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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve never used wash cloths and my skin is fine.

Right, I can relate to this post so much. Absent father, and mentally ill mother who didn’t teach us much of anything.

I was not taught:

To wash your hands after using the bathroom, or to wash your hands before preparing food. Gross combo, I know. Or I should say, I know that now. For a long time I didn’t.

To keep a clean house. For example, example, our bathtub was almost always dirty. I think my mom cleaned it maybe a few times a year. And she never taught us how to do it, or that it was important to do it.

What to wear. I wore a strapless dress to our homecoming dance one year without a bra, because I figured you just didn’t wear one if it was a strapless dress. I didn’t know there was even such a thing as a strapless bra and that’s what you were supposed to wear under a strapless dress. I danced a lot, and apparently a lot of people were laughing at me for weeks because of the bouncing. But what to wear in general was an issue as well. I remember one of my mother’s boyfriends took her to a wedding and she wore a denim skirt and a sweater, lol. And he was angry.

I was never taught much about hygiene. I was never taught to take my makeup off at night. I would just leave it on, and then put more on the next day. Fortunately, I’m genetically gifted with good skin, and it never had an effect. We never learned to floss our teeth, and only brushed our teeth once a day. We never took showers, and only took a bath about once a week at the most. Other kids made fun of me for being dirty and made fun of my greasy dirty hair.

Which brings me to the laundry. Most of my childhood I spent wearing dirty clothes. Because my mother said stuff didn’t need to be washed very often. I think my bed had the same sheets on it for months at a time.

I don’t know … I could probably write for days about this stuff.

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