r/hypotheticalsituation • u/siteisweird • 8d ago

How long would you go without cleaning your body for $10K a day?

  • You would still have to go about your normal life, you can’t lock yourself inside all day.
  • You cannot take a shower or bath of any kind, this also includes using baby wipes to wipe your yourself.
  • You cannot use environmental substitutes such as washing yourself with the rain.

Once you accept this challenge, it starts the next day, and when you quit the money immediately gets transferred to your bank.

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u/RoyalSpecialist1777 8d ago

It's a little embarrassing but I often go a couple weeks.  I have depression and avoidance issues.  Your skin actually adapts and other than smell and a minor itch I could go months for that money.  I don't socialize as it is..

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u/echoesofsavages 8d ago

This is a bit fascinating to me. Do you stay in your house/apartment for weeks on end? And when you do shower, do you feel better after? I feel like you’d feel a little better after a shower and putting on some fresh clean clothes. Try it out and maybe that will help a bit with feeling depressed.

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u/RoyalSpecialist1777 8d ago

I do feel better after a shower but still keep putting it off.  I have mental health issues...

They say you retain around a dozen formative memories from early childhood.  Each had a significant impact.  Unfortunately most abusive or invalidating with a couple good ones in my case.  

But one of them was that I would shower, around 4 or 5 years old, and I was cold and wet so just huddled beneath my towel.  My dad would be like "Just stand up and dry off!" and I would be "but I am cooooold".

But yeah it's fascinating.  My whole life my brain struggles to embrace temporary discomfort for long term comfort...

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u/AceSpinda 8d ago

Hey, me too depression buddy! offers awkward fist bump