Bath or shower - lighthearted!

I love a bath. I have the radio on and keep topping up with hot water. A shower is just for speed if I’m going out or need to be quick.
Those who read, don’t your books get wet?

We have a bath once a week on a Sunday morning so the bathtub gets a clean. I sit there with a face pack and hair pack and discuss the week to come with DH. But I need a shower when I get out, having sat in my own soup.

It is handy to put the DGC in for a happy half hour though.

I like a bath, DH likes a shower. We are both 84.

This is what we did. Our combined loo and bathroom is 6ft x 10 ft and we just had the space to put a shower on the same long wall as the loo, and a perspex screen between.
Here is a , not very clear, photo which pleases us both.

I find it hard to get in or out of my bath, so opt for the shower. I can't lift my feet in the shower to wash them, though, as I fear I might lose my balance. After I am washed and dried, I then have to sit on the settee and wash my feet in a bowl. What a performance!

I have a bath, but don’t use it for obvious reasons. The shower is not the walk-in type. I would like to replace it with one of those, but money and upheaval !!!!

I used to find a bath really relaxing. Now on the very rare occasions when I have one, I spend my time worrying whether I will be able to get out or if the fire brigade will need to be called.

I was lying in the bath a while ago, reading my book, when my five year old grandson came in. He put his elbows on the side of the bath, head in hands and studied me, floating boobs and tummy. I waited for The Comment - “ The problem is, how to keep your book dry”

I only ever have a bath at home although we do also have a shower. I use the shower very unwillingly when on holiday or on a cruise ship. I’ve never liked the feeling of water on my face which comes from many years of wearing glasses for severe short sight. I can see so much better since my cataract operations but still hate showering!

It's a bath every time for me.

The only time I shower is in hotels or holiday lets as I can't stand the idea of the people that have been in there before me!

I'm odd I know!

Shower for me mostly and its the best place for hairwashing and leg shaving. BUT I love a nice bath after a cold day golfing or walking but I don't do it often. The bath in this house is huge and takes a lot of filling. You would think new houses would have small baths or no baths. A bath is lovely for my back.

I like both, but there’s nothing like a long bath with a book and a drink for relaxation. It seems to warm the bones and I’m so fortunate that getting in and out isn’t a problem.
Many years ago, we had a huge freestanding bath put into our family bathroom - I’ve never used it. In fact, I think the only person who has is my SinL after she completed the Great North Run, probably 15 years ago!

Shower every time. The dog is the only user of the bath in this house! It’s been the same for years….

When we had a bathroom refit we installed a walk-in shower, as well as keeping the bath, so that should either of us find as we got older we could not get in and out the bath, we had an alternative

The only person who uses the shower is DD, when she visits.

I use our second bathroom because it has a huge 1960's plastic bath, as solid and nearly as heavy as a cast-iron one. I wallow in it, no bubbles, just hot water that flows over and around me.

Soaking in the bath is one of my mental and physical luxuries. I soothe my conscious water-wise by only having one every other day.

Showers are too much like hard work, You have to work at making sure you are thoroughly clean. In a bath, you relax and the water does all the hard work.

I am a spa visitor. For me water is meant to be relaxing.

As lemsip says you can use the hand shower to do all your "bits"

The last time I had a bath (years ago) my arthritis made getting up a real problem so I have showered ever since. It uses less water (therefore cheaper) and is quicker. I have never been a fan of lying around in water.

you can have a real clean in the shower by holding the shower head and putting it up and under and anywhere you want it!
puzzled by your remark!

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Or (b) containing a reluctant dog in one.🤣🤣🤣
Our dog isn’t reluctant but I do go in there with her.

I would much prefer a nice relaxing bath but cannot manage getting out. So, showers have to do.

One other thing about showers and wet rooms: ever tried (a) washing a young child and helping them rinse their hair ? Or (b) containing a reluctant dog in one ? That is without getting soaking wet yourself.
Perhaps resort to swimwear😅

Bath, no doubt.
I hate showers- must date from school days.
Our bath is small, so doesn't take long to fill, or rather part- fill. I don’t stay in long, and takes me as long to get dry as to bathe.
But a bath reaches parts that a shower can’t.

Both, and like Nanna8 we have a spa bath. I save it for weekends or GC visits. Showers are so quick, but a bath is so relaxing.

It’s what suits people really. I just found it amazing after three years to lie back in scented water. My problem is getting out! I have small rails on the bath, but my knees did hurt getting out, it’s what has been putting me off really. But I did it! (Now I will go on to save the world!). I wish. No just the usual. Have a lovely weekend.

We have both. The bath is a small spa bath with 6 jets, very relaxing. If I have a bath I take a book with me and read, not something you could do in a shower!

In this retirement flat I only have a walk-in shower. I hate it. However, I could no longer manage the bath in my last house. I could get in, but getting out was another matter. How I miss it! I agree with those who think you never feel really clean with a shower. The water goes down you, but it doesn’t go round you, and I find I have to wash various bits separately, before or after the shower.

A bath is relaxing, a shower is not, and it isn’t any quicker. My baths took less than ten minutes if I didn’t choose to wallow. Get in, wash all over, get out.

Both ideally😊
But I have to “make do” with a wet room.
My solution has been (find a plastic chair) that *doesn’t look like it belongs in a care setting and a good quality plastic rectangular washing up bowl - one with a stopper for drainage. Sit under shower and soak feet in bubbles etc etc.
Have to hunt far and wide for these