I have a paper due tomorrow night. I'm on the cellar. To be fair, I have started to write it then realized that I have 500 words already and the maximum is supposed to be 2000. I don't even have half of one part (out of 5 parts) written. I'm afraid I'm going a tad overboard. I guess it shows my passion for this subject, which happens to be sexual fetishes.

MIL ETA: 1 hour. State of house: upfucked. State of monster: inactive.

this is becoming a tradition!

indeed. i think I'm trying to surpass myprevious record each time. Stairs and landing now vacced and clear of obstacles. Now to make the car presentable, then if time clear a path to the lovely clean sofa

gah, she's landed. game over.

oh hai. I have an hour in which to do something useful. Like the paperwork that's long overdue. Perhaps I'll create a treasure hunt poll

Oh dear, I discovered a new Britcom availabale on Youtube. It's not hilarious, but it's enough....

damn I've found this thread again ...

I've sat on my ass doing nothing all day. and I had so many plans...... :mad:

Things to do before I leave the house tomorrow.
Should do them now. It will make the morning more pleasing and I will get to school earlier.
Am I gonna?

Neh.

Not even getting any pleasure from hanging around on the internet tonight, just killing time. I mean the Cellar is lovely, but tonight it's not majorly compelling.
I just can't be arsed to get up and get going for the benefit of tomorrow-me.

You know that procrarsetinating I tought I'd stoped? Well, I started again ... :(

I'll post something later.

That's alright - you've been busy inventing beautiful words.

Tomorrow me is now today me and I have already done my chores nay bother.
Just need to clean my teeth, then I'm off.
Still shouldn't be mincing about on here though...

This thread is the last thing standing between me and FORM D.

Want to hear something disgusting?

Okay then.

Since Monday I have had the house to myself every morning.
Although I get up at the same time, I have the whole house to myself. I can loll about watching TV, or on the internet or anything I fancy without any comment.

So yes, I shower and brush my teeth every morning.
But I usually find I am running late if I want to wash and dry my hair.
So I don't!
I've used Dry Shampoo for 3 days now.
HAHAHAHAHA!

Lazy bitch.

My mother used dry shampoo for several years. She had long hair and it became a trial and then impossible for her to manage washing it on her own. I don't know how many years (three, four?) but I swear, you'd never have known.

Dry shampoo itself is not disgusting.
What is, is the fact I'm using it rather than washing my short hair, in order to have an extra 15 minutes (max) faffing about.

Yes - 15 minutes tops. I have short, fine hair and it is hardly a trauma or a chore to wash and dry it.

My disgust at myself is a moral thing, rather than a hygeine thing.

if you do it right, you can faphph about in the shower, no?

I do my faphphing about the night before.
Not every night.
But it relaxes me and helps me sleep.

I think your error is in making the effort to dry it. It will do that on its own, you know. Washing it should only be 2 extra minutes in the shower, tops.

I wish I could remember that that is the correct way to spell faphph!

try fingerspelling it. you'll never forget it again.

what a strange use for the anon login....

I haven't used shampoo for years. Really.

I shower daily and scrub through my hair with my fingers, and I brush it thoroughly. My hair is healthy and clean. This probably only works because I keep it fairly short.

beest hadn't used shampoo for 20ish years, but just restarted. On the way back from Yellowstone we swam in a sulphur spring and he used some to get the smell out of his hair. The extra fluffieness is very sexy. but it drives him nuts. it's in his face all the time. but teh sexy wins ;)

I don't use shampoo. Except after I bleach -which is about twice a year.

My hair is really oily. I have to wash it every day.

Who doesn't wash their hair every day? (apart from Europeans)

That's one of the things that made me feel like I belonged here: Daily showers over weekly bath -and enough bathrooms and boiler power to make that practical

;)

My mother was very self-conscious about it. It's not my secret, but hers, so I'm preserving her anonymity.

fair enough, I guess. It wasn't clear to me that it was a secret, but makes sense if it was.

yabbut it also has to be really strong shampoo to get all the oil off.

Everyone I know showers every day*, but for many hair types it's not appropriate to wash your hair every day.

Before this backsliding dry shampoo week, I washed mine every other day, or every three days. I have short, fine hair. And I worked with a woman who washed hers once a week. It was thick and heavy and took hours to dry. She always looked and smelled glorious.

* I lie - I lived in more than one house that had no shower.
But then I bathed every day. This is more and more unusual now.

Maybe tomorrow.

I finally made it to the land fill today with 3 charcoal grills that have been sitting in my yard for a few years, and a part of a metal wheelbarrow that has been sitting in the yard for about 8 years. I don't like to rush these things.

That doesn't get you certified.
You could have taken one today, one tomorrow (maybe) and....

True dat... but I felt like I had saved up enough points for the years they have been there and the wife telling me to take them to the dump, every month. :elkgrin:

Wives can be a highly motivating force, even for the certified.

When you don't wash it, do you use a cap to keep it from getting wet at all? If my hair gets wet it becomes an immediate rats' nest unless I am using conditioner on it (which always follows shampoo, which I use every day, though I acknowledge it might not be necessary--but the conditioner would be, no question.)

No, we have a quintessentially English shower. It has no pressure whatsoever. Large as I am, I could probably dance underneath it and still avoid getting hit by the spray.
So my barnet is in no danger of getting wet.

When I used the shower block on holiday I had to wash my hair when I showered. It was gorgeously powerful and the water hit every part of the large cubicle. It did hasten the demise of my bright pink hair, but it was worth it.

