No Need To Shower Every Day

Growing up I was a bath a week sort of kid, Sunday.

When I hit puberty and was playing sports it certainly upped its frequency but was never every day.

Coming to New Zealand it became, for reasons I can no longer recall, a shower every morning. Some people I know have a shower when they wake up and shower before they go to bed, I don't know what they get up to during the day but it sounds very dirty.

I've now reverted to a shower every other day and, you never know, may even make even less frequent. I'll monitor the stench for everyone 😁

This BBC article, There's no need to shower every day – here's why, is not just an opinion piece but has some fascinating UK bathroom history.

The humble shower has also attained new meaning. During the 1900s, a burgeoning advertising business attached new symbolism to our bathrooms. The shower, says Southerton, was marketed as a tool for saving time, but also for reinvigoration. Around 1970, shower ads consisted of simple drawings of a bath with a shower head, but by the 1980s, the images were always of a woman, relaxing and surrounded by steam. Showering had become a leisure activity.

And finally, from the same article, what do you think about this?

It seems my less-than-daily showers will continue to stand out to some. I take heart from McCarthy. "I do think a lot of the showering is performative," he says. "Why are we washing? Mostly because we're afraid somebody else will tell us that we're smelling... I faced that fear, and I live."