Why I only shower once a week 🚿🧼💦

I love showers. They're one of the great unheralded pleasures of modern life.

If you don't smell and don't look dirty, do your thing. But if your body smells enough for other people to smell you, get in the shower and scrub yourself. Good Lord, people are fucked up.

I bet her pussy and butthole stink!

Well Johnny Depp showers once a year, so, you're winning.

I don’t see what the big deal is.

I work with a person who showers once a week and she REEKS! I have come to loathe her for subjecting myself and others to her stink.

There’s this thing called a “shower cap”. You can put it on your styled hair and keep it from getting wet in the shower. Your body can be cleaned without the complication of redoing your hair.

There’s no reason to have a disgusting body.

R6, how do you know how often she showers? You asked her?

[QUOTE]I bet her pussy and butthole stink!

And there’s still plenty of straight men ready to put their dicks in her.

If you use a bidet maybe, anyway if you get overwhelmed by taking a shower, it's time for Zoloft.

She sounds exhausting.

If she hates dealing with wet hair so much why not get a different hair style? Say, like Ruby Rose's? Something that's easy to maintain and easy to dry. Why have long hair all the way down to your shit-smeared ass.

Speaking of which, you know her pussy and asshole stink to high heaven. God forbid if she has some other skin folds in her bikini area.

OP, I'm sure you're sensible and use a lightly-soaped wash cloth on your face, armpits and groin.

Ohhh, did this unshowerer HAVE to be a woman? Being unbathed can be hot in the right context.

"Warming the water up"? Does this person live in Europe or some Third World country?

I only read what OP posted, I didn't click the link. I won't read anything linked from the Reich Wing NY Post.

In the US, when you turn on the sink or shower/bath faucet, the hot water should immediately be hot. My hot water is always hot.

[quote]And there’s still plenty of straight men ready to put their dicks in her.

More power to them.👊🏻

She didn’t even mention the worst part—picking the hair out of the drain.

You are so fucking disgusting Ed.win Mont.anez Jr. , the Brooklyn Seacow, you must smell like complete SHIT!

Also you are bald as shit, you hate wet hair? LOL

Do you get laid often?

[quote]Together we can all save the planet.

Fuck the planet, I want to be clean.

[quote] In the US, when you turn on the sink or shower/bath faucet, the hot water should immediately be hot. My hot water is always hot.

Where do you live that it’s immediate? Even in the biggest cities like NYC or SF, it’s not immediate.

depending on your body chemistry, this is not terrible. As on older person, I can't skip bathing or wearing deodorant. I have to use industrial grade deodorant, that frou-frou stuff sold in Whole Foods won't cut the funk.

In my NYC building the hot water is immediately warm. And in two seconds it’s hot. Even when I lived in a 100-year old tenement building, it took about five seconds to get hot. Never an issue.

Five seconds is not immediate.

Well, if it happens to you, R22, then surely it happens to everyone else also.

Your body grows bacteria in all of your cracks and crevices and that starts to SMELL especially in your genitals, armpits and ass. If I don't shower for a day, I can't stand to be around myself.

R25, that’s a lie. You can’t smell yourself.

R26 You can smell your clothes, duh.

If you work out, you have to shower. Bacteria may cause rashes and yeast infections.

That said I hate regular deodorant and finally found a natural one that works. Little Seed Farm’s charcoal deodorant.

Yeast is good for you. That’s why they sell it in stores.

I skipped deodorant during the quarantine and learned intimately , I need to bathe and wear deodorant daily

Maybe she uses wipes..I’m not reading the article

Seems reasonable.

There is no reason to not shower daily. This jerk simply sounds lazy and/or mentally ill. Listening to all her excuses, she could have been in and out of the shower by then!

If you always work from home, smell away, you aren't subjecting others to your funk.

A close female friend's assistant reeks, her funk is especially horrible during the time of the month this stinker has her period. The assistant told my friend, "In our culture, we are not supposed to bathe when we have our period."

My friend didn't know what to say, my friend wanted to point out to this woman she always smells bad. This woman's hair always looks greasy. My friend describes this weirdo as, "Always looking as of she has a layer of oil on her body. She's disgusting."

Unfortunately, this woman was already in place when my friend was hired. My friend has complained numerable times about the smell making it difficult to function. For some reason, HR won't fire this freak.

Why should any office environment be subjected to this?! It's not as if my friend works in construction or any field where physical activity makes the workers sweat profusely, then get smelly.

Honestly a warm shower in the morning is the only way to make me functional. If I couldn't have that there wouldn't be any point in getting me out of bed.

Clearly she's on the spectrum. Dirty aspie.

