Thread: What's the longest time you've gone without showering/taking a bath?

The longest I've gone in the last few years has only been 4 days or so. I usually shower every 2 days. But when I was little I hated taking showers or baths so I'd go weeks without it until my mom told me to.

I think sometime around last christmas I went probably 4-5 days without showering, that's gotta be my record for the past few years. I normally have to shower every day since I go to school and have to be stuck in tiny rooms with hundreds of other swinky sweaty kids - don't need to be adding my own stink to the cocktail

In recent times I think a week or one and a half tops. But then I've been at home not seeing another human being, so it didn't really matter much.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

But when I was little I hated taking showers or baths so I'd go weeks without it until my mom told me to.

Also, this.

I shower every time I go somewhere. During summers I often don't go many places but I still shower every 2-4 (at the most) days because I like to be clean lol

Just shy of 2 months.
Army training in the Mojave desert. My feet were so disgusting, it literally had me worried as to how long it would take for a full recovery.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

3-4 days for me, I always try to do at least one a day, but on weekends when I wake up at around 3 in the afternoon I don't bother.

But I really need to shower every day, I only brush my teeth after showers (because if you don't need to shower you don't really need nice smelling breath), and I drink way to many cokes not to brush my teeth every day.

In extreme cases? I've probably gone about 4 days, if that (that I can remember).

If there's not a full shower/tub nearby, I'll usually just take a wash-up, with a sink and soapy rag.

Eh like a month or so while camping in the winter.

I shower at least once every two days. The longest I've gone without one? A couple days Idk lol

I shower twice a day except on the weekends(shocked at the answers here :O)
Longest i havent showered is about 24 hours. Shower once on Saturday. 24 hours later i shower on Sunday.

The most I've been without a shower... maybe 4-5 days. I HATE not taking a shower everyday. I feel so gross. Especially my hair. its not so bad when its short, but because I have think hair, when I leave it grow long, it gets greasy really fast.

Originally Posted by OldSparta

The most I've been without a shower... maybe 4-5 days. I HATE not taking a shower everyday. I feel so gross. Especially my hair. its not so bad when its short, but because I have think hair, when I leave it grow long, it gets greasy really fast.

Ugh I know, same here. My hair gets sooo oily. And considering how much longer my hair is than yours
My face also gets pretty oily

I think I have dirtphobia. I take a shower at least once a day. Twice a day when I go to the gym. I think the worst I've gone without a shower was 3 or 4 days.

Longest was a week and a half, but I get itchy when I don't shower, so now I wash every day.

Probably like a week, shower every day typically.

Originally Posted by Erii

Ugh I know, same here. My hair gets sooo oily. And considering how much longer my hair is than yours
My face also gets pretty oily

Yeah but I have thick hair . Like the barbers bitch about it all the time, lol. So I think that's the reason my hair is so oily.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

I shower twice a day except on the weekends(shocked at the answers here :O)

I don't know why someone would even feel the need to shower more than once a day. I guess males tend to sweat a lot more or something. If I worked out a lot or swam I can imagine wanting to shower afterward. But otherwise there's just no point. If takes about 12 hours for my hair to dry, and the thought of taking another shower before my hair is even dry from the last one is just weird.

Originally Posted by OldSparta

Yeah but I have thick hair . Like the barbers bitch about it all the time, lol.

So do I. Extremely thick. A hair dresser told me that in the 18 years she's been cutting hair, she's never seen anyone with such thick hair. When I got my hair dyed, they had to use 2.5x the regular amount of dye. The problem is that it's frizzy and thick, and I sometimes wish I could have that pretty nice sleek hair look that most girls seem to be able to pull off.

About two weeks.

About 5 days, doing the whole outdoors guy thing.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I don't know why someone would even feel the need to shower more than once a day. I guess males tend to sweat a lot more or something. If I worked out a lot or swam I can imagine wanting to shower afterward. But otherwise there's just no point. If takes about 12 hours for my hair to dry, and the thought of taking another shower before my hair is even dry from the last one is just weird.

meh, i absolutely must take a shower at least once a day. I just take 2 because i like showers :3

Unless you count freshening up in a river, 4 months

The longest I've gone without taking a shower/bath? Hmm... probably when I was younger the longest was 2-3 days tops, during the summer.

The most was a week. It was because my uncle took my bathroom time so I got tired of waiting and went to sleep. Later, I made a new schedule.

I regularly only bathe once a week unless I've been doing a lot of housework or any yard work. I don't tend to sweat much but then again, I am pretty sedentary most of the time. My hair drives me to the tub before anything else.
BUT, I drench baby wipes with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and I carry those suckers everywhere and I use them frequently on my hands and feet and occasionally on my neck, face and *other* areas (I'm immune to the sting of alcohol) I go through about 3 packs of wipes a week.

Before I became all weird and stuff, I went 10-14 days without bathing when I ran away from home when I was about 14 years old.