How the pandemic changed our hygiene habits
Lockdown affected all our routines when it comes to showering, bathing, shampooing and deodorant. Will regular washing ever resume?
By Emine Saner / The Guardian
Without much strenuous activity, a pair of underpants will last for two days before they go into the wash, while socks “are good for three days, if you aren’t tramping around too much”, says Simon Clifford, an electronics designer from Great Yarmouth. Showers? Every other day is fine. He is still using deodorant and, since it promises “48-hour protection,” he may as well test it to the limit. Does he smell? It’s hard to say, since he lives alone. But he has been back at work since the beginning of the month.
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A guide for working from bed
It may not be recommended, but, from necessity or choice, many of us find ourselves working from them
By Emine Saner / The Guardian
Everybody who knows what they’re talking about will tell you not to do it, but the lure of bed is hard to resist for any home worker. Or it may have become a necessity. With children home schooling, or in a cramped flatshare, your bed may be the only place you can get any peace (although many people living and working with chronic illness will be rolling their eyes at the idea that working from bed has only just been invented).