I shower once every 2-3 days depending on the weather and physical activity.
I’m Italian and we have bidets, so I can wash my ass and genitals there; face and, when necessary, armpits I can wash quickly in the sink.Why is this weirdly hot? Or am I just pathetically broken
Maybe you’re imagining an hot Italian man, sweaty and smelly from a day of hard physical labor under the Mediterranean sun…
Well, sorry to disappoint you!!
i’ll imagine whatever I damn well please and there is nothing you can do to stop me
I’m imagining you loving this beautiful person the way they are.
Go ahead, try to stop me.
Mmm yeah bidet those 2 day balls lol
If I don’t shower after every sleep, my hair is disgustingly greasy and misshapen and I’m generally smelly. I look, smell and feel absolutely unacceptable though my standards aren’t high in that regard.
I can tell whether my wife has showered because I’ve known her so long, but she’s still entirely presentable for, if she wishes, days on end.
It’s entirely unfair.
Your hair (actually the skin on your head) is irritated, it releases too much sebum, you should use less aggressive shampoo and start washing your hair less often. It’ll be hard at first, you’ll have to endure dirty hair, but after some time your sebum production will reduce and your hair will stay clean longer. You may also have dermatitis, you could go to a dermatologist.
And lower the heating in your bedroom, you don’t need 23°C in there when already sleeping under a comforter, it’s also better for your general health.
The recommendation is appreciated. I’m not too worried about my hair. This has been the situation my whole life and, while showering can be painful, it’s refreshing as well.
I doubt the heat in my bedroom is the problem. I (admittedly only sometimes) sleep with the window open in the winter and, despite a central HVAC, a window AC unit in the summer. I honestly prefer that nowhere in my house ever get above a max of 67 fahrenheit (apparently 19.5 C). If it ever gets to 23C (which DDG tells me is approximately 74 fahrenheit), I am barely functional, with or without a comforter. I know this to be the case from when I lived with my dad, whose thermal preferences were very different from my own. I even deliberately moved to a colder area to make it easier and more environmentally friendly to stay at my preferred temperature. I do adjust the temperature for guests, but it’s no fun.
Thank you again for trying to help, though.
Same. It only takes me about 12 hours to go from freshly showered to glistening like a ham with grease even with minimal physical activity and moderate temps.
Before anyone gets on me about “try this different soap” or “your skin will adjust if you just start showering less”, I have tried both, believe me. I have tried basically every soap on the shelf from ultra gentle barely even a soap soaps to bathing with literal surgical scrub. I have tried ultra moisturizing soaps, I have tried soaps for greasy skin and hair, I have tried medicated ones, I have tried natural ones, I have tried everything. I have also tried the “just shower less” advice. It doesn’t work. I can cut my number of showers in half or even less for months at a time and my skin doesn’t adjust one bit, I just get greasier, smellier, and also break out in rashes as a bonus. Some people just have really greasy skin. Also tried different diets from vegan, to keto with no change.
Depending on my environment, the problem for me is mostly when I sleep. I’m not a very active person, especially since I got hurt, so I don’t work up much of a sweat from exercise (though I should try to do better on that). I honestly don’t leave my house very often, so I largely control my environment and I like it cold. I’m not saying I stay clean and sanitary throughout the day, but from when I shower to when I go to bed, I would usually consider myself largely socially acceptable to go out or to have guests. However, I’d prefer no one see (or smell) me between getting up and showering.
My condolences regarding your situation, especially the rashes. It sounds like it’s a bigger issue for you than it is for me. Clearly you’ve tried to resolve it, but good luck to you in finding a functional solution someday. Despite my lesser concern about my morning hygiene, I’ve also received lots of recommendations on how to address it and, while the efforts are appreciated, it can be frustrating when the recommended solutions are impractical or don’t work.
Good luck.
You can chose two. Any two, but only two.
Sleep and buy food, those are my picks.
