Since an adult (26 years), I bet I’ve taken no more than 25 baths. That’s 25 out of approximately 9,500 days. I normally shower once a day, with an occasional miss here and there. The ratio of baths to showers I take is somewhere around 0.2% to 99.8%.
My current house has 5 full baths. Four of the bathrooms have tub/shower combos, while our master bathroom has a jacuzzi tub and separate large walk-in shower. Between my wife and I, we have probably used the jacuzzi tub 3-4 times in the 4 years we have lived here.
When we built the house I argued that we should not put in the jacuzzi tub, but a realtor friend of ours said that it would hurt the resale value of the house to not have a tub in the master bath. He claimed that a lot of women see the tub and its condition as a necessity when looking at a house.
I think that every home should have at least one tub for taking baths if necessary, but considering that I believe that the majority of people over the age of 10, take and prefer taking showers, there should be more bathrooms with walk-in showers and no tub.
Interestingly enough, this is a trend that I am seeing in hotels. More hotel rooms will have a walk-in shower and no tub.
I haven’t taken a bath since 9/28/2002, and that was because I just moved into a new apartment and had no shower curtains or bath mat. In my previous apartment where I lived for 15 years, I’m not sure I ever took one. I have taken a few with lady friends, but those were very rare.
Until about six weeks ago, I hadn’t had a functioning shower in my house for about five years, so it was baths all the way. Now I have a new and shiny shower and I have about two a day just for the novelty value. I still like the occasional soak in the bath though, especially now we have one large enough for two, with no “tap end”
Female checking in. (Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like all guys in here so far.)
I take maybe one or two showers a year, but often one and sometimes two baths a day. Only about half of those are for hygiene purposes; the others are mainly for recreation/relaxation. I’d much rather lie back and have a nice hot soak while enjoying a good book than have to stand there half in and half out of the water while scrubbing myself up. A hot soak just before bedtime also helps me fall asleep.
I know it uses more water, but it’s one of my few indulgences. Also, Mr. S usually shares my water (I’m usually first, then he hops in when I get out).
Last time I took a bath was in the late 90s, and that’s only because I was really achy and we had a whirlpool bath back then.
Our master bath only has a shower, but there are bathtubs in the other 2 bathrooms. One has been used to bath the dogs a couple of times. We’re just not a bath family.
Well, when we lived in a house that only had a walk-in shower, I took showers daily and only got soaks in the tub when we were at a nice B&B or something (I appreciate a good bathtub that’s long enough to stretch out in!) But we moved into the apartment building we own almost a year ago. The unit we lived in was designed to be ‘the owners’ unit’ and one of its many attractions is the long, deep Jacuzzi tub in the master bath. The master bathroom does not have a shower, though the second bathroom has a standard tub with shower set-up.
Most nights, after I tuck my 10YO in for the night, I will pour myself a glass of wine, grab a book or magazine, and have a nice, long soak to wash away the stresses of the day; I go whole-hog: good-smelling, moisturizing bath salts, exfoliating body scrub, etc. A couple of times a week, though, my hair needs to be washed; for that, I prefer the shower in the back bathroom. So, for me, 90% bath, 10% shower. More or less.
When I remodeled my place, I took out the bathtub and converted the area into a 20 sq. foot steam shower. Picture.
I find steam much more relaxing than baths. I recently had several real estate agents look at my place to make some pre-sale suggestions and I specifically asked if lack of bathtub would be a negative in any way. They said that it might be for 1 out of 50 potential buyers but the steam more than made up for that.
Only once in my life did I ever find value in a bath, that was about 20 years ago when I took an oatmeal bath to help reduce poison ivy itching. It did seem to work somewhat, but the effect didn’t last long and I wasn’t about to repeat that treatment every few hours.
I shower at least once a day, usually twice in the summer (Hey, it’s Phoenix. When you get done with a cross town commute you really want a second shower.) I only take a bath when I want to relax and have a lot of time to kill.
Mrs. Angel, on the other hand, takes baths almost exclusively. The only times she showers is when she’s really pressed for time or when her biological femininity is asserting itself.
The only time that I shower is when I’m staying in a hotel/motel where there’s no bath available, and only a shower. So the last time that I had a shower was about 5 months ago, staying in a pub in a small country town in Australia.
I’m a woman. I can’t remember the last time I took a bath. I’m thinking back to all of my old places of residence and trying to remember if I ever took a bath in that bathtub…I would say it’s been at least eight years since I’ve taken a bath. If I had a hot tub, I’d probably do it pretty often, though, I do enjoy hot tubs.
I usually shower once a day.
ETA: I do often have foot baths, though. I sit on the edge of the tub at night and let my feet soak in hot water. That’s very relaxing.
You know, now that you mention it, I’ve never been aware of my hubby taking a bath as such, except when a shower was simply not an option. I guess it is probably more of a “girl” thing.
I have known my previous boyfriends/lovers/whatever the hell to call them to take showers to get clean and baths for relaxation.
it does actually make sense - guys tend to be more active in their relaxation than women much of the time - hanging out with buddies, watching sports or gaming, or going out and playing touch football … women tend frequently to be more passive in their relaxations - sitting and watching tv, handcrafts like needlework or knitting, chatting - not really the jumping up and down screaming for sports teams.
I tend to take baths. On one hand, I feel bad because it uses more water. On the other, I like relaxing and I don’t like standing in the shower. Where I’m living now (dorms) I find the showers physically unpleasant (the stream is too fine and hard and it ends up feeling like needles). When I move back into my parents’ I’ll take a lot more showers and save baths for special occasions. Of course part of that is that they have a porcelain tub and it steals all the heat out of the water.
Oddly enough I don’t enjoy sitting in the hot tub. I get bored. shrug
Male here, I take showers because I have to, I take baths because I want to.
Baths are amazing. They are much more pleasant, you have quite time to yourself, there is nothing like being surrounded by warm water.
Silver Tyger Girl as far as wasting water I don’t think it is as bad as you think. I did a test in my bathroom before filling up the tub with the shower head and seeing how long it took to get to “bath water level” in minutes. It was on par with my average shower duration.
