i find it lazy that folks cant get up and get in a shower for 10 minutes. and dont give me the "im busy" excuse cause its not like you have to commit to doing something like you do for exercising.

while i even find the excuse of not having time to do exercise lame, there is no excuse for a shower though.

get in, throw some soap on your body (hell do it lazy even) and get out. whats so hard?

Anonymous wrote:I'm really surprised - I don't shower every day unless I've been sweaty or my hair is greasy. It's bad for your skin and hair, not to mention it is a serious waste of water, to shower every day.

Also note that your body adapts to your cleaning schedule - so those of you who shower every day, of course you get greasy and oily b/c your skin is adapting to such dry conditions. If you shower other day, you're producing less oils. Do a little research before you freak out and talk about showering twice a day -- that is so incredibly wasteful. You're gross.

How do you not become sweaty daily in this climate? What about your sheets--you let all of the funk of the day get all over your sheets, and then sleep on that on the days that you actually clean yourself? There must be a bedbug orgy going on in your bed.

Do you realize that your bodies are covered in germs? You could get Flesh-eating bacteria from a minor cut if you don't keep yourself clean. How on earth is showering twice a day "gross"?

i have no choice but to shower everyday since i work out first thing in the morning.

i dont think an adult should skip a shower at all. what are you in college? thats the only time in my life where i heard about people skipping showers until the next evening.

id party til 4 and still showered whenever time i woke the hell up. be it 7am or 1pm.

Once a day, sometimes skip a day on the weekend if I am not going anywhere.

I'm really surprised - I don't shower every day unless I've been sweaty or my hair is greasy. It's bad for your skin and hair, not to mention it is a serious waste of water, to shower every day.

Also note that your body adapts to your cleaning schedule - so those of you who shower every day, of course you get greasy and oily b/c your skin is adapting to such dry conditions. If you shower other day, you're producing less oils. Do a little research before you freak out and talk about showering twice a day -- that is so incredibly wasteful. You're gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you been to Europe?

When I came here from Europe I was appauled at how poor American's hygiene was. Friends didn't shower regulary or wash their hair and they kept their room/house nasty and filthy.

I have to agree here - Italians I've known are VERY clean - way more than I am. They will get up from the dinner table and start vacuuming - always cleaning, sterilizing, etc.

Do they have to be that way? Maybe they have to sterilize and clean to keep things sanitary in their houses. How's the water and public sanitation there?

Dude it's italy, it's not a third world country. You are a classic case of ignorant and never been out of the US!!

I only shower daily if I work out. If I don't then every other day. It is too drying to shower daily. It messes up my skin and hair. My hairdresser got me to stop showering unless I work out.

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Anonymous wrote:People who shower everyday can tell when they are around people who don't. Think about it--everyone has worked with someone who stinks, right?

The people I've known to smell like that were men who showered daily but who would wear the same shirt without laundering it for several days in a row.

Fortunately I haven't worked with anyone who smelled, but I notice it on the metro all the time. Ranges from full-on stink to faint nastiness -- in the "you probably haven't showered in the last day or two" way. I can't stand the smell either way. I won't sit next to those people and if I'm standing, I'll move down the car. Same with anyone who smells like smoke or strong perfume. It just turns my stomach.

It is nearly always men, by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you been to Europe?

When I came here from Europe I was appauled at how poor American's hygiene was. Friends didn't shower regulary or wash their hair and they kept their room/house nasty and filthy.

? I'm American and none of my American friends shower less than daily, and many shower twice daily. While there are sometimes noticeable differences in hygiene practices between Americans and Europeans, I haven't noticed similar differences in cleanliness of their homes.

Hygiene isn't a matter of one culture being better or worse than another culture. It wasn't so long ago that Europeans and Americans bathed less than once a month because they were afraid water carried life-threatening contaminants. By way of example, a French king once learned that one of his courtiers had recently bathed. He wrote to the courtier that out of concern for that courtier's health, rendered fragile by the bath, he would go to his home to meet with him, rather than holding the meeting elsewhere.

Shower everyday and actually enjoy it (showering, that is). It's 5 - 10 minutes of calm and relaxation before I get started with my day and I don't feel the same without a shower in the morning.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not shower every day. I don't work out every single day, either. It actually screws up my hair if I wash it every day, so there is no need to shower unless I'm super active. I can almost guarantee you would not know the difference between my shower days and my non-shower days.

It isn't like I skip teeth brushing, too.

+1.

Not everybody does things the same way, people, deal with it. Everyone has different hair, skin, diets, sweat. We are all adults and have worked out what works for us as individuals, deal with it and MYOB.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:I do not shower every day. I don't work out every single day, either. It actually screws up my hair if I wash it every day, so there is no need to shower unless I'm super active. I can almost guarantee you would not know the difference between my shower days and my non-shower days.

It isn't like I skip teeth brushing, too.

+1.

Not everybody does things the same way, people, deal with it. Everyone has different hair, skin, diets, sweat. We are all adults and have worked out what works for us as individuals, deal with it and MYOB.

Anonymous wrote:People who shower everyday can tell when they are around people who don't. Think about it--everyone has worked with someone who stinks, right?

The people I've known to smell like that were men who showered daily but who would wear the same shirt without laundering it for several days in a row.

Anonymous wrote:I shower daily, sometimes twice a day

Same. I take morning showers, but will add a quick one in the evening if I feel all sweaty and grimy from a hot humid day, working out, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you been to Europe?

When I came here from Europe I was appauled at how poor American's hygiene was. Friends didn't shower regulary or wash their hair and they kept their room/house nasty and filthy.

I have to agree here - Italians I've known are VERY clean - way more than I am. They will get up from the dinner table and start vacuuming - always cleaning, sterilizing, etc.

Do they have to be that way? Maybe they have to sterilize and clean to keep things sanitary in their houses. How's the water and public sanitation there?