The older you are, in general, the creakier here you are. Arthritis, muscle pain, etc.
Soon, hunting for clean clothes immediately after you wake up seems kind of pointless… Especially if you're not going anywhere that day.
As your muscles lose muscle tone from inaction, when you occasionally are forced to do something physical and sweat, well… you’ll forget about that by the end of the day. And tomorrow, you're in the same clothes and the bacteria has had a chance to do its thing.
Getting into a bathtub is not only awkward because your flexibility has decreased, but dangerous. You're down to showers, but then you have to stay standing. You don't do them as often. Maybe you have a plastic chair in your shower.
And of course, cleaning is HARD work: bending down, going back-and-forth to the sink,etc. Some messes just aren't that important, others are too hard to get to.
The only bonus to any of this is that many people, as they age, lose much of their sense of smell.
Even 20-year-olds have been known to wear the same pair of socks after sniffing them to see if they smell.
Strangely, when you're 95, they never smell. Especially, if you don't sniff them.
Extra bonus: when you get old enough, you just don't fukcin' care. If you smell; that's the whippersnapper's problem.
Americans are particularly fastidious, but modern hygiene is primarily a product of modern plumbing. As you go back, no doubt, people learned to tolerate more smells.
Queen Elizabeth I allegedly said: "I bathe at least once a year, whether I need it or not."
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