Sharing bath water…acceptable or grim?

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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 am 45 now and growing up this was normal when having a bath (we didn't have a shower) to be honest if you were the youngest, you were fucked!

When you mean ‘sharing the bath water’, do you mean having a bath with your partner, or do you mean: you having a bath, you get out, and then your partner gets in your water?

You honestly can’t think of anything more dirty or unhygienic than that, cos i can think of plenty!

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews - when I shared bath water with my sister, she got the clean, hot water, and I got into the grubbier, cooling water once she finished. Mum and dad shared too - and mum always got the clean, hot water.

I hated it - it made me feel second class - and mum wouldn’t even agree to me and my sister taking turns at who went first.

Grim after puberty but fine for little kids.

There is a difference between a bit of dirt from kids playing on the floor all day vs BO and body fluids that teens and adults have.

I thought that ended after World War II!

I will often let the kids get in my bath after I’m done. They like it tepid and I’m generally fairly clean. I wouldn’t get in their filthy water after them though!!

@Sprig1so you let your teenager, wash in your dead skin , sweat, body fluids and pubic hair ???
how kind of you!
I only hope you don’t have periods anymore and then make him share the water …absolutely grim !

Still curious why people are ok to share bath water and not towels

Fine for small children to all bathe together but otherwise grim.

DH will get in after me. You couldn't pay me to get in after him 🤣

Hot tubs make me cringe, human soup 🤢

I would/have with the children but not my husband. He’s not especially dirty so I don’t know why?!

On a different topic, reading this has just reminded me that my BIL would put swimming trunks on when he got into the bath with his baby daughter. Now that is weird.

💯 grim

it's manky when you think of what you wish off your body

Well if you think like that, it's manky to sit in your own bathwater!

DH and I do it regularly. I get in first and have a bit of a soak and a relax. Then he'll come and join me and we have a chat / soap each other down. Then I get out and he has a soak.

I do usually hose myself down with the shower head when I get out, just to rinse off any soapy water (especially if I got my hair wet).

Dsis and I had to share towels too - so not only did she get the clean, hot water, she also got the dry towel, whereas I got the grubby, cooling water and the damp towel. I was definitely not mum's favourite.

I’ve done it with my kids when they were young in the past, just jumped in after they were done and topped up with hot water,

would not do it now though, that’s a bit grim.

late dh and I used to share a bath together sometimes though, and then shower afterwards lol

Wasting water is grim. Sharing baths is fine.

Hmmm, and amongst all you people expressing abhorrence at sharing bath water, how many of you enthusiastically get into a hot tub with others ???

I agree with this. I’m quite laidback with a lot of things but not sharing bath water - we don’t need to do this in 2025!

@Clarissaclairei don’t get in hot tubs ( or spunk tubs) as they are called around my area because they really are grim