Soon everyone will have a bar fridge in every room so you don’t have to go through the hassle of walking down the hall to get to the kitchen when you want a cold one.
And why am I suddenly craving Burger King?
Enjoy,
Steven
Why not? I have a stripper pole in my living room so I don’t have to bother driving the three blocks to the studio to work on a new trick. 
Excess: It’s the American way.
You guys want to hear excessive? Last week, I went for my dad and looked at a house his real estate agent suggested for him in Vegas. I think the house was 6 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms, but I might be misremembering. That’s beyond the point, though.
The master has this enormous bathroom you walk into. Immediately, you see the giant soaking jacuzzi tub thing, the double vanity sinks, and an enormous steam shower (easily could comfortably fit 10 people- no lie). Then, the bathroom forks- to one side is a “hers” giant walk in closet with a washer and dryer in it. If you follow the other fork, it takes you into the “his” closet-- which, if you follow to the end, has another giant bathroom in it. Another double vanity. Another giant steam shower (probably could fit 5 people in this one). Normal toilet, though :).
So, there’s a bathroom in the closet that’s in the bathroom. The bathroom has a bathroom in it.
I don’t. . . why? WHY?
I really don’t see a problem with any of it. It’s all for convenience. Yes, my best friend from college grew up in a 3 bed 1 bath house with six other people, but it’s not like most middle-class Americans walk miles to get our own water anymore. Swallowed My Cellphone, most finished basements or playrooms or “bonus” rooms do have separate mini fridges. My parents are househunting and saw a very wonderfully designed home that had two small dishwashers as opposed to one big one, the idea being that the house was built for entertaining. As someone who goes out to bars extremely rarely, this appeals to me.
But perhaps we should all wash dishes by hand to be more real?
ETA: Diosa, we really need to swap parent house hunting stories. I saw a place with my parents last weekend that - I shit you not - had a pagoda and an intentionally shared driveway with a next door house. All the houses in the planned community had shared driveways, the idea being that it would encourage you to be “closer” to your neighbors. What if you live next to psychos, or people who don’t wanna plow? And the pagoda? Yeah, they all had them, in different iterations. Not surprisingly, the developer hasn’t sold many.
Well, we weren’t throwing them daily, but twice a week we’d have a group of 8 or 9 people over for D&D, and sometimes these gatherings would last for 6 hours or more.
In regards to the modern habit of having so many bathrooms, we don’t use chamberpots as often as people used to.
I wish we had another bathroom in our house! We have a three bedroom, one and a half bath. It works for the three adults we have living here now, but if we had a teenage girl living with us, we would have nowhere near enough bathrooms! We would love to put an addition on the house with a master bathroom suite, which would have a another full bath, but that’s a ways off. It depends on where we end up in a few years. We may not still be in the city we’re in now, and who knows where we’ll be.
Ha! This house didn’t have a pagoda, but ok- it was this amazzzzzzzing custom house (3 acres, 6k or so sq ft to the main house) with very high end finishes all over-- granite, dark wood, great tile work, etc etc. Everything was top notch.
So, I’m wandering around, looking at everything, taking videos for my dad, when I open a door. A totally unfinished, cinder block . . . chamber? It was like 30 feet long and about 4 or 5 feet wide. Totally unfinished. Bright lights. HUGE lock on the door. I thought maybe it was some sort of panic room, but there was nothing inside of there that would help you contact the outside world. Needless to say, I eventually decided that’s the room where you hide the bodies.
Please tell me there was a closet in that bathroom that led to another bathroom, or that led to another door that led to the original bathroom.
If the room was only 5 feet high, I think we saw the same house three weekends ago. The realtor was very huffy and proclaimed it a “storage space, or a kid’s playroom”. More like a creep’s playroom…
Um, this is a house, not Russian nesting dolls. Duh! 
No! This one was SO tall! Like easily 12 feet! That made it even freaking weirder.
Previous generations of my family only used chamber pots because it was a better alternative to trudging through the snow to the outbuilding in the middle of the night. My aunt used to hate going to the outhouse in the summer because bears used to walk through the yard.
It amazes me that we’ve gone from a nation of pioneers trail blazing across untamed land, building the world’s most powerful nation, and now we’re a bunch of softies who can’t hold our pee long enough to walk down the hall.
Forgive me for being disgustingly American right now, but why hold my pee to walk down a hall when I don’t have to? If I can afford a house that’s got a bathroom right off my bedroom, why not have that? It was a glorious moment in my life when I finally got my own place and I got the master with attached bathroom. Sure, I can walk down the hall, but this sure is awfully nice.
I would kill for a master bedroom suite that has the bedroom, then a walk in closet with a toilet cubicle for each of us, and a shared shower/tub room. As it is, mrAru will move into the bathroom for a crap with a book and he can be in there for a freaking hour, and it is our only bathroom. Before I turned into a gimp I would go out back into the woods and go if I really had to go and he was locked in there…
No idea, but if I lived there, I’d totally throw bathroom parties all the time.
Yeah, you totally saw a psycho’s house. No question about it.
I mean people all want different things. It doesn’t mean they aren’t blazing their own trails, living the American dream and beyond. My mom was so poor as a kid that she often went hungry. But do you know what she wanted when she went shopping for our current home 16 years ago? A heated garage and a bathroom the size of an average bedroom. She got both, and they make her happy, so I say it’s worth it.
Another cool thing I saw in recent househunting was a master shower stall, all glassed in…with TWO shower heads, one at each end. It’s totally genius! Never any waiting for the other to finish, and unlike a giant sunken tub, it will get plenty of use (practically and for fun).
Talk about wasting resources! Try not to use more of planetary resources than you need, isn’t that something that this environmentally conscious generation preaches?
I think you may be misunderstanding; that’s just about recycling bottles and cans and being a self-righteous douch on a bike. 
So everybody in the world should live in a hut and use a squat toilet out back in an outhouse, and bathe by dipping water out of a bucket?
Sorry, I’m a gimp and need a shower stall with a seat in it, and I cant use a squat toilet at all … Ill have to waste all that water flushing into a septic tank … and I need a special counter and cooking area that allows me to use my wheelchair, as I don’t feel comforable pulling myself around on a small wheeled cart to gather cow shit and dry it to use in a pot stove. Actually, i don’t have a cow … so I guess we should’t be cooking anything.:rolleyes:
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