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Are You a Shower or a Bath Person?
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xsedrinam said:Sure, honeymooners are exempt and given understandable license, especially when it's Hawaii.
Ah yes, excellent catch. Correct you are.
I usually shower but I prefer hot baths with good bath stuff. If I have time, I take a quick shower to clean up and then a long, hot bath. We have an old bathtub from the 1920's so it's really deep, put on some music and read a few chapters of a book or Sunday's NY Times magazine. When there's time, it's truly heaven.
Bath person in theory, shower person in habit. I shower every morning to wake myself up, and I find I feel more alert and focused after a shower in the morning. It definitely helps me wake up before going to the pool at 5:30 AM (I'm the swim team manager at my HS, so I don't swim...so the shower isn't wasted).
I tend to prefer baths, long ones, with a good book.
I tend to prefer baths, long ones, with a good book.
Shower! I just don't have the time for a bath. People say I'm a lazy person but I'm always running about doing things I dont need to do where my coursework and the dogs and everything else thats my responsibility gets pushed aside! *PHEW!*
I'm off for a shower now actually.
shower HAS to be almost boiling. If I dont come out looking like I've had my skin chemically removed then I lose.
I'm off for a shower now actually.
shower HAS to be almost boiling. If I dont come out looking like I've had my skin chemically removed then I lose.
I like warm showers. Never liked hot showers... it's too hot!
Afterwards, before I step out, I turn the water to tepid then after a moment, I turn the tap towards cold. Does anyone else finish off their showers with a cold dip? I find it more refreshing.
Afterwards, before I step out, I turn the water to tepid then after a moment, I turn the tap towards cold. Does anyone else finish off their showers with a cold dip? I find it more refreshing.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ![]()
Lacero said:
I'm the exact opposite. I finish mine off with a scolding unless I've just been for a run, then I have an outright cold shower.
My routine is to have a shower when I get up in the morning. I just feel better know that i'm going out clean and refreshed.
I actually find a nice hot shower works so much better than coffee. I just can't take one before I got to bed and feel clean in the morning. I like it warm when I sleep so I susually sweat at night and I feel all stick and gross.
Baths are nice to just relax but even if I have a bath that day I still don't feel clean. There is just something about sitting in a tub of your own filth.
I actually find a nice hot shower works so much better than coffee. I just can't take one before I got to bed and feel clean in the morning. I like it warm when I sleep so I susually sweat at night and I feel all stick and gross.
Baths are nice to just relax but even if I have a bath that day I still don't feel clean. There is just something about sitting in a tub of your own filth.
dops7107 said:What a topic, and we all have strong-felt opinions about it:
Shower every morning almost religiously (except, ironically, this morning, cos I was late and I had one last night after a run).
Showers = cleaner body, more "awakening"/refreshing (baths send me to sleep), more water- and energy-efficient.
Baths good with girls however.
Showers tend to be more energy efficient actually. I think I remember hearing a 10 minute shower is equal to filling the tub (depending on your tub size it could differ). You would think that a bath would be more energy efficient, but it usually isn't. Look on google more an article, I have to take a shower now.
I turn off the shower when I scrub up. Saves hot water, of course, but with the water off, I can take my time to scrub all my nooks, crannies, hilltops, and places one should not venture without a guide. It's also relaxing. Then, once I'm sufficiently lathered up, I'll turn the shower back on to finish myself off. <--- wait, that didn't sound right.
I know I'm in the minority on this.
I know I'm in the minority on this.
Here's to the Crazy Ones ![]()
I'm not a huge fan of baths. I much prefer a shower in the morning... it wakes you up and it's quicker, less wasteful etc.
However... with my recent gym sign-up (and yes I am still going, and 4 times a week I'll have you know!), I find a bath before bed does wonders for my aching muscles
However... with my recent gym sign-up (and yes I am still going, and 4 times a week I'll have you know!), I find a bath before bed does wonders for my aching muscles
Definitly showers, I never feel clean when having a bath and always have a shower straight after.
Shower daily in the evening, can't see how people can go to bed with all that sweat on them from a days work (sporting person here). Occasionally I have a shower in the morning to wake up or if I didnt have one the night before.
I have baths for aches and pains.
Shower daily in the evening, can't see how people can go to bed with all that sweat on them from a days work (sporting person here). Occasionally I have a shower in the morning to wake up or if I didnt have one the night before.
I have baths for aches and pains.
Lacero said:
What's best, for this, are the showers where the hot/cold settings are separate from the flow rate. So you can set your preferred temperature once, and just flip on and off the water as needed, without having to muck about. It's great when soaping up, where you don't want the water on, because it'll just rinse off the soap that you're trying to get on!
