Bath water!!

[l0stmummy]

(Lighthearted)

DS (17) called me last. She's gone to stay with DF, DSM, DB(12) and DS(7) (I'm mostly nc). Said that everyone is expected to have a bath every day (that's fine) but they ALL use the same bath water.

AIBU to think this is disgusting and almost pointless? If you're bathing in another person's grime it's not exactly a bath, is it!

We did this as children in the 1960s using tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night before school next day. It is gross in tjis day and age - more hygienic to have an all over wash with flannel. Some people are so mucky

What's the bath hierarchy, OP? Who gets in firat? Totally grim. Highly doubt it's her dad and stepmom who go in last.

I'll go in with DC or have the kids in together by themselves due to the water/skin ratio, although I'll admit admit to hosing one down first if they're too grubby.

Your poor DD. Tell her to wait until she comes home.

It's normally DSis (7), then DB (12), then DSM, then Dsis(17), then DF.

Which is better than when I was little. I used to go in last (I was 12 or 13) and my DF would clip his toenails in there not envy!!

I think I blocked those memories out haha. I was shocked to hear they still do this.

How long is she there for?

Until next Sunday

Probably too long to fake bath the whole time.

How do you think her DF might react if she said she wanted to shower?

Yeah no YANBU I'd ask her to come home you get better facilities in a prison or hospital at least you get fresh clean hot water and towels.

Oh my goodness. I'm not averse to sharing with DH but for your poor daughter I would absolutely support her in refusing a bath unless she has first dibs. Do they have a reasoning for this practice? crap boiler or something? It just seems very unusual in this day and age.

Grim, reminds me of that episode in the Young Ones where they shared bath water and it ended up like mud (not envy)

No that's really grim. If those are the 'rules' I'd insist she has the water first!

We did this when I was at home with my DParents. DM first, I usually managed to jump in next and poor DF last never occurred to me to find it odd, then again it was an ancient boiler that took hours to heat and wouldn't stretch to more than one bath. Now my dds are dirt magnets so I throw them in together to steep. Nobody else would go near. I like a soak with my book and Dh prefers showers

We used to do it until we had the immersion replaced with a gas boiler last Christmas.

It just wasn’t possible to get five bathfuls of water out of the tank in one evening.

It wasn’t that bad at all at the time. We just got on with it- and no one ever got in after DP because he gets in from work filthy.

Having seen the amount of body hair left in the bath after my husband has drained his water, there’s no way I would jump in it or put my kids in it. Yack!

If they are using it as the only way to clean that is disgusting. Last person in gets to "wash" in water full of hair, skin and sweat from the others. That's not getting clean.

Ugh, forget that. I would just fill up the sink with soapy water and use a flannel to wipe myself down. Did it for years before we got a shower in our house and it's way cleaner than sitting in used bath water.