[quote]Where do you live that it’s immediate? Even in the biggest cities like NYC or SF, it’s not immediate.

Are you serious? I can go into my kitchen or bathroom right now, turn on my hot water and it's hot. I live in NYC, in a condo. Even when I lived in rentals, I never had any problems with hot water not being hot immediately.

Hot water doesn't need to "warm up". In what sort of shitty place does this woman live? Does she have a separate boiler in her bathroom, I know some homes and apartments in Europe have separate boilers in their bathrooms.

R34, why are people in the office during a pandemic?

Sheesh. It all depends on how far your faucet is from the hot water heater. It’s not rocket science.

[quote][R34], why are people in the office during a pandemic?

You newbie trolls on DL just won't quit!

This stinky woman has been my friend's assistant for years. This is not a current situation, it's been ongoing way BEFORE the pandemic. My friend has been at her job for years, at least over 8 years, which means the greasy stinker was already there years before my friend became her boss.

Why would anyone stay at a job for over 8 years??

Human beings are not universally alike.

[quote]Sheesh. It all depends on how far your faucet is from the hot water heater. It’s not rocket science.

This makes no sense either. I live on the 20th floor, my hot water is always immediately hot. Hot water is always in the heater.

You think someone who pays millions to live in a NYC co-op or condo is going to have to wait for their water to "warm up"?

You people sound like fucking hillbillies.

Maybe not everyone is like you or lives where you live?

[quote]Why would anyone stay at a job for over 8 years??

WHY are you such a fucking annoying POS moron?

I boil water for my hot bath.

R45, it’s a legitimate question. It seems only boomers stay in a job that long.

[quote]In my NYC building the hot water is immediately warm. And in two seconds it’s hot. Even when I lived in a 100-year old tenement building, it took about five seconds to get hot. Never an issue.

Thank You! These fucking DL trolls must live in trailers, their cars or some Third World country.

Vagina. Trans. Fraus. Why a female only showers once a week. Welcome to DataLounge 2022.

Can you imagine what her cooch smells like?

Gurls, please welcome Leona Helmsley at R43.

I guarantee she doesn't, r16

Does she also find brushing her teeth too time consuming? She sounds insufferable.

Showering feels good.

Will the Immediately Scalding Hot Water Troll please shut up? Most water heaters set in energy saving mode don't heat water up as quickly as yours does. I live in L.A., not some "hillbilly" enclave, and most people I know have to let the shower run for a minute to get the water hot enough.

[quote]I hate regular deodorant and finally found a natural one that works.

Sure, Jan.

A daily shower is not necessary for health. Do it for mental health, but 2-3 times a week is better. If you wipe your pits and bits and wear clean clothes you won't stink.

Our immune systems need a certain amount of stimulation by normal microorganisms, dirt, and other environmental exposures in order to create protective antibodies and "immune memory." This is one reason why some pediatricians and dermatologists recommend against daily baths for kids. Frequent baths or showers throughout a lifetime may reduce the ability of the immune system to do its job.

And there could be other reasons to lose your enthusiasm for the daily shower: the water with which we clean ourselves may contain salts, heavy metals, chlorine, fluoride, pesticides, and other chemicals. It’s possible these may cause problems, too.

If you are only showering once a week you are mentally ill.

I get not washing your hair daily...many benefits are available online. However, not washing your private parts, armpits and shit hole daily if leaving the house is nasty and inconsiderate.

Why I shit standing up

[quote]Will the Immediately Scalding Hot Water Troll please shut up? Most water heaters set in energy saving mode don't heat water up as quickly as yours does. I live in L.A., not some "hillbilly" enclave, and most people I know have to let the shower run for a minute to get the water hot enough.

I NEVER said my hot water was "scalding hot". I said, when I turn the hot water on, my water is already hot, that I never have to run the hot water for it to become hot. Period.

If anyone's water is "scalding hot" the minute you turn it on, there is something wrong, the boiler settings need to be re-set. In fact, my building had this problem a few months ago. The hot water was almost boiling, this happened after the boilers were cleaned, the hot water was way too hot, the maintenance people fixed it.

I've NEVER lived in any place where I had I to run the hot water in my kitchen, bathtub or bathroom sink for a minute to get the hot water "hot enough". This sounds so bizarre, I cannot believe, especially in the US, this is any kind of normal behavior.

People in the projects, and others who have shitty landlords in their rentals, usually have problems not having hot water and sufficient heat, this doesn't occur in expensive rentals, co-ops and condos.

Not sure you remember a recent event in a Bronx NY rental building, there were many deaths due to a fire. A horrific fire started because the tenants had to use electric space heaters because they weren't provided sufficient heat in cold weather.

