How long have you gone without a shower or bath?

[rdbs505]

went camping and couldn't shower for 4 days. used some of those axe body wipes. didn't help.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Yeah, I've had to go over a week before, but yeah, 3 days about does it to me these days. I've been hoarding hygiene supplies as well as food, ammunition, etc.

 

[ruger1800]

6 months, never a day without brushing my teeth. Dont even ask about the jock rash.

 

[red_zr24x4]

I voted a week. We went to South Dakota prairie dog shooting, camped out on the prairie for about 4 days before we headed to town for food and to get a room so we could shower.( plus a big storm blew in and we did'nt want to be stuck out there for another week because the truck was buried.)

 

[abnk]

Three weeks in a training exercise in the Uwharries. Can't remember that anyone there was really bothered by the lack of showers.

 

[rockhopper46038]

7 days on a glacier. Too cold to smell anything.

 

[sgreen3]

I voted 2-3 days due to summer time camping trips, unless swimming in the lake counts

 

[JohnP82]

I voted 2-3 days. Went 4 or 5 days before as well, but never a whole week. Always been while camping.
Longest I have gone from laziness is 2 days.

 

[lrahm]

I am your basic wuss. I use to do a lot of camping and could go for several days. In my current job I get too hot (especially during the summer). Go on and someone call me a wuss, I would feel better..

 

[SSGSAD]

I voted 2-3 days, INARNG training .....

 

[KG1]

6 months, never a day without brushing my teeth. Dont even ask about the jock rash.

6 months?

 

[2in1evtime]

8 days i think i was pretty ripe too

 

[halfmileharry]

It was about 50-60 days at one point. Even the rats started staying away from our underground bunker. Military tacticians wonder why the NVA never staged a full scale human wave attack. I think they feared our funky aroma.

See the link below for a page on our showers and another photo.

Recon Showers

54 days for me. Me thinks we shared the same stench. Semper FI
Now it's twice a day showers and shave

 

[Benny]

6 months, never a day without brushing my teeth. Dont even ask about the jock rash.

WTF? You must have smelled worse than a monkey cage.

 

[7th Stepper]

I am your basic wuss. I use to do a lot of camping and could go for several days. In my current job I get too hot (especially during the summer). Go on and someone call me a wuss, I would feel better..

Ok, you're a wuss. Do you feel better now? BUT....you're a clean wuss, and that makes you an appealing one! Handsome is as handsome does, and an unwashed man is ANYTHING but; appealing, handsome, attractive, motivation to consider jumping his bones....(that was my daughters comment), or even consider risking an infraction, just so you could bask in his good looking glory (while trying to talk your way out of it)! So see, you're if nothing else, a clean, handsome, sexy...wuss! Especially when you're in uniform! YUMMY!

I could think of a lot worse thing to be....like having the ladies avoid you like the plague because they can smell you coming a mile off.

 

[Davegrave]

I"m kind of a hermit, If I'm by myself I go a few days routinely.

I think it's bad for your skin to scrub and wash so much. Obviously if you're active and sweating that's a different story. But to if I'm just sitting around the house for a long weekend, no need.

But I do keep baby wipes in the bathroom. I don't know why that's not more common. If you got poop all over your hand you wouldn't wipe it off with dry tissue and say "good enough". I'm all about the baby wipes.

 

[hornadylnl]

Ok, you're a wuss. Do you feel better now? BUT....you're a clean wuss, and that makes you an appealing one! Handsome is as handsome does, and an unwashed man is ANYTHING but; appealing, handsome, attractive, motivation to consider jumping his bones....(that was my daughters comment), or even consider risking an infraction, just so you could bask in his good looking glory (while trying to talk your way out of it)! So see, you're if nothing else, a clean, handsome, sexy...wuss! Especially when you're in uniform! YUMMY!

I could think of a lot worse thing to be....like having the ladies avoid you like the plague because they can smell you coming a mile off.

Translation: BOR is a metrosexual.

 

[24Carat]

Do to a prolonged period of illness probably a month at a a time. Thank you Old Spice and baby wipes.

 

[loudpedal]

I was on a coast to coast bicycle ride 2,600 miles in 27 days. You can get about 800 miles out of a shower if you supplement with rainwater, and a hand dryer in a public restroom. As you near the 800mi. mark it is important to keep moving, and not zip your sleeping bag all the way up at night.
I don't think I ever wore those gloves again.

 

[revsaxon]

A week.

Specifically finals week for the last semester of my Engineering Degree. I don't think I remembered to eat that week either...

Damn you college. You made me lazy and stinky.