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Have a bath once per week?
radyag
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When I was a kid, it was a well known thing for folk where I lived to bath on a sunday night and that was it.
Was this the case when you were young? And when did it change? When did folk become more clean?
Was this the case when you were young? And when did it change? When did folk become more clean?
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Exceptions, of course, being made where people are genuinely actually dirty from doing dirty things.
This! Shower or bath- I don't care which, do it daily!
I think it's more to do with Central Heating and boilers for water. It's a bit of a pain having a bath if you've got to boil the kettle 20 or thirty times before you can have a bath - which is what happened in the "old days".
So it's a convenience thing rather than a cleanliness thing, imo.
Back in the olden days, I accept that people only bathed a couple of times a week, because every one smelt the same so became used to it.
But this is the modern world, 21st century. Anyone that doesn't shower daily has no excuse other than being filthy. Thankfully I do not know anyone that doesn't!
/rant over
I think its more about growing up as when your a child you don't think about baths/showers as you grow older you become more aware of when you smell WASH DAILY:)
That interests me. Because you might do, you know.
It is plain you don't know anyone who stinks - which is good, of course
Because I seriously doubt that anyone who doesn't bathe or shower every day stinks of shit or piss unless they are actually doubly incontinent.
In the olden days, people still got washed properly every day even if they only had a bath once a week!
We used to have a bath every 2 or 3 days when we were kids, but got a wash every day, though when i turned teenager I started getting a shower every night, now its every morning.
I dont think many people need to shower every day, unless they have a messy job.
I have it on very good authority that I dont smell though
And, no, people didn't smell. They washed, all over, every day in a freezing cold bath room. As Florence Nightingale said, 'All a women needs to keep clean is a pint of warm water and some privacy.'
exactly -people have a tendency to jump to conclusions
Thanks for reminding me
But being smelly is not just unhygienic, it's rude. Fair enough if you don't mind smelling yourself, but other people have to! It's no different to going round the streets shouting abuse at people.
/rant 2 over! Just thought I'd share my experience with you!
Although I'm not sure how olden we are talking here. I was born in the 90s and have bathed/showered every day of my life as far as I know.
Yes, showering once a month is offensive! lol
LOL @ born in the 90's!!
Well, I was a child of the seventies-hardly 'the olden days'-and I think it was generally accepted that one night of the week was bath night.
Our toilet was in the corner of the kitchen with just a little strip of wood around it, you could see peoples heads and feet when they were in there.
When we moved and finally got a real bathroom, we carried on with weekly baths and hair washes, on a Sunday night before school. They could not afford to heat the water more often than that, but we always had strip washes on the other nights.
I think these days we are all too uptight about cleanliness.
Yeah, I hate it when I'm on the bus and someone stinking sits in front of me. I've always said that if you can't smoke on the bus then you shouldn't be allowed on if you're stinking! :mad: