I really hate showering anymore. iin?

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It's just another damn chore!!

It's a waste of resources to shower more often than absolutely necessary!! Not only from the showering part, but also the extra laundry from changing clothes and dirtying up the towels.

Lately I have cut down to showering about once a week, and I only do that because I have to go into town. If I can go longer, I do. Who cares? No one is coming over, I'm not going anywhere. Is it a problem? At least I have the courtesy to get all nice and clean before exposing myself to the public or guests. Ha ha perv, you know what I mean so don't bother with the obvious joke.

Sometimes I throw on different clothes because I'm paranoid that my neighbor might notice I've been wearing the same damn clothes for the past 4 days. But I still don't shower, just change.

One time, well it was more like 3 times actually, I sharted (shit my pants a bit). I didn't want to have to bother with the whole shower ordeal so I carefully slipped off my pants and socks, then got the soiled underpants off ever so carefully and just mopped things up with a few baby wipes, put my pants and socks back on and called it a victory.

I've even come to truly enjoy accumulating an array of foul odors from various body parts, crust, lint, toe jam, secretions, and so forth. I like to astonish myself with an amazingly bad odor when it happens to occur.

Usually I'll put my hair in a butterfly clip the day I shower, and then the next morning I'll braid it. I found that releasing the braid a day or 2 later also smells good like shampoo, without the effort of actually shampooing!! 4-5 days, one wash!! Sometimes when I take my weekly shower I don't even wash my hair. Fuck it.

As you can clearly see, I am totally serious here, I have this down to a science. Please don't accuse me of trolling because I'm NOT, I actually want to know if what I'm doing is normal or gross or what. I guess i am breaking away from what society says is the right thing to do, because I see it as wrong. We're always told these things and programmed to do this or that, but who ever asks WHY or challenges the "rules"? Geniuses, that's who. Showering is a scam perpetrated on the unwitting public by utility companies, soap makers and other greedy profiteers of the bathing and washing industry.

When I think back on all I wasted over the years when I showered daily, I cringe and die a little inside.

is it normal to just stop wanting to shower so often and see it as a job that sucks and is a waste if done too often?

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  • flutterhigh
    11 years ago

    I also like to challenge the rules. Just yesterday I challenged gravity, because who the fuck is Newton to tell me I have to fall? And guess what assholes, I only got ONE broken rib. And I refused medical treatment because that's just another thing the MAN says is right. I say it's normal for wounds to fester. I don't care if I'm just one uninformed citizen against centuries of diligent research, I choose to believe what I want to believe.

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    • GuessWho
      11 years ago

      Good job. I didn't read the post or OP's reply to you, but he wasted a whole lot of time on it.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        All I've got is time, babe. Remember, I sure as hell ain't showering all week. That's at least 20 or so posts of intense length. Keep 'em comin'.

        What are your concerns? Because I'll address them. ALL of them, love. Thoroughly. And deeply. And passionately.

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        • GuessWho
          11 years ago

          Okay, I found some time to read the post and some comments and have come to this conclusion:
          You're either a very dedicated troll, or the most disgusting person that I'd never want to meet.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            11 years ago

            Or am I just so right it blows your mind and turns everything you think you 'know' about hygiene on it's head, but it's so ingrained and indoctrinated in you that you can't bring yourself to admit you've been hoodwinked?

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            • GuessWho
              11 years ago

              I don't care if my body is resistant enough to germs to not need to shower for 6 weeks.
              I shower every day because I can. It only takes 5 minutes and costs almost nothing on water. I like to feel and smell clean and fresh.
              Since this is the modern norm, I expect that from others too.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Newton didn't invent gravity. That's like saying the dude who first found a maple tree invented the maple tree. He just found it, made some fancy book scribblins about it, probably pressed a few leaves in the pages of his Playboy magazine, and life went on. Sure, a lot of good shit came from our new found, however limited, understandings of the maple tree, but so what? A dude still didn't invent the tree. The tree makes it's own rules.

      A guy didn't find a shower somewhere out in the fucking woods one day, though, he invented it and made it.

      I'd have loved to have seen the headlines, were that true....

      "Local Man Finds Hot Water Spraying Device in Kentucky Woods, Names it "SHOWER"

      "Man Successfully Mates so-called "Shower" with Tub--see photos of the love-child inside"

      How many people have their hands out for your money for showering? Water company, electric company, gas company, appliance stores and manufacturers, tub company, fixture company, soaps, shampoos, towel/bathrobe makers, cotton farmers, transport companies, I could go on and on. What about the trash and waste?