A friend recently rented a house and is already having problems with the water. Like I said, shitty landlords do this all the time.

The water is not technically "heating up." It's already heated and sitting in a tank. If the pipes are cold, the first couple of gallons of water that run through the pipes will come out cold (from your faucet / shower). How fast or slow this process is depends, in part, on the distance between your faucet and the tank.

Exception: when I lived in Japan, I had some type of amazing hot water heating system in my apartment. IIRC, it was gas-based. Immediate hot water.

[quote] How fast or slow this process is depends, in part, on the distance between your faucet and the tank.

This. I've lived in California suburban houses all my life and in most of them, like the long, ranch style house I live in now, have a water tank on one end of the house and the bathroom on the other. It literally takes just under a minute for the water to be sufficiently hot. It's frustrating because we're in a draught and I should be saving it in a bucket but I don't. Plumber said there's nothing you can do about it.

Dataloungers can argue about anyfuckinthing.

Ask Cheryl want she thinks...

My pussy is suddenly smelling like a spring bouquet of fresh cut flowers.

My mom's family was from the old country/Italy. She only showered once a week, and as kids we only took a bath on Sunday nights. This was in the late seventies. They had a health/hygiene film in 5th grade that said you should shower or bathe once a week. Well, the whole class started laughing and I didn't know why. Then the teacher kind of snickered and said, "Or more often". The film was probably from the 50's or 60's. I started bathing/showering a lot more after that.

R8 we both work away from our home base and are work “partners” so we are basically together 24/7 during shifts so I know her every move.

That bitch probably stinks so bad that Hibiclens and steel wool wouldn't be enough to remove the odor.

I take hot showers year round. My hands look older due to constantly washing them as I have OCD and germophobia.

I also carry a pack of paper toilet seat covers in my bag if I ever have to use a public toilet. I always use them at home as well.

Who the fuck besides Laura Ingalls Wilder has to warm up water?

hot water fucks up your skin, dries it out

[quote]The water is not technically "heating up." It's already heated and sitting in a tank. If the pipes are cold, the first couple of gallons of water that run through the pipes will come out cold (from your faucet / shower). How fast or slow this process is depends, in part, on the distance between your faucet and the tank. Exception: when I lived in Japan, I had some type of amazing hot water heating system in my apartment. IIRC, it was gas-based. Immediate hot water.

Thanks for the info. This could be why my condo never has hot water problems, the hot water, and general heating system, was switched to gas about 6 years ago. We also never have any problems with radiators not producing enough heat during the cold Winter months, thermostat valves were added to the radiators.

Some residents enjoy a cooler apartment, others like a lot of heat. We can now regulate the amount of heat we find comfortable. With the old system, it actually overheated the apartments because there was only a basic On & Off knob on the radiators.

PTSD triggered. First graduate placement in a tight plate glass office staffed with mainly women. One very attractive girl, recently moved in with boyfriend, wafted around daily reeking and cooking, from apparently unwashed places, ever ripening fishy smells in the heat of the sun drenched confines of our workplace. The others bonded over water cooler chats about what to do, what to say and who should tell her she was a stinker. It never was addressed. At a night out she got drunk and disclosed to all that her boyfriend was so horny he couldn’t leave her alone, even pinning her down for a final quicky every morning as they were heading out the door for work. . . Leaving her to carry their funky juicy cocktail to work with her? Knowing looks all round. Left that place just in time. Before I started to sync my periods with theirs! Gawd

I love showers. My achilles ruptured and I had surgery. I’m in a cast and I still shower every day.

I think she's tremendous.

I showered every morning when I was working full time. Now that I mainly work from home I shower every other day. My hair doesn't get greasy like when I was young but I feel gross if I don't shower at least every other day.

There's two things to hate on this thread: the disgusting once a week shower lady and the fucking annoying "MY hot water is INSTANT! Why isn't YOURS?" Troll.

I've lived in several buildings where the hot water can take a bit to actually get hot including the building I live in now.

Weirdly, the kitchen hot water takes longer than the bathroom. I asked the maintenance people abou this and they just shrug but they're all MAGA types so...dumb.

Wow, there are way too many idiots super triggered by the fact that my hot water is INSTANTLY hot. It's fucking hilarious, especially as I'm not trolling.

The people who are so annoyed appear to be the actual trolls.

I think she's tremendous!

Thanks a lot, lady.

I love showering. I don't sweat a lot, but I like to shower before bed to keep the bed sheets cleaner between washings. Morning showers to wake up (or if it's warm in the house). If it's hot outside, then a quick rinse when I get inside. Only takes a few minutes, except for the before-bed one where I'm listening to podcasts.

