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Looking after oneself ie hygiene
- Thread starter Suzanne
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Sorry, I mean showering etc. I LOVE doing laundry lol. I guess just being naked and the whole process of preparing and being wet, but I love being clean
JCPHN
Well-Known Member
I love bathing, shaving, etc. One of my favorite things is right after I get a haircut, and go home and wash my hair. It's "keeping up appearances" that I don't like. Sometimes I feel like people can tell when I'm in a bad mood even when I look my best. So sometimes it feels pointless, but I try to look how I would find myself attractive if I was somebody else. Right now, I have a goatee/moustache, and I like it a lot, but it makes me feel "scruffy" so it might have to go.
I often wear the same pair of jeans or a button-down for an entire week or more, if they don't get very dirty, and I can tell people around me think it's "unhygenic," but I just see it as being practical and not wasteful.
I often wear the same pair of jeans or a button-down for an entire week or more, if they don't get very dirty, and I can tell people around me think it's "unhygenic," but I just see it as being practical and not wasteful.
pushpin
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I love showers, once I'm in the shower. Once I'm in the shower, I want to just stay there for hours. But, before that, I tend to make excuses because I don't like how it feels to feel cold before I get into the shower and to feel cold once I get out of the shower. Also, I feel like taking a shower conflicts with whatever I'm doing (I should take a shower, but I really want to do A, B, and C first, etc). But, I don't like feeling dirty (unless I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, I don't care one bit). But, I also do forget to shower from time to time. It's best when I make a routine out of it (shower first thing in the morning or late in the evening).
I love water, so bathing is a joy for me. I will often lie in the bath and read.
Scented baths, bubbles, candl...
*sigh* should have been a girl
Perhaps you are girl, hidden away and perhaps I am a guy hidden away, because baths etc and me, no way lol
You have said it all, pushpin, for that is exactly what I mean! Happily I do not suffer depression; just the odd meloncoly feeling and of course, the dreaded anxiety. I can handle cold actually, but other than those two things, yep this is me!
My brain injury deleted my olfactory function,so the sniff barometer is broken now. I still clean myself often and even go as far as using scented aftershaves.
Some of the things in my world I miss dearly are the scent of light perfumes and clean smelling people,so my efforts in cleanliness are to not offend others
A recent raw sewage cleanup was a task I was well suited to handle tho,so it isn't all that bad in the big picture
Some of the things in my world I miss dearly are the scent of light perfumes and clean smelling people,so my efforts in cleanliness are to not offend others
A recent raw sewage cleanup was a task I was well suited to handle tho,so it isn't all that bad in the big picture
Spiller
Just.. WEIRD!
I luuurve a nice, long, steaming hot bath, with a good book, food and drink.. I could be in there for two hours and still have to force myself to get out.
But I agree with pushpin, I don't like the bits at each end.
Also, I often forget to do something, like shaving the bit under my lip or brushing my hair and only remember when I've gone out.. must remember to write a check list to stick on the bathroom mirror..
But I agree with pushpin, I don't like the bits at each end.
Also, I often forget to do something, like shaving the bit under my lip or brushing my hair and only remember when I've gone out.. must remember to write a check list to stick on the bathroom mirror..
AsheSkyler
Feathered Jester
I don't enjoy bathing because it's not something I can do a little at a time or do while I'm indulging an interest like I can with eating, and generally requires me to dedicate a good chunk of time to it. It also requires a lot of temperature variances and no matter what time of the year it is, wet skin + air = COLD! When I lived with my parents, I was the monster in the basement, and I used the downstairs shower. Basements are naturally chilly, which I loved, but stepping out of the warm shower on to those cold tiles sent lots of stabbing pain up through my feet and lower legs. For whatever dumb reason, I just chugged through it. When my mom started showering downstairs, she was pretty quick to get a rug put down there for a gentler exit. I guess it wasn't just me feeling that way.
Most of the time I shower every other day since I'm indoors a lot and only have a natural buildup of grime to contend with, unlike when I spend a day outside working or playing.
Most of the time I shower every other day since I'm indoors a lot and only have a natural buildup of grime to contend with, unlike when I spend a day outside working or playing.
Ste11aeres
Well-Known Member
I like the feeling of being in water, but I hate the break in my schedule that comes from having to take a shower. I dislike how sometimes I have to interrupt what I'm doing in order to do that.
I generally find showering theraputic as it's like being in a completely different world but still being in my home. I like focusing on the various different sounds of water.
there's the
-water spraying out of the shower head
-the spray that hits the shower curtain
-the spray that hits me
-the water that falls off me, which falls in larger droplets and doesn't have as far to fall as the water coming from the shower head, so makes a heavier, duller sound.
I'm not aware of/or bothered by being unclean but I like how my skin feels after a shower, kinda fresher. It reminds me of how the sheets of a freshly made bed feels.
Like pushpin said though, the before and after isn't as nice as the shower itself.
there's the
-water spraying out of the shower head
-the spray that hits the shower curtain
-the spray that hits me
-the water that falls off me, which falls in larger droplets and doesn't have as far to fall as the water coming from the shower head, so makes a heavier, duller sound.
I'm not aware of/or bothered by being unclean but I like how my skin feels after a shower, kinda fresher. It reminds me of how the sheets of a freshly made bed feels.
Like pushpin said though, the before and after isn't as nice as the shower itself.
I was once told by an employer that I should never be ashamed of today's dirt because I got dirty earning a living and should only be ashamed of it if remained there the next day
lol, that's the opposite I once had. A supervisor once took me aside and complained how I smelled a bit... and should clean myself up. That by itself might be a case of bad hygiene.. however, when it's almost at the end of a 8 hour shift of physical labour, I found it quite hilarious. I asked him if he was joking... but apparently he wasn't and made a big issue out of it.
pushpin
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I had one employer buy me deodorant when I was much younger. Hahaha
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