You chose… Wisely.
Sleep is like that one kid nobody picks at kickball for me
You’re gonna run out of space to store all that food if all you’re doing is buying it and no time to eat!
I just plan to spread all the food around my bed and hope that I learn to sleep eat.
I wanted to walk 10,000 steps and hoover but I forgot to work and now I can’t afford to live in an apartment…
Well 1/3 of those meals is inside your 8 hours of work
Many jobs easily hit 10k steps, if yours doesn’t consider a treadmill.
Let’s say 2 hrs of commute total. If your job us more than that, re-assess your choices.
Dinner can get solved by just meal prepping and thinking ahead. So 10 minutes to warm up a prepped dinner.
Breakfast is often very easy as a meal, maybe 10 minutes spent on it.
Shower is 30 minutes.
You don’t need to vacuum your house every day, wtf lol.
So that still leaves you 5 hours for cleaning/tidying, and personal time.
And thats on weekdays, why do people that post this sorta stuff always glaze over weekends existing.
A few points-
My job is at a computer. A height adjustable desk and a walking treadmill have revolutionized my life, so good call there.
Shower may be 30 minutes, but you forget the time it takes to mentally prepare to shower. You forget the time spent staring at yourself in the mirror going over every flaw and or singing and dancing. And then once in the shower the time it takes to stand under the hot water and go over old arguments to come up with the ideal comebacks you should have said. When else am I supposed to do that. Though lately I’ve been using my tablet to watch TV in the shower, so this increases my shower time to about 40 minutes, but I also knock watching TV shows off my list. That was on the list right?
Most people probably don’t have to vacuum every day. personally my family keeps bringing home animals. Animals with hair. I’ve found I do need to vacuum every day and it’s still not enough and all my clothes are always covered in cat hair and they get into my feet as sharp little hair splinters. Please send help.
If you live alone then sure that leaves you five hours. If you have kids you’d better spend those five hours with your family! You get maybe one hour after they go to bed, if you’re lucky and they went to bed on time and stayed there. You’re probably going to need to take the time away from sleepy time.
And weekends are when you make up for that sleep deficit. Oh wait, you can’t. The kids get up early and need breakfast. The dogs need to eat and go out. Your wife made plans for all of you. Enjoy your day with the in-laws. What was that you were saying about glazing over?
tl;dr - This is in fact possible if you are a joyless robot
All of my time was the mandatory parts.
The remaining 4 hours is the fun parts, but I never claimed it’s four hours straight.
Obviously yeah, some fun there, some fun here, but 4 hours a day of straight up extracurricular time, on weekdays, is tonnes to be fine.
Whether that’s sounding time with your family, singing in the shower, jerking off, or taking a nap, whatever.
If I’m showering that day (if I have to go to the office) my shower is six minutes or less hahaha
If I’m showering on a non-office day, the mental preparation is indeed a very long time. But my actual shower is still under ten minutes.
Your post glazed over:
- the time it takes to use the treadmill
- the time needed for personal stuff at home (banks, bills, maintenance, planning)
- shower is indeed 30 minutes from picking the clothes to dropping them in the hamper. Thats on days theres no other maintenance,
- the time to buy the food you want to prep (that’s if you didnt spend a considerable amount of time budgeting and couponing on this economy)
- the time to prep the food you just made, the big enough freezer to store it, the containers and the time to store and organize it.
- if you have pets, vacuuming regularly is a thing
- we haven’t mentioned anything about friends and family time, nevermind everything that comes with having kids
- you’re forgetting every other human aspect of how doing stuff works, 4 x 2 hour tasks never take 8 hours whatever it is.
- if you have to get/drop off your car at the shop, plan for holidays, trips, gifts, birthdays, events
- we’re not even getting into working 2 jobs because 1 doesn’t pay enough (which is the reality for most).
By your own admission and being generous with the above, we spend more than 80% of our time subsisting, which becomes increasingly more difficult the less money you make. What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?