How do you listen to podcasts while showering?

I love the non-shower lady. She is doing so much to help our planet!

THIS is exactly why we need to ensure abortion rights.

Sounds like depression to me.

I went a week not showering recently. Not intentionally; I always save it for last before work, then run out of time.

My quick fix (under 5 min.): I work some foamy soap through my short hair. Let it sit while I brush my teeth/shave/wash face. Rinse with cups of water, then comb into place. Put some foamy soap on some paper towels and hit the pits, crotch and ass. Spray some cologne on the crotch and pits and go.

Her pussy stinks!

Skank.

I’ve been at home for over a year due to disability, and you *can* be okay at home with showers once a week and whores’ baths - but I’d never do that if I had to work around people all day; that’s just inconsiderate! I’m like a cat: I don’t like getting wet, but it’s part of the social contract not to stink up your workplace with your gross funk!

I also use natural deodorant, not because I’m a hippie, but because I have anxiety and even heavy-duty ones didn’t work for me. It creates an environment where bacteria have a harder time thriving. The ingredients are: coconut oil, baking soda, cornstarch, tea tree oil, and lavender oil, and as long as you keep clean, it works amazingly!

R84 how the hell is that any quicker than an actual shower?? You stink

R87 Those natural deodorants have always fascinated me. How do you apply it? Is it like a paste, or something you can spray/dab on?

She doesn't have to wash her hair every time she showers. Put a shower cap on if that's your concern.

[quote]My quick fix (under 5 min.): I work some foamy soap through my short hair. Let it sit while I brush my teeth/shave/wash face. Rinse with cups of water, then comb into place. Put some foamy soap on some paper towels and hit the pits, crotch and ass. Spray some cologne on the crotch and pits and go.

By the time you did all that, you could have taken a very quick shower! Some of you are fucking exhausting! Not to mention, ridiculous.

Who cares? I can’t believe people post the most uninteresting things and get attention. Why?

Natural deodorants, are simply that, they only work as deodorants, they don't stop perspiration. I've tried a few, most are in stick deodorant form.

The Arm & Hammer Essentials smells great and works, as does the Schmidt's brand, which Costco carried for awhile, they were three for $12.99 at Costco and around $7.99 each at local chain drugstores. .

Then there's Lume, which you can supposedly use on any body part. This brand comes in both stick and cream forms. Lume claims to work for 72 hours.

Any deodorant and/or antiperspirant that works and doesn't cause irritation must be discontinued immediately. That is my experience. I bought 10 sticks of the last one that worked.

It depends on the person's weight and activity. If you work out daily, then shower daily. If you're overweight, shower daily.

If you're slim, don't work out daily and don't have a manual job, then every other day is usually enough - as long as you clean your armpits and genital area with a damp washcloth/wet wipes on your non-shower day.

Once a week is never acceptable, though.

After day 4 I can’t take the icky feeling anymore and must shower and shave. Before Covid I showered every single day because I had to go into the office. Now I average every second day or so. I’m a pig 🐷

There are different systems, one is a certain amount of water that is preheated (I have a small 5 litres one like that in the kitchen) and you set it to the temperature you like. Its absolutely sufficient for doing dishes or washing your hands. The second type are hearers that heat the water in your hot water pipe when you use it. Both can run on natural gas or on electricity. If you have one that is basically a heated container, the water gets cold after you took the amount that was preheated. Benefits of this solution are that it's independent and simple. The second type, the one that branches off your heating is more complicated and also a lot more expensive if you need repairs.

We haven’t showered since 1987.

People take showers in the morning?

Isn't it better at night to wash away the dirt pollution of the outside before entering in the bed?

The first reason is giving me spectrum vibes.

[quote]Number three reason: I hating the feeling of wet hair. I can’t use a hair dryer and I hate the sound, I have sensory issues.

I agree with that part. I have long hair. I hate being completely soaking wet. But I only wash my hair once or twice a week (I work from home) and I just clip up my hair when I take a shower. I wash myself at least twice a day. Sometimes it's just from the waist down, but it's at least twice a day.

[quote] If I don't shower for a day, I can't stand to be around myself.

Well, that's still true even when you do shower.

Sometimes it takes a minute or two for the water to get hot. It's not instant....not here, anyway.

I scrub myself thoroughly and I swear I am oily/greasy and smell within an hour afterward.

James Corden only washes his hair 6 times a year. WTF?

[quote]Are you serious? I can go into my kitchen or bathroom right now, turn on my hot water and it's hot. I live in NYC, in a condo. Even when I lived in rentals, I never had any problems with hot water not being hot immediately.

