To think for £100 a week to live at home I can have a shower every day?

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I live at home, I work f/t and I'm doing an online course. I pay £100 a week contribution and I am moaned at for spending about 15 minutes a day in the shower.
Admittedly one day I was in there half an hour and accepted that I was in there a long time, I was asked to be more considerate and I did, but, I have reduced it to 15 minutes a day and that's still too long.
Apparently it's not necessary to be in there that long and the rest of the family make sacrifices and go without only showering every other day and using sink and flannel in between, I hate this.

My parents don't have a lot of money but they do have 4 children and my mum chooses to stay at home meaning she chooses that we make sacrifices.
As the oldest, I'm the only one paying my way and don't feel it's unreasonable to shower for 15 minutes a day.
I get my parents choose not to so they can save money but I pay them a lot.
Do I stand my ground on this one and shower away or is 15 minutes ott for £100 a week.

I don't think fifteen minutes is excessive. I'd struggle to shower in five minutes.

I think you might be getting typical MN responses. I'm sure someone will be along saying five minutes is a luxury and they can wash hair/body/shave in one minute thirty soon.

I'm not sure you appreciate how little £100 a week is toward the cost of living these days

YABVU for taking a shower for 15 minutes daily and to have spent 30 minutes in the shower on one occasion. There's only so much you can do in a shower surely, what we're you doing for half an hour?
I think if you're shaving legs etc and washing your hair as well then up to 10 minutes is fine but for a shower without those things 4/5 minutes is plenty.
Your Mum choosing to stay at home is her perogative, I wouldn't be so judgemental and unkind if I were you. Using all that water is wasteful, you should buy a shower timer or set a timer on your phone so you don't take so long from now on.

I wash my hair everyday and probably spend 6 minutes in the shower. I still wouldn’t take 15 mins if I was doing a full body scrub and shaving my legs.

@EmilyPlay

so for £100 a week, you'd happily have a lodger?

One of ours is back from uni and spends at least 20 minutes in the shower. He has a sound bar in there and a mug of tea 😂

When there is a water shortage we are supposed to shower in the time it takes Bon Jovi to sing living on a prayer - 4 minutes. So we haven't got a water shortage at the moment but if everyone took a 15 minute shower every day we would even with the rainfall we have had.

How old are you?

It's not just the money.

If you have a 15 min shower is there any hot water left for other people?

Are you in the only bathroom and it's in the morning and other people need to get out to work and school?

You need to have a routine that fits with the other people in the house.

If you are paying 100 a week it's unlikely you could get better elsewhere.

We had a guy come round from Thames Water to show us ways that we could save water. One of the things he gave us was a timer, that you stick on the wall of the shower - here - and the idea is you're supposed to have no more than a 4-minute shower.

What on earth are you doing in the shower for 15 minutes?!

I think 15 minutes is fine, horrible that expect you not to shower every day

No it's very annoying when people face long showers - condensation,more likely to leak onto floor and using all the hot water.
Be more considerate or move out of your parents home into a house share.

I love a long shower and can easily stand in shower for 30mins but I know this is excessive! I only have a shower every other day and try and keep it too 15mins tops. if I have gone longer between showers I treat myself to longer. I pay the water and electricity bill though. Do you have a smart meter you could see how much more your showers are costing? I'm guessing it's an electric shower.
Maybe either don't have shower ever day? Or take a timer with you.

£100 a week isn't a lot. Move and out and see how much you have to pay! £100 would barely cover food and utilities you use. Tbh I don't think it would cover everything. You need a reality check.

I think OP feels living in the family home she should be treated better than a lodger , and she should . Timing someone in the shower is petty and unreasonable.
Your kids should feel comfortable in their own home .
Having said that 15 mins in the shower is a long time but if that's what it takes that's what it takes .

Shes not a lodger, shes their daughter

Turn water on.
Wash hair.
Rinse hair
Put conditioner on for two minutes.
During the 2 min wash your body.
Rinse hair and body.
I don't get what there is to do that can take 15 minutes.
But if you do want to spend 15 minutes then pay your own bills

I’m very clean and shower 1-2 times a day, but would struggle to fill 15 mins, I just don’t have that leisure time plus we only have one bathroom. I’d rather have regular 5 min showers than indulge in a 15 min shower that I’m not allowed daily.

I easily take 15 mins in the shower and wouldn’t think it excessive, but it does depend on how it impacts others - 15 mins at a time of day when everyone is trying to get through the bathroom, do their teeth and use the loo and there’s no alternative sink / loo, is v different from 15 mins when nobody else needs to get in there and they can all use the other bathrooms anyway.

Oh no its like the mn chicken

Gym membership for showers is a good idea.

If all 6 of you had a 15 minute shower every morning. That would be a huge amount of hot water going down the drain.

My adult dd pays £30 a week and has a shower or bath every day usually 30-60 mins. I wouldn’t dream of dictating how long someone spends on personal hygiene that’s controlling and strange

15 minutes doesn’t seem excessively long to me. Half an hour is but not 15 minutes. I wash my hair daily, do a fair amount of my skin care routine in the shower and shave a couple of times a week. That usually takes 10-15 minutes as I have long hair.

That's a long time to shower every day. I think 10 minutes is a long shower (plenty of time to shave legs and wash hair). I do think a longer shower once or twice a week is a nice little luxury. I would be more concerned about the time you are stopping others getting in the bathroom.