Avoiding showering
 

I hate showering!!! I'm not a dirty slob at all, it just takes so much energy away from me :mad:. I don't make the water too hot but you need some heat and then there is the drying off and the getting dressed and only when really necessary the blow drying of the hair....

I don't actually hate showering I love the way I feel after a nice shower and the effects have worn off its just I hate that it makes me feel the way it does at first...:(

Its one of the things regular people can do with out even thinking about it....

I'm whining and I have to take a shower so I'll be back.

At first glance, I thought your post was about Shoveling! :eek: I need to take a nap. :o

I love the bath once I am in there, but the prep for the whole thing makes me crazy. The gathering of the supplies, the clothes, the wet hair, what a ruckus for a clean bod. there are some days I just dont wanna. :p

Ah, yes, SAS (shower avoidance syndrome). For the life of me, I can't recall who coined the term, but it works for me!

I love being in the shower, it's getting myself to do it and the aftershock of exhaustion that drives me nuts. I've taken to night time showers these last couple years so all I have to do is crawl into my jammies and wait for my hair to dry.

The last hot shower I took was in 1995. I miss that.

I'm so lazy nowadays, I shower and get into my jammies before I go for my massage. It's pathetic, yet, remarkably comforting, to reach a condition (and age) where I just don't give a damn about it anymore. :o

Almost everything so far could be a direct quote from me.

The best feeling isn't that you're all clean and squeaky and smell good, it's that you don't have to do it again right off.

What's working for me (until the weather warms up, ugh) is Day #1 - Shower and wash hair. Day #2 - Wash up. Day #3 - Quick rinse, don't wash hair. Repeat. Of course, if I get sweaty (oops, ladies don't sweat, they perspire - sorry, Grandma) or I have to go somewhere, the schedule changes.

Old people such as myself don't stink like teenagers if they don't shower every day, and if I'm just going to be puttering around the house, I don't care if my hair doesn't look like the Breck's girl's. I'll stuff it in my cap.

I do wish I had a walk-in shower. In the summer I don't usually blow-dry my hair, I just let it get dry if it wants to.

I give myself a day off from the whole ordeal each week. I've tried the bathe-at-night thing. But I wake up sweaty - sorry, B2Y's Grandma, but I do sweat. And need to shave a LOT.

:o

I think I'm part monkey or something.

Maybe just shower in the morning and get back in my jammies? Can I do that?

I totally understand what you mean, Ckepi!!

I LOVE the feeling of being clean BUT it is too hard and tiering to get in and out of the shower now!! When I get out of the shower, I am usually too tired to do anything and have to take plenty of time to rest before going out which is pretty frustrating!!

I find getting in the bath tub is easier than having to use the shower as I dont have to stand all the time until I get out. I still get very tired but it isn't quite as bad as when I get in the shower.

Sorry that you have to deal with this also!:hug:

Me too! I have never met anyone who is a furry as I am. its just silly! I take the whole winter off. No short, and tights under my skirts if I wear a skirt, means no one is looking. ahh! the freedom.

I too take my bath at night. I cant stand up in the shower long enough. I have a bench, but I always feel more handicapped when I use it. I crawl into bed with the ceiling fan going, and drift off.

Yup. :(

The whole washing waist length hair, 6'2 body, actually REACHING my feet...and FORGET shaving! It takes an hour just to shave! It's all such a freakin' ordeal and there's NOT enough ROOM!!! I'm always banging into the shower head and getting the curtain stuck to me! :Crowded:

(i'll admit it, i haven't shaved all winter and i don't care.) :p

((correction: i care now that it's getting nicer out and i want to shed my winter clothes, but i could give it up forever and not care, and it doesn't bother the old man either)) :cool:

B2Y- I am with you on the walk in shower! I just have to actually START the job of doing the bathroom makeover and I WILL have one with the built in bench and the shower HOSE along with the one on the wall that we do NOT have to duck to get under!

(i'll be showering outside for the summer and I WILL have room out there!)

SAS (shower avoidance syndrome)..LOL, Cindy!!

Well, since I have a new bathroom and a new hand held shower thingy, I take a shower more often, but it is still damn hard to get er done without killing myself..:eek:

The shaving thing..well I'm blonde and not at all hairy, so I don't worry about it in the winter. I found a new gadget, and I can just rub the hair off my legs. It's great....no more shaving. I forget what it's called??

Member in good standing/sitting of the SAS club..:D

It's just my DH and me at home now and I usually take a shower while he is at work so I leave the bathroom door open and that keeps the bathroom a little cooler. A freind of mine made me one of those head wraps you put on your wet hair and I keep that on until my body is cooled down enough to dry my hair. Plus I put on a night gown right after I lightly dry off so i don't have to deal with clothes until I have the energy. I don't want to sit on my lliving room furniture while my body is still a little damp so I usually go play some computer games with a ceiling fan on. I must admit those are my lowest scores but it helps me cool down so I can dry my hair. And if I really need it I set up a small fan on me while I dry my hair. My DH just doesn't understand why I need to keep my hair cut short. I don't think he would read all these comments if I printed it off but I wish he would.

