AIBU to hate my new house

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DH and I recently moved to a new house. We were in a situation that meant we absolutely had to move as our previous landlord was selling. There was nothing special about our old house - in fact by all accounts the new house would be seen as better.
The old house was in a high crime rate area, had three small bedrooms and just a Living room and kitchen. It wasn’t really big enough, in fairness, for DH and I and our 3 DC. (DS1 is 4, DS2 is 2 and DD is 7 months) and I didn’t ‘love’ it or anything like that. I just tolerated it as our home. It costed us £700 PCM in our area (I live in an area where rent prices aren’t too bad)

Anyway. To cut my rambling slightly - we’ve now moved to a bigger 4 bed house with a separate dining room and living room in the country side. The rent is unfortunately more expensive at £950 pcm but there was nothing else we could do. We kept applying for cheaper rental properties and got literally nowhere due to current high demand.

My main issue is - this house doesn’t have a bath and I don’t know how to work around it. With 3 young DC it is especially difficult. I also used to enjoy bathing at the end of a rough day. Is there any way to work around this?

Another issue is - there are barely any plug sockets in each bedroom. I genuinely don’t know how to safely ‘work around’ this.
All 4 bedrooms are double bedrooms, however there is only one single plug socket per room!

DH thinks I’m just being dramatic but it’s bothering me and becoming taxing. Has anyone else had similar issues? How did you resolve them?

Thanks.

Speak to your landlord? He might be willing to put a bath in and extra sockets? If not asking if you can if you pay for it?

That’ll cost over £2500 per month here.
Move then. The OP isn't responsible for your foolhardy decisions. You will be a thousand pounds a month better off on your rent or mortgage so it's an absolute no brainier really.

I imagine that you have absolutely no reasons at all why you can't just move your entire life at the drop of a hat so it's a plan with no flaws whatsoever.

I saw this ages ago and thought it was a good idea, presumably to empty it you’d push one side down away from the shower door.

Oops, here’s the photo.

Ooh op!! There is a perfect solution here 😂 Birth Pool in a Box Personal Pool with Liner- Mini & Regular Mini
£179.00
Birth Pool In A Box

You can get a pump and add lavender oil and they double up as paddling pools in the summer. They are brilliant and comfy good luck!

For time being What about these type portable extenders? (With Surge protection)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B073JFFC2K/ref=cmswwrothhapiiidlPD2PXPB2H34HBG7WWQ0P

So you can move from room to room and remove them when they don't need them (because of young pokey fingers)

Stokke flexi bath is awesome, I have fit a 4 year old in one.

We used one of those small blow up cheap paddling pools as a bath when dc were little and we only had a shower. We then upgraded to one of those plastic half sandpit / half paddling pool things! It wasn't too bad honestly.

I have extensions in all of the bedrooms because I have two table lamps and an electric blanket to plug in + a phone charger socket.

Thing is nothing is hugely demanding like, for example, a kettle. So I would just buy adapers.

Samuel Johnstone do a 'shower tub' for kids. Or...a small paddling pool might work.

You can get inflatable baths . We lack sockets too in our rental , we use extension sockets .

There's also this style of bath:

www.amazon.co.uk/Folding-bathtub-Portable-Plastic-Massage/dp/B008XSXQIO/ref=sr_1_10?crid=ULZC52LYTFZK&keywords=plastic+bath&sprefix=plasticbath%2Caps%2C137&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1649616615&sr=8-10

My friend puts a paddling pool in the shower when the grandchildren come to stay.

I just hope you have a landlord that will give you a home where you are happy and have a life for your kids. Everyone deserves that