to think that baths are very overrated?

[AKMD]

Is this a general experience of baths or am I just incompetent at bubbly relaxation?:

• I have to run the bath to near-scalding temperatures. If I run it to a normal temperature, it is too cold within 5 minutes and I burn my feet adding more hot water.

• if I fill the bath to a pleasingly high level, it sloshes into the overflow hole as soon as I get in. This makes me think I'm fat.

• if I attempt to read a book in the bath, it inevitably gets soggy, either from my wet hands or from the steam. If I have no book, I get bored and start reading the back of the shampoo bottles until a decent enough time has passed to have made it worth running a bath in the first place.

• when I try to lie back in the bath, bubbles get up my nose and the edge is hard. A bath pillow feels ridiculous.

• DH decides halfway through that he needs to use the bathroom. Sigh.

• by the end of the non- relaxing bubble bath, I'm all sweaty. Washing in my own filth doesn't appeal so I have to have a shower.

So, baths are pointless AIBU?

Spare a thought for us with epilepsy. Family don't allow me to lock the door 'just in case'. So there's all the excuses to come in from hubby just to make sure I'm alright and the kids always ask something that cannot wait/be dealt with by their father. Or they use the loo even though there is another loo downstairs. I'm used to the lack of privacy, its the icy blast of cold air when the door is opened that gets me.

Relaxing bath I wish.

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i get the visits.we have 3 bathrooms but someone always wants to use the one im in.normally to do a smelly poo

As long as I get the end without the taps [hblush]

YABVVVU! Completely!

But mainly because we don't have a bath (nor a warm shower atm ... brrr!), so I am cranky.

I love a good bath ... it's not for getting clean in, it's for relaxing. Lovely hot water, taps you can turn on with your toes (none of those fancy-looking ones you need to get up for), a good book ... lovely!

I am so dedicated I have perfected the ability to remove and subsequently replace the plug using only my toes, so I can drain out cold water and run in more hot without having to move my lazy, lazy body. Bliss.

Baths are crap. Wallowing in your own filth. Eurgh...and don't get me started on women who bathe whilst on their period. Yuck. It like the fish pedicure, but without the fish eating your filth, so your just laying in it pointlessly.

Showers are economical, clean and quick. Buy a pair of scrubbing gloves from Boots and buff up your body under a hot shower...lovely!

If you bath every day there's not 'filth' to wallow in surely

And as for periods...well good old tampons give us the freedom to bath, swim and gallop across deserted beaches on an unsaddled horse.

Lol Worral - dont forget hang gliding and surfing as well!

Gawd, I haven't had a bath for over 20 years >

That's rubbish about periods.

a) you can wear a moon cup or tampon, and

b) you don't tend to bleed underwater anyway. Plus

c) how is a tiny bit of coloured discharge any different to the norm anyway, or even any other sort of dirt or perspiration you are there to wash off anyway?

It strikes me as peculiarly fastidious or, at worst, misogynistic to object to bathing on those grounds.

Yanvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvu
Nothing better than a hot bath, a cup of tea and a good book.
Showers are functional nothing more, baths are a proper indulgence.

Oh and if you don't like damp books, baths are the perfect place to listen to a couple of podcasts on your favourite topic.
My favourite is More or Less the radio 4 statistics program, because it needs concentrating on. (so not great for listening to with the HW or DDs about)

I get in the bath while it is running, this reduces the Eureka effect.
Read a magazine, not a book, and one short enough (or partly read) that you will finish it in the bath and can chuck it if it gets wet.

Ella I too have mastered that trick, very useful.

MrBloom I don't regard myself as a wallower, but I do stand under the shower for a couple of minutes after I've soaped everything down at the end. I find it refreshing and sometimes, depending on the grittiness of the face-pack, necessary. So I am most definitely clean when I come out.

No, not overrated. runs off for a bath with Lush bath bombs

I love my bath, it's me time, I am totally excused from cleaning anything, and I can't even fidget much. As for lying in your own filth, will it totally disgust all you shower takers to know that I run a shallow bath for both DCs to get in together, put them to bed, then top it up with hot water for my bath. once I'm done, DH gets in to complete the filth wallowing, yet surprisingly he still gets out clean It's a triumph of water over filth in my house!

How to have the perfect bath:

Lock bathroom door.

Place one of these over the over flow drain

Run the hot water and a small amount of cold.

Put the plug in.

Pour in bubbles or place bombs of choice.

Get in tub and let water and bubbles fill up around you.

Read book.

Add more hot water as needed.

I usually shower, but nothing beats a bath for an achy back. I don't do deep baths though, about 6" deep is fine, and I like to lie completely flat, feet resting on the taps and my head underwater except for my nose!

I'm not a big bath fan
I'm too short and our bath to big for me to get into any position that allows me to relax without drowning myself.
I can't get in or out on my own due to mobility issues so door has to be left unlocked for somebody to help me in and out
I have to remove a million bathtoys before I start and within 5mins I'm often starting to feel cold and bored.

To all you freaks that don't enjoy bahths, are you the same ones that don't enjoy going to the beach allday or on a beach holiday? I wonder. If some people lack the ability to.truely relax. I pity the fools

Our shower is a crap mixer tap affair which I use each day, but on a Sunday I try to have my bath. In fact I am just making a cup of tea and pondering having it now while DD is napping. I think I will.

I never have time for a bath

But I looooovvveee them. Our bath at home is very large and deep and set in huge marble tiles (not my taste - the previous owners put the bathroom in! but I have to admit it is luxurious)

i have gave up on baths.

the running water wakes dd up so no chance of a bath/shower when she is asleep, and then if i am in the shower/bath she just strips off and jumps in.

at those who can have wine books and bath bombs

We got a new bathroom almost a year ago & we installed a large bath 1800x800 due to having 3 males in the house. I haven't tried it yet & now only youngest ds is using it as everyone else showers. I keep meaning to try it out one day but never seem to have the time. It has thermowall lining too to keep the water hot but it does use practically every drop of hot water in the house to fill it.
I don't think YABU but may change my mind if I manage to get a bath one day & enjoy it!

I love showers, but don't care for baths at all.

Apparently you should stuff the area around the bath with scrunched up newspaper to insulate it and stop the bath going cold so quickly.