We have a claw-footed tub with a hand-held shower thingy.
We bathe Aaron in his little kiddie tub with the shower thingy. He likes being sprayed, and it’s easier than bathing him in the sink.
Robin
My SIL and BIL bought a house last year with no shower and a modern-looking tub. (I think their house is from the 20’s or 30’s.)They rigged one up with plastic tubing. It’s an interesting system, to say the least, but it works.
The previous owner was an old lady. She’d probably taken baths all her life and saw no reason to change. Their kitchen sink is even more of a relic. You don’t realize how nice that double sink is until you don’t have it!
I’m surprised that you didn’t find a shower in the basement! We looked at a lot of old houses, and many of them had a shower in the basement–often with no sort of stall or curtain or anything. Just a showerhead sticking out of the wall. My father told me that men got used to taking showers in the military during WWII, so, when they came home, they installed them. I guess there’s not much privacy in the Army, but it’s still seems like a strange setup for your own home.
I lived in a flat with no shower for a year with no problem. In the morning, during the extra time it takes to run a bath rather than let the shower get hot, I made a cup of tea. I used the bath like a shower - wash hair, wash body, jump out. And at the end I had a cup of tea waiting for me. Lovely.
A few years ago, I was looking for an apartment. I went to see one, which was in the same neighborhood as the one I ended up taking. The residents living there at the time, who were moving out shortly, took me for a tour around the place. It looked pretty nice; fairly spacious, lots of sunlight, tall ceilings, etc. I liked it. But when we circled back to the living room, something occured to me. “Oh, we must’ve missed the kitchen,” I said. Nope. There was no kitchen. At all. The tennants who were living there at the time told me it was no problem; they just went out to eat all the time or got carry out from the Koo-Koo-Roo chicken place around the corner. Um… nope. I need a kitchen.
How 'bout a place that does have a shower . . . but it’s 4 feet tall. A friend of mine has this in the house he just bought. I’m a short person, but even I’d have to stoop to be able to wash my hair. He’s close to six feet. I can’t imagine what it must be like for him to try to shower.
I assume you’re talking about 4’ from the tub floor to the shower nozzle, not 4’ from the tub floor to the ceiling.
Yeah, they’re a real pain. Nothing like having to get on your knees to wash your hair.
The best answer is those hand-held shower massagers.
I guess I’m in a minority of one: I’ve never really got on with showers and enjoy a good long soak.
Back in my hometown, my best friend and his three sisters lived in a house that had absolutely NO shower OR tub. Bathing was done in a wash tub in the kitchen. Bodily functions took place in an outhouse. Arangements of this sort weren’t unusual, in that time and place. The “good old days” sucked in a lot of ways.
I have a shower and a tub… but the water doesn’t drain.
Joy. I bail the sucker into the toilet.
Why yes it is!
Oh, wait, I don’t think we are thinking about the same way about that question. :dubious:
The house I live in has never had a shower. Two bathtubs. The one we use upstairs is a wonderful deep clawfoot.
If I ever get the urge to shower I go over to a friends house. That’s once or twice a year because I feel bad about running up their water bill.
On the other hand when I was at the hospital with my son I would take marathon showers. Big university hospital and they would take him to activities and I would endulge in their hot steamy high pressure for hours.
The nurse actually came in and checked on me once to make sure that I hadn’t slipped and hurt myself cause she hadn’t seen me for a while.
Otherwise it’s nice long midnight soaks with bubbles and candles in the tub. I can never try to bathe any earlier since when you have five heathens no bathroom time is your own.
This thread is cracking me up. I can’t imagine living (for any extended period of time) without a shower!
I’m still giggling at this:
If the dirt is directly adhered to your skin, that’s ok…
then you take your dirt encrusted body to the tub…
…and now most of it is suspended in a soapy solution away from your skin, that’s really really really bad?
Never quite grasped this concept.
Explain yourself.
I did this for about 2 years … I had a professional job and everything. It’s not at all weird.
Explain yourself.
I did this for about 2 years … I had a professional job and everything. It’s not at all weird. **
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Easy tiger. No offense meant.
When I take a bath, it typically takes around 10 minutes to fill the tub. And, when in the bath, I find it more time consuming to soap and scrub properly. These 2 things would increase my bathing time considerably. I love and value my sleep time and wouldn’t want to cut it shorter…even by 15 minutes.
Also, for whatever reason, I find it funny to picture a professional…in suit and tie, on the go…taking a bath everyday. I assocaite baths with kids, maybe?
<shrug>
Well, I screwed up the formatting something awful on that post.
Anyway, I wanted to add…maybe it was just the way Harli phrased it. Or that it’s late on a Friday and I’ve had 2 Mountain Dews. Who knows…
I lived for six months in a flat with only a tub. This was in London, it’s not all that uncommon there. For the size of the flat, the relatively cheap rent and the excellent location (just across from the Finsbury Park tube station) it didn’t seem like a great sacrifice. If I’d stayed there much longer though I probably would have tried to get the landlord to “upgrade”.
My dad took baths when I was a kid (late 70’s-early 80’s). I don’t know if we had a shower or not–I was a little kid, so I took baths, too. That bathroom was significantly remodeled over the years, so maybe the shower was put in then. I used it when I was older.
He wasn’t a suit-and-tie professional, though. He’s a bricklayer, so he always bathes/showers right after work. I couldn’t imagine trying to get in a bath before work every morning. If I didn’t have a shower, I’d bathe in the evening. Actually, I sometimes do bathe in the evening, now. I wish we had a bigger bathtub. Baths were not a priority when this house was built in 1978.
Maybe the guy who lives there now works out in the morning and showers at the gym?