      A gallon of a decent standard shampoo will cost about $40 and up. What the FUCK else does every ordinary average person buy for $40 a gallon, that they use daily, in like amounts, completely unnecessarily? Not much, not fucking much, chief, more likely nothing even comparable for most people. People bitch about a gallon of gas going up by a nickel, or piss and moan for a month straight when a stinkin' postage stamp goes up by 1 red cent, yet pour money down the drain literally by over-showering. They don't even realize they're being bilked. They happily march to the store because they're told that they need more shampoo. This shampoo is newer, not better, just newer!! Come buy it!!

      Even if you showered every other day instead of every day, you'd obviously cut your bill in half. Why wouldn't any sane, rational person do it then? No one ever said you had to shower every day, EXCEPT people who profit from shower related items. Think about it. Would a doctor tell you that you HAD to shower every single day? Of course not, unless you had some kind of disease, surgery or problem requiring it, then he would. So, therefore one can surmise that only problem-ridden, diseased and stupid people shower every day, by logic, and they'd be right.

      A dentist will tell you to brush your teeth and floss, yet that takes money from him if you listen. Damn Hippocratic Oath getting in the way of his profits!! Guess who doesn't take an oath to protect you and treat you ethically? Guess who brainwashes you with ads and propaganda? Guess who had to have laws created to keep them from literally killing you in more ways than one?

      No, seriously, guess who??

      Shower profiteers, that's who. Did you get it right? Be honest now!

      You think your buddy Isaac Newton showered every day? Hell no he didn't, and he's smarter than you so draw your own conclusion.

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      • flutterhigh
        11 years ago

        Hygiene wasn't invented either. Your analogy is skewed - hygiene is analogous to gravity, as methods of hygiene are analogous to Newton's gravitational theory. The former are concepts, the latter are its material/mathematical implications. In fact, your arguments are rife with logical fallacies.

        Profit is found in everything. These same arguments could apply to food, water, and shelter, and you're certainly free to forgo those. Or better yet, you could find ways to enjoy these products without paying exorbitant fees for them. That way you don't have to be a smelly, emaciated, thirsty hobo and you can still stick it to the man.

        Plato was infinitely smarter than me and yet he believed that the universe was smelted by a demiurge and composed of aether, and that the sun revolved around our flat Earth. So, fuck that. Good luck with your crusade.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          We'd have to get down to the most basic and primitive hygiene here to argue this. Gravity is measurable, constant and certain while hygiene is not. Gravity is the same now as it was in Year 1, but hygiene is not. What will have to be done here is to study the hygiene habits of minimally contacted tribes along with reliable early history of hygiene. We'd also have to rule out any rituals, superstition, religious law or grooming posing as hygiene, and our extensive knowledge of bacteria and such, to be fair.

          Too good of hygiene is seriously detrimental to hunting and fishing, so it's undeniably logical that in times as early as our grandparents and certainly before, people wouldn't want to smell good, or 'odd', on a regular basis as their life would depend on their hunting, fishing and trapping ability.

          A male wouldn't have to smell good to get a female mate before too long ago, they'd just take the female they wanted. That's obviously different now but we can't use that as a reason for hygiene, I'd think, since that wouldn't be a logical reason a primitive person would have drive to be hygienic for the sake of hygiene.

          I can also contend that slathering the body in mud is a known protection from mosquitos, sunburn and other things. It can block human odors. Humans would also rub themselves with other substances such as urine to facilitate hunting and avoid detection. We still use urine to hunt to this day, and scent blocks. They are now commercially sold/produced, of course, but this is no new concept. To us, putting these things on our body is 'unhygienic'. To survive, you wouldn't want to smell good, or strange, you would want to mask your human smell and add an inhuman smell, in the form of what we'd consider, or know now to be, disgusting and dirty things.

          It's quite clear that smelling good, or 'perfumed' is absolutely, positively detrimental to survival, so it can't be a primitive instinct.

          It's also quite clear that what we'd think of as 'gross' like mud, piss, and musks is actually vital to rub over the body.

          Our current concept of hygiene has to be at least 95% contrived.

          Food, water and shelter you NEED. Hygiene, you do not, not in a plausibly knowing through all time sort of way as with to prevent bacterial infection, for example. I could go my entire life without ever washing my hair and I'd live, but I couldn't say the same for water.

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      • GuessWho
        11 years ago

        Stop spreading lies about me!

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  • redoctober
    11 years ago

    "I really hate showering anymore" <--- mind fuck english.

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  • Dulse.
    11 years ago

    If the excessive consumption bothers you, take sponge baths and re-use water. Wash with plain natural bar soap.

    You don't have to entirely forgo cleanliness to remain sustainable and live cheap.

    If you really don't like to bathe yourself, I say keep doing what you're doing. Cleanliness is important to remaining relatively healthy though.