You’re making the rich man’s equivalent argument of “just don’t be poor”. Even if the numbers aren’t exactly as she put it, the point remains the same. This is /r/personalfinance level disillusionment
the time it takes to use the treadmill
No, I was saying using it during work if it’s a sedentary job. It’s becoming pretty normalized for people to use treadmills + standing desks for a couple hours a day at their desk jobs, if needed.
I use one and easily hit 15k steps literally just sitting in on zoom meetings, for example. Makes it less boring.
banks, bills, maintenance, planning
This should be something that only comes up 1-2 times a month and takes like 5 minutes. And thats if you haven’t bothered to just setup automatic payments. If you spend more than 5 minutes on this sorta stuff maybe you are just bad with tech? It’s literally 6 button clicks for me to pay my phone bill right now.
the time to buy the food you want to prep (that’s if you didnt spend a considerable amount of time budgeting and couponing on this economy)
You shouldn’t be grocery shopping every. sngle. day.
Maybe the reason people in here struggle so much with their time is it sounds like they have no capacity to plan out and get all there weeks worth of errands done in 1 single outting on Saturday afternoon.
I go out early Saturday, get my errands done for the whole week, and get home and meal prep it for the whole week.
I usually have an entire month of meal prep in the deep freeze of various meals. I prep a month of food each week but a different meal, that way I usually have 4-5 totally different things in the freezer to mix and match.
Then all my meals take literally 3 minutes to warm up anytime I wanna save time.
I still make nice meals, usually on days where no other tasks were needed and I have extra time.
What happens to Saturday shopping and meal prep when your paycheck is monday and you had a big expense that ate up what little savings you had?
I’ve been deeply entrenched in poverty. I worked as a dishwasher in kitchens for 5 years getting myself through school. I had barely anything to my name, I lived in a shit apartment, I didn’t own a vehicle, I didn’t even own a bike for awhile.
I still had no issues saving my money and setting funds aside.
Every. Single. Person. I have ever met who complained about money, and I met countless people working in kitchens over 5 years, from all walks off life, all had 1 thing in common.
They spent money in really stupid fuckin shit. They talked about how they had no money but they smoked or drank, or drove to work from 20 blocks away, or got speeding tickets, or smoked weed, or went out partying every weekend, or showed up to work with a monster energy drink and a pepperoni every morning, etc etc etc etc.
You know how many fuckin meals you can make yourself for the same cost as one energy drink a day?
I have never met someone who complains about money that I haven’t been able to point out dumb shit I personally watched them buy.
But I point that out and I’m the asshole. Dude. Just fuckin stop buying stupid shit, stop wasting your money.
At first I really thought some people just truly were fucked but… no, I saw way way way to many people living life like this to just realize that… no.
The average person os stupid as fuck when it comes to managing their money. They’ll drop $4 on a single energy drink and then complain that potatoes are $1.75 now.
B r u h.
Everyone can tell your economic background from your comment. Now youre just making the boomer avocado argument. People should he able to afford amenities and shouldn’t have to grind that hard for small things. Our parents and grandparents sure as fuck didnt.
People aren’t having trouble making ends meet because theyre buying energy drinks. Thats the view the media wants you to have to you turn your anger towards them. People forget the first country the nazis invaded was their own.
I told you my economic background whether you wanna believe it or not.
People aren’t having trouble making ends meet because theyre buying energy drinks.
I’ve personally worked with dozens of people that literally fit this exact description.
Dudes that would unironically chug 2 monsters a day and then complain about how tight money was.
Mate you just blew 1/7th of what you made today on two fucking drinks
Then they’d ask me if I wanna get drinks with them after work.
These are extremely real people and honestly, the quantity of people I met who lived like this VASTLY outnumbered people closer to my lifestyle.
Simple shit love me going “I don’t drink” “I don’t party” “I don’t smoke” “I don’t have a car, I walk to work” and etc would fucking blow people’s minds.
