According to Tim Wilson, not until the advent of soap companies sponsoring t.v. shows in the fifties, was bathing more than a couple of times a week considered necessary.
My father always complained when I bathed or showered daily. He never bathed more than once a week, sometimes once every two. My mother bathed maybe two or three times a week. Both of them grew up during the Great Depression, which had a big effect on their notion of thrift.
There’s a Warner Brothers cartoon in which Bugs Bunny falls into a barrel of water, then sputters, ”What tha? It ain’t Satidday night!”
i_am_the_jam about 14 years ago
He can sleep on the couch, then :P
ksoskins about 14 years ago
Is it Saturday already?
wndrwrthg about 14 years ago
According to Tim Wilson, not until the advent of soap companies sponsoring t.v. shows in the fifties, was bathing more than a couple of times a week considered necessary.
Yukoneric about 14 years ago
Spring time is when I take one.
runar about 14 years ago
My father always complained when I bathed or showered daily. He never bathed more than once a week, sometimes once every two. My mother bathed maybe two or three times a week. Both of them grew up during the Great Depression, which had a big effect on their notion of thrift.
There’s a Warner Brothers cartoon in which Bugs Bunny falls into a barrel of water, then sputters, ”What tha? It ain’t Satidday night!”