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  • Akeem
    11 years ago

    Damn this sure made my day, absolutely hilarious. But the part about the cushion is disgusting and are you a girl cause I just cant seem to think of you as a boy.

    I don't think bathing as often as you is normal but I don't really see a problem with it.

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  • jondoerandom
    11 years ago

    This is disgusting. yes, you're not inventing anything -the whole medieval europe showered about twice a year. Scandinavian people thought that showering washes off the protection off the skin and people get sick in the cold... So it's old as the humanity.

    But then -so is the bubonic plague, various dermal diseases cause by a poor hygiene and etc. and etc.

    Not to mention that you're a disaster for people with a really sharp sense of smell, like myself. Please shower more or find a way to stay away from the society as much as possible.

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  • Hoohahohyahhh
    11 years ago

    How come I'm imagining OP is a girl?....and I hate showering too, but if I don't then I'll be sticky and itchy. I hate sleeping when I'm sticky or itchy. I do manage a day, at most two, in the winter times.

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    • Shackleford96
      11 years ago

      I was thinking the very same thing for some reason...

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  • Lolada
    11 years ago

    A shower a week is enough,trust me,don't buy that crap from people and ads that you have to shower 4-5 times a week,it's a waste of water,money and time.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I take showers in the back yard with my garden hose. And I pee off my deck since I clogged the toilet up and cant get it unclogged.

    Whats the worst odor you have found as of yet? Mine is my dog's butt.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      The nastiest thing I have come across was the center cushion on my couch, man, I have funked that thing up something fierce! I even have a couch cover. I took the couch cover off once to wash it (read air it out) and the center cushion was brown. Not tan, not dingy, not off-white, fucking BROWN!! That would be fine if I had a brown couch, but see, my couch is white. My ass funk penetrated my underwear, my pants and the couch cover and turned the entire cushion brown and smelly as fuck. I've only had this couch for less than a year. Progress!!

      For some reason if I free ball, my pants reek way worse than my underoos ever do, so that's another thing that I've noticed as extra funky. Maybe the heavier material of my jeans absorbs and locks in more odor and sweat so it festers more? I'm no big-city scientist but I like that theory.

      Also, I made a wooden chair perma-stink.

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Doing laundry is over rated as well, I wear the same pair of pants to work every day, usually with the same underwear, I dont notice any particular smell until 3-4 days later, sometimes its worse in the summer, but it doesnt matter, they cant fire me or I can sue them. If I crap myself (it happens) then I find it necessary to change the underwear. Still dont wash the pants though, little spray on air freshner does wonders. Besides its a pair of black slacks how the fuck can you see any kinda stain on them? Well unless its a cum stain (happens).

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    Sometimes in winter I can miss a day and get away with it. Unfortunately I don't have the freedoms of solitude.

    I'm not sure I really get the odour sniffing thing but if your happy then fuck it.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    You don't date much do you. You seem very lonely. Do you have several cats by chance?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      No, sometimes and yes. Not necessarily in that order. In this case though, it is in that order.

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        Do you have no interest in getting out of the house and having fun in a social environment?

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          No I really don't. I prefer solitude. This whole not showering thing is just a newly found bonus to my life. I just realized one day, why the fuck am I showering?? Then it snowballed. Then not showering became my main goal instead of finding reasons, motivation and initiative to shower. Then it just all unfolded for me like a divine inspiration, THIS is what my life is supposed to be, it all makes so much sense now!! I was forcing myself to do all these things and I didn't ever really ask 'why am I doing so many things I don't enjoy or want to do' so I stopped doing those things. So I might be a homebound smelly cat lover, but you know what? I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life. If I don't want to do something, then I don't, and the world can kiss my ass. It's my life and I'm driving the fucking ship now, motherfuckers!! You aren't inside my head anymore, I am not your puppet!! Get thine money-grubbing hands out of my pockets!! I am FREE as a fucking bird now.

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          • Captain_Kegstand
            11 years ago

            Well if that is what you want to do, and you are happy doing it, i'd say go ahead. I can't judge you simply because I wouldn't choose that path (that would make me the exact kind of person I hate lolz)

            Basically said, it is not normal. BUT if it is what makes you happy, everyone is different and you are not hurting anybody so drive the "fucking ship" where you choose. You are kind of a pirate really lolz.

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          • BlackDays
            11 years ago

            A dirty bird :p

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    • zchristian
      11 years ago

      Are you asking him out?

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      • Captain_Kegstand
        11 years ago

        No, just making an educated guess as the the home life of a person who does not shower that's all and collects as many foul odors as possible.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        Either that or trying to adopt one of my kitties.

