UNLESS you work a blue collar job, or any other job that requires you to be outside the whole time, I don’t see the point in showering every day. Especially if you work from home or in a building with AC. It seems excessive and is also a waste of water. But do what you want lmao.
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OP, you probably stink. You might not care but I’m sure the people around you do.
Been doing this for twenty years, not one complaint
You do you. I work with a guy that doesn’t think he stinks too. He does.
and has anyone informed him of that? it’s a bit wild to sit there thinking he’s weird and then not doing anything to rectify the situation
Yes, a coworker that wasn’t afraid of HR told him he has a little funk going on and might want to shower more often. He laughed it off and said he doesn’t smell bad. Now when he’s particularly ripe, he hoses himself down in some flowery body spray that I would say is worse than his funk since it’s like the old ladies that use enough perfume for two months on a single outing.
This seems unnecessarily rude without engaging with what OP said. They’re basically asking why 24 hours is a magical shower number? Why not 20, or 12? What about 28, or 36?
Not everyone on the planet has the exact same body, so why would going any longer than 24 mean OP probably stinks?
yeah, what if op has an abcc11 gene malfunction?
Washing everyday can be excessive. rinsing everyday is good.
Upvoted for unpopular lol
My daughter is 18 and doesn’t need to shower every day. She has no discernable body odour that I know of and she hardly sweats.
I’ll be smelly by 4pm having had a shower at 7am. Deodorant can only do so much. I work from home at a desk.
Everyone is different.
Eh, at least rinse off. TMI, but I personally enjoy having my intimate areas touched, and I find washing them helps me get where I want to go.
Maybe no need to vigorously scrub your body from head to toe every morning, but there is an advantage to at least rinsing the stink off of yourself every day.
For me, agreed. I live in a desert, work a sedentary job, and spend the vast majority of my time freezing in the ac because I’m not warm unless it’s like 76 degrees. My skin is happier if I skip a day and I try to save water whenever possible. But for other people, they know their stink levels better than me, and I’m not gonna tell anybody else how to wash themselves. Unless they’re like my ex, taking 2 or 3 showers a day for literally no reason and running up the water bill in, again, a damn desert. I did tell him to knock that off.
Every human body is different. Some people need a shower twice a day. Some people have natural perfume.
If you are concerned about it being a waste of water, then you can campaign to make society treat it as a valuable resource and not a “free swimming pool for everybody” type deal. Cause for a lot of those cases you point out, people are just using it like it’s priced dirt low.
Gross. Have an upvote.
I like having a shower. It’s nice.
Depends on where you live and what you do, right? If I don’t sweat, smell or got dirty somehow, I shower every second day. I don’t need to shower every day if I just hang out at home and game and sleep the whole day lol
Ever heard of exercise, OP?
You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)
I live in Wyoming. In the winter I bathe once or twice a week simply because it is so cold and dry that I don’t sweat. If I bathe too much my skin will dry and crack in the cold dry air, which is not pleasant. Notice, I said bathe instead of shower. That’s because if I am going to skip a few days, I need to make sure that I properly scrub off the dead skin. Dead dry skin can also lead to painful cracked skin. Wyoming winters don’t fuck around.
In the summer it can get very dusty so skipping a shower is a rare thing. Hell, sometimes I have to wash the dust off my face multiple times a day.
EDIT: Grammar fixes
At home it’s just part of my wake up routine to take a shower. I do it in the morning.
On holidays, like cycling holidays i may end up not taking a shower for a week even though i’ll be sweating my ass off every day. I don’t feel like i smell terrible then, and i have not gotten the vibe ever that somebody else thought i did. I use deo though and do some ‘cat wash’.
Depends on weather. In summer I usually shower at least once a day. Peak heat wave it was 4 times because I just could’t function like that. Winter… depends, but often it’s every other day, depending how I feel.
