I shower to get clean. I bath to relax.
Female. I always take showers, and don’t find a bath relaxing. I suppose I might take a bath in a brand new tub (so I know it’s in spotless condition) but I’d still need to rinse my long hair with the shower head to get all the shampoo and conditioner out, so what’s the point?
I take a bath about once a year, usually when I visit in-laws in Korea.
But, when I was in elementary school, the shower didn’t work so normally I bathed until I was about 12 years old and we fixed the shower head.
This would have been true for me when I was younger. Now that I’m approaching 50, and my hair is fine and dry, it’s best shampooed maybe twice a week. That’s when I shower.
Haven’t had access to a bathtub for a while, but when I do I take a bath almost nightly. In the winter, it’s really the only way for me to warm up. It’s also when I get the best reading done.
How the hell is knitting less active than playing video games? Seems like both require pretty similar motor skills. And do you really know anyone under the age of sixty who does needlepoint? I think your theory needs some refinement.
Well, I’m a female, and I haven’t taken a bath since the autumn of 1965. That’s when I broke my finger and wasn’t allowed to get the splint/cast thing wet. We’ve lived in our house for 12 years and have both a soaking tub and a big shower in the master bath, but the only time I’ve been in the tub is to clean it. In fact, I have to dust it periodically.
It’s a combination of things for me: I have to rinse my long hair, plus I don’t find baths relaxing, and don’t have time for them anyway.
A couple of WAGs why women might be more partial to baths…
Baths are a great way to relieve cramps. Heating up the abdomen can work wonders.
Shaving your legs in the shower sucks. Often it require awkward balancing (why don’t they design showers that are better suited for this basic task?) and you end up positioning yourself so that odd parts are in and out of the stream. I can’t figure out how to shave in my shower without either getting my face in stream or having big chunks of myself out of the stream and freezing cold. In a bath, you can simply lift the leg out of the water without any awkward contortions, leaving most of your body nice and warm
I occasionally bathe but not for cleanliness, just to relax. If I do take a bath, I’ll shower right after it because my idea of bath is just lying around in hot water.
I have taken nothing but showers for at least 15 years, because that’s how long our tub has been unusable. But we’re currently remodeling that bathroom and it’s almost done! I can’t wait to take a bath! If only I could find some fragrance-free bubble bath . . .
Showers mostly. My tub is too short and low to take a decent bath. Now if I had a Jacuzzi bathtub like in a condo I once rented it would be a different story. It was the most beautiful tub I have ever used. It had plenty of jets and kept the water hot and just add some bubbles and some nice music and Calgon take me away…
I’ll never forget you, sweet Jacuzzi tub.
Try this:
Or just google “bubble bath fragrance-free”; I got lots of hits right off. This was my first one.
Last bath I took was in 1990, in an older duplex I moved into that only had an old claw-foot tub. I actually rigged one of those horrid portable shower contraptions with the curtain in a ring above and a hose leading to a primitive shower head.
It was pretty crappy, but it beat continuing to take baths. Baths hold no appeal for me.
I take baths almost every day and I have the bubble bath collection to prove it. Years ago I started showering at night because I hated drying my hair in the morning and the extra time let me move to baths instead of showering. It’s definitely more relaxing and I do most of my reading in the tub. I’m waiting for the first waterproof ebook reader to come out 
My husband prefers showers and when we bought this house we renovated the second bathroom into a multihead steam shower for him. Since it’s got a low step to get in it’s also very convenient for muddy dogs.
I average about a bath a year, and only if I’m sick. I’m female. Baths kind of squick me out and with my long legs, I can’t lay down and keep them under water, and then if I sit up, the top half is cold, then I start thinking about the water getting all funky and… yeah. I’d much rather shower.
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I don’t know if I’m just weird, but I’m a guy who enjoys to take baths. The problem is that I live with two other people and if I were to fill the tub every day with hot water, the other two would have to tough it out with cold showers. Since I would not enjoy a cold bath, except for therapy after playing a rough sport, I can’t really take baths right now. Furthermore, one of my roommates made a deal that if she doesn’t keep her cosmetics and feminine things cleaned up and in order, then she is not allowed to relax in a bath either. While we both do enjoy baths, I understand that she does in fact enjoy them more and as such I am more willing to let her enjoy her baths and I’ll take showers instead.
Showers exclusively. I think our daughter is the only one who takes baths currently: mainly because she likes to sit in a warm Epsom Salt bath every once in a while. But she showers 95% of the time.
As soon as I lose a bit more weight, I may rethink the bath thing. For right now, showers are easier.
I still don’t know if it’s true or not, but my high school health teacher told us that shaving in the bath is a great way to encourage UTIs. To shave in the shower, you turn the water off while shaving - except to rinse the blade.
I’d like to know why shaving in the bath is any more risky than just being in the bath.
Anyhoo, I used to get UTIs, but haven’t had one in donkey’s years. (Standard disclaimer about anecdotes != data.)
Showers exclusively. Same for my wife. The house we currently own has one of those jacuzzi tubs in the master bath–never use it. The only thing it is good for is collecting dust. Same with the previous house. Waste of space for us.