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?

[barry1010]

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.

[Arksided]

When my boxers get a bit crunchy taking them off, I know its time for the second shower of the month.

[Bobbisox1]

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

[david small]

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.

[ToraToraTora]

I think showering twice a day might be a bit OTT bobs!

[ichkeria]

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.

[Bobbisox1]

I’ve done it like forever TTT, I doubt I’ll stop now :0)

[-SharonA-]

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.

[Peter Pedant]

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

[davebro]

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.

[burlyshirley]

Never had a shower in my life ! I prefer baths.

[barry1010]

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?