Currently sitting here with a new colourant developing. Mango, apparently. Mad ginger I reckon. We'll see. Even more reason to use dry shampoo instead of water!

hmmmm. there was supposed to be one of these: :bolt: on this post, 'cause I was totally :stickpokeing

sorry. must've been paying less attention than I thought....

Eh, not today, it's Sunday. Monday, perhaps.

FTF Theory.

Shampoo strips oil from your hair. Your scalp goes nuts replacing it. If you could wean yourself off shampoo by using sorbelene* for about six weeks, your scalp would probably chill out on the OPEC imitation. Maybe.

*or just living like a dirty hippy.

I don't know what kinds of shampoos are available down under, but we are no longer dependent on the likes of Prell or Breck of some kind of lye-based acidic green globby stuff.

I've never noticed my hair being more or less oily depending on how often I shampoo. Well, I'm not an oily person to begin with, but that's another subject.

It sounds like the theory about how if you pull out a gray hair two more would take its place. Ch'yeah, right, if that were true there would be NO BALD PEOPLE. Just start ripping individual hairs out and they'll be replaced by two hairs which will be replaced by two hairs and so on, and so on, and so on.

Just ask Heather Locklear:

As Ben Franklin said, "Oily to bed, and oily to rise... (something something)"

Zeng is right. If you stop using shampoo and just wash with water, your hair gets kinda greasy for a while because your scalp is still set up to replace the oil you stripped off, but after a few weeks, it settles down to looking just fine.

We never started our kids using shampoo, and their hair was never nasty. Untill they started swimming so much, then they had to start using chlorine-stripping shampoo.

I'm not doubting your experience, but it still seems fishy to me.

If I stopped washing my skin with soap (Dove, only Dove) would my skin stop producing oils and sweat?

If I ever take a week off and go nowhere, I might see what happens. But honestly, my hair feels entirely different if I use shampoo or if I just run water through it. It feels, clean? Smells good. Floats instead of mats, bounces instead of drips.

Google provided nothing. Apparently no one on the interwebz knows you can free yourself from shampoo.

I'm with Monster.
Worked with hippy artist types who hadn't washed their hair in years.
It worked just fine for them. I think it takes longer than a week though. Six weeks? A guess.

My friend and I talked about doing it in the summer holidays one year, but we were teens and our Mums threatened to disown us if we tried.

No. Way.

Three non-americans tell me to not wash my hair for six weeks and it will be lovely?

Not falling for it. ;)

Seriously though, I'm dubious to the science behind this.

And I'll never try it. I kind of like my hair. And the hippies I've known are all dreddy and stuff and NO you don't use shampoo on it because oil is hidden under the mats and is needed and must be allowed to seep slowly into the outer tangles.

The older hippies I've known just have, plain and simple, greasy hair. Not all hippies. Many hippies wash. Just not the dirty ones.

I loves you guys, but I'm not believing this particular chain of words-of-mouth.

In any event, when the apocalypse comes, I trust you will all send me your shampoo. I'll send you food, you send me lilac-scented loveliness.

Over on Boing Boing they were talking about this several months ago. Several people were saying that they had tried it or that they knew people who tried it. ("it" meaning giving up all products and just washing with water.) What I gathered was that after a few months, some people with some types of hair were just fine without the shampoo, but that when you skipped the soap and deodorant on your body, you would stink within a few hours of your shower.

I can think of few things better than the smell of freshly shampooed hair. If I could curl my face up into my own neck with my hair all over my face, I would.

If my hair is still slightly damp and I put it up, then take it down later, it will still be damp and the BEST smell comes pouring out of it.

So I don't get the whole purpose of living without shampoo. Saving 67 bucks a year?

Makes a man stupid and weak in the eyes.

Not sure I could stand it. I like having my hair squeaky clean.

I'm a soap dodger. I don't use soap either, except in extreme circumstances -it plays havoc with my skin/eczema. I do use deodorant and I don't stink. Except after exercise.

That should probably be in the cellar secrets thread, shouldn't it? :lol:

But I'm pretty sure infi, zip and the fobster will confirm I'm not reeking and I met them all after long hot car journeys.

I can attest to this. She totally doesn't reek! ;)

Individual results may vary....

Am supposed to be tidying my room.
Was supposed to over half term.
Have had various (not really valid) excuses since then.

It's way past acceptable, even by my standards.
Once the floor is covered, everything else goes on the floor too.

Instead, I am sitting here in an evening dress. I bought it for the funeral but it turned out far longer and grander than expected - certainly given the price! So I'm going to go with the other one, which was also longer than expected in that it is knee length. The shorter dress was supposed to be the reserve - I thought I could wear it with leggings if this one was the wrong size or fit. Both are sleeveless, so I bought a shrug.

Less than £10 the lot and now I have a decent dress for the funeral and beyond, AND an unexpected evening dress. Although Lord alone knows what I will wear that too. Maybe I'll wear it to the panto, with a sequinned mask :) I didn't sign up to the staff Christmas meal as it was over £30. Instead I'm going to the pub with the Dinner Ladies!

So anyway, I tried this on and didn't take it off because I am wasting time here, knowing that when Mum comes home I have to scurry in and start making organised noises. I will pretend I was taking a break. Which will hopefully segue into real tidying up, as pointlessly making noise is hardly engaging.

Bend over right now and pick ONE thing up and put it where it's meant to be.

Nope, am in the spare bedroom not in my room.
But yes, that's how I'll start.

You just want to check out my arse in my new dress.