“What do you do all weekend???” “Uh, play video games, work out, read, watch anime, go for hikes, pick up extra shifts…?”
Also don’t even get me started on the even worse people that constantly always complained about money, yet always were trying to get other people to take their shifts for them, get cut early, etc.
“I don’t understand why I’m not getting any shifts” Mate you literally keep giving them to other people, you understand you actually have to work to get paid right?
Sorry but this was like easy 60% of people I constantly dealt with at every fuckin job I worked. You get like 20% of people busting ass actually giving a fuck. 20% quiet folks that work and keep to themselves, and then like 60% of people that you honestly have to ask yourself “how the fuck did this person even make it this far”
I regret to inform you that if you think I’m bullshitting here, you may just need to look in the mirror and confront the fact you are in the 60% group…
From 6am to 6pm every action I have to take is in service of the job I have. My alarm goes off because I have to be up for my job, I need to shower and do all my morning routine stuff for my job. I am out the door just after 7 to have enough time to snag a breakfast sandwich and some bottled tea for breakfast, for a 45 min commute into work, work for about 4 hrs, get an hour for lunch where about 10 minutes is spent walking from my desk somewhere nearby for food, about 40 minutes for ordering, waiting for and the eating food for the same ~10 min walk back to the office for another about 4 hrs of work before the ~15 min it takes to pay for parking and leave the building for another 45 min commute putting me back home at about 6pm before I change into my comfy clothes. Now. I have less than 4 hours before the exhaustion finally fully sets in an I go to sleep. And some dinner would be nice so that’s another hour or more.
From 6am to 6pm every action I have to take is in service of the job I have
That’s not a job anymore mate, ngl.
I hope it brings you an extremely deep sense of fulfillment, joy, and satisfaction.
Or it pays you enough money you can retire by the time you are 30.
Or it’s one of those “1 month on 1 month off” kinda jobs.
Otherwise wtf.
I broke down my daily schedule. Jesus fuck read the entire fucking comment.
This is the reality of a corporate job.
If I didn’t have an 8-5 with 1hr lunch break job I wouldn’t be setting my alarm for 6am to give me eblugh time for my morning routine, I wouldn’t commute for 45 min each way, I wouldn’t spend an hour for lunch close to the office.
Yeah the job on the clock is 8 hours but it’s 4 extra hours of doing shit to get ready for, and going to and from between home and the office.
None of what you said is in antecedent to what I said.
I still stand by everything I said.
Cool, if you know my schedule so well, then where are those 5 additional hours in the day? Because I’m not seeing them in my schedule.
And do you even know what the word antecedent even means?
Yes.
I don’t know if you just straight up didn’t read what I wrote or what, but if you go back a reread my proof posts, you’ll see nothing you wrote has anything to do with anything I actually said.
And still continues to be so lol.
No, I and everyone else in this thread read what you wrote and all of us are calling you out as a dumbass because you don’t understand how every additional step in a schedule acts as a time sink that robs hours from the day.
Man, life would be so much easier if I liked the taste of boot half as much as you do.
The other comments summed up the fallacies of your “argument” nicely, so no need to repeat them.
Maybe just get good?
If i didn’t have any free time to myself possible when I was making minimum wage, how’d I manage to full clear so many video games while putting myself through school, or watch… God I actually don’t think I could count how many seasons of anime.
Guess it was all just a dream?
To be honest I’ve found the more money I make the less time I have, cuz I keep buying shit that takes up more and more of my time. I should probably consider decluttering a bit…
5 is incorrect. Most people have an unpaid lunch, not part of the 8 hour workday, so that’s 4 hours left to do everything else.
