Baths!

[Scarlett]

How many baths/showers do you have a week?! I have one shower a day in the morning. My flatmate has a shower in the morning and a bath every night! How does this compare with you/your family?

[Tilly2]

When I was a child, dunnitall, I had a bath every Sunday night. The rest of the week, it was just a wash in a freezing cold bathroom. The bath water used to turn grey:-)

[shaneystar2]

For the amount of money I shell out for water and sewage i think I'm entitled to bath or shower every day dunnitall.
I had years of a tin bath once a week and washstands in the bedrooms .I would rather not stink thank you :)

[Postdog]

Recently I have gone three weeks between baths, but that said, I do virtually nothing to get dirty or sweaty, and the act of taking a bath can be tiring for me.

[corylus]

Bath every day, less effort than standing up in a shower.

[queenofmean]

I shower daily and have a bath when I fancy one

[gness]

As Jno says....my daily shower recycles...doesn't deplete....and I pay heftily to the suppliers of my water....

I have lived with no water other than what we fetched from the well...and collected rain water for the rare bath in a tub....and that was until the 80s!

I enjoy the luxury of my shower and occasional bubble bath now...☺

[Elina]

One shower every morning. Only if I'm having a night out would I shower again. My skin would be stripped of it's natural oils any more than that.

[sunny-dave]

Shower every morning for me - and again later on if I'm lucky enough to have got very hot and sticky ...


... I hate *** baths - they are just not 'fit for purpose' - sitting around in a puddle of your own grot just doesn't seem a sensible way to get clean.

Being so big (oooh matron) it boils down to 'washing by instalments' and a most unsatisfying experience.

I can see the point of relaxing in a big tub after I've had a shower to get clean - especially if I can coax someone to join me - but for routine ablutions I'll stick to my to my walk-in shower.

< grubby dave >

[Mick-the-Miller]

I have nine showers a week - one every morning at home and two more at the Golf Club after a round.

I may have additional showers if I've done something strenuous like doing the gardening or something!

When I was a kid I used to have a bath on a Sunday Evening whether I needed one or not!

[corylus]

Do any of you lot remember or even know about the 'Slipper Baths' at the local swimming baths where you could have a bath after paying a fee? I don't know if a bar of soap was included in this price.

[Retrochic]

Showers get you clean, baths relax you. Shower every morning, evening shower them maybe go in whirlpool bath for half an hour with a glass of chilled white. We've got a whirlpool with mood lights its fab. I don't know how anyone can go to bed without having a shower, its unthinkable :-(

[sunny-dave]

Going back to the 'save water' comments - the concept that we should ever be short of water in the UK is just utterly ridiculous.

We live on a wet little island, in the a wet corner, just off the coast of the wettest continental area in the northern hemisphere.

Domestic water supplies shouldn't be metered, ever, in the UK.

It's just a money grabbing exercise by the water supply companies - whose inadequate planning, pawky maintenance and reluctance to invest in the supply network are inventing a problem for 'metering' to solve - whilst lining the pockets of their foreign owners at our expense.

In the 21st century in the UK no-one should be thinking about the cost of keeping clean or (worse) not flushing the toilet to save a few pee ...

[gness]

Cory...I have been told about Slipper Baths...and baths where children had to go to cure/prevent skin conditions?

Dave....I have met you.....would have to be a very long bath for you to recline in......wouldn't coaxing someone to share a bath cause a tsunami....?

[dunnitall]

Tilly @ 17:58.....same here, I remember it well AND I survived..yay!

[gness]

Blimey, Dave...we've not discussed that but you have just posted the rant I often have.....

And when we have ALL been convinced that we should have water meters because it's cheaper...it is now....the cost of metered water will rocket.

[Marijn]

It's not that the planet will run out of water; it's just that purifying the used-water ready to be used again is using so much fuel/energy, that is what's destroying the planet.

[boxtops]

why is it unthinkable to go to be without showering, retro? If I've not done anything dirty in the day, I don't need it, and it would wake me up to shower at bedtime.

[boxtops]

got to bed ^

[Retrochic]

boxtops how can you say you would not be dirty after a whole day? ...bodily fluids and solids? Bodies get smelly just sitting watching TV OMG there would be no way on earth I would dream about going to bed without being clean. What about your partner? Surely you would not go to bed and expect to have sex with someone who had not showered. 'Shiver'....:-(

[boxtops]

I clean myself well after the toilet - no less than I would do in the shower! and yes, it wouldn't cross my mind to ask OH if he'd had a shower before we went to bed. Nor he me. Neither of us are smelly sweaty people. I find all this washing and scrubbing a tad OCD.