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I shower for about 10-15 minutes and feel like that's "long". I literally spend half of the time with my arms over the...idk what it's called, the bar over my sliding glass doors...just letting the hot water hit my back. It's one of my favorite parts of the day, but after 15 or so min, my hands get pruney and I just want to get out. 30 min seems uncomfortably long.
I’m winning insane arguments with myself in there.
You'll have to tell me how you do that. I always lose insane arguments with myself.
If you switch which you is you you'll be winning those arguments instead.
I'm confused , my super ego is battling my alter ego and I lost track on who is who
Shaving
Crying on the floor
The whole routine takes a while
Got a heat pump so now long showers use much less energy.
Now makes me wonder what the COP is during the summer, if you time the shower so that the heat pump works during the hot part of the day it should be pretty high. 30°c outside, barely needs to work to heat the water.
The scalding water serves as a moderately acceptable substitute for the warmth of human contact I’m so terrible at cultivating.
And then feel guilty for wasting so much water.
I want to nitpick the definition of “waste” for a moment. Yes, you are using a lot of water, and energy if the water is heated, BUT if you’re getting something remotely positive out of it (and you’re paying for it), then I would not consider it wasteful. If you genuinely want to label it as something, then let’s compromise and call it therapeutic. Deal?
Unless you're in California or any other area with a low water table. Then it's a huge issue.
Compare this person’s shower to the many farms growing almonds in the same state.
You are right
At the same time
I can’t whataboutism limited resources
Abolish almonds
Just abolished a bag this morning.
If I was Governor of California I'd push to make it so Almonds and Alfalfa can't be grown during the drought seasons.
I can live without a legume and I don't think I know a single person in my entire circle's circles who has eaten alfalfa.
The alfalfa isn't for humans, it's for high intensity dairy and cattle farming.
It sucks that this is practically occult information. People have no understanding of the damage they do.
Yup, it’s just beef, cheese and milk. Though if you can find them without e.coli their sprouts are good on sandwiches too.
You must also consider the externalities, not just the financial cost that you bear personally.
Lowtechmagazine wrote an excellent article about decadent mist showers that use many small nozzles spraying very fine mist particle sizes water on you as a much more efficient way to use water for showers. I would love to install and try out something like that one day.
I really want to take super long showers, but I pay the water bill so.....
Fact is, the shower we have is.... Strange to say the least.
It's a wand. Only a wand. Most wand showers also hang up in a way that allows you to just, use it like a normal shower.... Not this one. I actually hate it, but don't have the budget to replace it right now, since it will likely need a partial renovation for the bathroom and that's our only shower, so everyone is going to get a bit stinky while it's reno'd.
What I want to do is to add a new bathroom with a shower/bath, then reno the current one, so we can shower during the reno.
Edit: before anyone else comments about how easy it is to change your shower head, I don't think you understand exactly how strange our shower is. There's nowhere to put a "normal" shower head. There's no pipe coming out of the wall at head-height that we can connect a shower head to. The wand literally goes into the wall of the tub when it's not in use (similar to how the sprayer things work on some kitchen sinks.... If you're familiar with that, but the controls are not just a button on the handle to turn it on, they're on the edge of the tub.
Weird enough for you?
I can see a cutout in the wall panel of the shower where the diverter should go, and it's not cut open. We will need to tear out about half of the wall panels to put in the diverter and a standard shower head connector thing.... I'm not a plumber, but the one we hired when the original hardware in the shower started leaking took about three days or more to find hardware to install that would work with the odd layout of it.
I know it doesn't really come across by text, so if you want some semblance of what I'm dealing with, the wand is a bit like this one... Or at least closer to this than what you have in your showers: https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/Bath-Rim-Pull-Out-Shower-Head.html
Yeah. I hate it.
I just bought one of those suction cup shower head holders for my current place when I found it doesn't have a holder. Works fine, although it's a bit temperamental about the surface.
Those are very cheap so try getting one?
the noise of the shower is the only thing that drowns out the tinnitus i've had for over 20 years. so yea, i'm often in there til the water goes cold.
Hot water on skin is comforting and calming like few other things. If I could work from the shower I probably would.
We have the technology
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Okay first thing i do is i turn on the water, and hold the shower head in my hand, pointing it away from myself until the water is hot.
Then i quickly spray the water all over my body, so i am completely wet. Then hang up the shower head, and step under it.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Then i put shampoo in my hair, armpits and crotch, then finally soap everywhere else.
Make sure to get all the soap off, then dry myself. Total of ~45min.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
After this, I first need to remember if I'm already done washing myself or haven't started yet.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Pretty much this for me.
I've gotten pretty good at 10 minute showers before work, but I absolutely blank out from time to time.
Dude, I'm shaving! Shaving my face and everywhere else I need. Also brushing my teeth. Still doesn't take 30 but it feels good to be hot water my god. Just like a bath or hot tub. Why rush?
I used to stare off into nothingness in the shower. It would take maybe 7-8 minutes to actually wash myself; sporadically throughout the process, I'd zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Now, I've got long curly hair that needs frequent tending to. Unless I want my showers to be an hour+ long, I gotta stay focused. I still stare off into nothingness while brushing and whatnot, that helps take away the dread.
falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.
Finally! Someone gets me! 💙
Honestly, I just zone out for a bit. Especially during the winter it's nice to have warm water pouring over you
I'm tryin hard going back to fish.