My daughter is 18 and doesn't need to shower every day. She has no discernable body odour that I know of and she hardly sweats.

I'll be smelly by 4pm having had a shower at 7am. Deodorant can only do so much. I work from home at a desk.

Everyone is different.

Washing your hair every day is excessive, but showering? Dunno about you but I exercise daily and I take a shower after because I am sweaty.

I can smell your ass from my screen. Ya gross.

you might appreciate your odor more than others do.

but great unpopular opinion.

Nope. Live in a place where being outside for 10 minutes results in swamp ass. Exercise everyday, even indoors.

I'll say that Navy Showers should be the norm. Also makes it easier to end the shower instead of standing there at the end.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, water heating is typically the second-largest energy expense in homes (after space heating).[2]

A ten-minute shower takes as much as 230 liters (60 U.S. gal) of water, while a navy shower usually takes as little as 11 liters (3 U.S. gal)

You should sweat every day, either via labor or exercise. (Obv not always intense exercise)

Disagree. It depends on factors like stress, diet, and genetics. Not everyone is just like you.

I can't sleep unless I shower I just feel disgusting

For me, agreed. I live in a desert, work a sedentary job, and spend the vast majority of my time freezing in the ac because I'm not warm unless it's like 76 degrees. My skin is happier if I skip a day and I try to save water whenever possible. But for other people, they know their stink levels better than me, and I'm not gonna tell anybody else how to wash themselves. Unless they're like my ex, taking 2 or 3 showers a day for literally no reason and running up the water bill in, again, a damn desert. I did tell him to knock that off.

Upvoted for unpopular lol

I'm a nurse. Does that count as "blue collar"? Because I absolutely need to shower after 12 hours in the hospital.

UNLESS you have a highly active lifestyle all you need is survival rations, I don’t see a point in eating literally anything else. It seems excessive to eat food based on “taste” and a waste of resources.

Also, typing words other than the information on the few required government documents is also a waste, exemplified by your post. But do what you want 😉

Depends on where you live and what you do, right? If I don't sweat, smell or got dirty somehow, I shower every second day. I don't need to shower every day if I just hang out at home and game and sleep the whole day lol

Not just excessive - it's simply bad for the skin, causes rashes and fungal issues.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/showering-daily-is-it-necessary-2019062617193

Take any temperature you feel comfortable at.

Raise it by 10℃, and consider that temperature. That’s what I feel like at your “comfortable” temp.

Simply put, my body runs super-hot. My ideal temps for various situations tend to be 8-15℃ below the same range of other people.

As in, even normal office temp ranges can make me look like a drowned rat if I engage in any physical effort at all. Even something as simple as moving banker’s boxes around can have me drenched in sweat at “normal” office temps.

I love winter, because I can be out there in -10℃ weather without even a jacket, be shovelling snow, and I can actually exert myself without sweating. Winter is about the only time of the year where I can experience truly comfortable temperatures.

Different bodies different care. I constantly ooze thick oily sweat and if I don't shower I start getting bad acne. Also, just massive amounts of musky BO if I don't reapply deodorant every day.

It's nasty but it's just how my body do ATM. Gotta shower daily.

You’re catching a lot of flak but if you’re not generally stinky skipping days without showering is fine.

If I’m just hanging around indoors and not doing anything strenuous not showering for a couple days is NBD. One afternoon doing yard work or similar and I’m taking a shower as soon as I’m done. Other people have other body odor issues and that may not work for them, so to each their own.

Every human body is different. Some people need a shower twice a day. Some people have natural perfume.

If you are concerned about it being a waste of water, then you can campaign to make society treat it as a valuable resource and not a “free swimming pool for everybody” type deal. Cause for a lot of those cases you point out, people are just using it like it’s priced dirt low.

Some people think "not showering" means to wash in any other way. Some people think "not showering" means to not wash at all.

Almost every single comment here reads totally different depending on the readers assumption.

OP, you probably stink. You might not care but I'm sure the people around you do.

I do exercise daily, sorry, daily shower is a must.

Yup. Unpopular certainly covers it. Your body produces oils, it varies person to person, but that's why you bathe. Just because you don't think you worked up a great sweat doesn't mean you aren't dirty or smelly.

What's the average humidity where you live? Warm, humid climates make more sweaty people.

Depends quite a bit on the lifestyle; but I agree.

Days I'm working (physical labor) I shower when I get home; but my days off I'm mostly sitting in an air-conditioned room watching media or playing games. Then I shower every other day; cause there's really no need. There's always exceptions though.

I'm a janitor at a busy airport. I'll shower every day because being around shitty/pissy toilets and trashes all day does leave a "scent" on you.

Ever heard of exercise, OP?

Someone has never visited the Bible Belt.

If I don't my eczema gets extra bad, unfortunately.

How often do you exercise?

I live in Canada. In the summer I'll shower every day, almost. Except days where, like you said, I stayed in with the AC on all day. Then I'll shower the day after.

In the winter I'll shower every two days. Or when I'm really cold and need some extra warmth.