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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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.
Nope. Live in a place where being outside for 10 minutes results in swamp ass. Exercise everyday, even indoors.
Well you exercise everyday, so the outside part doesn’t really matter for that scenario. You’d take a shower from sweating from exercise
And I think that’s the point. We all assume everyone else will shower if they do something that makes them sweaty. If not. That’s where the problem arise imo
Disagree. It depends on factors like stress, diet, and genetics. Not everyone is just like you.
I’m a nurse. Does that count as “blue collar”? Because I absolutely need to shower after 12 hours in the hospital.
Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering? Dunno about you but I exercise daily and I take a shower after because I am sweaty.
Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering?
Speak for yourself. I shower every morning just to get my hairstyle back. I always look like I’ve been zapped with 10.000 Volts when I wake up and nothing else aside from warm water and shampoo helps. And I don’t even have long hair.
Yo! Fair! Different hair types need different care.
I forgot about exercising, that would also make sense.
I forgot about exercising
Never change, Lemmy
Take any temperature you feel comfortable at.
Raise it by 10℃, and consider that temperature. That’s what I feel like at your “comfortable” temp.
Simply put, my body runs super-hot. My ideal temps for various situations tend to be 8-15℃ below the same range of other people.
As in, even normal office temp ranges can make me look like a drowned rat if I engage in any physical effort at all. Even something as simple as moving banker’s boxes around can have me drenched in sweat at “normal” office temps.
I love winter, because I can be out there in -10℃ weather without even a jacket, be shovelling snow, and I can actually exert myself without sweating. Winter is about the only time of the year where I can experience truly comfortable temperatures.
Nice to know there are others out there like myself. I’m not this far in the extreme, but I very obviously have northern genetics and I live in the humid South. I abhor summer and dream of winter. I just want to live somewhere where I don’t become dehydrated from less than 30 minutes of effort outside.
This is pretty much me my whole life. I sweat super easy.
Also my brain itself doesn’t like heat. If you are familiar with Discworld, I’m basically a troll. The heat makes me dumb and unable to focus.
Im also super sensitive to humidity with breathing. When its warm and humid out I feel like I can’t breath.
OP, you probably stink. You might not care but I’m sure the people around you do.
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?
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.
You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)
you might appreciate your odor more than others do.
but great unpopular opinion.
Some people think “not showering” means to wash in any other way. Some people think “not showering” means to not wash at all.
Almost every single comment here reads totally different depending on the readers assumption.
Different bodies different care. I constantly ooze thick oily sweat and if I don’t shower I start getting bad acne. Also, just massive amounts of musky BO if I don’t reapply deodorant every day.
It’s nasty but it’s just how my body do ATM. Gotta shower daily.
So very true. I’ve found over cleaning and over applying deodorants made me “need” to more often so I’d be mindful of that also!
I can’t sleep unless I shower I just feel disgusting
This is the correct answer. Sleeping in a dirty bed feels like some depression nest shit nobody in a sound mental state would ever try to justify.
Same
You’re catching a lot of flak but if you’re not generally stinky skipping days without showering is fine.
If I’m just hanging around indoors and not doing anything strenuous not showering for a couple days is NBD. One afternoon doing yard work or similar and I’m taking a shower as soon as I’m done. Other people have other body odor issues and that may not work for them, so to each their own.
Exactly. I work from home and don’t really experience temps above 75.
I do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.
How often do you exercise?
