To think my DH ought to appreciate the importance of the shower?

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Mostly lighthearted.

Our boiler has decided to stop working and started leaking today when I have an important meeting at work tomorrow with a somewhat senior colleague. I'm grumpy about this because I hate having greasy hair at the best of times but least of all when I need to be feeling confident. My DH says he can't understand why it matters so much to me or why I need to be upset about not having a shower and invariably having to be the one who has to organise fixing it .

AIBU to think that the inability to wash one's hair is deserving of at least a mild grump, and that he's revealing a hitherto-unknown Neanderthal nature wrt personal hygiene?!

Wash your hair in the sink.... ;-)

Do your taps still work?

I've boiled water, either on the kettle, or a pan, if I've ever had problems with running hot water.

I wouldn't go to work with unwashed hair, even if I had to make an appeal on FB.

Weeellllll.....we once managed without hot water for about 6 weeks (waiting for a part).

Strip washes and cold hair washes over the bath were the order of the day here! Although I did post on here one memorable day when our twins decided to have explosive diarrhoea at the same time. That wasn't fun!

So YABU. Suck it up buttercup and have a cold one

DH here doesn't understand at all about how awful having greasy hair feels. But that is because he only has 4 strands like Homer Simpson and is jealous of my lustrous Thor-like mane.

Good luck with the meeting. And with the ridiculous boiler. On the plus side, it's summer so you won't freeze to death!

I had this! My bald husband who has shower facilities at work did not get the need for speed when chasing boiler repair. I had 2 weeks of shallow but warm baths, strip washes and learned the skill of washing hair with kettle, cold water and jug. It is doable and I could have gone to the swimming pool - I hasten to add, not to wash in it but to use shower facilities before and after!

I feel your pain but if you've got water and kettle is it manageable.

Do you belong to a gym? Or have a swimming baths nearby? Would be worth the price of admission to use the showers there. YANBU.

I am with you. I love my shower. It's too much effort to wash my mane in the bath...

Unfortunately, I live on Scotland, so all bets r.e. freezing to death are off this summer.

Am working up to a cold shower. I tried boiling a couple of kettles and chucking them in the bath but rapidly realised that was a fool's game.

I'm more annoyed by my DH's unnatural odd reaction than by the situation itself, at this point.

Yanbu, can you throw yourself on the mercy of a friend? When we didn't have hot water my very best friend had me round once a day to use their shower. I am still grateful!

Get a bucket (or two) and fill it with overly warm water. Use a jug to wash your hair then have a sponge wash.

Better than greasy hair.

And you have my sympathy - our shower broke and boiler was condemned days after moving into our new house.

Thankfully we have an immersion heater so we could run the hot tap

We have had (short) periods with no shower but I have never, ever been to work without washing my hair. Unwashed hair is one thing I just can't stand. I'm happy to camp without the ability to dry hair etc but it must be washed everyday. Not difficult to do in the sink or a bucket though.

Dh is ex-squaddie and has to be reminded to shower even when it's working.

Look on the bright side OP, washing you hair in freezing cold water will make it nice and shiny.

Wash your hair in the sink. Or get some dry shampoo. A blast or two of Batiste will really help.

I once stayed in a hotel where a member of staff used to deliver buckets of hot water for just this purpose. There was a shower head with cold water for rinsing off the real grub.

Cold shower achieved. Life-affirming, right?

DH, who had gone to bed, ran through to the bathroom in horror and exclaimed he hadn't realised I took it that seriously!

Pumpkinette

"Maybe she's born with it. Maybe her boiler's broken."

If this goes on, a wash and blow dry in a salon is probably worth the £30 and then some

This is how my mum survived having a plaster on her leg...salon twice a week.