[quote]Hot water doesn't need to "warm up". In what sort of shitty place does this woman live?

If you live in a house, with the boiler in the basement, it can take a couple minutes for hot water when you turn the tap or the shower on upstairs.

[quote]I've NEVER lived in any place where I had I to run the hot water in my kitchen, bathtub or bathroom sink for a minute to get the hot water "hot enough". This sounds so bizarre, I cannot believe, especially in the US, this is any kind of normal behavior.

If you live in a house, any kind of house, in the Northern US it's common to have to wait a minute or two for the shower water to get hot. You don't seem to know much outside of your little bubble.

Yeah who are these people who can’t believe it takes a few minutes for the hot water to travel from the basement to the second floor shower in a house?

I always shower twicer daily, morning and night. I can't get into bed at night without a shower, I feel gross if I don't. In the morning I need a shower to wake up and I can't leave my house without one.

[quote]If you live in a house, any kind of house, in the Northern US it's common to have to wait a minute or two for the shower water to get hot. You don't seem to know much outside of your little bubble.

OK, I understand that people who live in private houses can experience this, I was referencing not having this experience during years of living in apartment rentals and definitely not in my condo which is not a stand alone house (I realize some condos are basically houses). I sure don't live in a bubble.

Others have explained the different types of water heating systems, which also explains why my water is immediately hot when I turn on any tap in my apartment on the 20th floor.

The people insisting waiting for hot water to "warm up" are the ones in a bubble, they are assuming city dwellers have experiences like this, we don't.

YOU are the exception. Most people have to wait for hot water to warm up.

[quote] Weirdly, the kitchen hot water takes longer than the bathroom. I asked the maintenance people abou this and they just shrug but they're all MAGA types so...dumb.

I have the same thing in my house even though the heater is in the basement, the kitchen is on the first floor, and the bathroom is upstairs. I think the kitchen sink flow is restricted so it takes a long time to empty the standing water, but the bathroom sink is not exactly Niagara Falls, so who knows?

[quote]YOU are the exception. Most people have to wait for hot water to warm up.

No, dear, YOU are the exception.

Every person I know who lives in an apartment, a condo apartment or a co-op, doesn't have to wait for their water to "warm up". Perhaps people who live in an apartment in a private house, they might have to, but all my friends and family who live in apartments don't wait for their hot water to "warm up".

I think some people purposely derail threads. It's a form of trolling.

[quote]The people insisting waiting for hot water to "warm up" are the ones in a bubble, they are assuming city dwellers have experiences like this, we don't.

Any idiot with half a brain who has spent any time in the Northern US knows that most houses have the boiler/water heater in the basement and it takes a minute to get hot water. Even "city dwellers."

The NY condo guy is the asshole NYer who gets very defensive about NYC. He's insecure and poorly adjusted. Many NYers are not like him, don't judge NYers just because of this one idiot.

I often shower 🚿 at night because I sleep better when my pores are clean 🧼- especially when combined with freshly laundered sheets and pillowcases.

[quote]I can’t use a hair dryer and I hate the sound, I have sensory issues.

The Misophonia types are exhausting.

I'm inserting the theme song of the underwashed below.

I live in a small home with a tiny water heater...I think it's only 10 gallons. That's about 4-5 minutes with a flow restricted shower head. However, you can have a very pleasant and effective shower in that time. I shower daily, plus I'm saving water and electricity. Plus I don't offend my friends except through my awful garlic breath!

[quote]I've NEVER lived in any place where I had I to run the hot water in my kitchen, bathtub or bathroom sink for a minute to get the hot water "hot enough". This sounds so bizarre

What's bizarre is your inability, after multiple posts, to comprehend that other people do not have this experience just because you do. Also bizarre is your need to argue with each and every poster about it in an effort to spam us with subpar trolling.

Is the "my water is always INSTANTLY hot" guy the same as the "I'm a proud New Yorker with a BALCONY" guy?

They both have the same insufferable, unpleasant, know-it-all tone.

Showering is very triggering for girls especially. Having to look at their disgusting nekkid bods and cunts. Yuck. It'd make most gay men puke just thinking of those flappy moist vaginaes.

Yes and yes r121. Guys like him are embarrassing.

Flithy bitch, was your ass every day, people act like animals.

She needs a Silkwood shower at this point!

[quote]I think it's only 10 gallons. That's about 4-5 minutes with a flow restricted shower head.

How would I wash my hair?

TubGirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her posted photos seem to illustrate and validate her once-weekly showering habit.

"Time commitment?" A quick shower doesn't even take five minutes.

Bet she’s single…

I finally succumbed to the relentless Lume adds and got the starter pack.

