I'm wondering if I'm the only woman in the world who

[DarcyB]

doesn't like taking baths?

 

I'm just not a bath person. I hate sitting there with nothing to do, and don't like to read because I'm anal about not having books in the humidity or chancing getting them wet. I'm not comfortable in a bathtub, and don't get the allure....other than it being the only time you might possibly be alone. But I'd get bored too quickly LOL

[AngelBee]

doesn't like taking baths?

 

I'm just not a bath person. I hate sitting there with nothing to do, and don't like to read because I'm anal about not having books in the humidity or chancing getting them wet. I'm not comfortable in a bathtub, and don't get the allure....other than it being the only time you might possibly be alone. But I'd get bored too quickly LOL

I only take them if I am really sore. Like after having babies sometimes. I have joint issues, so it sometimes helps my body. I don't LOVE them though.

[Rose in BC]

I take a bath every night. Its the end to my day and I love going to bed clean. However, the whole process is ten minutes on average. I'm with you on the reading and lingering for a long time is not my style either. Just love the hot water and clean feeling to the end of the day. :)

[Robin M]

Right there with you. I'd rather take a shower.

[k2bdeutmeyer]

I have a friend that won't take them at all, because it grosses her out to sit in "dirty" water. I'm not a huge fan for 2 reasons:

 

1. Our bathtub is ceramic and sucks all the heat out of the water VERY quickly

 

and

 

2. I get bored too :)

[LidiyaDawn]

I love a good long bubble bath with a book....usually by the time I get out, the book is done, the bubbles are long gone, and the water is ice cold. :laugh:

[DianeW88]

I love a good long bubble bath with a book....usually by the time I get out, the book is done, the bubbles are long gone, and the water is ice cold. :laugh:

 

:iagree: Being in a bath is heaven for me. I love the bubbles. I love to read. I love buying and using lots of luxurious soaps, scrubs, etc. that my kids can't get near!! It's MINE!! ALL MINE!!! :D

[Parrothead]

If...

 

 

• I wasn't so buoyant - my legs float to the top then I slide down the tub.
  
• The water stayed hot
  
• I could take a book without it getting wet
  
• I had a pillow
  
• The tub was large enough for all of me to be underwater
  

 

 

I'd enjoy a bath regularly

[*Inna*]

Me!

 

It's boring and I really don't see the point since you have to shower after the bath anyway.

[Lawana]

My butt is too bony, (even though I am overweight) and I can't get remotely comfortable. Then I get bored. I haven't been in a bathtub in over a decade.:glare:

[Rhonda in TX]

I rarely take baths. I think I've taken 2 or 3 in the 8 years we've lived in our house. We have a big garden tub, too. In our old house we had a separate bathtub/jacuzzi and it used to get dusty because it was never used! LOL

 

I'd love to have a huge walk-in shower with all the different nozzles.

[kokotg]

I can't remember the last time I took a bath. My mom takes one every night. I love a hot shower, though!

[Margo out of lurking]

Ugh, I would loathe taking a bath. I can't even remember the last time I did. I'm sure it's been DECADES!

 

ETA: We had a huge garden tub in our last house. We lived there for three years, and we did not even turn on the water. (Who wants to clean that thing??!) It was a nice place to store wrapping paper at Christmas though...)

Edited January 29, 2011 by Kristine out of lurking

[dangermom]

Me. I love hot showers, but I never take baths. Bleh.

[LidiyaDawn]

Me!

 

It's boring and I really don't see the point since you have to shower after the bath anyway.

 

Why would you have to shower after having a perfectly good bath? :001_huh:

[LazyDazy]

You are not alone. I think baths are "yucky". Give me a steaming hot shower and I am in heaven. Ahhh...

Edited January 29, 2011 by LazyDazy
forgot a word!

[GWOB]

I got suckered into buying this house because there is a huge cast-iron clawfoot tub in the upstairs bathroom! I seriously considered how to conduct all daily activities from that tub. I think I was a fish in a previous life because I feel so comfortable in water. My mind goes a million miles a minute unless I am sitting in my tub. That seems to be the only way I can relax, well, without wine.

[Gratia271]

Why would you have to shower after having a perfectly good bath? :001_huh:

:iagree:

[Lady Florida.]