        The answer is no, and yes. Not necessarily in that order. I'm pretty choosy about who gets near my kitties.

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  • flax
    11 years ago

    I find it amusing that you threw in a "fuck it". Hehehe

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  • mnaha
    8 years ago

    I laughed till I cried . The whole story of not showering and also the comments were so enjoyable I had to sign up to comment and found this site awesome. Thanks so much for making my day . I too have found that as I got older and we don't get out but about once a month and don't sweat, what is the point ? really..But I often wonder if it is the correct thing to do for health but I see a lot of information about societies that don't shower everyday and if showering was a matter of life and death ,then none of us would have been here now. I know our ancestors did not shower everyday and many people in this time don't either. By the way I did see an article the other day about an 80 year old man that hasn't taken a shower,bath or wash in 60 years. Imagine that? Wow.. now that is sticking to something .. but 60 years? Geez. Anyway thanks so much for writing this . It really made me enjoy my day so much more ,even a Sunday.

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    Save water. Give your bum hole a squirt after you shit.

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  • lol1055
    11 years ago

    i do the weekly shower too and i don't smell, I use body spray. i'm so lazy

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  • Pyro-NJ
    11 years ago

    This made my day.

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    I must admit, I would shower much less if I knew I didn't have to be around people. I hate washing my clothes so much too...

    By the way, I found your post (and your replies to the comments) absolutely fascinating, humorous, and even inspirational. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience of yours with us here at IIN.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Cool!! Come to the smelly side, my son!!

      Maybe I should be ironic and write a plastic coated book you're supposed to read in the shower, full of short stories about poor hygiene. It would have a gallery of photos of dirty hobos for inspiration, or too know that there's probably someone out there dirtier than you are, no matter how long it's been since you showered.

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      • Shackleford96
        11 years ago

        Haha, but I can't though as the people I have to be around on a regular basis would likely find this extreme behavior odd and maybe even offensive. My fear of being judged socially prevents me from being able to do this as you do. I do admire your devotion and dedication though. I am but a weekend warrior at best :P

        Lol at your book. I think it might do well actually, give it a try!

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  • thecoldhardtruth
    11 years ago

    This sounds pretty friggen disgusting to me but whatever floats your boat..

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Why don't you go bathe under a waterfall or skinny dip in a lake, but be careful of the wildlife. Using soap could cause harm to the ecosystem.

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  • thinkingaboutit
    11 years ago

    I really hate showering anymore, frankly, doesn't make any sense.

    But I agree with you. It gets annoying.

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  • kingsleycrowne
    11 years ago

    I'll never forget when I went to Hawaii and saw the homeless people showering in the rain. Haha but yeah to your question, I sort of agree, I shower daily more so to wake me up than to wash. If I don't have a shower in the morning I go into the day very lethargic. But I don't spend long in the shower and avoid multiple daily showers as I see the massive amount of water consumption thats occuring. I think though you may of taken it a bit too far, with this odour fetish etc that you have. Hygiene is important, as an unhygienic body can cause health issues.

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  • zchristian
    11 years ago

    In the old days a single bath a year was enough now people usually take a bath everyday OMG germs everywhere... yeah a bath wont really help on that and smelling bad well do you do sports or have a smelly job because i dont smell that much at all if i dont take a bath for a week

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Hell sometimes a good strong wind and rain is a shower as far as I'm concerned. If it was good enough for George Washington, then, by God, it's good enough for me.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Yeah, but you can't go by someone who is rumoured to have wooden teeth. I know the rumours are untrue, by the way, although the truth is kind of worse. He had other people's teeth in his mouth.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          I have awful teeth so we're equal there. I WISH I had some replacements, wooden or someone else's. SOMETHING!! I have fucking super glue holding a front filling on, it looks like shit because it's harder than it sounds to do and I have to replace it every few weeks and it can't be good but it's better than having a half front tooth I guess. Then I'm missing 2 on each side right after my canines. So, yeah, I'd take some dentures made out of polished painted turds right about now really.

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Use some corn niblets, dried ones of course. You could even paint them white, just make sure you get the paint with the lead in it - I've heard it's more realistic.

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              11 years ago

              I could just get a set of those Halloween vampire teeth, cut them apart so they're a bottom and a top, paint them off-white and glue that in. That's genius!! I could even bling it out like a grill. Fancy. Are grills still cool?

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            • Captain_Kegstand
              11 years ago

              And tastes better! Kinda sweet!

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          • dappled
            11 years ago

            Eek. You want to be careful with that superglue. Cyanoacrylates are toxic. You really don't want to be breathing that stuff in. One boss I had used to use denture fixative for much the same thing (or as a temporary filling for cavities until he got to the dentist).

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