If you were to be COMPLETELY honest, what is the longest you have been, without having a shower/bath? And why?

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Do you deem this amount of time unreasonable, if so, why? If not, why?
What do you feel is the maximum amount of time that you should go without having a proper shower/bath, and why?
Do you think it is enough to go a few/several days with having a strip wash and then having a shower, depending on circumstances? If so, why?
Where's the line?
Is there a line? 🤔

If you were to be COMPLETELY honest, what is the longest you have been, without having a shower/bath? And why?

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

As I'm completely alone, don't go anywhere and don't have to pretty myself up for anyone else, in the winter, I might go as much as two weeks without one just because I either don't feel the immediate need or because, I end up getting heavily involved in some project that takes up all my time, kinda like how those scientists in movies that are so involved in a project they don't even bother to eat for days on end. And I just forget to get one that day and figure I'll get it the next day. Sometimes, this goes on a number of days. It also kinda depends on if I can stay awake long enough to wash and dry my sheets after the shower. I've only got one set so, I can't just toss them in the wash and get another one out.
Now, if I was with someone or had places to go, I'd get one every day. Also, during the hotter months, I'd NEED one at least every day. Some days, like Monday, I'll take two showers a day! It depends on how grotty I got that day.

PositiveFlight · Accepted Answer

My skin is sensitive so I feel dirt, oil, or any other film on my skin. It will literally drive me out of my skin. So I shower once a day unless I work hard outside and then I will shower again. I like to keep very sanitary. I love camping but I couldn’t do it feeling dirty, smoky, and sticky with sweat from the day, only to crawl into a tight sleeping bag and think I won’t go nuts before I’d ever fall asleep. So I purchased a camp trailer so I could shower at the end of the day lol.

letuswaltzforthedead · Accepted Answer

Without a full shower, around four to six months. Without any washing at all, a week or two.

I learned I can, at most, go 3 days without showering and still be relatively fine. Anything beyond that, hell no.

whirled_up_girl · Accepted Answer

When I was sick with Covid I don't think I took an actual bath or shower for a week. I still washed up the best I could but I couldn't seem to immerse myself in too much water.

ZXCwWRQWz · Answer

I went two weeks until I could smell my balls one time even through my clothes. Then I never did it again.

I consider this time completely unreasonable. Wash your balls every day! I had half excuse because of an emergency evacuation to a shelter and I was too shy to take shower with other people in public shower.

The maximum proper time for me is 24 hours. I don't know why. That's what I feel! Unless I get used to smelling like balls. Like if I'm Tom Hanks on that island I will probably smell like balls every day and I will get used to it and maybe even stop noticing it. But it won't matter because there's no one else there!

AviatorTom · Answer

8 days. We were without power for 8 days due to an ice storm. The rest of my family went to stay with relatives that had power, while I stayed in the house to manually bail the sump pump very few hours so the basement wouldn't flood. By the 3rd day, I was pretty ripe, even though I changed my clothes every day, and got wore as the days went by. When power was restored and we had hot water, I took a nice long shower before the family returned.

Note: I almost always take a shower at least every other day, typically every day.

YourFavoriteFriend · Answer

A little bit less than a month. In the winder, I try to shower at least once per week (I don't smell, feel dirty, have oil skin etc.). At some point, I was already 2-3 days past the day I should shower and then... It snowed!!! So the water was literally frozen and I couldn't shower. After that, I imidiatelly got sick and that lasted a little bit more than a week. After that, I just wasn't in the mood for some more days (tho felt extremely nervous and maybe a little bit dirty). So this will be about a month.

StrongMale · Answer

The longest I have ever been without a shower (I never take baths) is 7 days (I won’t say why here.. you are welcome to DM me if you want). Normally, the most I will go is 3 or 4 days without bathing. And that only happens when I am at home for an extended period, with nothing to do and feeling lazy. I don’t shower every day. I don’t need to.. I’m not a really sweaty or smelly guy, and I’m naturally unhairy and don’t need to shave my face very often. So, I normally shower every other day.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

Five days without a proper shower while camping. Second only to sleeping on the ground, it’s the thing i like least about camping. But i still like camping, so occasionally i go more than a few days without showering. You gotta take the bad with the good!

xJeremyx · Answer

5 days. Or to be more accurate, 6 days 5 nights. That was during my field training when I was a recruit.

0/100, would not recommend. Not showering for days, sleeping in dirt and mud, not very fun. Not to mention having insects biting all the time, especially the sandflies and ants.

Now, I shower at least twice a day.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

From what I can remember, 4 days. We were on a road trip in the midwest and the federal government is apparently too cheap to install showers at their campgrounds. I eventually got so uncomfortable, I made my mom pay $160 for a lodge, just so I could take a shower

HaveNoName · Answer

In times of sickness, i have gone for probably as long as a week when I could not get out of the bed.
Other than that, i will go crazy if i do not shower at least once a day.
The "worst" i often do is that if I take a shower in late evening and dis nit do any exertion after that, i do not take a shower in the morning to go to work as i leave at 6:30. but I HAVE to take the mext shower when I get home.

NathanDavis · Answer

at least 48 hours.. close to three days

we were under siege, so showering was not a priority... lmao

once the situation was resolved, kind of... these were my first thoughts, maybe I should get into the shower...

