In my case, I would normally take a shower every day. A few years ago, when I was single, I showered twice a day sometimes. But now, the act of having a full time job with overtime (I'm out 14 hours a day), and trying to balance out time for my marriage, and my kid... well, what do you skip out on? I even use the bathroom at work for the majority of my ahem... other things that take more than five minutes.

Usually, my showers are 15 minutes, and the entire process of showering, drying off, and putting on clothes takes a half hour. Without a hot water heater, it takes 2-3 hours to boil enough hot water to wash and rinse my hair.

So for me, the lack of showering is due to a balancing act and unfortunate circumstances. When i was in college, I had no excuse. I was just a dirty guy with greasy hair, and I didn't know I was dirty until facebook was invented, and pictures of me started popping up here and there.

Ack. You're not gonna turn into a puddle from exhaustion, are you? :c Don't overwork yourself.

For me its twice a day.  As for my hair, I wash it 3 times a week because I running 3 times a week now. Before I started running again a few months ago, I could get away with wash my hair once a week before though.

About once a day - and my skin, hair and overall health has improved since I installed a Vitamin C water filter for removing Chlorine and Chloramines.

I have to take a shower if I am going to go out.  If I'm not leaving the house, I usually take a shower at night, but normally I take a shower every morning.

When I start to smell badly - No really it is a matter of weather, personal condition and such. I dont like to shower daily as it makes my skin itchy. So in summer it can be that I shower daily if it is hot and I am a lot outside. In winter I can go without a shower for half a week or even a week if I am really lazy. I wash hair only once a week. I have rather dry hair that looks best between day 2 and 7 after washing. Also I dont want to damage it or the skin on my head. Plus I get headaches and sinusitis rather easily after washing hair and going to bed with still damp hair.

I don't think you're supposed to go to bed with your hair wet. Whenever I do (or even if it's just slightly damp in the rear) my scalp will usually start to stink and produce either pimples, either a disgusting crust. Ew.

Anyway, I just always blow dry my hair when it's wet or damp (which is sadly almost every shower - my shower has a wide jet that can't be tilted downwards much and a very high pressure, so I usually can't keep my hair completely dry). Using that expensive shampoo and hair treatment and washing my hair only once a week (sometimes even less often depending on laziness) mostly counteracts the bad effects of daily blow-drying.

blow drying is even worse for the hair than going to bet with damp hair. Blow drying daily would be horrible - my hair would look horrible every day. No - I stick to doing that once a week  - I dont trust all the expensive hair repair products. Often they last only until the next shower. No, I think my hair is fine as it is with a shower weekly - it does not smell either and only after 2 weeks it starts to look bad. Of course I do shower the hair if I happen to get dirty even if the week is not over

Heh. Well I think most people don't get a rotting scalp from it, too. :p

I try to shower at least every other day but sometimes I do it daily because I feel icky. That happens especially in the summer when it's hot and humid, and I turn into a sweaty lump of biomass.

Buuuut thanks to my tendency to forget myself in front of TV+PS3, I have been known to go without a shower for a week or so. <hides in a pepsi can>

Quote from: peky on February 24, 2013, 03:39:58 PM
Most Ecuatorians do not bath every day...they are like the Europeans. 


I was reading soem intersting statistics, LOL, Did you know that the average German woman changes her undies 3 times a week, while the agerage German man does twice a week....LOL

hey, these are cultural things..I am not critizing anyone, OK?

That's gross either way. I'm pre everything but shower, can't stand a day without showering- I workout and work so I can't stay stinky plus our bodies sweat even when we're not doing anything.

If we're talking about cultural problems with hygiene, there's one that bothers me particularly. For some African cultures, your body odour is your soul. If you don't smell, you don't have a soul. I don't know if they don't wash themselves much or if they just sweat a lot and don't use any anti-perspirant, but seriously, there was a girl in my French class last term... she was all prettied up, with make-up, groomed hair and nice clothes... but she would STINK enough to be very disturbing from the other end of the class. And she didn't seem to realize it or smell herself at all. x.x I never dared to tell her, but the temptation was strong.

There was this guy I used to live with that SMELLED. So one day I was like "You really need to shower... and not just once. You need to do it at least once a day for a while."

So he comes back from a shower, and it looks like he just kinda stood under a hose for a minute. He didn't even bother to dry off. He smelled like a wet version of the way he smelled before. He sat on the couch across the room next to an open window, and the wind blew... I almost lost my lunch.

I just don't wanna turn into THAT person.

Also, I had another housemate who would open the door to his room, and the smell would just fall down the stairs and destroy the livingroom. I swear, the walls were peeling.

I will never live in a frat house again. This was a frat house that was converted into co-ed student housing, granted, but there were still 17 gamers living in the same house, with 2 bathrooms, and 3 common areas. My ex and I were the only ones who showered regularly. Oh the fruitfly nightmares...

Eww, fane. sounds bad. No, excessive smell is not good. If personal activity and climate do require showers then definitely they are needed. I prefer not to wash hair more than weekly though. Its hard enough to keep them in shape without drenching them in a dozen chemicals

Gamers are probably the worst. I remember the smell of 6 roleplaying gamers sitting in the basement for hours rollin dice and all as I was part of that - very distinct smell I never smelled again - and desparatly needind an open window and some showers for the people

Everyday just out of habit, otherwise I'd let myself go, i have little to no care for how i look now, only the future.

By the way, I don't think the term "gamer" applies outside video games.

But uh. Is it normal that all the gamers I know are clean? Ahaha.

 Every day, but I'm running everyday for 1 hour, so this is essential.

When needed. Love lavender bubble baths with scented candles though!

At least once daily. I could never go a few days without showering unless I had to. Back in the 90's I lived in bombed out Bosnia and my parents couldn't pay for a lot of
hot water so I used to shower once a week during winter. I thought it was gross.

Quote from: A on September 18, 2013, 04:39:49 PM
By the way, I don't think the term "gamer" applies outside video games.

But uh. Is it normal that all the gamers I know are clean? Ahaha.

The typical gamer I'm talking about is the one that sits in front of the computer all day playing some kind of MMO (WOW, Star Wars, Everquest, etc.) and can't be bothered with any real life activities, like basic hygine, eating something that requires more than warming up your food/ordering out, and socialization. The combination of the three problems results in a malnourished smelly person who is socially awkward. I was one of those, and realized it before college. Good times.