Whither the bath.

[attimes_bracing]

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

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[coughingbear]

I love baths and I have one most mornings. So would definitely never want to live in a house without one.

[ffutures]

I mostly shower (in the tub), don't use it as a bath much because the water supply is crap and it is a LONG job putting in enough to be worthwhile. Use it for washing various things e.g. the big stones and other stuff from my snakes' vivarium.

[owlfish]

I really really love baths. But my parents' place in Italy doesn't have one and honestly? I would be willing to live there anyways.

[were_gopher]

Oh yeah. A hot tub would mean I can get the theraputic warming of the dodgy bits of my skeleton while reading in comfort. (Really must get some of those stick on non slip bits.)

[desperance]

Before I left the UK, I had a bath pretty much every night: a long deep hot soak with Radio 4 and possibly a drink perhaps, as much about therapy as soap.

In the four years since I came to California, I have not had a single bath.

The "bathtub" in our house here is barely deeper than a shower-pan, and embarrassingly short; if I sat straight up like an L I might just get water enough to cover my legs. Maybe. That is useless to me bathwise, so I shower. And miss baths tremendously, and remain untherapeuted.

K says it's a safety feature to reassure families with small kids (pace your correspondent above) that their little darlings are safe from drowning, even unattended. I say it's a torment for the damned, meaning we expats who understand what a bath should be. Sigh.