Why do you find that you use more water in the winter? Warming baths? I think I'd expect it to be the other way round...
I don't put upper-body garments back into the wardrobe; if I'm hoping to get more wear out of them, they stay over the back of the chair after being taken off, so that I know they are no longer 'clean'. On the other hand, most of my trousers, for example, get washed once or twice a year if they get actually muddy, and I own a number of garments that are simply not washable at all (though in emergencies I'll bend a point and rub at spills with a wet cloth), and this hasn't really been a problem. Since they were all acquired second-hand some of them quite possibly haven't been washed in fifty years :-p
This is why one wears (and washes) underwear, in order to keep the non-washable garments away from direct bodily contact, or at least contact with body parts that tend to shed the most grease/sweat.
I probably mainly cut my water usage by simply not washing, or at least not washing any more often than I can be bothered to do :-p A quick swipe with a wet flannel usually seems to be adequate, though I don't wash my feet often enough (I mainly reckon that going barefoot indoors allows any sweat etc to wear off, but while they don't get terribly smelly they do get painful cracks between the toes from time to time, which indicates some kind of infection on the skin).
I probably have a bath/shower a couple of times a week, but since that involves taking all my clothes off and then drying myself all over, and in addition requires a minimum time commitment which I rarely seem to have when either getting up or going to bed (both of which tend to take place at the last possible moment), it isn't a routine activity, but one I undertake as a luxury when I happen to feel like it. So far as I'm aware I don't suffer from body odour as a result (I haven't had any complaints); the main part of me that gets noticeably smelly is the armpits if I sweat, and I endeavour to dress appropriately and adjust my layers of clothing so that I *don't* sweat any more than I can help, while wearing cotton clothes so that if I do sweat it gets absorbed rather than breeding bacteria. The aforementioned wet flannel generally deals adequately with a day's worth of perspiration :-p
The other part of me that gets noticeably dirty is my neck, and that tends to reduce the wearability of my shirts to two days at the maximum. Possibly other areas pick up grime between baths too, but that evidently rubs off evenly all over!
And there is my hair, of course, but I do take the trouble to wash that in the sink from time to time because greasy hair annoys me more than dusty feet :-p
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I don't put upper-body garments back into the wardrobe; if I'm hoping to get more wear out of them, they stay over the back of the chair after being taken off, so that I know they are no longer 'clean'. On the other hand, most of my trousers, for example, get washed once or twice a year if they get actually muddy, and I own a number of garments that are simply not washable at all (though in emergencies I'll bend a point and rub at spills with a wet cloth), and this hasn't really been a problem. Since they were all acquired second-hand some of them quite possibly haven't been washed in fifty years :-p
This is why one wears (and washes) underwear, in order to keep the non-washable garments away from direct bodily contact, or at least contact with body parts that tend to shed the most grease/sweat.
I probably mainly cut my water usage by simply not washing, or at least not washing any more often than I can be bothered to do :-p A quick swipe with a wet flannel usually seems to be adequate, though I don't wash my feet often enough (I mainly reckon that going barefoot indoors allows any sweat etc to wear off, but while they don't get terribly smelly they do get painful cracks between the toes from time to time, which indicates some kind of infection on the skin).
I probably have a bath/shower a couple of times a week, but since that involves taking all my clothes off and then drying myself all over, and in addition requires a minimum time commitment which I rarely seem to have when either getting up or going to bed (both of which tend to take place at the last possible moment), it isn't a routine activity, but one I undertake as a luxury when I happen to feel like it. So far as I'm aware I don't suffer from body odour as a result (I haven't had any complaints); the main part of me that gets noticeably smelly is the armpits if I sweat, and I endeavour to dress appropriately and adjust my layers of clothing so that I *don't* sweat any more than I can help, while wearing cotton clothes so that if I do sweat it gets absorbed rather than breeding bacteria. The aforementioned wet flannel generally deals adequately with a day's worth of perspiration :-p
The other part of me that gets noticeably dirty is my neck, and that tends to reduce the wearability of my shirts to two days at the maximum. Possibly other areas pick up grime between baths too, but that evidently rubs off evenly all over!
And there is my hair, of course, but I do take the trouble to wash that in the sink from time to time because greasy hair annoys me more than dusty feet :-p