How often do you Wash yourself?

[motoclown]

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I was reading and reading wondering if I was the only one who wasn't disinfecting everything.

I dip lollipops in sand and eat them, clean chicken poop up with my hands, lick doorknobs at the hospital,
sit on rest area toilets, eat food from the garbage, go out for Spring clean-up to recycle others junk,
bath in just water sometimes, jump in the creek with the kids and I surely don't touch
the water faucets knobs in public restrooms, more germs growing their, then on 10 day old rotting carcass.

That said, I do watch what my family eats and drinks, we are planting a garden and we love our fresh eggs/chickens.
Breastfeed all of my kids for a year each, so they would start out with a great immune system.
Not many colds here, no earaches & no asthma although we have the occasional trip
to the hospital for your normal bumps and bruises.

 

[arabianequine]

Whenever I feel dirty.....it just depends sometimes more then once a day/sometimes every other day.

It is not good to wash your hair daily either by the way. Hot water is bad for your hair and skin it dries them out and so do certain types of soaps.

Conditioner also makes your hair oily. You have to have and find an even balance that suites you.

I do wash my hands a lot through out the day. If I mess with the animals I scrub them with a brush and wash a 2-3 times in a row. Especially if they are sick. Sometimes I put on gloves.

 

[Tala]

Basically, whenever I feel dirty.
At work we get covered in fine pizza "dust" (flour mixture for the dough) but it IS food, not really dirt. Some days I feel gritty so I shower right then, and some days I don't feel too bad, so I let it slide. Probably 3 days is the max I go without a shower, by then I'm starting to develop the funk. Even if I shower every day, I only shampoo my hair every 3rd shower or so (again, depending on how it feels). Occasionally I just condition-er it (known among long hair circles as a "conditioner only wash") but to be effective you have to use a low or no-silicone conditioner.
If I've been working out with my chickens there is a fine sandy dust that tends to get all over you, so that usually requires a shower, not because of "dirt" or "germs" but just to get the grit off. Plus the weather and humidity play a huge factor as well, when it's 88*F with a RH of about 98% you feel like taking a shower all day long just to try to get the muggy off. If I mow the lawn, I usually shower after even if it means two showers that day. Just however I feel really.

There are other factors as well, for example there's a different level of cleanliness required for sleeping alone than for sleeping with your partner, if you know what I mean.


Hand washing entirely depends on what I'm doing. If I'm home not doing much of anything important, I practically never wash my hands (and I'm never sick either) but since I work in the food business I have to wash them a lot at work when switching from handling money to handling food, or after smoking, etc.

Now if you ask about shaving.......well. Ha Ha

 

[Beekissed]

As necessary!

My granny used to say that she would wash down as far as possible, wash up as far as possible and then she would wash "possible".

 

[Momagain1]

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*tear* I so get you *nods*

Im like that when I go to a restaurant; if I need salt/pepper, I have to use a napkin to hold it..I mean honeslty..GROSS lol...

and if ANYONE drinks my drink...or touches my straw or a fly lands on my straw/cup..I have to get a nedw one..my hubby will
irk me to no end..if he's irritated w/me and wants to get back at me w/o doing anything REALLY wrong..he'll take a big drink of my
drink through the straw...

I get mad and throw it out..have to get anew cup, new drink and new straw...grrrr


AND MY MOMMA USED TO SAY possible too..ewww

 

[annie3001]

what a hilarious thread!!!

btw: I wash my face everyday, sometimes twice a day!

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I, apparently, am a dirty hippie. My daily-showering brother thinks so anyway. today is Friday, I showered on Wednesday, and before that, bathed on Sunday. I plan to bathe tonight... so about 3 times a week. I use a daily armpit spray of tea tree oil and lavender oil, and so I generally smell pretty good. My hair is healthy, and I don't have any dry skin problems like I used to as a teen. My hands are washed about a million times a day, and since it became gardening weather, I'm washing my feet before bed too. I really hate sweating, so if I have to work up a drippy sweat, I will shower. Otherwise, for general dirtiness, I take long, wonderful baths at night, after the kids and DH are asleep. DH is apparently a hippie too (though he showers daily.... military man), as he prefers the way I smell at least 1 day post shower/bath. We also live in the boonies, and I don't have a job, and just stay home with the kids, and some days, if I've got nowhere to be, I wear my soft black pajama pants all day. (I'm convinced that they look just like real pants, but honestly, they might not....)

 

[mandelyn]

I wash my hair every 3 days, the longer it gets, the easier it is for the ends to dry out. I don't really wash the ends, just my scalp, twice. I get compliments all the time on how nice it looks!

I wash myself everyday, and my face twice a day (have to, with the skin god gave me) and my hands.... maybe about 5 times a day depending. I about never washed my hands as a kid, unless a grown up was watching me. It seemed to me to be more of a social thing than a necessity at that age.

Now that Spring is here and with all the rain, I think I've been washing my feet more often than my hands. Supposing that the hose outside counts until bedtime where I use soap in the tub. LOL But it's either I go barefoot and only wear shoes in the coop, or I get my shoes all muddy and have to wash them more. I haven't broken down and bought rubber boots... I mean, this rain can't last forever, right?

We wash dishes by hand, so that counts as hand washing too. When it gets super hot and we refuse to turn on the a/c, I'll take cold showers.

I have a routine, and then when ever I feel cruddy in the mean time. I always wash my hands before making food for others, but rarely do when it's a snack for me. I wash my hands after handling the critters or anything for them, more for biosecurity than personal hygiene.

Some stuff I'm paranoid about, like clean dishes. If I see a spec of dried out crud on a plate, I can't eat off it. I have to rewash the whole thing. Versus stepping in chicken poo barefoot, saying eeewww, and wiping it on the grass making a note to wash my foot later.

 

[jennifersmith326]

Shower, every morning. Sometimes at night before bed if I did real work that day.

I am OCD about handwashing. I wash my hands constantly, so much that the backs of my hands will actually crack open.
While I am cooking, everytime I touch a different food I wash my hands.
I wash everytime I touch eggs, chickens, chicken doors, and anything the chickens touch. I also use hand sanitizer all the time.

 

[darkmatter]

Now that I have running water and hot water available, I suppose the normal daily shower and wash up as needed before meals and after garden/butchering chores etc. Back when I was a kid on the farm when you had to haul water from the well, the culture was a little different: You had a pail of water and enameled washbasin out on the screen in porch. You washed your hands and face up to the elbows and behind your ears before coming in for meals. On Saturday you hauled enough water to fill (and heat on the stove) the cast iron clawed foot bathtub that was in an outbuilding. The womenfolk got first dibs on the bathing water, then the menfolk and kids cycled through. This was for going into town for "Saturday Night" when we could go to the drugstore for a soda from the soda-jerk, then go the the movies. (I think I remember 50 to 75 cents for a ticket) Sunday was dress up in your "Sunday Best" to go back into town to listen to someone tell us we were going to hell for sinning. ( I didn't know what sinning was back then, joining the military and going overseas edumacated me on that subject.) I do remember reading that at one time in America, there were more pianos in households then there was bathtubs.