To think baths are awful?

I've never understood baths? I get too bloody hot and sweat my tits off in them. I never ever feel clean after a bath and I can never get comfy. I slide down halfway and it's bloody uncomfortable. My MIL has them EVERY single night. How I do not know. Sitting in your own dirt doesn't appeal to me so I agree OP

Baths always seem like a great idea at the time but then you end up lying there for 3 hours, topping up the hot and eventually get out all hot and sweaty and your hair has gone flat.
I'm thinking of getting mine removed and a big shower put in.

A bath pillow is a good investment

Bath, book (or Private Eye or Kindle - waterproof one). Glass of wine. Hot water - easily spend an hour in their.

Had 12 weeks post mastectomy last summer & a brand new gorgeous shower room but God I missed my baths. A shower is just washing even with music or a podcast. A bath is an event with wine & reading material.

Also 20 mins in a bath that's hot enough to make your face sweat (or a sauna) has been found to have the same effect on your heart as going for a run.

I love a bath. The best part of my day!

One of my biggest moans when pregnant was that I couldn’t submerge all of me! My unborn babies both liked having water poured over my bump. 😊
My current house is eco-friendly so the bath isn’t very deep which is annoying, as I like to have a bath on a Sunday evening (usually shower in the morning other days) and have a nice soak, adjusting the water temperature with my feet, enjoying using the bath rack my adults DCs bought me, with a glass of wine on it, either watching stuff I like on YouTube (renovations of old buildings and the like) or reading. There nothing as nice as having had a bath, putting your pjs on and relaxing for the rest of the evening feeling clean and peaceful.

My bath, like, I suspect, many these days, is too bloody small! If I had one of those massive Victorian-style baths you can stretch out in, maybe, but this little thing; I don't even consider it, Shower every time.

Totally agree…. I only have a bath if I have muscle or joint pain that is affecting my everyday life, but most of the time I just run the jet function on the shower. I don’t understand sitting in the bath soaking, i]hate when my body especially my fingers toe wrinkly from the water. I think the last time I had a bath was in September when I woke up with a really sore back,. Before that was about 3 years. Showers for me all the way. I do have a nice deep big bath though.

I last had a bath about 25 years ago. Hate them.

Baths are great. An L-shaped one sounds silly though - no wonder it takes a long time to fill up! I love reading, but never read in the bath - I like to relax in it and don't feel the need to distract myself with anything.

We gof our bath taken out so haven't had one for years. I can't be bothered with the time it all takes. Waiting for it to fill then feeling I have to stay in a decent length of time to justify it.
I always felt ill when I emerged whatever the temperature.

Give me a 5 minute shower any day.

I absolutely hate showers over baths. Slipped and fell out of mine about a year ago. Fortunately I was okay, just, but it made me realise how dangerous they are, so I ripped the whole thing out and now have a lovely walk in shower. Best thing I ever did, renovation wise at least

We don't have a shower only a bath - I like baths in hotels - ours is not full length so feel a bit squished in it!

i love baths, I have one most lunchtime and it just eases my back so much, it’s my ultimate relaxation.

I love my bath! I couldn’t manage without it.

It’s showers I hate, absolutely detest them, and I never have one, if it wasn’t for DD liking it, and me using it to wash my hair, I’d be rid of it tomorrow.

A good soak in the bath is one of my greatest pleasures.

Who says the Japanese are right?

At this time of year a soak in a hot bath in the evening saves putting the heating on. I read a book. My bath is a seventies cast iron model with a shaped back that makes it very comfortable. Those modern L shaped ones are pointless and wasteful of water, you don’t need them for a shower over the bath.

same 😂😂😂😂😂

That really made me laugh @fivetriangulartrees

i am the opposite. I love to get in the bath at the end of the day and think about….nothing. Or a load of shit. Anything. But not the patriarchy because I’ve spent most of the day at work raging about that.

They have their moments! I am old too snd carry more yhan I should which doesn’t help!

Its ok not to like baths.
I wonder why do you feel so strong about it though?

Oooh I love a bath. Nice smellies. Book. Drink. Phone. Keep topping up the hot water. I've even been known to drag my laptop near the bath and watch a film.

When I was younger I'd spend ages in the bath and fall asleep.

One of life's great pleasures. Only improved upon by clean bedding against clean skin. Lush

I have a free standing bath with a bookcase in easy reach.
It's a thing of beauty 🥰

This! I think - ‘oh, I should try this bath thing again, everyone loves it’ run it, get in, immediately get too hot, carefully get set up with book, worry about getting it wet. Then get bored….then too cold. Then give up 🤷‍♀️

I have a bath every morning of my life! Love it.