I don't get out much. I take the kids out to the bus stop, maybe go to the grocery store, drop off my wife's dry cleaning, really not much else. I'm not one to make plans with other stay at home parents, so the only person that I am really trying to impress is my wife... and my wife travels a lot. When she is out of town on business there is NO REASON for me to take a shower. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that if my stench gets too bad to where even the dog won't go near me, I'll just load up on some deodorant and I'm good for another day.
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| Some days my smell is too much and the boys plug their noses |
If I know that I am going to run into someone, or I have to go to the kids school for an extended period of time, or my wife is coming home, THEN I will jump in the shower.
I always have a hard time figuring out what brand of soap and shampoo I should buy. I don't want something too girly that I am going to smell like rose petals, I don't need anything peachy, and I certainly don't need to smell like an ocean breeze. More often than not I'm grabbing whatever my wife uses and I will smell like lavender for a few hours until my natural smell takes over.
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| These are usually my choices. Who wants to smell like a fluffy cupcake? |
I get weirded out buying shampoo and soaps. It's like if I make the wrong decision then the cashier is going to judge me. She will give me that weird stare like she's asking me if I'm sure that's the kind that I want. Buying them is kind of a big deal. I mean, this is what you are deciding that you want to smell like for the next month at least. One wrong purchase and you could end up smelling like someone's 95 year old grandfather instead of a clover filled meadow.
I usually head to some big box retailer like Wal-Mart and get my shampoos. Since I am so concerned what people will think of me about my soap purchase, I will buy 15 other things that I don't need to disguise that one thing. I never walk out of there spending less that $100 and the only thing I went in there to buy was shampoo. Fortunately today I knew what I was looking for.
I went in looking for Irish Spring. Every now and then I get that old jingle stuck in head. The old commercials are classic. It's usually some guy walking down a dirt road in the middle of Ireland whistling and then someone whistles back. That was me today in Wal-Mart, except nobody whistled back. They kind of looked at me like I was nuts. Irish Spring could not have been easier to find.
Since my wife is back from her business trip to Florida, today is the day that I had to shower. Between you and me... I hadn't showered since Saturday, but nobody else needs to know that. So I grabbed all of my soaps including the exfoliating scrub and the signature body wash.
To the shower I went.
This wasn't any normal lathering. I grabbed the "man sized" exfoliating scrub and dumped a half gallon of the 3-in-1 Signature Body Wash on me and it seemed to do the trick. My boys were no longer holding their noses and the dog actually wanted to play with me. Most importantly though, my wife enjoyed the smell.
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| Clean as a whistle! |
Not that I would ever force you to buy a certain body wash over any of the others... I know how picky we can all be, but I think I have found one that works for me AND my family.
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So how long can YOU go without showering before you can't stand being around yourself?
So how long can YOU go without showering before you can't stand being around yourself?
