For you is it like on the commercials, an ecstatically relaxing experience where you are so super happy to just stick your face directly into the stream?
Or a terrible uncomfortable chore you go through only out of a sense of duty?
Or what?
ETA: Try to ignore the “don’t shower” entry, it wasn’t supposed to make it into this poll. Presumably if you don’t, it may be because you hate them–and if you hate them, you should check “hate it.”
For me, it’s extremely unpleasant. I feel like I’m drowning. I don’t literally gasp for breath, but my body clenches up, my stomach gets crampy feeling, and I come out breathing unnecessarily deeply afterwards. If any hits my face, I kind of panic a little. Not really panic. Just you know, really really hate it and want to hit something.
I can swim, but I’m also not a huge fan of that.
Well, I guess that those choosing the “Don’t shower” option could be taking baths instead.
I guess I like showering okay. The actual process of showering is enjoyable. I don’t like that it takes so much preparation (finding towels, finding clothes to change into, cleaning the bathtub, finding all my shower products.)
I voted “like it,” although there are times when I do feel ecstatically super-happy in the shower – like if I’m grungy and achy from yard work or really sweaty after a run or bike ride.
Dislike it. It’s tedious and I’m all wet and uncomfortable afterwards.
Love it. It gives me time to think and meditate whilst laving my ivory splendor. (No, that’s not what I meant. Sheesh! You people!)
A shower is the only way to fly. Baths are for children, IMO, although I guess some people like to soak. I hate the soak. Makes you all wrinkly and exhausted from the heat. A shower is fast and easy and all the dirt/hair goes down the drain instead of being suspended in a pool for you to soak in.
I fall between having no feelings about it and disliking it, the latter being more common during colder months.
Emily, where are your shower products when you aren’t showering?
Do you have some sort of folding shower that folds out like a Murphy bed?
I keep my shower products on the back of the toilet. I take my soap container, razor, and medicated soap bottle off the toilet and bring them to the shower (in the same room) and then put them back on the toilet when I’m finished. I guess it’s not that much of a hassle.
Always prefer baths (ending with a quick showery rinse), but will shower if I have to.
Showers are great. The streaming water relaxes the muscles, the shower head on the hose makes it easy to get to the hard to reach spots, and it’s a lot easier to wash my hair. Baths are ok if I just want to lie in the water for a long time, which isn’t very often. Also, no waiting for the tub to fill.
I find it really boring and tedious, and outright uncomfortable in the winter. I do like the clean feeling after though.
I like the getting out and being all clean part. I could find something better to do with my time, so I guess I’ll say dislike, but it’s not an active dislike.
Oh god I love me some showering. So much so that in our last house we built a shower 8’ x 5’ with two shower heads and a couple of body sprays. Our newest shower only has two shower heads and fits in a standard US bathtub footprint, but the outdoor one is 8’ x 6’. I used to shower until the two 50 tank hot water heaters were empty. I now limit my self to only one 30 gallon tank. 
Does anyone love showering more than me?
Or maybe you don’t hate them, you just take baths instead?
Personally, I do not like showers. It’s because I can’t effing see without my glasses, which have to come off to wash my face and hair, which means my footing is solely by feel and the sensation is quite precarious. I’d suggest blindfolding yourself and attempting to shower to get an idea, but I don’t anyone to hurt themself.
Unfortunately, this stupid apartment I’m currently living in does not have a bathtub. Grrrr! So sometimes I wash everything BUT my face in the shower then wash my face in the sink where I can stand on a nice, secure dry carpet and not feel on the verge of falling on a slick, wet surface. But it’s a pain in the butt work around.
I’d say the shower is my favorite room in the house. I normally rinse off before and after bed and I like to take a long cold scrubbing shower after work. I built a nice bench in there where I can sit and drink a beer. I have tinnitus and I spent some time finding the perfect showerhead with good pressure and a pleasing white tone. It’s not so loud that I can’t listen to music while I shower though. I’m happy to spend 30-40 minutes in there, easily.
I don’t really like showering in small 30"x60" bathtub stalls and if the water pressure isn’t strong enough I won’t use soap because I feel like I can never get it off.
Add a waterproof karaoke machine and a fire pit to air dry next to and you’ve got the perfect shower. I draw the line at eating in the shower, though. The garbage disposalgets clogged with hair too often.
I find showers overwhelming in a sensory sort of way. It’s not as bad now that I’m on paxil but it’s still not something I’d do for relaxation. I love soaking in the tub, however.
I’m HUGE, both tall and fat. Not Andre the Giant size, but close. It’s virtually impossible for me to fit in a bathtub, so shower is my remaining option. Your average shower is, to me, cramped and uncomfortable, and I’ve never been in one where the showerhead sprayed above my chest. This means if I want to wash my face I have to bend over, and if I want to wash my hair I have to bend over backwards… in a cramped sarcophagus, slippery with soap, with a shower curtain plastered to one or another side of my body. In my own home (apartment) I can make some adjustments (Shower Hose, weighted curtain duct-taped to the wall, etc) but in someone else’s home, or a hotel (at least, a hotel I can afford) or elsewhere, ugh. Hate, hate, hate it.
Best showers I’ve ever taken were after coming home from the beach, using a kiddie wading pool and the garden hose in the backyard… bliss!