It does work, at least in the armpit area. But even the odorless deodorant has a smell of its own. It's taking some getting used to.

I've used the cream/lotion on my feet, and that worked also. Have not tried it on the privates yet. I really don't see how anything other than a daily scrub with soap and water is going to work down there.

Gnarly

I learned to shower every day when I teen, and pretty much continued that until perhaps the last few years. Now I shower every other day. I can't go two or more days, or I'll feel unclean.

Well hopefully you filthy pigs at least brush your fucking teeth daily. If not you soon won't have too because your teeth will live in a glass of water at night.

If I don't shower daily, I feel like a greasy pile of garbage. It's gross. After three days I would be unfit to be around other people. Some of you are just filthy pigs.

*to

When you’re young you can do pits and bits. Two armpits and the front & back bits. Use a peri bottle for the orifices.

When you get older you have to bathe more regularly because your immune system declines. Your skin has an immune system of its own. When you age, fungus can take hold pretty quickly and you don’t have the good bacteria on your skin to keep it in check. (Yeast is a fungus, btw. But it’s not the only fungus that likes your skin)

Imagine what poor people must have smelled like In cities years ago

Imagine what poor people in Amerikkka smell like today! Egad.

[quote]When you’re young you can do pits and bits.

No you can't. Young people stink just as bad. Have you ever been inside a gym?

This girl is totally on the spectrum, more than 2 types of sensory issues.

[quote]Any idiot with half a brain who has spent any time in the Northern US knows that most houses have the boiler/water heater in the basement and it takes a minute to get hot water. Even "city dwellers."

Why are you being so defensive about your water taking awhile to heat up? If someone who lives in an apartment building has hot water as soon as they turn on the tap, why is that so difficult to comprehend?!!!

By your logic, anyone who lives on the higher floors of an apartment building would always have to wait for hot water, especially as so many older apartment buildings, especially pre-war buildings, would have to wait for the water to become hot.

Most people who live in these types of buildings are aware the boilers are in the basement. None of these types of apartments have separate boilers in the apartment. Duh

I, too, hate to shower and all that it entails—it’s such a chore. But I do it anyway. It takes about 15 seconds to get my water hot and my bathroom is right above my water heater. My kitchen takes about 30 seconds.

Once I knew I girl who bathed and then she died.

r141 no one said anything about apartment buildings, just houses. Stop being a prick.

[quote][R141] no one said anything about apartment buildings, just houses. Stop being a prick.

The initial comments were by people who stated their water had to "warm up", those posters never mentioned they lived in houses. Not everyone in the US lives in a private house with a boiler in the basement. at the other side of their house Not to mention, especially in newer buildings, these building have more advanced heating systems. I don't live in a new building, however, the entire heating system, water and heat, was revamped.

You need to stop arguing with me. I am stating facts.

The only person who was not rude, argumentative and didn't attack my experience, was the poster who stated, when they lived in Japan, they had a water heater which was run by gas and their water was immediately hot. That's my experience: new gas run boilers in the basement of a tall building, which allows the hot water to immediately run hot.

Is this all that difficult for you and others here to comprehend? Appears so. Of course, I realize my experience is not the same as others, but it's true. Why keep arguing with me?

[quote]The initial comments were by people who stated their water had to "warm up", those posters never mentioned they lived in houses.

Given they said they had to wait for the water to "warm up" one would just assume they live in a private house. Most houses in the Northern United States are like this.

That has no been my experience. I would not be able to live without immediate hot water. I don’t know how you guys rough it out.

r147 waiting exactly one minute for hot water to come out of the faucet isn't really a big deal. Talk about First World Problems! This is just a fact of life if you live in a house in a colder climate and the water heater is in the basement. Trust me, no one thinks anything of it.

R145 They argue because you're a repulsive slimy cunt.

I always feel so good after taking my Saturday night shower. I'm fresh and clean for Sunday Mass, followed by Coffee & Donuts at the new Darfur Dunkin' ☕🍩

ENOUGH ABOUT HOT WATER.

This is the dumbest thread ever.

She must be fun to be with during the summer months.

R153 Or as a seatmate on a 2 hour regional jet flight.

So much exhausting effort to turn your hot water tap on and step in and out of the shower.

OP is a lesbian. We've noticed that you don't bathe regularly. We've noticed since the 90's. Patchouli to cover it up isn't helping. Let me guess, you have hairy armpits too...

As for the proud subject of the OP's link:

When the fundament of stench is mostly unreachable by standard cleaning techniques, why bother with the rest, huh, cunt?

Nice pimples and greasy mane, stinkfish.

[quote] Or as a seatmate on a 2 hour regional jet flight.

