No hot water until tomorrow! How long have you gone without a shower?
Friday afternoon I was loading the dishwasher and noticed the hot water wasn't working…it was "warm"….but never got hot. I told Larry that I thought we were out of gas. He said "if we were out of gas, the stove wouldn't work"…..so I reached over and turned the knob. Click click click….yep, the stove wouldn't light. We called the gas company and they are coming Monday.
I'll be so glad to see them. I tried to cook something yesterday, totally forgetting we were out of gas. Its been microwave or the grill the past two days. The only good thing so far about this heat is the groundwater temps are so high you can get a shower with the cold water because its acutally pretty warm. I was going to wait until Monday, but I just can't go that long without getting a shower….two days is my limit.
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5 days, doing field work on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. I did swim a couple of times a day, sometimes with sea lions.
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5 days, doing field work on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. I did swim a couple of times a day, sometimes with sea lions.
I bet that was amazing!
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I went six months without a shower.
After I graduated from college I moved across the country to live with my cousin in Washington State, up north of Spokane. We were going to start a business building log cabins.
Dave had told me he lived way out in the woods, but he didn't explain "how far out in the woods." Turned out he didn't have electricity. No running water. The house water came from a tiny spring. And he had an outhouse. If you don't know, you don't want to find out how nasty an outhouse is.
We spent the spring and summer, building a log cabin, and also worked for 8 weeks loading hay bales into the barn on a dairy farm. Twelve hours of nasty, sweaty work in the hot sun. It was out of our way, but a couple times a week we would go for a swim in the Pend Orielle River. That was nice and got you pretty clean. On the other five days a week, we just stayed dirty.
After six months of that way of life, I went back to Georgia and returned to the world of hot showers, flush toilets, and washing machines. You ever wash a load of clothes, having to haul the water 300 feet up the mountain from the little spring, and pour it into the ten gallon galvanized steel tub, and heat it up over a wood stove? Takes four hours of hard work to wash one load.
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Well as a lot of our members spent time in the service I imagine a few days without hot water/showers was common, I know many times in the Southern Calif. desert and the German forest we had green canvas bags set up on tripods to take shower, if you were lucky the Gerry cans were black and would get a little warm sitting in the sun and those were times of just playing/practicing for war usually up to 30 days at a time. Those that were in combat never had as much of that luxury.
ETA: More recently I had my well quit working for about five days and only washing was done with one gallon or less heated on a stove, water gotten from a neighbor and no showers all that time, Hang in there Kasey you will survive.😊
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Like some of you well, maybe as a kid
We had a wash tub filed it with water on saturday night then every one took a turn . Ever hear the expression don't throw the baby out with the wash water
By the time all baths wete taken the water was a bit dirty
So i giess many years with out a shower I was about 12 yrs old when we moved ito a house with a real bathtub and years later to actually have a shower in the bath room and that was after I got married and moved away from home
Oh, the rest of the week what we was was used just wash pan and wash rag wipe down what you could and call it good
So little things like a hot shower even now many years later its feel great to step into a shower and wash off the days sweat and grime and of course reminds me of that old wash tub just siting in the dirty water
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During the aftermath of one particular hurricane we were without power for 2 weeks. Our two generators were dedicated to keeping 60,000 chickens fed and watered. Wee would bring one to the house for a few hours at night to run the freezers and water pump but the only shower was cold. Didn't run the water heater Luckily I was /am a volunteer fireman . Station had a whole house Gen set .Every other day we would all go get clean!
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9 days……
Long canoe trip…. Hard to clean up well in lake and river water….. But I was a teenager so no one cared anyway…
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2 weeks while commercial fishing in Alaska.
We’d pull into port and be so tired no one had the energy to shower. When the first to make the shower effort returned smelling good, wearing clean clothes, and all bright-eyed there’d be a mad rush by everyone else to go get cleaned up.
Then we’d hit the bar…but that’s a story for another day!
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Ok….if we are talking about time in the military…..I went a month without a shower before the 4'9" Filipino Chief Petty Officer looked up into my eyes and told me….."Petty Opicer Dollarrrr, (my maiden name), jew smell like a dragon" and made it clear I was being let to go home during my shift to go fix that. Myself and another person stationed at Pearl Harbor, Sub Base had a bet going…..Bheam was his name. He was a 6'4" guy from Arkansas. We were betting $5 on who would take a shower first. His girlfriend was so mad at me…..and him. I lost the bet, but it was because no way on earth was Chief going to tell Bheam he smelled.
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I love the story Kacey, you win!
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My last long no-shower stint was during a big snow and ice storm when the power lines went down hard for miles up the road. No power (and no well pump) for about 2.5 weeks. Wet wipes and rubbing alcohol did good enough to get through, especially with it being freezing in the house.
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About 2 months. We did an amphibious landing at Chu Lai, South Vietnam on the 5th of May, 1965. However we set up shelter halfs right on the beach of The South China Sea and dipped in it every chance we had which wasn't often. Later we had open air cold showers which were greatly appreciated. After about 6 months I got my first hot shower when I was granted R&R. Soooo, about 6 months between hot showers but only for five days and then back to the cold ones. We were some of the lucky ones……
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FINALLY….we have hot water!!!! YAY!!!
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One of those things you don't really think about until you don't have it !!!!! Happy they got you up and running !!
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Never been a 'grunt' in Viet Nam, huh??
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