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Setting this hilariously stupid debate aside, it really is inconvenient the week has 7 days.
We humans are creatures of habit, and like to do things on the same days every week - either because regularity helps our schedule, or simply because we're all perhaps a little OCD.
I personally wash my hair "every other day" so to keep a fixed weekly schedule I have to either miss two days in a row (not happening) or wash two in a row (which is what I do)
So I totally understand the desire to want "every other day" things on the same days of the week AND still also perfectly spaced, even though that is an impossibility.
It's just that tiniest bit unsatisfying.
Ideally I would wash my hair every five days or so, but because our weeks are seven-day long I wash them every seven days and deal with having slightly greasy hair for two days.
Sometimes I wish the Revolutionary calendar had worked out. It had 10-day-long décades instead of weeks; that would have been awesome for my hair.
I consider the weekend to be one day unit so if I work out Saturday it counts Sunday too. I can only imagine the firestorm that would erupt if I said that in the bodybuilding thread.
I just wash every other day.
get out of here with your reasonable pragmatic standards.
To make matters worse, you can't even go by the calendar and do "every odd date" or "every even date" because some months end in an odd number (31) and the following day, the next month begins with an odd number.