Is it the end of daily showers

markin · 17 January 2023 at 12:49AM

Buying own brand beaked beans saves you enough for a long shower, So eat a can every day and shower every day.

Mstty · 17 January 2023 at 7:40AM

michaels said:

I have cut down to alternate days shower / bath from bath every day. None of the other 4 in the house are willing to compromise on two long showers per day.

As long as they contribute to the bills........ They could do what they like would be the way we would deal with it, or if they were young good time for energy and cost and education.

Tough subject to bring up but again if it's affordable.......

cobnobbler · 17 January 2023 at 12:34PM

Basic cleanliness, ie showering every day, is the hill that I'll die on regarding energy use. I'll cut back on pretty much everything before dropping this. I can't leave the house in the morning without having a shower, makes me feel "icky". Genuinely grosses me out whenever someone says they don't shower every day, gadz.

MuckChucker · 17 January 2023 at 6:07PM

Showering everyday is not needed by all - probably by anyone but differing lifestyles and all that. . .(in fact it's bad for your hair/scalp to wash it every day)

Since going WFH is when my showering habits started changing. No need for the daily 7am wake-up burst of water on the body anymore, nothing to do with hygiene. I must actually track my showering habits as I'm a bit all over the place as it's some days at home, then evenings after training, Saturday after matches, I definitely don't aim for everyday but it might happen by accident.

Since the energy hulabaloo, I have noted that we have the worst possible type of shower i.e. 8.5kw electric pumped Triton thingamabob, so a while ago I started showering the kids from the other shower head connected to the bath taps - pressure isn't great but fine for the kids. The tank gets heated for 30 mins at 16:30 every day - this was every other day up until November/December. In the last few weeks I actually got a longer shower hose and connected it in place of the original bath tap shower so it can reach up to the holder of the electric shower that the adults use (I hope that makes sense) and have started using it myself - it not as good as the electric shower but but in all honesty, it's fine, I've showered in much worse after a football match!

That just leaves the wife. She's not going to give up her post NHS hospital shift scrub so there's no avoiding the electric shower for that one. Still, it's all progress on the home energy use tracker.

Money_Mad · 17 January 2023 at 9:18PM

When I’m working from home, I shower every other day this time of year. But if I’m going out or going in to the office I will have a shower. In the summer it will probably be back to every day.

Postik · 18 January 2023 at 10:53AM

I already cut back on showers a long time ago. I used to shower every day and as one poster above said the days that I don't I do feel a bit "icky". But on the days I don't shower, I feel like I'm saving time, money and not having to get the bathroom dry which is not so bad in the summer but a pain in winter (opening windows, etc). It does feel like a bit of a treat now when I do have a shower lol.

Mstty · 18 January 2023 at 10:57AM

Postik said:

I already cut back on showers a long time ago. I used to shower every day and as one poster above said the days that I don't I do feel a bit "icky". But on the days I don't shower, I feel like I'm saving time, money and not having to get the bathroom dry which is not so bad in the summer but a pain in winter (opening windows, etc). It does feel like a bit of a treat now when I do have a shower lol.

I do think covid lockdowns changed our habits before the energy crises as well. What with working from home and I. Leisure wear the showers were definitely every other day and that has continued as we found we don't smell and as you say above less drying of the bathroom, less cost, saved time and makes the showers nicer when you have one. Spot on