I hate taking baths. It's uncomfortable, boring, and too hard to wash your hair. Give me a long, hot shower any day. As far as relaxing reading goes, I'd rather take my shower, get in my pj's and curl up in bed with the book.

[DawnM]

Nope, can't stand them. A complete waste of time.

[Ellyndria]

doesn't like taking baths?

 

I'm just not a bath person. I hate sitting there with nothing to do, and don't like to read because I'm anal about not having books in the humidity or chancing getting them wet. I'm not comfortable in a bathtub, and don't get the allure....other than it being the only time you might possibly be alone. But I'd get bored too quickly LOL

 

 

I feel the same way.

 

I used to have to take baths growing up, that was the only way to get clean. Technically we had a shower, but it didn't work, and it wasn't even in the bathroom. So, bathing was the only option. Since I moved away from home, it's been showers all the way, except for a couple times when I really needed the warm water from a bath to soothe sore muscles.

[TexasMom]

I'm the same way. I never really feel clean after taking a bath. It just feels to me like I'm soaking in dirty water. Plus, I get bored. My husband used to suggest that I go and take a hot bath after a long day, and he never understood why that wasn't appealing to me. But I love a long, hot shower!

[OLG]

I hate taking baths. It's uncomfortable, boring, and too hard to wash your hair. Give me a long, hot shower any day. As far as relaxing reading goes, I'd rather take my shower, get in my pj's and curl up in bed with the book.

 

 

EXACTLY! Loathe baths - never feel clean afterwards and detest cleaning tubs too. Steamy showers are so great!

[MaMa2005]

I have a friend that won't take them at all, because it grosses her out to sit in "dirty" water. I'm not a huge fan for 2 reasons:

 

1. Our bathtub is ceramic and sucks all the heat out of the water VERY quickly

 

and

 

2. I get bored too :)

 

That's me!!!:D

[Ellie]

In the last 7 years, I have only used the bathtub once. I count the minutes until I can get out. Blech. Showers for me. :D

[NanceXToo]

If it's a big, spacious, deep, jacuzzi tub (like the kind I only occasionally get to use in a hotel room), I'm all for it!

 

If it's in my plain old bathtub at home- nah. I'll pass.

[Jen in PA]

I only take baths when I want to soak in epsom salts. I fit well in our tub, I have tried bringing magazines in (seems less risky than books), and I just don't enjoy the bathroom as a place to relax.

[akmommy]

I don't like baths for most all of the reasons mentioned above, but a nice, long, hot shower is heaven.

[Night Elf]

Nope. When I was 12, I had a friend and their whole family took showers because the mom thought baths were disgusting. She berated me for being a bath taker. :001_huh:

 

editing to add: it's funny how we see things differently. I hated taking showers in the shower stall in my last house because it was a nightmare to clean. And I hate taking showers because the hot water is only hitting part of my body at one time, leaving all my other bits cold! :P

Edited January 29, 2011 by Night Elf

[Truscifi]

I think I would enjoy a bath if the water stayed hot. And if the bottom of the bath tub was cushiony. But as it is, no. I prefer showers.

[*Inna*]

Why would you have to shower after having a perfectly good bath? :001_huh:

I guess I'm weird, but I don't feel completely clean after a bath.

[DarcyB]

Phew - I don't feel so weird now! :001_huh:

[KrissiK]

I guess I'm weird, but I don't feel completely clean after a bath.

 

Wow, I feel that way, too. I like the "idea" of taking a bath. You know, like that Calgon commercial. But, bathtubs are too short to get comfortable and my skin gets all wrinkly.

[Denisemomof4]

I hate baths. I hate soaking baths, I hate jacuzzi baths.

 

Now a hot tub outside, a nice cocktail....... now your talking!!!;) We hope to finally get ours this year. Kitchen remodel first.

[Renee in NC]

I hate baths. I won't take a bath unless there is no other option. It's as boring as sunbathing!

[GWOB]

I hate baths. I hate soaking baths, I hate jacuzzi baths.

 

Now a hot tub outside, a nice cocktail....... now your talking!!!;) We hope to finally get ours this year. Kitchen remodel first.

 

I keep trying to convince dh that a hot tub would fit perfectly in our basement, along with a wine cooler.

[ChrisB]

I hate baths too! Give me a long, hot shower any day.