Because you used your weekend researching,shopping and meal prepping, meals only take ten minutes to take out and get ready, but you skipped actually eating which is 30 minutes for dinner, and 10 for breakfast. If you have a family dinner is an hour, breakfast is 30 min. No family - 3hr20min With family -2hr30min
Housework- you say 20 minutes which for men is pretty accurate - they average 19 minutes a day, but women average 49 minutes a day. Single Men down to 3hr Women with families down to 1hr40min
The average time it takes to fall asleep is 10-20 minutes. That’s not part of the 8 hours. 15min Add 15 minutes for using the toilet a day 6-7 times urinating (average) plus hand washing. Minus 1/3 happens at work. 10 min. Add 5 minutes to poop. 15min Additional grooming - the absolute minimum is to brush your teeth twice a day, dry and brush your hair, do a professional style, coordinate a professional outfit, iron, and dress. Nail clipping, sunscreen, whatever. This stuff takes time. 15 min absolute minimum a day if you have low standards for your appearance and don’t have a very professional job. Up to an hour if you do. That’s 45 minutes minimum (though realistically you’re not doing all of that at Max efficiency every day. Single Men down to 2hr15min Women with families down to 55 min
any additional chores (maybe not daily, but at least once a week you have to do an unusual task like replacing work clothes, buying medicine, home repair/maintenance, oil change, need a coat. Maybe some weeks there’s nothing, but other weeks, three things happen.
So if your boss calls you for a scheduling issue, or you want to bathe your child, or your pet throws up, you’re easily down to no time at all for yourself after you’ve slaved away for maximum efficiency.
Forget volunteering. Forget religion. Forget getting to know your kids, or dating, or self improvement.
I cannot imagine a world where I think regular average people have enough leisure time.
I can easily see that kids will eat your time like crazy, but otherwise? I have 5-6 hours of free time a day during the week, 8hrs of work, 8hrs of sleep (including the 30-60m it takes me to fall asleep), 30m lunch break, 2x25m commute. Like 5 mins spent making food in the evening (either just bread in which case it’s even less, or just something quick like noodles. 10-15 mins if I feel like making the sauce myself). Eating is semi-free time since I’ll usually watch something during. 5 mins of shopping on the way home every 2 days or so. 10 mins or so for brushing teeth in total since i tend to space out during. 1min quick shower that doesn’t touch my hair. 1-2 mins brushing hair. Once or twice a week 20-30min shower including washing and drying hair to be dry enough. Take out trash like once a week takes 5 mins max.
There are some things where I save time by using money (vacuum robot, eating out for lunch, grabbing food from the bakery when I’m too hungry to skip breakfast like I usually do), but that wouldn’t even add up to an hour a day.
I still think everyone should work less because imo it’s very possible to do without leading to deficits in anyones life. But like wtf are people doing.
5 hours to live the rest of your life day to day.
What if you want to work out? That leaves 3.5 hours. 30 minutes to put together breakfast and dinner. 2.5 hours. Any errands you need to run? House or yard? Family or kids? God forbid you want to take care of yourself at all.
Yeah…their complaints are completely valid.
I already covered breakfast and dinner mate.
Working out is personal time yes, you are now engaging in extracurricular activities and… what? Complaining you don’t have more time for extracurricular activities because you spent your time on extracurricular activities?
You shouldn’t need to run errands every single day, if that is happening that’s an organizational you problem, figure your shit out better.
I already covered chores. You aren’t cleaning your entire house every day, if that is happening once again that is a you problem.
Normal people maybe tops spend 20 minutes tidying per day, with one big day of tidying on weekends for 3 hours or so tops.
If you are spending more than 20 minutes tidying every single day, you need to re-assess how you live your life. Stop being so messy.
Taking care of yourself, spending time with family, enjoying life, all easily fits into 4 hours on weekdays
You then get 2 entire days on weekends to also spend an extra 8 hours+ on personal time.
I dunno what to tell you, stop mowing your yard everyday I guess? You only need to mow every 2-3 weeks?
