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Bobbisox1 | 09:35 Thu 29th Jul 2021 | ChatterBank
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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?
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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)
10:25 Thu 29th Jul 2021
We didn't have a tin bath but when I was small enough I got dunked in the kitchen sink. Thinking about it some more I'm sure my school trousers didn't get washed from one month to the next. A stiff brushing if they were dirty sufficed.
School shower after pe from the age of 11.
When my boxers get a bit crunchy taking them off, I know its time for the second shower of the month.
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Personal hygiene is very important , I hate the smell of sweaty body’s and even worse if it’s covered up by perfume or a aftershave
As a slum child. Tin bath every week. I still remember dragging the bath full of water to the back doorstep to empty it. Nowadays, bathe daily, but teeth only in the morning.
I think showering twice a day might be a bit OTT bobs!
There is an enviromenmental issue with excessive showering/bathing.
I stopped having one every day as it really wasn't necessary.
I think Bobbi has a point.
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I’ve done it like forever TTT, I doubt I’ll stop now :0)
I shower once a day as I've got dry skin forever slathering myself in cream.
Only in hot climes will I shower twice a day.
My father as a POW was allowed a shower every two weeks.
Disease as ou know was rife in the camps ( Typhus in 1944-5)

Post war- he bathed everyday..

bathe daily, but teeth only in the morning. - - good no wonder the b+W film of Tommies in the trenches show such bad teeth
I don't think parents in my day & neighbourhood were very clued up about health issues. We bathed once a week & I don't recall ever cleaning my teeth until late teens. I had a very poor diet - lots of sugar post-war - and had regular large boils. Smoking was prevalent (both parents) and we had coal fires and factory chimneys. I had bronchial pneumonia when I was eight & barely survived.
Never had a shower in my life ! I prefer baths.

What did you do at school after pe, Shirley? Of after swimming at the local swimming baths?
How do you know you prefer baths if you've never had a shower?

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