When/How Often do you take a shower?

I shower two or three times a week, usually only on days when I've gone running. To paraphrase a line from George Carlin, as long as you wash your face, armpits, balls and ass everyday that's more than enough.

 

You're stinking up this thread, smelly Frenchman!

And you're wasting water. :-P

Dude I'm far from wasting water.

What, do you have a well out in the boondocks? Or live on some obscure third-world island where you can only scrub yourself with a bucket of water a couple times a week?

I live in the Great Lakes region. By the time water is seriously an issue in the U.S., there will be an exponential number of scientists and engineers interested in developing cheaper and more efficient methods of extracting freshwater for the masses or converting salt water to fresh water. Water is an infinite resource and that is the bottom line. Hopefully the SW experiences a disaster that would open doors for me in a planner/lobbyist/spokesperson type of job involved in promoting that sort of required infrastructure. That's kind of my dream since infrastructure and utilities (especially fiber optics *drools*) give me a hard-on but I digress..

Btw, I'm not trying to be a condescending know-it-all and rebut for its own sake, I know you're probably just joking around. I think that IS a fascinating subject we should talk about on here more often. Running out of fresh water.

People can't smell themselves. Personally, I think I have a weak sense of smell as it is, or maybe I'm just apathetic when it comes to that sense. People are always like "omg can you smell so and so? I can't stand being next to his desk" "I give him breath mints and spray vanilla on him but he won't take a hint!" I'm like "hell, I' don't know. I never pay attention". I get paranoid about body odor and how people I work with perceive me but for some reason I hardly notice that in others.

Wanna know why I'm so big on cleanliness these days?

In my most desperate times (uhh... like, very recently, like when the whole economy went down the sh!tter) I had to work at a tire shredding site. Its not something I like admitting having to do. It was degrading but I do what I gotta do. You ever wonder why it costs so much money to dispose of your old tires for them to be recycled? How they just take your tires and add the recycling fee to the bill of your new tires?

I'll tell you about my old job lol. I moved heavy tires all time from one part of the yard to another in this dusty dust-bowl of a brown-field site. I had to climb an unstable cheap ladder about 20 feet high, into the giant filthy shaking machine that cuts up raw, filthy, oil-drenched tires, as the initial process.  It gets jammed so I'd dive inside, sift through and unjam that one tire that blocked the blades from cutting them all into chunks (happens about every 5 and a half minutes.) Basically it goes through a bunch of machines and conveyors that make the tire chunks smaller and smaller pieces, down to pure rubber fiber that had the consistency of lint. So Then I'd be wiping off all the rubber fibre debri from every piece of equipment, like conveyors and mechanisms that contain strong magnets to extract the metal from the tire chunks and particles or whatever you'd call it. Tiny rubber debri particles were caked on EVERYWHERE inside the plant so it had to be done a lot to keep all of the machines from locking up. Like any other production line, you lock up, the company loses thousands of bucks per hour and you lose your job and you're easily replaced by another no-body. Tire fiber debri inevitably ended up on the floor after we wiped machines down so of course I'd have to sweep all that up before I left. Now, by the time I was done with my 12 hour shift, my face, body, and clothes were entirely BLACK, caked on about 1/4 of an inch. Debri was so bad, people were having respiratory problems because they wouldn't let us wear masks, just goggles. That was COMPANY policy. The only people that stuck around after day 1 were what I consider the two main groups in America who don't complain about doing any job to do to get by. Mexicans and what most people would call Rednecks. Anyway, I'd get home every night, I'd look in the mirror and my face was literally black. I'm not talking akin to the chimney sweep guy in Mary Poppins, I mean I looked darker than MTS. Wesley Snipes black, if you will. I remember getting in the shower and as soon as I turn the faucet on, I look down at the drain and the water is pure mud. The nastiest part was when I'd rinse my hair and the water would look like oil sludge. Plus, you know, I always smelled like rubber and chemicals, even after showering. Anyone who works a job like that, appreciates being able to maintain good higene because you know how much it sucks to have to do a messy job then go out in public and do stuff before you can return home and clean yourself. Try having to go to target after Kroger after that shift lol!

Soooo, if anyone thinks I'm crazy for washing my hair and body compulsively, buy shampoo that smells like peppermint, use too much deodorant, that's why!  :-P

If you work an office job or just in a clean environment, there's probably no need to take showers daily. Maybe just once every other day, especially if you use deodorant and don't smoke. It's probably not natural to take showers as much as we do. I bet it's probably not healthy to brush your teeth three times a day either. I do that once a day. Any more than that is over kill. I always call bs on people who brag about how clean they are by brushing 3x daily. Get out of here. No you dont. Your gums would be bleeding.