Comments | attimes_bracing: Whither the bath.

attimes_bracing

Whither the bath.

Jan 31, 2016 20:13

A random though hit me today. Many do but this one stuck. In this day and age do we really need a bath in our homes? I have had one bath in 8 months. My mother has used her bath twice in twenty years but despite a tiny bathroom which necessitated a corner bath to make it fit, refuses to remove it and put in a far more practical walk in shower ( Read more... )

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history_monk January 31 2016, 20:38:00 UTC

In a shower, I feel I'm at risk of falling, because I can't see well enough (steam, can't wear contact lenses, or glasses for part of it) for that to assist my dodgy sense of balance. I also positively enjoy a bath: it's comfortable and relaxing. .

uitlander January 31 2016, 20:38:41 UTC

I view my bath as one of life's essential luxuries. The bathroom, with a deep and luxourious bathtub, was one of the major "oh yes" features of the house. I start the day with a bath and may relax and unwind in another after work. It is my favourite things, made more wonerful by my memories of fieldwork in Africa and the absence of any private bathing facilities for 3 months. On return to civilisation I had a room reserved in the Maseru Sun with a capacious bathtub and would not emerge until I had achieved full prunedom. I could not contemplate living somewhere without a bath.

mevennen January 31 2016, 21:25:25 UTC

So, we have two baths. We have 3 bathrooms. One bath doesn't work, to my great rage, because I like baths, but the water pressure is wrong (several plumbers have failed to solve the problem permanently). The other bath, in an even less heated part of the house, is full of boxes of science fiction books.

The shower works well.

Ask me again after Eastercon.

andrewducker January 31 2016, 21:36:52 UTC

I need a shower, but I _like_ baths.

Although I would really like a bigger one.

brixtonbrood January 31 2016, 21:48:27 UTC

One of the problems with a bath-free house is that no family with small children will ever buy/rent it by choice, so it restricts your market - unless it's the sort of home that would already not be popular with families.

Baths are my guilty eco-crime. We have a huge one and I can have three a day if given half a chance.