What's the longest period of time you've gone without bathing?

I bathe or shower at least once a day. Even when camping I would bathe in a river or lake.
You can’t ever stop me! XD

My electricity was off one morning awhile back so I went 40 some hours without. Gross. I washed up with bottled water but it ain’t the same as a shower.

A week. I’ve never felt so dirty and eew in my life. I couldn’t have a bath after surgery. Thank goodness it wasn’t hot weather then or…well. Let’s leave it at that.

Yeah…at least every 24 hours. Once summer hits, with that horrible Baltimore humidity, a couple times a day…

I went more than a week following a surgical procedure one time. Now, I did take care of the more bacterial-harboring areas with a washcloth, but I had to wait 10 days before I could get in a shower or tub. Fortunately, I lay so still for the majority of that time, I really never felt horribly ‘dirty,” other than my craving to wash my hair.

Ah was raised on jus one bath a week, that done me good.

Does 9 months In utero count? :)
Otherwise maybe a skipped day when I had a job where I worked from home. It amazed me how working from home can change your showering habits.

5 days. I start feeling dirty after about 12 hours or less out of the shower.

I think I had a couple bouts of the flu where I was just to sick to get out of bed let alone shower or take a bath. Other than that I will bathe in a puddle like a sparrow if I have to!

Probably a week to ten days after appendicitis, I was young and the shower scared me..Hell, I was scared to do anything that week, appendicitis blew…

Otherwise, three days while I was staying with my sister in her apartment after it was all emptied out. There was still water and everything, and I did rinse off, but it was an experiment that I hope to not do again for a while..

4 days due to a stupid long bus ride from Oklahoma to Oregon. Worst feeling EVER!

I dunno, what year is it?

About 2 weeks, while on climbing trip. On the bright side the merino wool base layer I’d had on for the entire time didn’t smell that bad at all.

A day. I slept for close to 24 hours once and obviously skipped a shower.

Ten (or so) days on a backpacking/hunting trip in the Colorado Rockies.

I skip showering when I am not working on the weekends, or if I am camping. Longest is probably 4 or 5 days.

30 years

Probably 3 or 4 days. When? In college of course!

4 days. I was sick with pneumonia and didn’t have the energy to lift myself up out of bed.

@ragingloli . . . well, you are european

I had nothing but sponge baths (not a fucking bath at all) for nearly six months when I was 15 going on 16 and lying in traction.

The first real “bath” I got was a therapeutic whirlpool they lowered me into when the pins came out and I could actually be removed from my bed. It felt so good it hurt.

i know. the phrase is a bit of a contradiction, but i can’t think of any other way to describe it.

I’ve also done a few 3 day camping weekends without bathing. Those are some epic fucking showers when you finally take them too.

@noelleptc You know, that’s probably really bad for your skin to shower quite that much.

In all seriousness, probably a couple weeks. I usually only shower twice a week or so, because that’s all I require. More in the summer when I’m sweatin my ass off working outside, obviously. Then it’s probably every other day.

@noelleptc Keep eating plenty of oils, then! :)

During a week at scout camp, though we swam in a river one day.

Probably 2 weeks or so when I had postartum depression.

4 days when I was sick with the flu.

To the best of my recollection, two days. Went from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. By Sunday my hair felt kind of disgusting, but I wasn’t particularly smelly. I asked my husband and I promise that he would have been honest in that case!

A week or so following surgery. Gross

A week while I was camping in the back, back, back country. The most I could do was a PTA.

One week at summer camp. The showers were so gross, I think I would have gotten dirtier in them. Besides, I was 12.

I bath/shower twice a day but my sister in the school holidays goes the whole 2–6 weeks without even touching water. Kinda gross…

well i just came back from a camp. it’s tuesday today and the last time i showered was on saturday. that’s the longest period of time for me.

(guilty justification: the lines were ever so long. more waiting time than showering time)

Uhm… probably three days.

I haven’t bathed since…. The Incident! cue thunder and dramatic music

@ddude1116 You bastard! That was my gag!

Totally worth it…

4 days. My g/f was out of town and I didn’t have sh** to do but drink and play video games. I was pre-employed (didn’t start work yet), and my friend is such a chronic smoker he stunk worse than I could have.

8 days. Blar. My skin actually looks great when I don’t shower for a while, it’s just my hair that makes me feel gross.

I didn’t bathe until the third day after my cesarean with my first child. I’ll never forget that shower. I thought my guts were going to fall out.

@jonsblond dear lord!

@deni It’s such a strange feeling, but after reading my husband’s story, I don’t feel so bad. It seems so strange how they have you up and walking so soon after surgery. I know it’s good for you, but your body tells you differently at first.