If you're single, what do you do about scratching your back?

I keep an extra spaghetti scoop thing in the shower.

I use one of those sticks with a hand carved on the end. I can reach anywhere but using something else makes it feel like someone else is doing it.

Ooh – I want one of each. Right now!

I’m usually in a chair or on the bed, so I just do some gyrating, lol.

I used to have a loofah attached to a long handle. They are great for scratching the back.

Trees.

Haha..yep, I do door jams a lot. Like a bear scratching on a tree.
I also have a metal massage thingy called the “head trip” and it doubles as a back scratcher as well as a head massager. Sometimes I pull out a long bamboo stick from one of my flower arrangements and this works well too. Adapt and be innovative or be itchy. :-D

Back Scratcher

^ I have a bamboo back scratcher too.

Door jams and quick, frenzied gyrations on the bed. Sigh.

<—-Nice, single person. I have a long stick with a pad on it that I use to apply lotion to my back and use as a back scratcher too.

(not single, but alone at the moment and years of having been single) A Chinese bamboo back scratcher. It can reach inside clothes and really does a good job. Also, it’s good to know that whatever pain killer you use, aspirin, etc. relieves itching. Itching comes from the same nerves as pain, it’s just pain of much lower intensity. At least, that’s my understanding.

Just grind your back against something.

I also love to rub up against my giant Zebra grasses in urns on my patio around my hot tub. I call it ” exotic grass massage”. lol

@chyna Yes – lotion is another issue.

I’m in the back scratcher group, too. I keep it on my bedside. Doesn’t matter that my wife is there. She’s not always awake at the right time, and I need to scratch my own back.

As to suntan lotion—I don’t know. I think you need another person or else you risk burning. Maybe you wear a sun shirt. I think that’s what I would do. There are places on my back I can no longer reach. How sad is that?

I use a hair brush. And the minute I scratch one place, another begins to itch. I was just thinking about asking about this the other day, but I’ve already submitted enough evidence of my mental nuttiness, so decided against.

I also have the option of stuffing carrots down my shirt and letting the mini-donkeys mob me with their prehensile lips and donkey teeth. lololol

@Coloma Now that one’s just weird! lol

I have not yet had an itch I absolutely could not scratch myself in some way. Scratch it on a chair like a dog, or I think maybe my arms are just flexible. I am “double jointed” so that helps. SO JUST BECOME DOUBLE JOINTED ALREADY. k

@janbb Haha, only I could come up with that one, but it’s true. I can’t get across the field without the badonka donks coming after me with a gleam in their eye. Why not harness those lips as a useful source of back scratching. lol

You know that scene in the Jungle Book cartoon where Mowgli and Baloo are rubbing themselves against trees and rocks while awesome jazzy jungly trumpet music plays? I do that.

Rub my back against a door or some such. I used to have a cool back scratcher, worked great. I don’t know where it is anymore though…

I use a bamboo back scratcher that I bought at Pier 1 Imports and when it isn’t available, I look for the corner of 2 walls, hopefully not very rounded, and rub against it for a few seconds. It’s not often that I get strange looks from doing this but when I do, it is funny. (Out in public, of course)

I use the foot of the last turkey I shot. It looks similar to this one.

Oh – the things I am learning!

Not single, but when I am alone, I use a mechanical pencil.

Like @Coloma Door jambs are life savers. And if it’s real bad, whoever happens to be standing next to me :)

I pay ‘certain women’ to do the scratching.
And afterwards we do some talking.

Edit: Actually, now that I put some thought to it; I can reach all spots on my back with my own arms/hands.
I am flexible?!

Get yourself a telescoping stainless steel back scratcher.

@PurpleClouds I have a telescoping one for those hard to reach places. NO JOKE!! My Gam-gam gave it to me

@PurpleClouds Yes! I have one like this.

All my joint subluxate (like dislocate only milder) and I can reach all of my back with the tips of my fingers or my nails. I’m just lucky I guess!

Flexible arms. :)
Or my mom. Haha.

I’ve never needed to itch my back. Can’t remember the last time I did actually.

Update: Bought a bear claw; works a treat.