Jan 14

Jan 14 Shower -v- Bath

Well, we all use one or even both of these, but which do you prefer?

As a child, I would imagine you all had baths, and who remembers the tin bath in front of the fire? I never experienced that as the flat we lived in had a bathroom, and when I was about 10, my Dad installed a shower over the bath.

I would imagine kids loved it, but not much privacy as you got older

Obviously pulled inside the bath when showering

I used to love a bath as a young child, rubber ducks as well, and felt quite proud of myself that I could swim the length of the bath, lol!
Of course, once the shower was in, it was shower time all the time.
And I remember those horrible plastic shower curtains you had to pull around to stop the water going everywhere.

Since then I have stuck with a shower, and don't have a bath in the house at all. We did install one but it never got used, so got rid of it. You can’t beat a nice walk-in shower cubicle.

Even some animals like a bath/shower

Most cats tend not to, but a Siamese is no problem to give a bath to. Dogs tend not to like it cos it makes them smell nice and that goes against their instinct.

“Generally, taking a shower uses less water than a full bath. A standard showerhead flows at a rate of 2.5 gallons per minute. This means that a ten-minute shower only uses 25 gallons of water. A full bath can use up to 50 gallons of water.” So generally a shower is more economical and to my mind cleaner. In a bath, you are sitting in dirty water !