How often do you wash?

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**legoburner**

As requested by slice of toast in an attempt to check stereotypes

**darkkt**

Lol - I read this subject line and was all ready to espouse the virtues of Devlan Mud...

Anyway, Im up to 3 times a day at the moment - once at home, then a jog to work at 32 Degrees - shower at work, then a jog home at 39 Degrees - shower again.

**LunaHound**

Once when i wake up
again when i come home
then once before i sleep.

More during summer.

**warpcrafter**

Water phobia - check
Worshipper of Nurgle - check
You don't want to know.

**lord of the ghosts**

I wish I could wash alot, but I have homework killing most of my time
once.

**rzsanguine**

At least once per day. I may take a bath if I am tired after work or I will shower if I have a date. I always shower after any workout.

**RiTides**

Wow! You guys (and gals) are on top of things. I put once per day...

**Cryonicleech**

Twice Per day.

When I wake up, and when I get home.

**Owain**

Once in the evening, about an hour before bed.

I'll wash again if I'm about to go on a date or if I get dirty during the day.

**Orkeosaurus**

Every month I scrape whatever's collected on my skin off with my hobby knife.

**Cheese Elemental**

Once a day, a while before bed. Gives my hair time to dry and I only need a few minutes in the shower anyway.

No need to shower more than once, because I don't run around sweating all day and five days a week are spent inside a school.

**tiekwando**

Depends, when I am doing a lot of sports/exercise 2 times. When I am being lazy once.

**SilverMK2**

Usually once a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. Depends what else I am doing that might make me dirty, or keep me clean.

For those who are washing more often, have you considered the damage you could be doing to your skin? By washing so often (especially if you use relatively harsh soaps) you are actually killing the layer of bacteria on your skin which protect you from harm. Not to mention damaging the skin underneath.

It is one of the reasons that health professionals in hospitals etc don't just wash their hands when they more areas or before/after seeing a patient, but also use barrier creams and moisturisers too.

So, if you are washing a lot, either cut down if you don't really need to wash, or use softer soaps and/or moisturisers.

Plus you cut down on your water and power consumption and help save the planet (woo!) if you shower less - saving you money.

**Squig_herder**

I try to get 1-2 a day in, but it reall depends on my mood

**JD21290**

Once before work, once afterwards.

**Hawkins**

Gha,
Once per day unless i work to hard and have to get clean. Or if i bath before bed, for some reason i have to at least shower in the morning. so i guess up to 3 times a day rarely but most likely once a day.

Edit: just for FYI though, i have 2 kids, they bath once or twice a week. im not sure if thats relevent but i do like talking about my kids every so often

**SilverMK2**

I got washed every day when I was a kid

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Every couple of days on average, my days off are spread out in the week, Tues and Sat, and unless I'm going somewhere or I need a shower its rare I take one on those days.

Basically not willing to waste the water when I don't require the shower. Although I'm more likely to take daily showers in the summer.

In the winter its not uncommon for me to take around three showers a week.

**Hedwerx**

Every morning before I go to work.
In the eve before I go out, if I'm not going out I don't bother.

I had a major paranoia attack about a year ago, I was showering about 3 times a day, but 1: my mates told me I was being a little bit crazy, and 2: I realised it was a little excessive.

**gretar**

Well , in the unusual day of me not getting myself dirty i wash myself 2 times a day ..

But weekends i only shower sunday , since im busy soicalizing most parts of friday - saturday ..

Oh , and in the summer i wash everytime i go home from being outside ..

**Kyley**

If something hot/dirty (temperature/visible uncleanliness) has happened I will wash even when not sceduled to do so, otherwise I wash(like at a sink with flanel and soap) every morning at the least and bathe 3 times a week...as this is the internet and I am anony-mouse (apart from having my name up there...) I admit to being lax in the extreme over these point's when I know I'm not going out or am ill.

After some disturbingly detailed analysis of my cleaning patterns, I'd loike to point out that (as the survey is about) I make sure I'm clean before going out for any kind of social interaction.

**Helbrecht**

I regularly shower once every morning and have a bath every now and then. I don't like the stereotype that Gamesworkshop-ers are smelly sweaty people (thats what they say around where I am, anyway), from the look of this poll, it's clearly not an accurate stereotype

**belial**

Shower in morning before work , shower when I get back. Nice long bath whenever i've got a new book!!

**garret**

Once A day usually. Some times more.

**r3n3g8b0y**

pretty much every day or every second day when its cold

**children of filth**

once every two or three days, I rarely get dirty so i have no need to bathe often.

**Da Boss**

Normally once per day, in the morning as soon as I wake up. If I've had heavy or dirty work and have been sweating or am covered in mud, I would wash again afterwards, but my job rarely makes me sweat.
If I'm socialising after work though I might consider showering again, depending on how clean I feel.

**skullking**

Wait a minute. Is 'wash' considered taking a shower or bath? I read that as washing your hands, which I probably do up to 12 times per day. I only shower once per day, unless necessary.

**Fattimus_maximus**

Orkeosaurus wrote:Every month I scrape whatever's collected on my skin off with my hobby knife.

I LOLed hard

**Try Again Bragg**

I wash once a day every day in the morning to wake me up and get me out the door. Unless specifically needed I take no more then that, thinking that it can wait until tomorrows shower.

As to the stereotype everybody baths at my FLGS, and in addition my store has a list of commandments posted on the wall, the first of which is "Thou shalt bath"