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You probably have gingivitis. The sugar in the toothpaste is feeding the bacteria in your mouth, which then produce gasses that make your breath smell unpleasant. The cure is to rinse with baking soda/water or peroxide twice a day for a week, and keep brushing regularly.

My teeth are all but gone, unfortunately, I didn't find out that I had calcification problems until it was too late to take care of it. The calcium in my blood literally burned the enamel off my teeth, making my brushing efforts essentially futile. I've since stopped even bothering (years ago) and just rinse once in awhile with Bacardi 151 and cinnamon/nutmeg or use some peroxide and then follow it with a good chew on a cinnamon stick.

There are many days I don't do anything that would require that I actually take a shower, so unless I feel like getting wet, I just wash up before bed time.

Often, in a week, I don't get a full load of laundry. My wife doesn't either, although we do the laundry once a week, full load or not, and she separates our clothes because mine are often very dirty/greasy. I usually grab a pair of "dirty pants" and wear them all week, and then I have one or two pairs of "clean" pants that I also wear. All my clothes are basically the same, so noone really ever notices anyway. My under shirts only get worn again if I didn't sweat in them noticeably, or if I didn't wear them for very long. Socks get changed every day, if not twice a day. I hate wet feet, and survival training kinda drilled clean/dry socks into my head. I stopped wearing skivvies several years ago because I was lazy and didn't want to do more laundry than I had to, not to mention saving the cost of replacement, since those, I would buy new. I don't think I've bought new clothes in years. I always get used clothes from places like the Salvation Army Thrift Store. It's cheaper, and they're every bit as good.

The cloth diapers get washed as a half load once a day, so that uses alot of water, but not nearly as much as would be used to make/ship/market/sell/buy the equivalent amount of disposables. They soak in water/soap/borax solution from the time they're taken off, and that gets dumped into the washer with the diapers, because there's nothing wrong w/ the water/soap that's in the bucket. The washer then doesn't have to fill up as much (5 gallons less per load).

I use a dryer for my clothes, because I don't like the way they feel after being dried outside. Often, I don't like the smell either. As few clothes as we use, it shouldn't really be a problem, though. I have been known to hang clothes outside during the winter, though. They dry fairly quickly because the air is usually quite dry during the winter.