I prefer a shower most of the time. It’s quick, and I have to wash my hair at least every other day anyhow. I don’t take very long, just long enough to lather up, get the shampoo and conditioner into the hair, wash, and then rinse it all off.
I will take a bath on occasion if I have the time, or my muscles or sore, or I just want to relax. Still, I don’t seem to stay in it for very long–maybe fifteen or twenty minutes at most. I get cold and sometimes a bit uncomfortable.
A friend of mine drives me nuts when we travel together. If we have to share a room, she takes forfreakingever in the shower and even longer in the bath. When I asked her why it takes so long, she said, "I have to scrub all 2000 parts." :dubious:
Do you prefer a shower or bath, like them both equally, or...? How long do you spend? Are you conscious of the amount of water you're using? (This last bit does not concern my pal in the least.)
Shower every morning. Haven’t timed it but I’d guess maybe 2 or 3 minutes. Once it’s running I stick my head under, lather up the shampoo, rinse it off and then do the same with the rest of my body using liquid soap. Just lather up, rinse off. Once in a while I like to linger under the running water but usually I am in and out as quickly as I can manage.
I’m a night showerer, and I take about 15 minutes on average. Washing hair, shaving legs, and such.
On nights when I need to decompress after work, though, I’ll be in a bubble tub with my rubber ducky and a book. And I’ll stay in there till my toes are all wrinkly and the water gets too cold. Heck, sometimes I’ll even drain a little to add more hot water, just because I’m not ready to get out yet. Water conservation be damned - I need my down time.
Bath every day, ten minutes, tops, wash hair every other day. My hair’s waist-length, and gets brittle if I was it too often. Likewise, if I soap all over in the winter the skin cracks all over my body. I don’t like that, so I don’t soap all over.
I always shower, unless I have access to a garden-sized tub. Even though I’m a small person, normal-sized bathtubs never allow for a truly relaxing position for a good long soak.
My showers are ususally only about ten minutes long-- I don’t usually linger. Wash hair, wash body, thoughoughy rinse both, and then I’m out.
I shower every weekday morning, first thing. It takes about 15 minutes. If it’s the weekend, I might putter around for a while before showering, but I always bathe if I’m leaving the house and wash my hair.
I like to take baths but I don’t do it very often, maybe once a month. If I do it, I tend to stay in the tub for at least an hour. It’s very relaxing.
I denifitely prefer showers over baths. Showers usually last 15-20 minutes. Ahhh…so soothing.
The only time I ever take a bath is when my muscles are sore, and I can’t stand staying in that long because I get so hot. My hair gets really knotted, and I never feel very clean when I get out of the bath. That’s just me.
Despite this I always think I am taking such a long soak, it’s usually 20 minutes. I think once I tried to take a really long time, I lasted 30 minutes, and that was with shaving (all areas) and shampooing with conditioning and a facial mask.
But I still love them.
AHHHH.
My dream is to have a huge deep tub with it’s own hot water heater.
I bathe once every two days, sometimes three. Our house has the worst hot water heater and if everyone washes on the same day we run the dishwasher I don’t have enough hot water to cover my toes.
However, after the gym it’s a shower, so when I was working out regularly (and when my back and neck are all better and I can go back) I shower every day.
When I have time, I like to sit, cross-legged, directly under the showerhead and let the bathtub fill up. Once the tub has reached about half full, the drain is unplugged, I stand and finish with a hot one minute shower. Best of both worlds. Takes about 10 minutes or so.
On cold days (there ain’t a lot in Las Vegas) when I have lots of time, a hot bath and a crossword puzzle is pure luxury. That can last for a good hour.
Bath. I’m too tall for the shower. If it’s the morning, it’ll be a quickie 5 minutes or so; in the evening, I’ll lay there, soak, and relax for an hour or so, more if I fall asleep.
There’s a nice big (huge, even) shower area where my bath used to be. I’m never looking back
I’d say 15 minutes or so, right after I wake up, every morning. When I go to the gym in the evening, I do a (quick 5-minute) shower there as well. I don’t usually shower at home in the evening.
Usually: Shower, about 15 minutes. I don’t understand people who take hours in the shower. The whole point of the shower is speed and efficiency. My first girlfriend had hair long enough for her to to sit on it, and she took 45 minutes if she was washing it. Drying took forever, but we’d be chatting online, she’d idle for a shower, and be back at the computer in under 50.
When I have time and a tub I trust: Shower, Bath, Shower-rinse. You shower to get yourself clean, bathe to relax, and then hose off the bathwater. I can read entire small novels in the tub. I’ll go in around 9:00-9:30 and come out shortly after midnight. I’ll drink about a quart of fluid to replace the sweat-loss. When I soak, I mean it.
In either case: really freakin’ hot. That water’s still warm when I crawl out of it.
