To be falling out of love for the hot tub?

[saltwinds]

We bought it last summer when lockdown hit. At first it was great.

It’s now becoming a pain, keeping it clean and lid on / off, washing swimwear. I also find DH wants to go in it all the time and I don’t! AIBU to dislike it now!?

@TheKeatingFive

For all those wondering wtf is going on with the insanely over the top reaction ...

Nothing riles a certain type of middle class poster (amply represented on here) than the democratisation of experiences once deemed ‘luxury’. If it’s no longer exclusive (thanks to the wonderful Aldi and the like), then they must pour scorn.

The lack of basic manners in how these people refer to others is quite something to behold.

Yes, that's it.

Hot tub threads always go this way. It's seasonal. Later in the year it'll be Christmas Eve boxes.

It's a bubbly tub full of hot water...

@saltwinds

Yeah thanks I think I’ve got the message that my family and I are dirty chavs, by now.

And you probably have a trampoline and barbecue too, you peasant!

Once upon a time I'd have said that comment couldn't be serious but I've been on MN a while now and actually I can believe it.

@TheKeatingFive - no it isn't that at all. I have never had one, I am not jealous of those that do. I lived next door to one with all the associated noise and distress and that's why I hate them!

Yeah I’m starting to hate mine too, but because of the wet swim stuff and the work involved.

I didn’t realise merely owning one made me (and my husband and children) disease ridden chavs

Hot tubs are like crisps on a park bench - they kill don't do it.

Oh and @worriedatthemoment when I said I could handle the tub but pampas grass in the front garden is a big no , no....

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/may/31/pampas-grass-secret-symbol-swingers-turn-off-sales-plummeting

@hilarymantlepiece

TANBY??? YANBU

Stealing TANBY to describe my neighbours with a loud CSP - Twatty Anti Neighbour Bath Yobs

Don’t get me started on Christmas Eve boxes 🤦‍♀️

@saltwinds

Yeah I’m starting to hate mine too, but because of the wet swim stuff and the work involved.

I didn’t realise merely owning one made me (and my husband and children) disease ridden chavs

Have you not seen hot tub threads on here before?

Like @TheKeatingFive said, it's just MN obsession with class, ironically by people who have none (do you think the Queen would insult you for how you choose to furnish your garden?). Like it, hate it, keep it, chuck it, but don't let this discussion upset you. There was a thread once about how the location of the fruit bowl reveals your social class and that went loco too. Don't even get me started on cake smashes and Christmas Eve boxes.

Do what you like with the outdoor tub of water.

Damn, I need to get myself a trampoline to really lower myself to the depths of chav-tastic-ness... we love our hot tub (and bbq), it takes five minutes of my day to check chemical levels, adjust if necessary and we change the filter after every use. We are the only ones to use it, no sex (ever) and we find it wonderful after a 10k run, long ride on our road bikes (oh yikes, my OH is a MAMIL too ) or just to unwind after a long day! Never use the bubbles after 9.30pm although three of our neighbours also have one .

I’d much rather use the hot tub at home than use the spa at my gym which is much more likely to have a heavy bacterial load... but am happy to sleep in a hotel etc. That being said, if I was staying in a place with a hot tub, I’d go armed with dip sticks and chemicals and be asking when the water was last changed because when you know you know!

As for the comments on this thread, crikey it would seem that the mere mention of a hot tub rattles the cages of many on here!

The point of etiquette and other things we consider "class" is actually to set people at ease and make them feel comfortable. If your idea of it is to use it to insult people and make them feel inferior, you've failed in the very first principle of it.

If you don’t like it, get rid of it.
We don’t have wet swimsuits after using ours.
We don’t give two figs what people on the Internet think. We use ours most days. We like it.

Previously been indifferent to hot tubs. Until last night. House a few doors away (we are in well spread out semis) just got one.

They were perfectly lovely people until the hot tub arrived.
They were in it until 11.15pm.

It's loud
It makes the users sing out of tune.
They have to laugh extra loud.
They have to shout at each other because they cannot hear each other due to the noise level of the water.

But it's not the hot tubs fault is it? It's the owners.

It means u can be comfortable in the garden 365 days/year.

@IndigoC

I never gave them a thought until our neighbours got one.

Dreadful, booming noise coming from it 8 hours a day. So loud we can hear it inside through brick walls and double glazed windows. 😱

Yep. I had no opinions on them until my neighbours got one. Victorian terrace houses with small back gardens.....Stinking BBQ's, trampolines and hot tubs are the Devil's work in this type of living situ.

It's not a 'class' superiority smug thing. It's a being respectful to the environment you live in.

It's not a 'class' superiority smug thing.

Oh, go back and read the comments. Of course it bloody is. It always is. It's literally "great unwashed".

Now that it's been openly called out by a few posters, the shift to moralism begins, but that's always a veil for classism too.

If your neighbours are loud and obnoxious, it's because they're loud and obnoxious. The big water bowl is neither here nor there.

Politely disagreeing @DrsBaitso

If used properly in the correct environment perfectly fine. Not fine in built up area, noisy pumps, shrieking, singing, screaming late at night. It's rude, not about class.

If your neighbours are loud and obnoxious, it's because they're loud and obnoxious. The big water bowl is neither here nor there.

This.

Nutshell.

20 pages and we're probably done - what the hell is a Christmas Eve box though?

Our neighbours were delightful until the inflatable ring appeared. Or perhaps they were obnoxious indoors and now inflicting it on the outside world.

We’re on pretty shaky ground when we start saying people with large gardens in detached properties are ‘allowed’ sex ponds, trampolines and even bbq (fuck sake they’ve come for the bbq now too) but poor people with small gardens aren’t.

There’s nothing inherently anti social about any of these things if used properly and shock horror, less well off people like fun things too.

what the hell is a Christmas Eve box though?

Depending on your view

A planet wrecking example of rampant consumerism, bulldozIng the self esteem of non participating children.

OR

A nice way of keeping kids occupied with a DVD/craft book during the excitement of Christmas Eve.

You decide.

Very expensive to run in the end,watch the electric meter take off

@Keating - thanks I note we are off in a planet-wrecking tangent now...I'm on this thread for a welcome relief from Covid with a tub of virtual popcorn on the go.

I'm on this thread for a welcome relief from Covid with a tub of virtual popcorn on the go.

You’ll find the christmas threads to get a diversion, certainly.

The fruit bowl thread, mentioned earlier was insane. Anyone got a link?