Family of 4 or more (adults and teens) with 1 bathroom?

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How do you organise time using the bathroom for bathing, showering etc? Do you have designated time slots? Do you have some showering in the morning and some in the evening?

Please help!

We had this until last year when we had a loft conversion with shower room.
It was really hard work.
I used to get up first to shower and dress, wake the kids up who had about 10 mins each in there before DH got up to shower while we had breakfast.
It can be done if everyone sticks to a time slot.

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We've sort of evolved a non formal system:
Me up first because undisturbed first cup of tea. I shower straightaway.

The baby gets up next (misnomer as is lower sixth former ) and showers straight away.

Then DH because he's out the door last iyswim.

When the others are home from Uni it all goes to pot. Stay in bed til noon, be slackers, stop leaping up and getting in the way first thing! Hahahahahaha.

F knows how we managed when all were at home .

Reading this back, it is no help to you at all. Tut.

We have done it on holiday without too many problems. The main thing to stipulate is that the bathroom is for bathroom things only - no dressing, make up, hair or anything else that can be done in the bedroom. Toilet, shower, teeth clean and OUT. If no one has loo issues it should takw 10 mins each. 15 at the most. In the morning in order of who needs to leave the house first. Evenings are done by whoever gets there first unless someone is going out.

6 of us. One bathroom. Dh & I (plus dd1 when she’s home) shower in the morning. Others in the evening. Worse bit is the teeth cleaning after breakfast when we are all leaving roughly same time.
It just balances out though

I used to do this. As Books said, bathrooms for bathroom things only. Anything which only needed a sink was done in the kitchen, so tooth brushes etc lived in the kitchen and we debated whether shaving was suitable for the kitchen sink. Everyone had their own mirror and I occasionally washed my hair under the kitchen tap.
Also helps if you are happy to have someone on the loo whilst you shower...

5 of us. One bathroom.
I am always up first and shower. The others just shout at each other until they get a turn
I tell them to get up early to use the bathroom but they all wait until last minute.

We used to have three bathrooms and have never got used to it. It’s been 5 years

DC barely wash, DH mornings, me evening....in bath now. Seems to work.

5 of us and also have a downstairs loo, which helps.
One showers in the evening.
Next two alternate in the morning depending on who gets there first, whilst the third lingers over breakfast then dashes in after they have finished. The last one is forbidden from getting in the way as they have the house to themselves for the rest of the day.

We each have two toothbrushes, one upstairs and one downstairs, and use whichever one is accessible.

The main thing is you go round checking no-one needs a wee prior to starting a bath/shave/steam/poo. We have 5 including teen girls and one bathroom with no shower.

I work shifts which helps though.

Some shower in evening rather than morning

7 of us and 1 bathroom! It can be a nightmare at times, as there's always someone in there when you need it. Everyone showers at differ times of the day so it's not really that much of a bother.

When both DSSs lived at home, there were 5 of us with one bathroom. Those who needed to be out the house first got first dibs, usually DSS2 then me, then DSS1 would bath DS (who was a baby at the time) while I dried my hair and for ready to take DS to his child minder. DSS1 would go last. DH had to go to work at 4.30am so it made it easier, he wasn't there while the rest of us were getting ready.

5 of us - 1 bathroom which also has the only toilet in the house. Its just fucking chaos.

We just worked it out on a daily basis. Whoever had to go to work first went in first, then the next, anyone with a day off was last. We coped.
Friends of ours had a rota and time slots - ten minutes each I think, which doesn't seem long. They all had regular work hours, which helped.

We don't do morning showers as a rule plus it helps that we all have different start times so there's no fighting for the bathroom in the morning and that there's a separate toilet.

5 adults, 3 bathrooms (one only shower, not bath). It works, thank God!

Just realised mine aren't teens yet....so it doesn't count....and it will get worse. Ds does spend about half an hour on the toilet though.

Not any more, but we did have 4 adults 1 bathroom. And yes we had an informal time slot. Everyone kinda went in order that they had to leave the house and if you were having a change of routine you made sure it didn’t screw everyone else over.

The girl that had to leave for work first always got up at 645 and used the bathroom.

I showered and washed hair at night. Morning just a wee and teeth. I got up after the girl.

One guy after me. The other guy had really irregular hours and would get up much later.

Would have been really hard if everyone needed to leave together at the same time.

Oh yes - also no make up or hair to be done in the bathroom. Like PP said bathroom just for bathroom things.