Hygiene issues...what exactly is the problem?

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I don't shower every day?.I just don't see the point if I don't sweat or go to the gym or whatever?if I'm just sitting at my desk or just go out once or twice during the day?I don't even think twice about it..

Now another thing is not brushing my teeth?..I know it's REALLY REALLY bad but i am always too tired or just don't really care to brush them. It's been like 2-3 weeks since I brushed last. >_<

I was really bad about showering when I was in high school. On my list of things to do (not that I made lists, then) showering just didn't rank highly. Shower, brush teeth, wash face, deodorant, comb hair. ALL of that stuff was done very inconsistently, and I really don't understand why no one ever told me I looked/smelled awful. Not even my parents.

After I graduated, I gradually made all of those things routine, although I mostly just shower every other day. That might change since its getting warm out and I've started working in the kitchen rather than in service areas. It gets hot in the kitchen, lol.
My hair gets gross quickly, and I'm experimenting with whether shampooing every other day is necessary to get rid of the yuck, rather than just, I don't know, rinsing it or something. Mom's suggestions have only been half-helpful. (Instead of conditioning lower part of hair, I've quit conditioning altogether.)
Washing my face more than just in the shower is the last on the "things to get used to" list, and I'm still getting used to it, but so far I enjoy the results of keeping my face clean.

I have only recently started showering twice a week (unless I really need to), and have never found anything wrong with it. Other people have a very different idea about this though.

I sweat my tuckas off mowing the lawn in the sun, so I showered and I feel so much better now! sweet smelling clean is where it's at, and cleanliness IS next to godliness AFAIC

I remember reading years ago in an advice column in the paper -- a man was up in arms over his wife. He had recently retired and was spending loads more time at home than he had before. He discovered that his wife only showered ever 3rd day or so. He was angry and disgusted in what he considered a serious problem with his wife's hygiene, to the point where he refused to touch her sexually. But here's the thing -- she had been doing that ALL ALONG. He had no problem with her before he knew about her shower frequency --- hadn't noticed any stink or anything. So why does it bother him so much now? It's all in his head. If the lack of showering was as bad as his behavior would dictate, he would have noticed something earlier. The advice columnist agreed and pretty much to him to get over it. If it didn't bother him then, it shouldn't bother him now.

I know that even if I chilled out in an air conditioned place, I'd get dirty after a day.

Rub-a-dub-dub, this Squid is going home to the tub... In approximately 41 minutes and 16, 15, 14 seconds.

I was in the shower earlier, and I thought about some of the issues people brought up in this thread. Then I realized that there are things I don't like about showering that I never really thought twice about.
I don't like it when I'm washing or conditioning my hair and hair gets tangled around my fingers. (As in, a couple of hairs get tangled around my fingers, and when I try to rinse them off with water, they don't come off). I don't like it when the temperature of the water changes slightly. And I don't like it when water runs down my face and drips from my eyelashes. I could cover my face with a wash cloth to solve the last one. I'm thinking about buying one of those shower heads that regulates the temperature to deal with the temperature changing issue. But I don't know what to do about hair getting tangled on my fingers. Even if I brush my hair, some still comes out when I wash it and gets tangled around my fingers. I'm not completely opposed to cutting my hair short, I've done it before, but that's a last resort, to me. I like to be able to put it up in a ponytail or a bun. Does anybody have any ideas?