TallAnon · Answer

During covid probably about 3 weeks, didn't count or care, it's unhealthy, very bad for your skin. I'm pretty sure I was depressed and hadn't left the house for about half a year, not once, not did I need to, I could just order food while working from home.

Anonymous · Answer

Ugh. I'm getting pretty bad PTSD just thinking about it. 3 months without any sanitary facilities when i was 15 years old and even then after 3 months it was a plastic basin and cold water. Then again 3 months like that. Not to mention being bullied from all angles.

I can't believe i still get PTSD strikes from it. It makes me feel very uncomfortable.

kylee2437 · Answer

2 days at most. I’m always on the go for the most part and don’t want to appear unclean to my customers lol

Sour-rose · Answer

A week? I didn't stink or anything, aaand it wasn't the corona times... I just didn't have the time due to a heavy work week. And I really didn't stink in the slightest

BCA6010 · Answer

Roughly a month. Part of a military field training exercise. Fortunately it only happened once. The rest of them I did only kept us away from showers for 10-14 days.

chocolatesinpockets · Answer

I didn't shower for days on a week long school camp. It's an awkward story, lol. 👀😋 Nothing bad, but I just smelt and didn't even notice it when I returned home. Ha.

Mtbgirl · Answer

I have to shower daily. I don’t always wash my hair but I am a sweaty person and stay active so I just feel I have too. I hate feeling dirty or worrying Simone may smell body odour on me. Yuck

VIVANT · Answer

A month when I was sick & couldn’t move. Normally I shower at least twice a day.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

3 weeks. Because I was in a major depressive episode and never really got out of bed

Havthrills · Answer

An actual shower or bath: 3 weeks. It was during a training exercise for the military. Still had body wipes but no shower. If I don't get too dirty, 3 days max.

SiberFox · Answer

36-48h, home, didn't need/want to leave and no one to smell me, after that long though I can't stand the smell of myself.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

14 days. Training exercise, no running water or shower area. Just baby wipes and deodorant

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Up to 4 days when I got the stomach flu and could not even stand without feeling sick

Kinkyhubby · Answer

I would say without a real shower 3 to 4 weeks, when I was in the army doing g field maneuvers. I would try and use baby wipes to clean feet, arm pits, n dick. But that was about it

Agape93 · Answer

3 days. Winter camping, not exactly safe to go wash up in a lake when it's 10 below

dreamstar72 · Answer

Maybe about 3 - 4 months, not my fault. Bad accident.

exitseven · Answer

I think once in high school I went almost the whole April vacation without taking a shower.

Sparkie460 · Answer

I think it was 3 days when I was sick with lymes disease. I had 5 comforters folded in half on me and I was still freezing

jamesgoldman · Answer

A week I was camping and not willing to line up for hours for a shower

ZenJen444 · Answer

The end of the day lol. I work in health care a shower is crucial when dealing with these germy patients

BLP11520 · Answer

5 days,, thanks to the USAF. We played war games in Germany. Played is a joke it was miserable. No showers we were gross.

bolverk · Answer

6 weeks, while working on a contract where fresh water was limited, though thunder storms were regular, and you made the best use of them (washing your gear, getting a wash down etc )

moonpie89 · Answer

I think 3 days. Can't remember my reasoning.

Summeroflove · Answer

Sounds gross. Maybe a week. I hardly ever do that. Mostly 1 and sometimes even 2 showers a day

JustiReno · Answer

2 days? I was homeless living in my car I still went to the gym to shower 2x a day i stink

Ryfyle · Answer

Barely a day. I made soap from fucking wood ash and bacon grease and bathed in a river at 15.

Guardian45 · Answer

Canoe camping in the wild for a week. NO toilets, NO showers, just the rain and an occasional river.

Nikki1989 · Answer

A day at the most.

Utopia1 · Answer

No more than one day. I shower daily to wash off any germs and bacteria that could be on my skin and especially give extra care to the south regions

Fireguy17 · Answer

I was camping/backpacking and I think it was 2 or 3 days.

Noahzaid · Answer

Three days because of Personal circumstances. what about you?

NerdInDenial · Answer

I was out in the field, baby wipe showers, but that was for a week.

TroyDT2 · Answer

After childhood, maybe two days when I had Covid. I normally shower multiple times per day.

Tennessee_fan · Answer

3 days due to I was camping in a tent and there wasn't a shower but did kinda wash off the best I could from a creek and a bar of soap

OddBeMe · Answer

I lost mental control and went to a cabin in the woods like the unibomber. It didn’t help. But it the forced attrition I needed.

Wise4myage · Answer

It was a week for me, I was on a back packing trip.

Anonymous · Answer

A month. It's a long story. Suffice it to say I was removed from society so no one had to smell me. So no problem. 🤣🤣🤣

Sixgun77 · Answer

Probably around 2 weeks because I was out in the box at NTC.

Nurse_Meyers_88 · Answer

No more than a day or two

LavLavLuv · Answer

2 or 3 days. I was at home chillin all day

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

I thimk it was a week. I was sick tho

MrTaboo · Answer

About 10 days. Military...

JohnK123 · Answer

Like three at a summer camp hbu haha

Andres77 · Answer

About 2 weeks in Ranger School.

DrBanana · Answer

A day.  I really like my showers.

Danny_dan92 · Answer

One day

Steamnir · Answer

4 days

Beerluvr · Answer

One day. That’s it.

EaterPeter · Answer

3 days or 15 days

Anonymous · Answer

Not more than a day

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