What’s the longest you haven’t showered?

[Anonymous]

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I kinda remember 4 days straight while retreating in the mountains when my friends & I were elementary kids.

Especially with very weak water pressure wherein the water nearly turns into icicles, it was too cold to take a shower.

I resorted to heating up a bucket of water and wetting several face towels for "sponge baths" instead of showering.

[Smashingdoozy]

I want to say 3 weeks.

After surgery, wasn't allowed to get my bandages wet. So I just used a wash cloth to wash myself and washed my hair over the bath...

[Cody2004]

I realize I can't answer this the shower is a near and dear to me I'm in that mother fucker multiple times a day if I'm able to it gets cold I like the warm water. If I had to answer maybe you 4 to 5 hours if I'm not at school

[Massageman]

About three days on a mission trip to Haiti.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I stayed in a cave for a little under two months when I was deployed once. I had some baby wipes with me, so if that counts as a shower, probably only a couple weeks or so on some other shorter missions.

[SphynxUK]

7 or 8 days when bedridden with flu. Didn’t have the strength to drink water, let alone stand up long enough to shower, and too weak to get in the bath. I was ill for nearly 16 days.

[Beckybooboo]

When I went camping last year, I went three days without showering. It was cooler weather, so I didn’t feel that gross.

[KittygosMeoWW]

A week, I had just had my baby and it was just us two. It was hard talking care of her (she had some health problems) and she was cluster feeding a lot. I literally held her all the time other than the 3-4 hours of sleep I was getting a day.

[pascal_climbs]

During a trekking holiday in the desert: 2 weeks no water.

[Sonorous]

Probably a week when I was a kid. I don't know why but I hated showers. Now I love them & wish I could stay in there forever.

[Sour-rose]

3-4 days? I'm working and... well i don't smell like a disgusting human being, so that's good.

[electromagnetic]

I must every night. I can avoid a day here and there but I cannot avoid a night. Kinda why I don’t go camping.

[TheorionMage]

TWO PLUS WEEKS! Forward fire base Viet Nam! UGH!

[exitseven]

I was in the hospital for a month once and probably went more than two weeks before I could take a shower.

[BoopBoopBeep]

When I was in the hospital after my heart attack I got some wonderful sponge baths. Sometimes 2 and 3 times a day. I was like wow y'all are really serious about keeping clean post op in recovery. When they'd offer to help me eat I had to draw the line though. I'm like dang y'all I didn't have a stroke my arms work fine, let me do SOMETHING for myself. Having done both extremes (see my post above/below) I can honestly say I can tough it out both ways, but in normal civilian life, probably 36 hours is about the longest I've gone unless I was super sick or something.

[exitseven]

@BoopBoopBeep I never had a sponge bath but a nurse used to clean off my catheter so I would not get an infection

[BoopBoopBeep]

The first time was a little weird because one nurse was training the other how to do it and i felt like i was the cpr dummy or something suddenly come to life. it was really relaxing though after i got past that

[exitseven]

@BoopBoopBeep hahaha something came to life

[BoopBoopBeep]

@exitseven
Yeah not gonna lie a couple times there was a reaction. I apologized but they were always like "no no it is natural do not be embarrassed"... I didn't say I was embarrassed I was just apologizing.

[exitseven]

@BoopBoopBeep I was in the hispiral

[exitseven]

Hospital when the nurses dressed in those short, white outfits. . There were a lot of hot nurses on the floor. It was always a challenge to keep from embarrassing myself

[handsomelad70]

When I was in the hospital recovering from my stroke,26 days, but I was thoroughly washed daily for a couple weeks until I regained use of my hands.

[TenderFantasy]

Three weeks.

I don't sweat much for luckily especially during the cold winter months.

[jamesgoldman]

A week when I was camping, shower block was queued for hours so I didn't bother

[goaded]

Probably about 18 years. We always had baths when I was growing up.

[zagor]

I don't remember the bathing details of my childhood and adolescence, But as an adult probably 8 days while backpacking.

[Anonymous]

probably like 3 days because i had covid and couldn't move without almost blacking out. it was that bad

[Anonymous]

Two weeks. Long back during winter and was ill that time.

[Becky316]

About 36 hours. When I took a shower finally, it felt glorious. Even though it was a motel shower.

[KostasKouvalis]

4 days on a road trip through South Dakota when we camped in national park campgrounds

[Anonymous]

Almost a month. I was 14 though, so I partially blame my parents.