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Van Life in Japan

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Re: Van Life in Japan

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Post by petodo »

TurboHaskal wrote: post #4

> We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs. If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)

I'm living in apartment and shower twice a week (at least in winter). Never understood obsession with daily shower as seen is American movies, no wonder Americans have extreme water consumption, I wonder how common is eczema and skin diseases over there compared to countries which shower less.

EDIT: instead of downvoting rather prove me wrong, do you think Americans don't have extreme water consumption? US water consumption per capita is in top 10 in whole world and it's 4 times higher than Germany for instance. Everything else in comment are just observations, but I guess too many Americans here don't like the facts and observations.

https://www.worldometers.info/water/

Re: Van Life in Japan

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Post by samwestdev »

petodo wrote: post #5
TurboHaskal wrote: post #4

> We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs. If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)

I'm living in apartment and shower twice a week (at least in winter). Never understood obsession with daily shower as seen is American movies, no wonder Americans have extreme water consumption, I wonder how common is eczema and skin diseases over there compared to countries which shower less. EDIT: instead of downvoting rather prove me wrong, do you think Americans don't have extreme water consumption? US water cons…

Japanese people are also obsessed with bath/shower every day before sleeping.

Re: Van Life in Japan

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Post by saiya-jin »

petodo wrote: post #5
TurboHaskal wrote: post #4

> We usually don’t bathe every day and listen to our body’s needs. If I did this I'd need to shower every 4h :)

I'm living in apartment and shower twice a week (at least in winter). Never understood obsession with daily shower as seen is American movies, no wonder Americans have extreme water consumption, I wonder how common is eczema and skin diseases over there compared to countries which shower less. EDIT: instead of downvoting rather prove me wrong, do you think Americans don't have extreme water consumption? US water cons…

You don't need to use any chemistry for shower unless you are greasy, thus no pollution and washing your skin with just water is good for it if not outright neutral. You do you, some people sweat and/or smell more, some people less, some have very social lives and some go out of their home just for shopping or not even that.

And some simply don't care if they disgust others. World is big, no need to bash Americans or any other nation.

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