Lacero said:
That's a military habit, particularly on board ships-- saves precious water. I can tell who's a veteran at the gym by this showering method. As a soft, lazy wasteful civilian I keep the water on, and I finish cold, like you described.
sorta related... but on Saturday the radiator pump in the boiler broke. some lemon had left the window in the bathroom open so the room was just FREEZING (its been about -6ºC in my neck of the woods)... turned the shower on, shut my eyes and all that. I opened them about 20 seconds later and BAM! I thought I went blind!
couldn't see ANYTHING! not even the shower door so much steam. t'was beautiful. quite a nice feeling too, just seeing what can only be described as a whitey/cream light and nothing more.
couldn't see ANYTHING! not even the shower door
so much steam. t'was beautiful. quite a nice feeling too, just seeing what can only be described as a whitey/cream light and nothing more.
Shower for me, every day. Bath when I'm stressed or have sore muscles (maybe once every 6 or 7 months).
Coincidentally, I was wondering why people who say that bathing is essentially sitting in one's own filth also wash dishes in a sink filled with soapy water; how is this different (I mean, assuming you don't have a dishwasher, or don't always use it)? I digress...my apologies...
Coincidentally, I was wondering why people who say that bathing is essentially sitting in one's own filth also wash dishes in a sink filled with soapy water; how is this different (I mean, assuming you don't have a dishwasher, or don't always use it)? I digress...my apologies...
It's coming into that time of year over here where showering twice a day is not unheard of cause of the humidity - it's nice to fell clean.
I shower normally in the morning but often I'll have one in the evening after work or if I just feel like it. I haven't taken a bath since I stopped playing cricket after high school and even then I'd shower before then soak for ages in a hot bath with lots of radox salts (to soothe the sore muscles that being a fast bowler of my size can bring). Then I'd shower when I got out to get rid of whatever crap was left.
Baths aren't possible in my apartment, the rest of it is really new and modern but the bathroom needs a lot of work and honestly is too small for a bath anyway. Just a little shower with a fitting that's too low so the water hits me in the middle of the back - I have to bend almost in half to wash my hair.
I shower normally in the morning but often I'll have one in the evening after work or if I just feel like it. I haven't taken a bath since I stopped playing cricket after high school and even then I'd shower before then soak for ages in a hot bath with lots of radox salts (to soothe the sore muscles that being a fast bowler of my size can bring). Then I'd shower when I got out to get rid of whatever crap was left.
Baths aren't possible in my apartment, the rest of it is really new and modern but the bathroom needs a lot of work and honestly is too small for a bath anyway. Just a little shower with a fitting that's too low so the water hits me in the middle of the back - I have to bend almost in half to wash my hair.
applegirl said:Shower for me, every day. Bath when I'm stressed or have sore muscles (maybe once every 6 or 7 months).
Coincidentally, I was wondering why people who say that bathing is essentially sitting in one's own filth also wash dishes in a sink filled with soapy water; how is this different (I mean, assuming you don't have a dishwasher, or don't always use it)? I digress...my apologies...
The hot soapy water removes the dirt, then you rinse the dishes to get rid of the soapy water and the dirt. You can't just scrub them and put them away. That's why I shower after a bath.
Bath person that morphed into a shower person
I'm not quite sure when it happened actually...used to be not too long ago that a bath was the only way to go...I hardly ever showered since it ALWAYS resulted in my hair getting wet, no matter what shower cap I used or how many, if it wasn't water it would be sweat from how hot I like it in my shower. Now I shower every morning and hardly ever take a bath and if I do it's with some Epson salt when I'm in pain or for relaxation. It's probably that I stopped perming my hair...I find a shower before bed is nice too yet I hardly ever do it.
I'm not quite sure when it happened actually...used to be not too long ago that a bath was the only way to go...I hardly ever showered since it ALWAYS resulted in my hair getting wet, no matter what shower cap I used or how many, if it wasn't water it would be sweat from how hot I like it in my shower. Now I shower every morning and hardly ever take a bath and if I do it's with some Epson salt when I'm in pain or for relaxation. It's probably that I stopped perming my hair...I find a shower before bed is nice too yet I hardly ever do it.
Exactly, it's all about the final rinse. Some people bath in their own filth (and remember people aren't hard, smooth and glossy like a 12" diner plate (OK hard, smooth, glossy and 12" are all used in this sentence but lets not go there right now)) jump straight out without rinsing then grab a nice fluffy towel to dry the dirty water off, then put the towel on a warm towel rail ready for the next day......eww.Chundles said:
I'm shower, rinse, dry with a towel and towel in the laundry each day followed by liberal amount of YSL Rive Gauche ph. Mmmm...clean.