Sharing bath water…acceptable or grim?

[Kibble19]

Lighthearted of course! What are your thoughts on the sharing of bath water between two people? Not necessarily a mum having a bath with their young child, but someone having a bath then getting out before giving their family member a shout to go in.

Grim and unsanitary? Or totally normal at your house?

I remember it in the 70s .
Grim as hell now thinking back.

I remember doing it when I was younger, but I absolutely won't be doing it now!

Its grim. 2 very young kids going in together is acceptable, anyone older than 8 its bloody grim.

I lived in Japan for a little bit and shared bath water with my host family, was grimmed out at first but the bath maintains its temperature and you wash before hand not in the bath so started to embrace it and didn’t mind it.

I sometimes jump in the bath with dh after he’s been in a while and stay in after he’s got out, so basically the same as jumping in after.

Absolute nope.

Haven't had a bath in 30+ years as the idea of sitting in a soup of my own grime makes me feel sick. No way I'm jumping in to sit in someone else's.

grew up super poor this was the only way I’d get a bath, adults went first then older siblings then me

super grim. Especially when older sibling would shave legs in bath 🤢

Grim. I would rather go without. 🤣

Don’t you ever scru. Each other’s backs and sit and lounge together? It’s just a smaller version of a hot tub

I don’t see it as anything like a hot tub - the water in a bath isn’t treated with chemicals.
if I want to sit and lounge with my partner I do it on the sofa 🤣

Normal in my house ,bath mainly used to relax in ,showers daily.
I always get 1st red hot bath then husband in after me ,never me after him.
Sometimes son or daughter will go in after me or i may go in after daughter but never after son.
Plenty of individual baths too .
Proper weirdos we are !

I grew up with it but wouldn’t do it now - really weird. I sometimes put both of my children in the bath at the same time though.

DH will always get in the bath after me , I prefer to run a fresh one

My DH gets into my water we bath every day though if that makes any difference 😁

I’ll get in after DH very occasionally and it doesn’t bother me at all, I just have to add some cold water as he has his baths way too hot.
I get the ick about other things, but if you remember that our skin and our bodies are this massive ecosystem of harmless bacteria, and that most of us have sex, then really we can just focus on essential hygiene like food prep, toilet and not passing our cold germs around and the rest is just personal preference.

Used to as kids, but the thought of it now is revolting, farts, traces of bodily fluids , hairs, skin scales- no thanks!

Yes, every night. I go first, then my teenage so goes in. Just a sensible way to save water.

Fine to put little kids in together but I don’t want anyone else’s bum water thanks.

I rarely have a bath. Mainly in winter.

Normal here. I had baths with my sibling as a young child. Now I often bathe with my preschool age DC and DH will top it up with hotter water and get in afterwards.

None of us are very dirty! The water is fine. I'm sure more sanitary than most swimming pools.

My DH is 6ft 5, it’s not comfy to share a bath!

My DDs (Primary school aged) will often go in the bath after me because I'm basically a cooked lobster and like my baths scalding hot so by the time I'm done it's a decent temperature for them.

Of course a hot tub is full of chemicals. Because it’s old water that sits there for months.
if you didn’t put in chemicals it would grow algae and be green.

a bath tub is freshly run water AB’s big enough to dilute any about of Burbank body stuff.

no one pees in the bath (nornally). I hate to tell you what people do in hot tubs and pools.

don’t even start with the sea. If you think sharing a bath with one single person is grim, don’t ever swim in the sea or a lake or river. They are teeming with organisms and decomposing material.

It was normal when I was a kid. Big family, one bathroom, immersion heater. Running a fresh bath every time would've taken all day. When I developed a teenage 'need' for lengthy baths with multiple procedures, I had to have them early afternoon so the water could heat up again for the younger kids.

I never have baths now. If it was all there was and the hot water supply was a problem, I'd share. You have to be considerate about not clogging the water up with excess product, dirt or hair!

My MIL offered me her bath water the other day 🤢

Not really much different to using a public swimming pool? Sure the chemicals kill any germs but all the dead skin is still floating around

I'm really struggling to articulate this, but...

I feel like it's grim....but still OK to do as long as you admit that it's grim?!