Hey, woman! Been wondering where you were!

And now I know: you're in the shower!

Yeah, me too. I like being clean, but I don't enjoy the process.


I'll tell you one thing that I really love about showering. I installed a gizmo on the wall that holds my shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel. All I have to do is push a button to dispense them! No more fumbling with bottles that are hard to open and squeeze. I got it at Home Depot for $20 and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! :heartthrob:

When I took a shower in the regular shower, I was so exhausted and hot afterwards I'd get to my room, lie down on the bed for awhile until I got some strength back, Now I have a huge roll in handicapped shower, DH rolls me in, transfers me to shower chair, later I'm gotten back into chair, can do Makeup and hair now ok. I sit through everything now, but actually get more done. I can finally have hot showers again, I'm sitting down already!!!

I gotta get me one of them all in one soap dispensers. I dont use Liquid soap because it has Sodium lauryl sulfate in it, and bar soap doesnt. So, i just need a shampoo dispenser. Maybe I can velcro a clothes pin on the wall , and clip the bottom of my shampoo tube.

oh gosh! look at what time it is. time to get back in the shower.

I "think" I'm a regular person...maybe not :Ponder:
I'm going to be the oddball of this thread :p

I love showers!

I take one every morning (wash, shampoo, condition and shave), get out (dry off, blow dry/style, lotion up, powder and get dressed) and last but not least...makeup.

Then I'm off to start my day :Slip:

Show off!!!!!:p:p:p

It ain't easy being odd in this bunch. My hat is off.

:cool:

My Olhipie always wants me to take a shower because it will make me feel better...so he says. It wears me out.

I do like the shower after I'm done its just getting me in. I'm like Snoopy, I do it all everyday....

I do love to just put one leg up on the shower seat and let water as hot as I can take it and stand there for a few minutes. We call it warming all the metal in my back...cooking me from the inside out!!!

I have very oily hair so washing it is a must do everyday.

There should be a shower like they have on the Jetson's...remember...? Couldn't find a picture of them showering....
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/j...ie/jetsons.jpg

SAS.....ROTFLMAO, Cindy! The whole process drags every ounce of energy I have. Make up? Te he, I do that maybe once a week. I live in a hot and humid place so I have to force myself to do it every other day.

But it's pool season now soooo now I can get in and chlorinate myself and rinse off with the hose after, ta da, done! LOL

Thanks, guys, but it isn't mine! A long time ago someone posted it and I've always remembered that "SAS" because it's hysterical.

I just wish I could remember who posted it!

I love my shower. It's a walk-in type with a bench on either side so I can either sit or stand. I've never had this type of shower until I moved into this house. I never knew how much I'd come to love (and depend) on it!

Even though it wears me out some days I take a shower every day.....and in the summer sometimes twice a day. There's something about taking a cool shower before going to bed in the summer that makes me sleep better.

Sometimes it's the only thing I do in a day.....get up, take a shower, put on clean jammies and lounge around the rest of the day. :o

it was running up on 9 last night, and the DH says "you gonna get in the bath?" I stared at him. I told him I was being a SASSY girl today. He gave me the :confused: face. I said I had shower avoidance syndrome today. He gave me the pointed finger, and said "MARCH! Missy. it will make you feel better." :mad: I was doing all sorts of other things, and when I went into the bath, I found he had drawn one for me! :D what a guy! I did feel better after, but the work up for it, and then the wind down after always take a bite out of me, but hot days are so much worse.

Thanks every one!!! It helps to say it to people who understand and don't think I've grown three heads lol.

I'm so glad the DD is 7 and takes care of herself in the shower now. I used to have to go every other day with her I couldn't do both and every thing else that needed doing.

It's getting hotter in CT which means every day showering will soon be a necessity.. but what are you going to do :rolleyes:

I'm worried about the electric bill this summer if I don't find a job soon. I have worked in a grocery store for years so always had AC to get me through :( .

Oh well this to shall pass.
:grouphug:

i like my showers too and sometimes i skip a day if i don't have to go out.
i have a seat but don't use it. what really tires me out is if i have to wash my hair. it's short but still needs to be styled.

my muscles hurt so much that i like my water hot but have to watch that too.
i allow time to sit and rest afterwards.

talk about using your "spoons". it takes about 2 for that project.

I wonder what it is about this ... I can go out and work in the yard for 3 hrs, or clean my cars in the sunshine for most of the day ... but I dislike having a shower too?

I was always an "every day" kinda' gal, since I wanted to look my very best for work. I was in mgmt too, so I guess I had to look polished and business-like ... greasy hair just didn't cut it.

Maybe it's partly because I don't HAVE to look my best any more, i.e. "I can", and partly because I hate the sensations I'm left with for an hour or two after. It makes me weak, buzzing and numb . . . feelings I want to avoid.

If you think about it though, my mom came from a farming family, and they only had bath's once a week ... whether they needed it or not. :eek: They had to boil the water for the baths, so there were often a few kids that bathed in the same water, after another was done. GACK!

