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I don’t see how anyone could not bathe on a regular basis....that’s just gross!!!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I don’t see how anyone could not bathe on a regular basis....that’s just gross!!!

I don't see why anyone would want to bathe, period. What's the point of stewing in your own filth? I shower every night before bed for the same reason, I wouldn't want to soil the sheets and spend the night laying in dirt.

[goat granny]

Unless one has a job that gets you dirty, why take a bath or shower daily....When I was growing up, daily you freshen up using the bathroom sink and a wash cloth...Just a few years prior to my birth (1939) many homes didn't even have indoor plumbing....and one can wash up without filling a bath tub full of water or stand under a shower for 10 minutes..deodorant was always used, no one went around stinking....

Most women worked at home, and unless you lived in a hovel, how dirty do you really get...of course after gardening a bath was mandatory.

Fill a large kettle with water from your well, stoke up the stove, heat the water and put in the bath tub that you had out in the utility room, add cold water until luke warm, bathe and get out of tub...It wasn't a relaxing evening thing, it was a cleansing thing..

Thats how we did it on grandma's farm...