How often do you Wash yourself?

[gertiie]

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[gertiie]

It's a fun thread...let's all sit and imagine, just for a moment, back in the day when people got a real bath once a week whether they needed it or not.

The Amish community still practices this from what I understand.
I was born and raised in Amish country, and that is what I was always told .


I hop outof bed at 4:30 every morning and before I get coffee or let the dogs out even, I jump through the shower. On hot nasty days when I sweated my butt off, then I come home and shower before bed too.
In the summertime, when it is hot, sticky, and humid, I have taken 3 or 4 showers , lol just to cool off

 

[sacrifice]

Much to the delight of my co-workers, I take a shower every morning before I wander off to work.

I DO NOT wash my hands at work at all - NEVER! I work in an elementary school and all of the little child critters have little critters living on them that I have been exposed to before, and it was not pleasant. Also, after seeing what they leave behind (no pun - really!) in the bathroom, and their toilet habits, I refuse to even touch the faucets or the wet handle on the paper towel machine. What I do, however, is use that alcohol based hand sanitizer when ever I use the bathroom, touch a computer part that the kids handled, touch anything that the kids may have touched, touched a kid, or just because I feel something microscopic crawling on my hands. I started doing this after my three month - nine sick day - battle with some type of exotic kid critter infestation my sinuses and lungs had after some of the kids were sick and visited my classroom to play with the computers, and I have not been sick since.

At home, if I work outside, handle any animals, before and after cooking, and many other times, I wash may hands. Additional showers come after a hard day in the garden, hiking, biking, or other "strenuous" home activities

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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[GiddyMoon]

And might I just add that the only thing stranger than this question is our readiness and willingness to answer it.

I agree...

I have no doubt that if any generation before us came and read all these replies ..they would think we were all terribly picky and obsessed about cleanliness & wasting a lot of precious water.

 

[Hoss1975]

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The Amish community still practices this from what I understand.
I was born and raised in Amish country, and that is what I was always told .


I hop outof bed at 4:30 every morning and before I get coffee or let the dogs out even, I jump through the shower. On hot nasty days when I sweated my butt off, then I come home and shower before bed too.
In the summertime, when it is hot, sticky, and humid, I have taken 3 or 4 showers , lol just to cool off

Haha i hired an Amish crew last summer to do my roof,as far as i could smell that is true.


OH forgive me for that,i didn't mean to be so narrow minded

 

[Laurajean]

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I agree...

I have no doubt that if any generation before us came and read all these replies ..they would think we were all terribly picky and obsessed about cleanliness & wasting a lot of precious water.

When I was a kid we got baths once a week, Sunday nights before the new school week. My mother would remind us, "It's bath night!". We got our hands and faces washed in between of course, but baths were only weekly. I don't remember being a smelly kid either....

 

[emvickrey]

I think this is too personal of a question to ask people. I've seen less harmful things asked and the thread get completely deleted. Yet this is still here. I'm comfused.

 

[GiddyMoon]

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I agree...

I have no doubt that if any generation before us came and read all these replies ..they would think we were all terribly picky and obsessed about cleanliness & wasting a lot of precious water.

When I was a kid we got baths once a week, Sunday nights before the new school week. My mother would remind us, "It's bath night!". We got our hands and faces washed in between of course, but baths were only weekly. I don't remember being a smelly kid either....

Yep.... We work with a lot of older people and they still only choose to bathe once a week...and they usually don't smell either

And same goes for washing the hair... Personally...we could save a ton of water and money if we simply went to every other day. I understand some people have very strenuous jobs..but a lot of us are just used to being squeeky.

 

[secuono]

Every other day, better for your skin I've heard.
I'm not afraid of germs, natural immunity, we all have it until we go crazy with fear of them..
Though I do wash after every/anything when out with people, have guests, etc. =p