Bath VS ShoweR

shower, unless i have company (well, company is fine in the shower too)

I have never enjoyed sitting in dirty water.

ditto diddie, or is that Mr Diddie your excellency mr president sir.

"Lord Diddie" will suffice until my coronation--errr, inauguration.

Has anyone seen the First Lady?

Bet she's taking a bath...

Since I always feel like I need a shower to rinse off after my bath, I go straight to the shower. I wish I didn't have to care about the resale value of this house. I'd get rid of the shower and just have a giant walk-in shower. <sigh> Love those big walk-in showers.

I'm think I'm taking a bath right now

I shower for convenience sake, but I love a bath, with bubbles, candles, and soft music, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm !

I never liked taking a bath, and my common excuse was -as PDiddie and farmerman, said, too- tthat I don't like to sit in dirty water.

It might well be, however, that this is "going deeper":
when I was young, we just had one bath for all the family in our house, fired by a coal oven. So, on Saturdays, grandma, granaunt, mother, fatehr, aunts went into the tub.
Because the water had to be heated every time, this took quite long - with the consequence that we children had to use "used" bathing water.

My favorite is my daily bath. I think they're faster than a shower if you're in a hurry because you can be busy while the tub is filling, and you don't have to scrub yourself, you can just lie there and soak a while, calming yourself. I also like to add various things to the bathwater, especially perfumes and oil. This evening my bath had saki in it which is quite refreshing!

We have one of those big walk-in showers and it is great, although it is horrible to keep clean. I use it when I want to wake up quickly. I'll also shower to rinse off when I've come from swimming or from working out. For general ablutions, there's nothing like a bath.

I love my bubble baths unless of course I'm dirty ;-)

If I have all the time in the world, I really prefer a good wood-fired Finnish sauna. Temp. should be at least 170o F., birch branch wiftes handy. Ahhh,heaven.

bath, hot tub, finnish sauna, russian steam room, they're all great. i wish i had them all at home. until then, when stressed or tired, a big bubbly bath will suffice.

I have a huge walk in shower, and a large tub. I use the shower every day. I have lived in this house for over 9 years, and if the tub has been used 5 times, that's a lot. I really should fill it with dirt, and grow vegetables in it! (There is a skylight over the tub!)

I have never been tempted to drink bathwater so adding wine or milk or cola never occured to me. Walter, you have , in you past bath lives recount, managed to completely gross me out. I had to wash in muddy rivers but at least I never knew where the mud came from , and the water was moving.
Ehbeth, I was staying in a suite at a great hotel in New Orleans last year and had one of those showers that was configured like a car wash. There were shower heads coming from all the compass points and some coming up from the low ends of the wall. It was Great, the water was so intense that you had to set all the flows and temps on the outside of the shower.

Showers....much more hygenic to pee in...

I didn't drink the saki, Ick!!! It was recommended in a book and I had some old saki.... (see #4, below)

I find it kind of odd but assume that taking a bath in the common water was a form of combining all personal energy and strength from one generation to the next.I would love to conduct a study. The family that baths together stays together.Uncanny as it may seem,aura strengthen water is a vital source of spiritual refreshment. I think the slow leaching of the skin is better in a bath. It also perhaps uses equivalent or less water in some cases.In a bath you can enter it hoping to achieve one specific relation. Any residue left on the skin simply is wiped off not that there is ever much.% minutes in a good bath relaxed head almost floating bubbles aplenty.Here in Montreal we have one fabulous cheap product which only cost a dollar a litre. It is blue green sea algea.I believe it's 100% and makes the water a turquiose dream.

"Chilled sake is the hot new thing" -New York Times. Lol, funny how a centuries-old practice can become a new thing....and true, sake is brewed, not fermented like wine, so it actually bears more in common to beer, in terms of method. Bathing in sake seems a tad excessive to me, why waste good sake?

It's relaxing to take a bath with wonderful smelling salts, and rinse off after. Taking a shower isn't relaxing, 'cause you can't lie down and soak. Blue green algae? Hmmmm. Does it smell good?