Like wtf are you talking about lol
Well here’s a lot of people’s schedules:
8 hours for sleep. 30 minutes to get up and get ready, 30 minutes for breakfast and cleanup, 30 minutes to work, 8 hours work + a 1 hour unpaid lunch, 30 minute drive home, 15 minutes to swap out of work clothes and 1 hour work our plus 15 minutes to get undressed and cleaned up, 30 minutes to make/eat dinner. That’s like 2.5 hours for any sort of you time.
If you think 2.5 hours of personal time per day is acceptable, more power to you. Most people don’t. Sure, you get the weekend but most people out of chores and errands until then, and you don’t really get any sort of necessary downtime.
…that last 2.5 hours quickly disappears when you have any sort of family. The next question becomes, do you think 2.5 hours with your kids and wife is enough time to develop a great relationship?
If you think 2.5 hours of personal time per day is acceptable, more power to you.
3.5, why do people work out for an hour and then pretend that didn’t count as personal time.
That literally was how you chose to spend your personal time lol. You spent almost a third of your personal time working out, why the fuck do you think you have less…?
3.5hrs of personal time is plenty.
Also even then, you shouldn’t be going to the gym every single day
I’m not a gym rat but even I know you are supposed to take breaks every couple days.
People keep bringing things you only do some dats to the table and treating them as something you do every day.
“What about 30 minutes of vacuuming” and stuff lile that. MATE, do you vacuum your house every day?! What in the hell lol
3.5hrs on weekdays and 11.5 hrs on weekends is tonnes of personal time.
Maybe spend less time doom scrolling on Instagram or something, I dunno.
This is just goofy. I’m not going to say your wrong for thinking that 2.5-3.5 hours is remotely acceptable to live a healthy and fulfilling life during the weekday. Many people would disagree with you and would like more time to spend with family, to develop themselves, to disengage from work, to relax, to explore, to learn. I’m not going to fault people for wanting more from life.
I also would love a million dollars.
But everything you mentioned isn’t the discussion
It’s people going “I don’t have time for anything”, mate, you do.
Honestly today so many people I know who complain about having zero spare time also are sending me memes on Instagram and shit all the time simultaneously.
Like, I also fuck around on my phone for an hour or two every day.
But at least I don’t try and bullshit and pretend that’s not what I’m spending my free time on
Like if you complain about not having free time via the act of posting about it on social media you are already kinda outting yourself on where your free time magically went to…
Stop bullshitting, you’re doom scrolling on your phone, we all are
The only difference between us is I’m not posting pretending I don’t lol
If you really can’t figure out how on earth you fit a 20 minute vacuum into your day and post about it on Twitter, can you maybe guess what my first advice is probably gonna be…? >_>;
Because people use the weekend to recover from the week, some of us are chronically ill you know? And are trying not to have another burnout. (Yeah I already had 2 and I’m not even 40, yay capitalism)
Wait: We only have to shower once‽
You don’t even need to shower daily unless you get dirty.
I shower daily when I need to leave the house and interact with people. The weeks I work from home, I’ll hit shower for a week. My partner does the same thing. We’re gross. But I love their grossness.
Break it out into 168 hours per week:
56 hours of sleep
45 hours of work (include the potential for working a bit longer each day)
5 hours of commuting to/from work
6 hours of exercise/gym
2 hours of grocery shopping
7 hours of cooking and other food prep
7 hours of eating
1 hour of laundry
2 hours of general cleaning around the house
2 hours of other general choresThat’s 133 hours per week. You still have 35 hours for socializing, hobbies, other activities you enjoy, or just plain sitting around and relaxing (with a book, with TV, etc.) if you enjoy that. And some people can fit in part of those needs in terms of overlap: white collar jobs that don’t mind if you buy something for yourself online during the day, restaurant jobs that cover a shift meal, physical jobs or commutes that reduce the amount of time you might need to get exercise outside of work, etc.
