hard to feel clean. I'm so looking forward to when our new bathroom is finished and I can enjoy the luxury of a good long shower again.

melanzana

Sorry folks, haven't read the whole thread, but i get the drift!

I shower every morning when off to work, but have to say on days off, I go without and do the minimum to stay clean (for me).

I think once the nether regions and underarms are washed ((days off), it is fine. Clean clothes are a must too on those days.

Hair I wash every day for work, but do the minimum on days off. There are great dry shampoos out there. And they keep the oily bits at bay!

Else why would they markt them for this?

Cleanliness is really something I like, but I can improvise too. Our parents generation had a bath on Saturday Night. And that was that.

pelirocco

tru wrote: »

Twice a day for me, one in the morning and one about 7pm-ish

Am I weird?

Nope

I shower in the morning and bath at night

madnotstupid

About twice a week. skin and hair are way too dry to wash more often. and I don't stink.