I can smell your cunt

‘Gross girl’ lives in middle of nowhere, doesn’t shower for weeks

This woman is definitely on the spectrum. My friend’s brother is and he hates showering too.

Only Gen Z would find standing under soothing warm water OVERWHELMING.

[quote]'Gross girl’ lives in middle of nowhere, doesn’t shower for weeks.

This chick cannot be bothered to bathe, but she makes sure to use her phone's filter!

[italic] You Know You Stink . . . . . . .

I'm not wasting products or water and NEITHER SHOULD YOU!

[quote] After three days I would be unfit to be around other people.

And before three days too it would seem.

Brit, shower once daily (albeit quickly), under alternating hot/cold water, with nonenal soap. Never have any complaints.

However, I only wash my hair once a week or sometimes even less, because it is very long (almost ass length), coarse and wavy, and takes forever to dry. The night before I wash & condition, I massage a a few caps of ACV/nonenal into my scalp to dissolve the grease. My hair is soft, healthy and clean for many days after (though not as glossy or hydrated as I’d like, I’m working on it).

The climate you live in also has some weight in this. Here in Florida, you can feel gross just hours after a shower. I'd imagine I'd not feel as heavy and greasy in a drier cooler climate.

I just took a shower and it felt great

Poor r166 is such a miserable soul

[quote] Young people stink just as bad. Have you ever been inside a gym?

All my adult life. The gyms I’ve gone to smell like chlorine or other disinfectant, since everyone uses disinfectant on the equipment after they use it.

What the fuck kind of gym do you go that stinks?

r171 it's not the gym it's the people in the gym.

Haven’t showered in months here in Barcelona! We are RIPE for the picking ladies! Actia! That’s what we need!

To paraphrase Quentin Crisp on housekeeping: "never bother cleaning. After the fourth year, it doesn't get any worse."

[quote] I'd imagine I'd not feel as heavy and greasy in a drier cooler climate.

Oh honey, no. Your feeling heavy and greasy has nothing to do with the climate or showering. Pizza Hut again tonight?

Dewpoint matters.

[quote] it's not the gym it's the people in the gym.

Same answer. Nobody at the gym stinks. I guess I just go to a better class gym.

R137 Young people (teenagers) stinks, no matter how often they wash- they just stink, have you ever entered a bus full of them? It's like entering a stall

R61, if your plumber said that then I think they were just trying to put you off because it's labor intensive to put in a recirculation pump.

What you might consider is a heat booster closer to the distant bath. It's like a little insta-hot water heater and runs until the hot water finally comes through from the regular heater.

The instant hot water guy probably has a point of use water heater and doesn’t even know it.

This sounds like something Greta Thunberg would be on board with.

[quote]Same answer. Nobody at the gym stinks. I guess I just go to a better class gym.

You belong to a magical gym where not a single person has BO when they sweat. There are always a few, dear.

r177 brings DL's class obsession to new ridiculous heights.

How DARE you, R81?!?!?

"My gym is CLASSIER than whatever gym you go to! Nobody at MY gym smells. Because we're HIGH CLASS."

Look, people didn't 'shower' or really even bathe for tens of thousands of years. If humans evolved that way, maybe it's not so good to constantly sterilize yourself?

And what was the life expectancy thousands of years ago?

R186 and R187 sound like an exchange between a bath-resistant Bubba and a responding Thelma on Mama's Family.

It's not a putdown, my friends. I fucking love Mama's Family.

I saw a show where the woman used baby wipes and dry shampoo only because she had a phobia of water. I think you would be sticky and a breeding ground for bacteria.

R189 'a phobia of water'? Just being in it? Or did she never drink it either? What about when it rains?

Nasty, smelly, and lazy.

You need to wash your ass and genitals once a day or you'll stink. The rest will probably be okay for a week unless you have a problem with BO.

Showering is a pleasure in life. I’m a cheapie but love nice soap, shampoo and lotion.

These special people are too wrapped up in themselves to realize others around them have to smell their cruddy bodies and chunky hair.

Stinky fish needs to wash at least ten times a day - minimum.

1) Get a shower cap

2) Get a better hot water heater

3) Wash that dirty pussy

Nasty ugly filthy dirty bitch.

R14 and the other hot water people may have never heard of tankless water heaters. Yes, in a traditional system a boiler keeps a tank of water hot all the time ,and when you turn the tap on, the water flows. As others pointed out, there's a lot of factors (including distances from the tank to the faucet) that influence how hot the water comes out of the tap.

