to think that baths are very overrated?

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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?

Since having dd 4.5yrs ago, I haven't bathed alone once. Aah the exquisite pleasure of unexpectedly sitting down on a plastic spiderman whilst being squirted in the eye with a mini super soaker.

Relaxing my arse.

I do like baths though. Good job as we don't have a shower.

When I first started my periods my mum told me I wasn't allowed to bath while I was having one. We didn't have a shower I must have been really smelly :( I remember cramming into the bath trying desparately to wash myself with one of those shower-tap attachment things. It was about a year before one of my friends looked shocked when I mentioned it and said "Of course you can have a bath!! It doesn't flow in the water anyway!"

I think baths are nice for relaxing in but NOT for getting clean in. If you get in dirty, then you are basically sitting in your own filth. Wallowing in it.
So I have a quick shower to clean myself and then I get in the bath to relax. This is probably weird but it's the only way I can do it.

A fellow bath loather here! No point to them when you have a glorious shower :o

I wish we could afford the water for a bath!

Of course you can afford it- it's the price of a newspaper or similar. Maybe not twice daily, but occasionally you could if you wanted to.

I had my annual bath yesterday.

I got in, thought "mmm, this is nice" for 0.5 seconds, then got BORED.

It was a Lush butterball bath, so I stayed in there for about 5 minutes, but then I had to shower the gunk off anyway.

AND I nearly fainted getting out < Victorian constitution, liable to faint if I get hot>

Baths are stupid.

I do very much enjoy the regular 'sitting in your own filth' comments. How dirty are MNers? Strikes me that people have misunderstood the function of soap too.

You know how you wash dirty dishes in a sink of water and somehow the magic fairy liquid still cleans your best Emma Bridgewater? Well that's what soap does to humans. It's mind boggling I know.

yanbu. Annoying and uncomfortable IMO.

The water gets cold within minutes and I get bored. If I want to read a book I can snuggle down in my soft bed and keep warm.

Give me a power shower any day. Much more relaxing being pummelled by the water than just sitting there.

I'm especially fond of listening to the radio whilst wallowing in my own filth.
I've heard that soaking for too long dries out your skin though?
Afterwards I liberally apply olive oil (cheap moisturiser) to seal in all the filth

I just had a lovely bath. Steam was still rising from it when I determined I had soaked enough (about an hour).

Y'all just aren't using hot enough water. I will admit to rinsing off afterwards, but I can do that because I have an old fashion set of taps with a place to lay the shower head at bath height so I just turn on the shower and rinse.

And what Showy said about soap.

I love my bath.

I actually like laying in the bath with the shower running on me to fill it up.

I have just had one but as I have a head cold it's made me feel dizzy.

I love a bath.

I read, make phone calls, have a snooze - I'm an expert and can string them out for a couple of hours.

Afterwards, I jump in the shower.

I love a nice relaxing bath. I always take reading materials. I have lovely bath products.

You don't bleed into the bath if you have one during your period - the water pressure stops the flow. It's one of the few things that really eases my horrible cramps so I have one almost every month on the worst day (which is also usually the heaviest day) and I have never had a single drop of blood in the water.

I think they are also better for properly cleaning your underneathies as they get a good soak. Our shower has a fixed showerhead so so you can't reach the most awkward bits with it. I have showers most days and then a bath once, maybe twice a week, because I feel like they clean differently so combining both is best.

i often run a hot bath, put some lovely oil in, light a few candels, get a book and a drink get in sit down relax for 2 minutes then i want to get out

i just can not relax i would like too might try tonight. and i always shower myself down after to feel clean

Baths are ace and so are showers. Each has its own merits so I have one of each a day and neither feels undervalued

hmm, I'm inclined to think that a long soak in the bath isnt the best thing for the delicate skin of ones 'underneathies' ( ) especially if there is any kind of detergent in the water

...or is reaching your awkward bits with the showerhead a euphemism for wanking in the bath Eurochick

YANBU

Baths are cold and uncomfortable (I'm 5'11)

And a waste of water (I'm Aussie) unless you're sharing, which is gross.

I combine the best of both!

Put the plug in, add bubblebath along the tap-end of the bath and then turn the shower on. Climb in with a good book/iphone/glass of wine etc. and just chill out!

You get bored by the time the water starts overflowing and the constant addition of water means that you don't need to keep adjusting the temperature!

...Am I the only one to do this?

No seven I so a 'shower-bath' too.

Except I don't read as my glasses steam up so I lay back and enjoy the hot water cascading down.

Of course you can have a bath if you have your period, if you can have a baby in water a period is nothing!

I love baths and showers!

Oh good, BOO! Thought I was the only one...

And I thankfully am very short-sighted, so reading is not a problem!

"a waste of water (I'm Aussie) unless you're sharing, which is gross"

Sharing a bath isn't gross . I hear couples even find it fairly enjoyable at times. I mean if you're not averse to a man putting his penis into your bodily orifices then having one bobbing about in a bath with you is surely not a problem. They look a bit like periscopes when submerged. Which is vaguely amusing too.