I’ll just reinforce many of the above – super-excellent shower curtain on the outside of the tub, and a dollar-store “liner” on the inside of the tub. Disposable inner; too-nice-to-trash-outer.
In fact, in my previous house, I tore out the crappy, spotty, have-to-clean-all-the-damn-time shower door for the convenience of a disposable inner show curtain liner. It’s a heck of lot easier to pay a few bucks every few weeks than to maintain the spotlessness of a glass sliding door.
If it’s vinyl, it’s a liner, not a curtain. (Unless it has a cloth layer on one side and a vinyl layer on the other.) A curtain is made of cloth, and is usually not waterproof.
You can do with just a liner–we did for years because we didn’t really feel like spending money on a curtain that was just there for show. Now we have curtains and liners in both bathrooms, because it just looks nicer.
I buy the liners for less than $4, and with occasional washings, they last for about a year before the holes break at the top. At that point, the liner becomes a waterproof sheet that I keep in my car in case I have to put messy things in the trunk (garden supplies, sod, etc.).
The curtains, though, have lasted for years.
IME, a duvet isn’t decorative in any way. They tend to be white, off-white or greyish, and basically are just a bag of feathers (or a synthetic filler). It is put into a bag with a decorative pattern/colour which goes with the scheme of your room (or whatever you bothered to buy). One duvet, several covers, you can change your room as often as you like. A comforter is an all-in-one item, you cannot remove the filler to wash the outer cover, as it’s all built in.
In terms of use, they are the same. They are the top layer on your bed, and some people use them to keep them warm, others simply fold them away at night and use sheets and other blankets for covering.
Right now I’m actually using two liners, instead of a liner and a curtain.
Both of my liners are PVC - the inner one that hangs into the tub is plain grey and has magnets imbedded in the bottom corners so it sticks to the tub, and the outer one is nicer and has an embossed swirly pattern of two different shades of silver.
I could probably use just one liner and not bother with a curtain (single bachelorette who’s not to concerned about interior decorating when she has massive student loan payments), however the reason I’m using both is when I moved into this apartment I bought a new liner, forgetting I already bought one a few weeks before. So I figured I’d use the nicer looking one as a “curtain” and the plain one as a liner.
As mnemosyne mentioned, a comforter is all one piece while the duvet has an inside piece that goes inside the cover. Is there yet another term for the big goosedown puffs that go on beds in cold regions (no covers, just plain white)?
Personally, I can’t stand feeling enclosed in the shower so I just use a clear plastic liner only. But I can understand the cheap replaceable liner paired with a decorative semi-permanent curtain.
Spotless? Did you have completely transparent glass doors? Because most of them are frosted for some privacy, which incidentally reduces the need to clean them.
Plus, a shower curtain liner makes it easier to dispose of the body you partially disolved in your bathtub.
What?
My parents have now TWICE remodeled a bathroom (in two seperate houses) and put in clear shower doors. I call them on it and they say “Oh, we didn’t think about it.” The second bathroom is a big cavernous room that sort of gives the feel that the shower is at the end of a long hallway. You feel seriously naked with that clear door - I hang a towel over it! Also, it’s a real pain to clean. In other words, they’re not automatically frosted - but they oughta be.
Is there any other way to take a shower?
Maybe in the moral cesspool you live in! I follow the teachings of Jesus, and wear a modest swimsuit in the shower, as the Lord intends!
Oh, I didn’t say that I cleaned the bathtub, now did I? 