Approximately 4 days. During a backpacking trip out in the mountains. That's right, to keep me from performing regular hygiene, I have to be literally too far from any facilities to use them. I'm not OCD, but at home I go at most a full 36 hours (roughly) without taking a shower. I just don't like being unwashed. (now that I think about it, that 4 days record is tied with the time I went to the Galapagos Islands; as it turns out, showering on a boat is a *****, and often less comfortable than the alternative. We aren't talking cruise ship here, I mean 150-foot long boat, with upper limit capacity of about 16 people).
Rhayn said:
Haven't had a bath in about 15 years now, unless swimming counts as bathing. Bathtubs are suprisingly uncommon in Finland, I have noticed. Even if you have one you mostly use it for standing in when showering.
Mind you I shower every second day.
I would say Showering counts as "bathing" since very few people actually take the time to bathe in the traditional sense anymore. If you literally count taking a bath as the ONLY form of bathing, then I've gone for about 10 years now without bathing. Not because bathtubs are uncommon (I own one) but because I dislike baths personally in preference of showers.
CrazyHaircut94 said:
I can also tell you that I have dreads, which means I can only wash my hair a few times a month. Feel free to vomit.
There's ways around that. In high school I had a friend who used Elmer's Glue to style his hair (seriously). It's water-soluble, so he can't wash it; typically he just covered his hair with plastic (shower cap) when showering (or so he says; he didn't stink though). He often went with the same hair style for a couple months, usually changing it when our administration started bitching at him (one styling was a pair of massive horns, devil style, which he had to use wires to maintain in addition to the glue).