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How Often Do You Shower (or: “Opinionated Adults Debate On The Underlying Psychological Causes...)
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Always shower in the morning. Otherwise you are putting clean clothes on when you haven’t washed.I'm of the opinion that there is very little etiquette in the online world and the lack of it is becoming norm in the real world.
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Most people I know of shower at night because they don't have the time in the morning (many have long commutes to work).
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I always shower after exercising. About once every three years!
Love the thread title edit to account for snowflakes.
Long commutes are one thing, but I prefer the feeling of being alert and fresh in the morning, hence prefer morning showers, irrespective of time or length of commute.
I chose every other day, but it can be more or less, depending on my level of physical activity. When working, it’s a bath or shower every day, and even I have taken two showers in a day. My guideline is odors, of which I am pretty sensitive to. A big boon in this department are antiperspirants allowing me to survive the day and not be stinking. I used to work with some individuals on the flight deck of an aircraft who did not wear antiperspirants and they would be stinking by noon.
My guideline is odors, of which I am pretty sensitive to. A big boon in this department are antiperspirants allowing me to survive the day and not be stinking. I used to work with some individuals on the flight deck of an aircraft who did not wear antiperspirants and they would be stinking by noon. 
I chose every other day, but it can be more or less, depending on my level of physical activity. When working, it’s a bath or shower every day, and even I have taken two showers in a day.
I read somewhere that people generally don't smell their own oder.
Antiperspirants are a double edge sword since they both eliminate and cause oder in people.
When I put my nose in the vicinity of my armpit, I either smell my nice deodorant smell or that BO smell. That is as far as my analysis goes.
At least once a day.
Every morning before work. After work I swim laps 3-5 days a week. So I take a shower after that.
On days that I work but don’t swim it’s not uncommon for me to take a second shower. Working in a hospital there’s always disease floating around.
Some say overshowering is bad for your skin/scalp/hair. Spending several hours minimum in a chlorine pool, I doubt extra showers will have much impact.
Every morning before work. After work I swim laps 3-5 days a week. So I take a shower after that.
On days that I work but don’t swim it’s not uncommon for me to take a second shower. Working in a hospital there’s always disease floating around.
Some say overshowering is bad for your skin/scalp/hair. Spending several hours minimum in a chlorine pool, I doubt extra showers will have much impact.
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When I put my nose in the vicinity of my armpit, I either smell my nice deodorant smell or that BO smell. That is as far as my analysis goes.
Isn't that why people get married. To screen them before they go out in public
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I'm not sure about you, but the pool water along with many hot showers do a job on my feet (along with dry weather). Right now, I'm suffering from a painful heel fissure on one foot (I have been lax on moisturizing after swimming)
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Isn't that why people get married. To screen them before they go out in public
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I'm not sure about you, but the pool water along with many hot showers do a job on my feet (along with dry weather). Right now, I'm suffering from a painful heel fissure on one foot (I have been lax on moisturizing after swimming)
I haven’t had that problem, yet anyways. The biggest problems I have from the chlorine are 1. Completely frying my hair and 2. Dry skin on my upper arms (weird spot). There’s ways to slow hair damage but eventually it just seems to progress. Right now it’s not too bad, but back when I swam competitively by the end of the season my hair would wrecked. No need for styling products when you can naturally manipulate your hair and it will just “stay”.
Twice a day, in Summer sometimes 3 times. Australia can get hot so you need it
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Also it make me happy and fresh.
One in the morning and depending on what I was doing during the day, exercise, motorcycling, camping etc. again in the evening. Who wants to go to bed with dust and road grime all over them while smelling like a campfire
This is actually pretty bad for human skin. It’s makes our skin drier and scaly.
http://www.businessinsider.com/showering-how-often-2017-11
As a side question for the once a day crowd, shower at night or shower in the morning? I find showering at night relaxes the muscles and I tend to sleep better.
I shower once a day and I shower in the morning. If I exercise I’ll shower again at night. But I’m seriously considering becoming a two day shower guy. I find showering at night results in a much better sleep as well as cleaner bedsheets. On days I don’t have to go to work, I often times won’t shower until much later in the day.
I’d probably shower at night if I could ensure that I smelled fresh for work in the morning, my main concern.
Once a day always in the morning. Maybe again at night in the summer if it's been particularly hot and I've been active.
I read through this thread yesterday and cannot for the life of me figure out why someone was offended that a personal question was asked on an anonymous forum. That's a little weird.
I read through this thread yesterday and cannot for the life of me figure out why someone was offended that a personal question was asked on an anonymous forum. That's a little weird.
Perhaps it is generational and geographical.
But, anonymous or not, I'd consider it nosey and intrusive and disrespectful of boundaries. None of your business.
Actually, I cannot for the life of me understand why some people think they have the right to ask for private details of the lives of others and then proceed to act most offended when their assumed right to do so is challenged or queried.
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Aside from camping or int’l travel, I find it very difficult to sleep feeling grimy from the day. I don’t like the idea of my filth betwixt the bedsheets.
I’m 1x a day and always before bed.
But you have the choice to completely ignore it. What other people ask and answer is none of your business. People have the right to ask any question they want of anyone. And again, being an anonymous forum, if you choose to answer you're not revealing anything about John Smith, you're revealing something about joeblow345 who is truly just a fictitious online persona. Who cares?
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No, they don't.
To argue thus, is to make an argument for intrusive and discourteous and entitled behaviour.
It’s hilarity to me that of all the threads on MRF, a squabble has broken out over this one.
That aside, I believe the point is that this is a public forum where many questions—some of personal nature and many not as such—are asked and, if elected, answered.
Though one may perceive a question’s topic to be personal or intrusive in nature due to a variety of factors already mentioned (e.g. generational, cultural, geographical variances), the act of asking the question itself (again, to an anonymous and public audience) is not intrusive.
Each to his own.
P.S. It’s also distinctly plausible that I have misread the entire conversation.
P.P.S. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go rinse off.
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Most offended? I don't think anyone on either side of this has acted as offended as you have.