For me, I actually really enjoy cooking (and eating) so I probably spend more time on those than is strictly necessary, but it doesn’t feel like work to me.
I’m probably lucky in that I spent some time working in restaurants that gave me a ton of kitchen skills (not just the actual ability to prep and cook delicious food quickly, but the sense of meal planning on a strict budget that reduces food waste), and makes me appreciate the regularity of a white collar job schedule that actually fits with circadian rhythms and the flow of the rest of society.
Kids make it harder, though. A lot of that 35 hours per week carved out gets totally eaten up with a second commute to daycare (5 hours), bedtime routines (7 hours), extracurricular weekend activities (5 hours), and extra cleaning (5 hours), a second load of laundry (1 hour), and extra chores (2 hours), leaving you with only 10 hours per week of hobbies/leisure.
At that point you’ve gotta find the time from somewhere. I personally dipped to 7 hours per week of sleep around that time, dropped my gym attendance to around 3 hours per week, and started paying to outsource some of the cleaning (a weekly service) and cooking (more takeout/restaurants) and shopping (more grocery delivery).
But the magic, for me, was that my kids are really fun. They leave me with less time for other things but I love them and that part feels less like a chore. And they’re a forcing function in that I have to be home when they’re asleep 3-4 hours before my bedtime, when I don’t have anything better to do than clean a bit, do a bit of meal prep, and watch a lot of TV with my spouse.
Cool, now can you break down Elon’s week? I have always wondered how he can be CEO of two companies, be involved with five other, raise twelve children, be the top player on two major video games, be a meme lord on Xhitter, consume more ketamine than a large rave party, fix the US government, be an amazing designer, and engineering all sorts of technical things.
I’m pretty sure Elon Musk is miserable. He is always raging around, he is annoyed by the slightest critique. I bet he spends most of his free time online, reading articles about himself and hating that everyone hates him
It is impossible. You never get to be on top of everything. Since there is always shit that needs to be done. It is often called the productivity myth. More discipline or a better system won’t lead to less work and less stress. Since new things just keep coming.
You just need to accept that life is like this and that it’s completely impossible to forever finish your todos. So therefore you should just schedule down time and don’t feel guilty that you still need to finish things since it is a never ending stream of things to do anyway. Just prioritize the most important things.
Good take.
Dermatologists have confirmed many, many times that a daily shower is unnecessary for healthy skin. Hair experts also don’t recommend a daily shampoo for most people.
That said… it can be hard to tell when you stink (olfactory saturation / incrementalism)… so I don’t actually have a shower schedule recommendation.
You can also wash yourself outside the shower to freshen up. Saves water and is good for your skin.
I wish I could not shower everyday. I barely sweat at all so you’d think I could, but instead my skin and hair get so oily, that I have to take a medication for it. If I don’t take it, the oil builds up on my skin and makes my eyes sting. Sometimes even just after a few hours. :(
But I am careful to not use products in the shower that would strip my hair and skin completely.
Ahh stinging eyes from face grease, how I hate you and having acne at nearly 40.
I always think it’s from my haair initially too. Hey I’ll put my hair up and won’t have to worry about it! ow ow ow ow ow eyes ow, wash face. Ahhhhhh.
Still don’t shower daily. Once every 2-3 days is good for me. 4 if I’m lazy.
Use antiperspirant correctly and if you have a sedentary lifestyle, it’s an easy game unless you giant, fat, and sweaty. Usually have to be combo of 2 unless your parents rolled the genetic snake eyes and you get scumbag genetics.
Neat, same thing happens to me but didn’t know there was a treatment available! What medication is it?
Spironolactone. Talk to your dermatologist. It’s mainly prescribed for hypertension, but it works really well for this too. It’s the first treatment I was prescribed that really helped. It’s also used to treat baldness.
Check the side effects though. It isn’t often prescribed to men because it could cause undesirable side effects such as lowering testosterone and increasing breast tissue growth.
No, you misread. They said shower once. Total. Not per day.