I have a newer install, it's tankless. It does my heat and hot water. As the name implies, there's no tank of water. It heats up on demand. There is a SLIGHT delay when I open a faucet. I shower at least once a day (a 2nd time if i go to the gym). I let the water run for 5 seconds and then I have all the hot water I could possibly need. As a single person this makes more sense than having a tank of water kept hot 24/7. My gas bill (for heat and hot water, including the washing machine) is <$60 / mo on a balanced billing plan (spread out over 12 months) and I live in New England.

[quote]I saw a show where the woman used baby wipes and dry shampoo only because she had a phobia of water. I think you would be sticky and a breeding ground for bacteria.

A family member, the type I'd, thankfully, only see at weddings and funerals, had a water phobia. This man claimed "Water burns my skin." It seemed he had a mental illness, or rather, he became mentally ill. At a relative's wedding his sister told me, "He was never like this when he was younger. I cannot imagine water burning your skin. There are not that many chemicals in water, if it's the chemicals, he can easily install a filter in the shower head."

The supposed "water phobia", or in his case "water allergy", started when he was in his 60s. This man is dead now but when his affliction started he had been married for years with adult children. His wife wasn't the type to tolerate a smelly husband. I guess she started sleeping in another bedroom in their home.

I'll never understand why some people are so averse to a quick daily shower. It doesn't even take five minutes.

[quote]You belong to a magical gym where not a single person has BO when they sweat. There are always a few, dear.

Not at my gym, dear.

[quote]You need to wash your ass and genitals once a day or you'll stink.

So completely untrue. Do you shit all over yourself or something?

A magical gym where not a single person's armpits stank! Amazing!

At the prices I pay, if someone stinks I would have them ejected immediately.

r203 if you sashayed up to the reception desk at a gym and screeched that a person smelled of BO they'd think you were a freak and tell you to get over yourself.

I’ve showered daily since I was a kid, & think in the last 25 yrs have only skipped my daily shower or bath on two occasions, both times surgery. The more severe surgery was on a Thurs & I couldn’t shower until Sunday, I felt awful in between, itchy, oily, & super dirty, even though I was just resting/recuperating.

[quote]I'll never understand why some people are so averse to a quick daily shower. It doesn't even take five minutes.

Then there's the hour it takes to dry off, deal with my hair, get dressed. I can't leave the house until I'm dry, dry, dry.

OP, the guys must be all over you. As granny used to say: men are like dogs, the heavier you smell, the more they are after you.

I bathe once a year, whether I need it not.

If you're sedentary. Then you only need to bathe really 2 or 3 times a week. But if you're like who commutes to work on bike. I need to shower every day. I wish all workplaces had employee showers. Once cities and suburbs become more bikable. I can see that becoming more of a thing.

What ISN’T “overwhelming” for this generation?!

*you're like me

Ok people you asked for it, the Ebola Gay: James Corden’s crundle

OP, did you renounce the sexual life?

Me ducho todos los dias.

[quote]A magical gym where not a single person's armpits stank! Amazing!

Life in plastic, is fantastic!

🛁 I'm older than dirt, was born in the 1950's, and even as I kid, we took baths EVERY night in the giant claw-foot bathtub with Mr. Bubble powdered bubble bath in the pink cardboard box.

OP, so, lot of smegma there?

Imagine all the dead skin particles she's constantly shedding, all the oily sebum from her hair follicles and greasy skin, and all the dust mites that are feeding on the dead skin and sebum....

She's a walking PIG PEN

You don't need to imagine, she looks gross in the OP pic.

Why would anyone go to a gym that stinks and has stinky people in it? We’re a first world country. We have towels, deodorant, sanitizers…there’s no reason to stink in a gym.

[quote] Then there's the hour it takes to dry off, deal with my hair, get dressed. I can't leave the house until I'm dry, dry, dry.

When you’re old you have to moisturize after you dry off or you’ll get coin-sized skin plaques peeling off your ankles.

R220 eats her own feces because her poopoo don't stink.

A bath is actually a lot easier for spazzy water phobic types. Easier to get the soap off, no scary water coming down on your head,

[quote]So completely untrue. Do you shit all over yourself or something?

Are you serious? It also depends on what you eat, people who eat spicy foods or a lot of garlic tend to reek. Food and spice odors seep out of their bodies.

The there are the slobs who wear smelly dirty clothing, they don't wash their clothes very often. ugh

R224 This is so true. Not to be prejudiced but I've had Chinese and Indian classmates in high school and roommates in college and they did smell of garlic and curry.

Even though I smoke pot from time to time. I'm not a huge pothead, I have friends who reek of pot all the time and they smell of skunk. The smell does linger in clothing and hair. I knew a few alcoholics and I can't stand the smell they have because they usually have poor hygiene.