Showering habit is one's individual thing. I enjoy taking shower in the morning and in the afternoon twice a day. I would love to have a bath at least once per week but unfortunately I rent the place which doesnt have this facility. I wonder how much such an exercise entails? I guess it would have to be consulted with landlord first to get a permission. As my significant half raised this question many times before, is there anyone in similar situation who would want such upgrade?
Do you have a combined bath/shower ? - put the plug in one day and see how much water you use to take your shower...
We have a waterproof 'shower timer' ...
I agree, water is a scarce global resource, and it takes energy to process water...both in the collection, purification, transportation, and to process all your shower water at the sewerage treatment works...
Gosh, I can't believe grownups can speak like this . DO you really mean our using up water has no impact on the environment?
Apart from pumping and purification energy costs, heating up water for one liesurely shower takes enough energy to cook a day's meal for an entire household in some poorer nation.
What exactly is "unused water"? You mean you are making the world a better place to live by sanctifying it with your bath water
Young kids don't need to bathe every day in fact, according to our son's paedatrician it's not good for their delicate skin. We bathe our 2 year old 2 to 3 times a week for that reason (unless he's come back from a day out filthy, of course).
As an adult I have always showered or bathed once a day and I think this is the norm here. Apart from anything I don't feel fully awake until I've been blasted in the shower in the morning.
What about the bloody shampoo or chemicals you use in the bathroom
More consumption means more pollution,more refineries needed, more energy due to pumping and transport, more fuel as you sissies don't shower on cold water, more pressure on reserviors,....
Even your Pussy cat or Owl knows not to overuse water!
This thread seriously comes as a real shock to me. I thought most people showered on a daily basis. At least I do, but I wash my hair every other day, just because its annoying to have to blow dry and then straighten it.
I can't wash mine too regularly for that very reason - I would wake up and find someone has replaced my hair with a bale of hay if I were to attempt to wash it more than about once or possibly twice a week.
I worked with a girl back in the UK who tried that experiment where you don't wash your hair for 6 weeks and it is supposed then to start to self-cleanse. She nearly gave up after 3 weeks because it was just a ball of grease but persevered and lo and behold, after 5 weeks it started to go back to normal. After 8 weeks she went back to washing it but just with water (no shampoo) and her flaming red hair always looked stunning and healthy.
A friend of mine did this back home, and at first it was greasy, and did not smell very pleasant, but after a period of about 10 weeks her hair was cleaner and healther than mine and to think i spend a fortune on hair products and she doesn`t spend anything I just don`t think i could go through the greasy, smelly period to get the end results