This person thinks
But doesn’t shower.
They have no shower thoughts. A sad life.
This person stinks
If you buy a tumble washer you can probably stop doing daily laundry
The trick is to not actually work for 8hrs, easier said than done of course, but if you find yourself in that position then take full advantage of it. They won’t bat an eye to replace you, so don’t bat an eye to do your own thing where possible.
WFH has been a life saver honestly. I make sure to get everything that needs to be done for work done, but now if I finish my daily work or on my lunch I can do dishes, prep dinner, start the laundry. this is time that in office would spent “around the water cooler” or just wasting time. I normally get more work done when I’m at home than in the office tbh.
Yes same! I go to the gym before lunch, I can put laundry on that will finish after work, I can start dinner and leave on a slow cook… I can take deliveries, go to appointments, see my kids after school… Massive quality of life improvements for working at home.
I also appreciate being able to deal with my body when it isn’t up for being out in smart clothes… Sometimes my body needs loose clothing and easy farts!
The 10k steps you do them while doing the other stuff lmao
This is because domestic labor, which allows for social reproduction, is unvalued and not compensated.
But the idea of a person dedicating their life to domestic labour is becoming rare. Partly because of changing social mores but also it’s difficult to support more than one person on one person’s wage. I have a pretty good income but if someone else lived with me full time not contributing monetarily we’d have to be fairly frugal. But it could allow me to focus on furthering my career and making more money.
An alternative to simply paying people to maintain their own households is providing for collective housekeeping services that will do some of the work of housekeeping for people. There are examples of neighborhood laundries, grocery delivery, food preparation and distribution, lawn and handyman services and other stuff in the past.
Rich people do in fact pay people to do that stuff. Really one salary needs to be able to support two people, or this society thing just doesn’t work.
An alternative is to compensate people for domestic labor performed in their own homes.
Free housing, free food, and a monthly allowance covers that, doesn’t it?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you mean the housing, food and allowance provided by the breadwinner to the homemaker.
Theres a couple of problems with that. Number one, how tf do you both cut half the jobs and raise the wage by enough to double its present value? You’d have to be able to actually get rid of half the labor base and not have employers gobble up the money saved as profits.
Number two, how do you avoid the very real class distinctions involved in that arrangement in the past? To put a finer point on it, full time housewife was a descriptor reserved for the upper middle classes and above only.
Not least, but definitely third: how do you avoid, in a racist and misogynistic society, allowing labor and its benefits to become gendered and racialized?
What you said might seem like a fair trade for a specific breadwinner and homemaker pair (at a specific time, things change!), but it’s not a fix for a social problem.
I don’t know man, you figure it out.
Okay, directly compensate people for their domestic labor.
If that’s a bridge too far or if concerns over efficiency come up, provide community services to make that labor easier and cheaper for everyone.
I think you could potentially package that as UBI.
A loving family distributing workload, responsibility, resources, and money is apparently anathema to you.
racialized
How is race even relevant here?
Half of those aren’t daily
Yeah a shower a day is way over the top
Maybe for you. That really depends on the person and their skin type though.
I was being humorous, I shower on average twice a day.
But like meal prepping, I save time by having 14 consecutive showers every Sunday evening.
Yeah, I stink after a day of work, but I’d probably get away with once every two days if I had a desk job and drove to work.
Honestly jealous. I can go from freshly showered to glistening like a ham in 12 hours even when I’m not exerting myself and temps are mild.
But also, that isn’t all.
Meal prep can help shift some of that burden as long as there is fridge/freezer space for some of the elements.
This is like the opening monologue to Trainspotting
Except the punchline isn’t heroin, it’s just living a fulfilling life.
On a side note, I always thought Trainspotting was a horror film. I was very surprised to learn tons of people view it as an anthem.
I always thought it was about railway enthusiasts.
It was almost manageable when I worked from home everyday. No chance now