[nd293]

I used to like baths, but I think kids and an endless To Do list have cured me of that. On the other hand, I adore a long shower. And if I'm in a hotel, and it's extra large, with a fancy showerhead, and a white towel and bathrobe waitingfor me afterwards, I'm in heaven...

 

Here there's a water shortage, and it's a quick 4 minute shower for me, most days. I still love it, though!

[Peela]

I LOVE baths. Ever since when I was a kid my mother used to have deep baths with Avon's Skin So Soft bath oil in it. And then she would call me and my brother to come and have a bath after she got out. Just LOVED that smell and the deep bath and have loved baths ever since! Something about immersing myself in water (and maybe mummy energy? :) ) .

 

This house the bath is marble and rectangular- I cant get comfortable. But I still have one now and then. But we have a therapeutic spa out in the garden that we have on a timer to get heated up morning and evening, so dh and I have a hot spa twice a day most days. That satisfies my love of baths mostly (although I love to add essential oils to my baths and I cant do that with a spa).

 

Baths also really warm me through thoroughly when I get cold to the bone in winter.

[Rhonda in TX]

Why would you have to shower after having a perfectly good bath? :001_huh:

 

My DH insists my kids shower off after a bath. He wants them to rinse the residue off their skin. They're not rewashing, but they are rinsing.

[mryann]

I can't stand baths. You sit there in water that gets progressively dirtier from your parts. Maybe I've just bathed too many dirty kids to understand the allure.

[TXMary2]

I don't get to take them as often as I'd like. When I do take a bath, I always shower first so I can wash my hair. Our tub is a garden jacuzzi tub so I love the soothing sound of the jets. I have been meaning to buy one of those bath pillows for my head to rest on. Also, I do usually read while in the tub, but I always worry I will drop the book!

[zaichiki]

Yeah... ummm... sitting there stewing in dirty water! :ack2:

[NanceXToo]

My DH insists my kids shower off after a bath. He wants them to rinse the residue off their skin. They're not rewashing, but they are rinsing.

 

I'm just the opposite. When 10 y/o dd asks if she can take a bath, I tell her to take a shower first, to wash her hair and get all clean, and then she can fill the tub and soak and play in the bathwater as long as she wants.

[Mejane]

Hate baths. We have a jacuzzi tub in our bathroom, have lived here for five years, and I've been in it once. Baths = Boring!

[Samiam]

Hate baths here too....the whole sitting in dirty water,...ick. Plus I have an over-the-top ICK of wet hair, single pieces of hair, floating. It's almost always my hair. I seem to shed alot, always have, but to see a piece of hair floating in the water.....just makes me shudder and ICK. Weird, I know. I also hate wet hair in the drain of the shower, DH had to get that out for me.....creeps me to just think about it now.

[HeathenMom]

i used to never take baths unless i was sick...

 

...then i found LUSH. :001_wub:

[Lisa in Jax]

doesn't like taking baths?

 

I'm just not a bath person. I hate sitting there with nothing to do, and don't like to read because I'm anal about not having books in the humidity or chancing getting them wet. I'm not comfortable in a bathtub, and don't get the allure....other than it being the only time you might possibly be alone. But I'd get bored too quickly LOL

 

You are *not* alone. I haven't taken a bath in years. I have no desire to take a bath. Our master bath has no tub, and I don't want one!

 

I just don't get the "women love baths" thing, b/c I sure don't. ;-)

Edited January 29, 2011 by Lisa in Jax

[Punchie]

I haven't taken a bath since...well...um....1997 at the very latest? I'm not a bath person either. I don't like getting wet. I don't like swimming pools or lakes either. The ocean doesn't bother me.

[Giraffe]

My DH insists my kids shower off after a bath. He wants them to rinse the residue off their skin. They're not rewashing, but they are rinsing.

 

I'm just the opposite. When 10 y/o dd asks if she can take a bath, I tell her to take a shower first, to wash her hair and get all clean, and then she can fill the tub and soak and play in the bathwater as long as she wants.

 

We do both, sometimes. I wash DD standing up in the tub, kinda like a shower but with a cup instead of the overhead spray. Then we rinse the bubbles out,fill the tub, and she "swims". Afterwards we drain the tub and DH wants her to rinse off again. I usually forget the after-bath rinse. :D