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Do you shower with the water running?
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To shower without water seems like a crazy concept. It is not even a shower at that point.. may as well fill 2 buckets with water.
If you're into the uber-conservation kind of thing, then I can see how it would make sense, but for us normal folks, I'll stick to my usual routine (which includes hot water and plenty of it).
If you're into the uber-conservation kind of thing, then I can see how it would make sense, but for us normal folks, I'll stick to my usual routine (which includes hot water and plenty of it).
Didn't know that, over here most places made the move away from them because they are less convenient and generally more expensive to run!
Was he making an issue of you showering with the water on or taking a long time? I've never heard of anyone showering with the water off. I've only heard of some women turning the shower off to shave their legs
I use to take 'Texas baths' on occasion. What that would consist of would be hoping into the tub and just washing your body down with a wet cloth. It'd be a quick way to rinse your body off without getting super wet and without wasting a lot of water. You could literally be in and out of it in 20 seconds if you knew what you were doing. It was just a good way to rinse down before going out.
Wow...this is interesting...I guess nobody cares about wasting water. Most replies seem to be from the US/UK, where there's water plants providing for everyone...I'm from the Caribbean and although we have that, it's not always reliable (shut off sometimes or pressure is low), so many use rain water collected in cisterns for general use. Showering the way most of you describe will kill your water supply in the dry seasons.
I fail to see how it's insane...You turn on the shower for a minute or so to warm up and start lathering. Turn it off and continue washing, then turn it turn it back on to rinse. I moved to Boston for 4 years where there was "unlimited" water and cold mornings and still showered like this...plus it's much easier to see if you missed a spot if you're not washing the soap off the very second after...
Haha Maki, an ex-gf of mine from Japan also showered this way so, hmmm maybe we're weird :-S
I fail to see how it's insane...You turn on the shower for a minute or so to warm up and start lathering. Turn it off and continue washing, then turn it turn it back on to rinse. I moved to Boston for 4 years where there was "unlimited" water and cold mornings and still showered like this...plus it's much easier to see if you missed a spot if you're not washing the soap off the very second after...
Haha Maki, an ex-gf of mine from Japan also showered this way so, hmmm maybe we're weird :-S
Dry season? Is that like when it only rains a couple times each day
Don't know if you're kidding but believe it or not, as hot as it is down here it doesn't rain everyday and when it does, sometimes it's for a few short minutes, or it doesn't deliver much rain. Also, many Caribbean homes are built with concrete with flat concrete roofs: Not the prettiest, and don't collect rainwater as well, but they can withstand serious hurricanes very well (my grandma's house for example has weathered some of the nastiest hurricanes over the past 40 years without any serious damage)
(hence the wee emoticon).
I've been to the island in the Caribbean where my wife is from and showered that way. In fact, her father's house didn't even have a shower at all until the year before we visited - they live a two minute walk from the ocean, and that's where people usually bathe.
But where we live, there is no problem with water shortages. There is so much water here we don't know what to do with it, so we build dams and sell the surplus electricity. In fact, we had major flooding this year because most of the drainage from three nearby provinces, and a few US states comes directly to Manitoba before emptying into the ocean. As I like to tell people, Manitoba is basically a big ditch in the middle of North America - not too long ago most of the province was an enormous lake called Lake Agassiz, which "held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today". We've been slowly drying out over the past 10,000 years.
Lake Agassiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edit: Forgot to answer the OP! Yes, I shower with the water running, usually about 3-4 minutes, sometimes longer if it's a really cold day and I want to warm up (cold would be somewhere in the -20s and -30s, Celsius)
Well, I definitely understand the reasons for the surplus, but still, waste not want not (or so I was always taught)
Well, I definitely understand the reasons for the surplus, but still, waste not want not (or so I was always taught)
Can't argue with that!
I turn the water off while I lather up and wash my hair. Then I turn it back on to rinse.
We waste insane amounts of water in this country (USA). Most of us probably let more water go down the drain warming it up than the average person uses in an entire day in some countries.
When we deplete our clean water supply, we'll be in a world of hurt.
We waste insane amounts of water in this country (USA). Most of us probably let more water go down the drain warming it up than the average person uses in an entire day in some countries.
When we deplete our clean water supply, we'll be in a world of hurt.
I turn it off to soap up and back on to rinse, more often than not shave and brush my teeth in there too, I ain't that pretty.
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Never known of anyone to shower without the water running. Although I know some houses that have very little hot water and I can understand your friends concern. Perhaps what you thought was a 5-7 minute shower was a bit more.
Anyhow, I'd like to share my shower story, which I've no reason to share in any other thread.
I was once at a 5 day pagan festival which was clothing optional. Starwood, in upstate NY. It was at a campground that had 3 sets of showers. 2 indoor (seperate men and women) and one outdoor outdoor (about 5 shower heads with multiple people under each at any given time). Men and women showered together.
Sooooooo..... the indoor, private showers sucked. Mostly cold water, and mostly a drip kind of thing. No real force. Not being a run around nake kinda guy, I chose these less desirable showers. It took a long while to lather and rinse. And yes, on this fateful day I lathered up, hair, body, the works... and, the water stops.
It doesn't come back on.
I'm stuck and I'm pissed and I'm with no option but to walk about a quarter mile all soaped up to the community shower. There were all kinds there. And yes, there was an attractive woman or 2. I jumped in with them all. I was so freekin nervous that there wasn't a chance of any kind of embarrassing incident happening. Not a chance.
It was actually a liberating experience. These types of things aren't what most people make them out to be either. But that could be a whole nuther thread topic.
That's my shower story. Hope you enjoyed.
I did. I could just see you walking all soaped up to the shower. lol
I knew a guy in university who admitted he never showered. Only a sponge bath once per week. His hair was really funky and until then I could never figure out why.
I keep the water running but actually it makes perfect sense not to.
We don't realize how much water we spill. Some kind of closed circuitry that lets the water heat up internally inside the tap would be great as well.
We don't realize how much water we spill. Some kind of closed circuitry that lets the water heat up internally inside the tap would be great as well.
