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Six days at a rugby tournament, and the then-GF bought me body wash in preparation for my return. Ordinarily its twice a day, once when I wake up and once after gym time.

2 months on deployment with only baby wipes for spot cleaning.

I'm a shower every day type person, usually two if it's a work out day.

But when I was younger and in the scouts I went for the better part of a month without a shower, it was part of a wilderness survival camp in the mojave desert and the only water we had access to was used for drinking. (we didn't even have wet wipes) When it was over I think I left a two inch layer of sand and dirt in my tub, never in my life have I felt more disgusting then when I came back from that trip.

Probably about a week when I was travelling around Europe on trains.

I usually try and grab one in the morning, but having walked one child to nursery and the other to school (a round trip of 2 miles), I'm sometimes not sure it was worth the bother

I had pretty bad depression once and I didn't shower for about two months. It was pretty bad, although to be fair I think any lingering odours give up after the first two weeks and you smell quite normal.

 Bromsy wrote:
Seven days in a rainy field in southern Germany. Our first trip to Baghdad I went about a month with nothing but a garden hose jury rigged to an old water heater we ACQUIRED and put up on the roof and filled up every day or two, but even though there was no real water pressure at least it was something. I had buddies cross the berm right when things kicked off that spent 40 plus days in their MOPP gear. That would have sucked.

Fixed

 dogma wrote:
Six days at a rugby tournament, .

What tournament is that?? .... And really did you smell more of BO, or booze?

 Ouze wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
Surprisingly long.

I feel like you need to expand on that.

A year or two ago I was really depressed. I spent basically the entire summer in bed, or at least inside the house. I lacked the motivation to take a single shower during this time. A good 3 months.

Those were dark times.

I think my hygiene (or lack thereof) during most of my depression was 'bettered' by the fact that a cyst developed in a rather... unfortunate region during the periods where I wasn't particularly looking after myself. It had the upside of half scaring me into taking more notice. If it hadn't developed then I likely would've gone the same "nothing for months" route.

Three days.

I'm gonna guess somewhere near 3 weeks. Because I hate showering. I've gotten my standard time down to about 2-3 times a week.

 Soladrin wrote:
I'm gonna guess somewhere near 3 weeks. Because I hate showering. I've gotten my standard time down to about 2-3 times a week.

I currently shower every other day, so about 4 times a week, unless I'm going somewhere. As far as I can tell, that's pretty normal.

with out a shower? about 8 years. I didn't start swap from baths to showers until I was about 8 years old

Normally I shower or take a bath a couple times a week. I mostly just stay indoors and laze about so I don't really work up much of a sweat.

 Ouze wrote:
I feel like if you don't shower for more than a week or so you'd get some kind of rash.

I didn't shower for a week while camping on Catalina. Got jungle rot in my pants area.


Never doing that again.

3 days at Leeds Festival... it was disgusting, have any of you seen festival toilets after 3 days and 80,000 people?

A few days maybe, I shower twice a day, I really like showering and I have to do it frequently as I have oily skin and if I don't do it my hair and skin gets gross fast.

Man, you guys really don't want to hear about me then...

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
I feel like if you don't shower for more than a week or so you'd get some kind of rash.

I didn't shower for a week while camping on Catalina. Got jungle rot in my pants area.


Never doing that again.

See? That's what I'm saying. I can't speak for anyone else, but things go south in the bathing suit area pretty quickly.

Did about 3 months in a body cast (from just under my chest down to the foot on one leg and to just above the knee on the other. So no shower, just a bowl of water and a wash cloth and some funky 'no rinse/no water shampoo'. That kind of sucked.

In the Army, went about 3.5 weeks. 1-2 weeks was pretty (though unfortunately) common. At one point I think my sons knew me as 'That stinky dirty nasty guy that comes home, takes a shower, changes into a clean uniform and leaves'.

 Ouze wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
I feel like if you don't shower for more than a week or so you'd get some kind of rash.

I didn't shower for a week while camping on Catalina. Got jungle rot in my pants area.


Never doing that again.

See? That's what I'm saying. I can't speak for anyone else, but things go south in the bathing suit area pretty quickly.

The frictionless slide of butt cheeks while walking and the pasty like gunk in the groin/thigh area. Know the feeling by first name but throw in "No laundry service".

I take a shower every, uhhh two weeks I guess, maybe less. My record was a hole month

 General Orange wrote:
I take a shower every, uhhh two weeks I guess, maybe less. My record was a hole month

Your gaming group thanks you...

 Jihadin wrote:


The frictionless slide of butt cheeks while walking and the pasty like gunk in the groin/thigh area. Know the feeling by first name but throw in "No laundry service".

Affectionately called The Greasy Ass and Swamp Ass.

Would have been deployment for myself as well. Somewhere in the 2-3 weeks time frame thereabouts. Can't say I actually kept count or anything, just relished the times I could cleanse properly until we had regular access to such facilities.

Sad thing is, about a little after midway of our tour, one of our guys actually stopped bathing. I think he went for over a month or so without any kind of personal hygiene washing. He had developed weird sores on some of his skin and it took our CW3 threatening him to finally get him to wash his ass. Dunno why he did it, other than maybe just lack of feths to give in the middle of a gaky deployment.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

What tournament is that?? .... And really did you smell more of BO, or booze?

I'd rather not say which tournament it was, and the tournament itself only lasted 3 days.

Also, a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.

Several months, multiple times. Having your large intestine removed and bone surgery kinda does that to you.

Although I sometimes also go a month or more without showering due to crippling depression thanks to the complete and utter apathy it provides.

Four weeks. Was the longest time I had without a shower.

Why? My shower's hot water didn't work.

4 weeks while deployed to Iraq. Got really good at wet-nap showers. home is sometimes random when i get in a depressed mood, I wont shower until I HAVE to go somewhere, just no drive to do it. With my hermit life style that lets me never see people on a normal basis. Its a good fit

Once every three months or so at best

3 days, and that is only if im not going anywhere