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> I need to shower in the morning to feel clean

Opposite here. I need to shower at night or else I feel dirty when trying to sleep in my bed.



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> Also I can take a shower in the middle of the day. Which is the best time.

I'm intrigued. Why is that the best time?


> Is this a US thing?

South African here. I shower daily, no matter the season (as does everyone I know). Sometimes another quick shower just before bed on a hot day.

I just don't feel clean otherwise. Climate accounts for the seasons, but we do it in cold-ish Winters as well.


> Not sure after three days without a shower my main concern would be how my hair looks

Yeah, the condition of my hair isn't what prompts me to shower daily. If my skin could magically be clean and pleasant (to both myself and other people), we could talk.


> The problem is making that a regular occurrence.

Ideally you shower every two days or so.


> The few people who do need it every day can probably work it out for themselves.

People are much less sensitive to their own body odor than you may assume. Please default to taking a shower before you go to public places unless you have very concrete evidence otherwise.


> do I shower at work, and when I get home?

Observation: those who bike fast and get sweaty or live far shower at work. It is typically quick shower. No idea what they do at home.

Slow people who dont sweat dont shower at work.


> and failing to bathe regularly

Wait what?


> Still, those with predictable bowel movements may time them so they immediately precede a daily shower.

Do people actually do this? It seem to me a bit, well, anal.


> This means it's impossible to take a two-hour hot shower.

Do you actually have the habit of taking two-hour hot showers on a running shower? How incredibly wasteful would that be?


Dirty is more a psychological thing than a biological thing here. If you always shower at certain time, you will feel dirty when you don't.

> All people on family take a bath everyday after a shower

Wait, first shower, then sit in a tub? What is the reason behind this? One or the other by itself should be enough to get clean right?


>Does anyone else forget if they washed their hair of not while having an epiphany?

I'm more likely to mindlessly apply body soap to my hair or shampoo to my body when solving problems in the shower. I'm always amused when my autopilot makes this mistake.


> But we do it every day

Wait, how long has this been going on? Do most people really take showers every day? Most people I know (myself included) only do it when they get smelly/sweaty, which is roughly every day in the summer, every 1.5-2 days in the winter. Is this a US thing?


> Each day, many of us pour roughly 70 litres of hot water over our bodies in order to be “clean”.

That seems like an odd use of scare quotes. Is the implication that showers don't actually clean you?


> Put on some deodorant, shower every other day and this guy could cut down his risk massively

Yeah, if by "massively" you mean he'll only be expected to have a possibly-fatal fall twice instead of five times.

Your post is extremely ignorant. It not only offensively and incorrectly ascribes daily showering to "prissiness" and "obsessiveness" (as if that's the reason I shower every day, instead of, you know, wanting to smell nice, look nice, and feel refreshed), it also claims that this is an American phenomenon (I'm Canadian, and many/most people I know shower daily. The ones I know who don't, smell). It also assumes all people are the same. Personally, I'd feel pretty sorry for your wife if you smell like I do after not showering that morning.

It's no more "bizarre" than the Japanese are bizarre for using those funky toilets with built-in bidets. Cultures may be different. Let them be different without judging, and without projecting.


> I shower every day anyway, so I don't count shower time as cost of running.

So do I, and there's no way I could go out for a run before it - so the post-run one would be additional, that's why I count it as a cost.


    > We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs.
If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)

'I often went three or four days between showers or until someone told me I smelled.'

Washing oneself is not about fitting in, it is about hygiene.


> Do people complain that showers are meant to displace baths?

They did when showers first started replacing baths in the 1800's.

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