My mom, even in the 80's, would "sponge bath" most of the time, and probably only bathed a couple of times a week. Every Saturday she went and had her hair done at the beauty parlor, and the rest of the time she just piled more hairspray on. :cool:

I think maybe we've become a bit phobic about cleanliness because of convenience of having built in showers/baths, and because "perfection" is drilled into us with the media influence.

I'm wondering though, has anyone noticed that they don't grow much hair (legs, pits, etc.) as they are aging, or could that have something to do with the MS? :confused:

Cherie

its that time, and I just cant bring myself to get the energy to do this. Maybe after a break and some rest. Till then, I am gonna be a stinker.

I'm an oddball too; I love showers. I can't take baths anymore, and my showers are a little cooler, but I just gotta do it, and everyday. I love having lots of paraphenilia--fun shampoos and soaps and such. The other day my husband bought me some soap that was supposedly concocted by Napoleon for his wife, and I was in ecstasy.

I have crazy curly hair, and if I don't wash it in the morning, it becomes very, very scary. I also do my makeup on work days, at the very least, I'll do foundation, eyeliner and mascara. I have stabbed my eye with the mascara wand a few times, and I've screwed up my eyeline a zillion times, when my tremors are especially bad. It takes me a long time to get ready in the morning anymore, but I feel so much better about myself at work when I'm made up. My weekday morning routine includes rest after my shower and rest after the makeup, but it's worth it to me, for work anyway. :)

:eek: You sound like ....ME :eek:

Since you have curly hair have you ever tried Curl Life Shampoo and Conditioner by Matrix. I absolutely love it!

Two curly Peas in a wet pod...LOL!!:D

Snoopy, thanks for the recommendation! I have been on a search for the right shampoo and conditioner for years, so I'll definitely try it. Curly hair is so much fun--sarcastic tone here.

So you're a shower accessory freak too? I'm glad I'm not the only one. Right now I have two shampoos, three conditioners, three bar soaps, three shower gels, and two kinds of shaving cream in my shower, plus one conditioning hair mask. Yup, I'm definitely a freak. I like to smell different every day! :rolleyes:

I'm still laughin' about not having to shave as often. A few weeks ago my granddaughter (19) was here with my daughter, and we were talking girlie stuff.

I pulled up my pant leg and asked my granddaughter to guess how long since I shaved my legs. She looked carefully, and kind of stroked my shin with her fingertips, then my calf, and said, "Oh, I'd say one day?"

When I told her "about eight years", her eyes got as big as dinner plates and she couldn't even speak! She kept looking back and forth from my leg to my face to see if I was kidding.

Wait until she finds out about all the OTHER stuff that happens when you get old.

Maybe we don't need showers as often, either. Or else we just THINK we don't because our noses don't work as well and we don't know we stink. (Think about THAT for a while.)

LOLROFLMAO!!!!!!!!:p:D:rolleyes::D

We're soulmates! :D

I have 12 bottles of shampoo and conditioner :eek: :o ( I actually went and counted), one facial cleanser and 3 shower gels, all in the shower. I also like to smell different every day. I shave my legs with the shower gel and I don't use bar soap.

I also need lotion on a daily basis and I have 4 different scents and still collecting :rolleyes:

Snoopy and April.....have you tried Philosophy products? They have great shower gels and scrubs and their hair care products are wonderful. They're expensive but you can find great deals on eBay. That's the only way I could ever afford it.....and they last forever. You only have to use a little drop and it lasts and lasts.

My shower looks like yours does.......wish I could use up one thing before I get another!

Oh boy, Snoopy, I didn't even scratch the surface about my facial cleansers and body lotions. I have too many body lotions to count. My best friend has a discount at Bath & Body Works so I have tons of their stuff. My favorite is Japanese Cherry Blossom. ANd since I have combination skin, I use different facial cleansers all the time. Plus toners, exfoliators, moisturizers, masks, etc...

Kitty, I LOVE Philosophy's products. They are pricey, but like you said, they really do last. Their shaving cream is my favorite. Their products have the nicest smells.

On my last Sephora run, I got some shaving cream made by Terax that has menthol in it. It's great, since showers, especially shaving, can heat me up for hours. The menthol feeling really lasts and keeps me cool. It isn't the best smell, but that's what all my other stuff is for!

About 6 months ago I started having problems with the arm strength required to wash hair, condition hair, wash body and dry off. The towel felt so heavy by the time I was done with the showering that I couldn't help but start sweating and wanting to lay down. I started alternating things... one morning I will wash my hair in the sink, the next morning I pin my hair up and take a shower. That method has worked great through the winter but I'm concerned about summer, now that its here.

I think we solved that, though. My MIL recently moved to a new house and changed the bathroom light fixture to a small 6 blade, 30 inch ceiling fan. Years ago I thought a ceiling fan in the bathroom was ridiculous but this one was so cute and VERY practical for me now. So I found one at Lowe's for about $35 and it comes with a light kit too. DH installed it on Monday and I have been able to get ready in the morning without overheating and getting noodle arms. I love it!

LOL! I remember visiting my grandma when I was about 8 and she would sit on her bed with a scissors and cut off the dozen or so hairs on her legs. That really left an impression!