To think baths are awful?

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I’ve lived in my house for four years and there is a very deep and long L shaped bath which is the envy of my bath loving friends. I’ve never been keen on baths and never used it. But tonight I thought, for a change, I’d run myself one and take my book.

It was absolutely shit. Took bloody ages to run, then I got in and couldn’t hold by book right. The water was a nice temperature but it made my face too hot. It was boring. I lasted twenty minutes and then drained the water. Complete waste.

I find them mildly disgusting. Right up close to the grouting. It’s horrible. AIBU?

How are people getting so filthy?

Which is just as irrational unless they're working down a coalmine.

I’d love the option of a bath when I’m aching. I do prefer showers though

Just how dirty are some of you that makes you think that baths are disgusting?

I shower 99% of the time, but occasionally like a soak in the bath with a book.

I am never really dirty as I shower or bath every day.

I don’t often have a bath but I do like them when I’ve for a cold or sore muscles.

In answer to those asking why you’d shower first - I do this because I couldn’t wash/rinse my hair properly in the bath. I wash my hair in the shower and then get into the bath.

The best bath I ever had was one run by the midwife after being induced and having low level contractions for hours on end. It was the only time I could switch off from it. I could have stayed in there for ages but I felt bad as people kept trying the door.

Are we twins? 😆

Love love love a bath. I only really shower on holiday and soon as I get home I can’t wait to jump in the bath.

I couldn’t buy a house that only had a shower

Are you a coal miner? What are you doing to have dirty suds you can see?

Whether I shower or bathe and I do both, the suds never look dirty. How often are you washing? The suds look completely clean on me.

you know many cultures like the Japanese and Koreans have bathing rituals where there soak in hot baths until their skin gets really soft then scrub like crazy and exfoliate all the dead skin off. You come out like silk. You need the long soak to soften the dead skin first.
if you are only ever showering you aren’t ever getting this level of clean.

We’re reconfiguring our bathroom to put the bath under the window. We’re not overlooked and I will love looking out over the garden.

Goodness they must be extremely painful.

Nothing so extreme in my case, my bad knees are due to being old and grossly overweight.

Same as me. I love my audiobook. I need glasses to read which get steamed up so can’t read a book. An audiobook is a perfect solution

I used to enjoy showers but have really gone off them

Just don’t run it so hot and you can have a shallow bath if you aren’t washing your hair.

I have a bath every morning of my life! Love it.

This! I think - ‘oh, I should try this bath thing again, everyone loves it’ run it, get in, immediately get too hot, carefully get set up with book, worry about getting it wet. Then get bored….then too cold. Then give up 🤷‍♀️

I have a free standing bath with a bookcase in easy reach.
It's a thing of beauty 🥰

Oooh I love a bath. Nice smellies. Book. Drink. Phone. Keep topping up the hot water. I've even been known to drag my laptop near the bath and watch a film.

When I was younger I'd spend ages in the bath and fall asleep.

One of life's great pleasures. Only improved upon by clean bedding against clean skin. Lush

Its ok not to like baths.
I wonder why do you feel so strong about it though?

They have their moments! I am old too snd carry more yhan I should which doesn’t help!

That really made me laugh @fivetriangulartrees

i am the opposite. I love to get in the bath at the end of the day and think about….nothing. Or a load of shit. Anything. But not the patriarchy because I’ve spent most of the day at work raging about that.

same 😂😂😂😂😂

At this time of year a soak in a hot bath in the evening saves putting the heating on. I read a book. My bath is a seventies cast iron model with a shaped back that makes it very comfortable. Those modern L shaped ones are pointless and wasteful of water, you don’t need them for a shower over the bath.

Who says the Japanese are right?

I love my bath! I couldn’t manage without it.

It’s showers I hate, absolutely detest them, and I never have one, if it wasn’t for DD liking it, and me using it to wash my hair, I’d be rid of it tomorrow.

A good soak in the bath is one of my greatest pleasures.

i love baths, I have one most lunchtime and it just eases my back so much, it’s my ultimate relaxation.