Currently Watching Jeremy Vine And This Subject

[Bobbisox1]

Are we too hygienic now?
Years ago bath night was mostly Sundays here for school the next day , and hair washed and combed through with the ‘dickie comb’ long hair was towel dried then I sat on the rug in front of a coal fire letting it dry, in the Summer it was on the back steps,
Now I shower when I get up and again before I go to bed.
Are we too hygienic?

[Bobbisox1]

Must add , I was topped and tailed each night tho :0))

[Bazile]

I blame these shopping channels forcing peolpe to buy all those products

[douglas9401]

Indeed, I long for the days when people smelled like wet dogs or worse.

Must dash now, I'm squeezing an urchin up a lum.

[Bobbisox1]

Douglas you’re an owld cynic :0)

[davebro]

you shower twice a day? - wow!

[aelmpvw]

i suppose now the two metre rule is being reviewed i will have to take a bath

[Bobbisox1]

You find that unusual Dave?

[Bobbisox1]

I’m sure Doris will scrub your back ael ;)

[davebro]

I do

[aelmpvw]

^ that's what worries me . . .

[Bobbisox1]

Tell her to be gentle with you Ael :0)))

[davebro]

Experts (?) recommend showering only 2 or 3 times a week. Personally I think that's a bit excessive!

[barry1010]

We didn't have a bath (or shower) when I was a child and only had the kitchen sink. No running hot water in the summer at all, so it was a bath once a week at the public baths. I never knew my grandmother to have a bath.
I had a wet flannel swiped around my face before school each day.
My dad cycled all day at work but only changed his shirt on Thursday - he had a clean collar every day.
Washing was dried from the kitchen ceiling rack in wet weather, hanging over the boiling cabbage or frying sausages.
I didn't know what deodorant was until I was in my 20s. My parents never used it.
We must have stunk. Nothing was ever said so I suspect everyone else smelt much the same.

I don't know if we need to bathe or shower every day but I feel much more comfortable if I do.

[davebro]

I don't mind showering - it's the drying off that's a bit of a pain. There's a lot more of me than there used to be!

[Bobbisox1]

I take no notice at all of so called experts I’m afraid Dave and find a nice hot shower before changing to my nightclothes beneficial although I’d only wash my hair every other day

[davebro]

showering twice a day AND having night clothes - you must be posh!

[Bobbisox1]

Haha, I’m a posh Geordie yi knaa :0))))

[LadyCG]

No, when it come to personal hygiene you can never be too attentive. In the really hot spell I would shower and change my underwear two or more times a day. OH bought me an Elie Saab perfume set for our anniversary so any excuse to use the shower gel and body lotion.

There are people who would think nothing of getting up of a morning and not bothering to shower, even if they'd been sweating all night. Yuk.

I briefly dated this guy when I was still in my teens who thought brushing his teeth wasn't necessary. It didn't last long.

[Sqad]

barry....lol...I completely empathise with your post 1106.
The only addition that I can make is that we had a tin bath which during the week was full of coal, but on Friday it was cleaned to let little sqad have a bath in front of the coal fire lol. The tin got so hot that one couldn't touch it.
No showers except that if you were picked for the school team, then you had a shower after the game BUT if you were playing at a Public School, then there was always a sunken bath to accommodate the team. Unfortunately it wasn't a Coed school -;)

[davebro]

True story - before I was school age we had a refugee living with us & her little girl (my age). We used to play together on our smallholding where we kept hens. We were found there one day & she was "washing" my hair with hen manure! (I'm bald now)