Are we really disgusting?

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I love to have deep, hot baths and DH and DS do too. To enable us to have them really deep and not feel too bad about wasting water, we share the water, one going in after the other (or sometimes one of us shares with DS). I happened to mention this to my DSis who thinks its absolutely disgusting.

Obviously if I'm shaving then I'll go in last or if anyone's particularly dirty they go to the back of the queue, but this is normal behaviour isn't it? Does everyone else share bath water or AIBU to share bath water with my family?

Some people are so bloody precious! Of course it's ok. You are family.
To recoil in horror at the thought of sharing the bath water of someone you have sex with, or children you have given birth to, is absolutely ridiculous.
You come out clean ffs.
Sharing germs with family helps build your immune system.
I wonder how many people have died or even become ill as a direct result of sharing bath water with family members? I suspect it may be none.

Absolutely normal. Are there any mums of little children out there who get a bath alone!? Also, when I've managed to get one myself and have just soaked (not shaved) I always offer the water to hubby as it seems a shame to waste it! Keep doing as you are

Haha yes puzzled I remember dettol baths. Bleeeuugghh. My mum still has them now if she feels the need to be really clean... She doesn't like showers...

I do, turquoisebaby, but I wash off the other users skin cells and whatnots after. Mercifully, our pool isn't hot or soapy, so less stuff comes off than in the bath tub. People have to wear swimsuits so pubes stay mostly put, too .

Yes, we do it too! Perfectly normal x

You come out clean ffs.
No, you don't. You just distribute diluted filth.

On the swimming pool people shower afterwards.

Mum would have a bath and dad (did physical job) would get in after when we were kids .To save money .But we kids had our own bathwater .
My DDs were bathed together when little but no, not something we do now .But I tend to have a bath only after walking or gardening to save my elderly limbs stiffening up ..Occasionally relax in one with a book and glass of wine .
I think if we needed to save money or there were water shortage I'd be ok with it.But for me it will always associated with poverty.

I don't go in swimming pools. To me it feels like swimming in other people's bodily fluids. I can't bear it. Rivers, reservoirs, lakes however - not a problem. I love outdoor swimming.

Used to share baths with my sister when we were small...then we got rid of the bath and only installed a shower so not had a bathtub to be sharing since the year 2000! We don't have a bath in our home either. But if I had a bathtub in our home, forget bathing with the children, me and DP would get in together

I very rarely share with my daughter. I wait til she's been bathed and in bed before I go and clean it then run myself my own.. However always shower myself in the morning.. But do occasionally get the boyfriend go "don't drain it, it's the second one you've had today so you're still clean... I'll go in after you"
Bizarrely can do a clothes wash plus 1 shower and 2 baths everyday and my water rates are still ridiculously cheap

My mother used to love nothing more than jumping in our used bath water, I think she preferred it to fresh!

Showers all the way!

Jeesuz what is the world coming tool when you can't share a bath with your family!!! Your family!!! We have a family bath every Saturday. Highlight of the week. All four of us in there having a soak. Ridiculous!

Not read the whole thread but in the drought of 76, there was a slogan of 'save water, bath with a friend'! We always shared baths as kids.

And my mum loved a scolding hot bath so she could have a long soak and then when dad went up, he'd still have to put cold in it.

We only have the one planet you know.

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Or: save water. Have a quick shower and actually clean yourself.

I'm not rich enough to run to multiple deep hot baths. I am the last in the bath waaaahh
But periods aside then it's one each

We don't go in together. One after the other
Nothing wrong with it doesn't bother me

Surely anyone having a bath rinses themselves off in clean water before they get out? Otherwise you would come out covered in soap scum, and your own dirt, which would be pretty grim, even without sharing a bath. Assuming that is the case, I don't see a problem with sharing, as it all gets rinsed off at the end.

I couldn't resist looking up what bathing actually does to the bacteria on/in your skin. This rather old paper from 1970 says:

AEROBIC BACTERIAL COUNTS ON HUMAN SKIN
AFTER BATHING
R. J. HOLT

"It may be significant that in some experiments reported above the total bacterial count 10-24 hr after the wash was considerably higher than the pre-wash count."

Seems it was well-known back then from teaching laboratories (where I assume they grew cultures from swabs taken from a hand before and after scrubbing) that scrubbed hands grow MORE colonies!

In a swimming pool or hot tub, most places take regular water samples. In a familial shared bath, I would assume (not a bacteriologist, any out there?) that you would share skin bacteria with your family anyway, plus unlike a swimming pool, the water hasn't been sat there for hours anyway. And unless you make your tea with the remaining hot water afterwards....................

Other work (okay I'm getting obsessed now!), showed that the more bathers, the more bacteria in the bath water (Construction of a leftover bath water model for microbial testing, Sumitomo et al., 2006 -- perhaps from Japan, where they didn't seem to have a problem finding 28 families who shared bathing water).

So, washing generates more bacteria on your skin, you can never get really clean..................

..............and then I finished up with a Mythbusters classic:

www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/fecal-matter-on-toothbrush/

Some people are obviously never going to go near the bathroom again after this!

Bath goes 4 ways in our house with a top up of hot between users

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You clearly haven't ever followed a rinsers/non-rinsers thread.

I can't believe people really share bath water ! Sorry !

Really Rover despite so many on here actually saying they do?

NickiFury someone else earlier up thread claimed my post must be a wind-up