taking showers. i hate 'em!!

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The shower head in my shower has such low water pressure that I can barely rinse off with it. My mother won't get a different one and if she did we wouldn't know how to install it. Because of this I quit taking showers and only take baths.

I love having a shower when its a stinking hot day its so refreshing.

nothing like cooling shower water to rinse away the yucky sticky oily sweat.

I love shower! I advice, you should put the fan off. It helps.

I'm ok with showers. Im always constantly adjusting the heat, angle, EVERYTHING (sort yourself out, brain!) but it's a good way for me to be productive...ish.

However, I also suck at showering because I never remember to do anything past washing my hair (sort of.) 9/10 times I forget to wash my body

I always follow a routine when I shower so I don't forget anything major. body first, hair last. in order-

*underarms and arms
*right upper torso and right side of neck
*left upper torso and left side of neck
*lower torso and groin
*left upper backside torso and buttocks
*right upper backside torso and buttocks
*left leg and foot
*right leg and foot
*face and ears
*shampoo hair
*rinse from head to toe.

I never washed my hair in the shower when I used to take showers. The water pressure isn't good enough and I don't like getting water on my face. I don't see how you could wash your hair in the shower without getting water on your face.

I love taking showers, they're really relaxing to me and they give me time to just sit and think about stuff without getting distracted. Althought I can't enjoy any shower that isn't hot-- it takes away from it somehow.

I can't stand taking baths. It's really awkward to me. Plus, the water gets cold too quickly.

I both like and dislike showers.

I dislike them because they're somewhat traumatic.
The transitions into and out of the shower are too intense and relatively uncomfortable.
Also, depending on the situation you might have to deal with other peoples' water usage affecting your heat, and/or you might only have a limited amount of heat, both of which generally suck.

I like them because I like the feeling of the hot water, standing nder it and just warming up my whole body, loosening my muscles and relaxing me.
I like being cleaner afterwards.
I like to sing.
I like to just stand there and think about things.
Also, I shave when I shower, and shaving makes my face not itch, which is nice.
Finally, I blow my nose in the shower extensively because the steam helps loosen the mucus in my sinuses.
It's nice to have clear sinuses for a little while, and it helps my allergies to clear out the old mucus.

to guard against abrupt temperature transitions in and out of the shower, in the summer I have a fan blowing and in the winter a space heater going while I shower and while I am drying off.

In the last place I lived for a while I had to shower in the dark but there was a window so some light came in.

Our landlord installed a gfci outlet in the bathroom. It made a loud humming/buzzing noise (at least loud to me) that really bothered me and triggered panic attacks in me. He installed it through the bathroom light and after a while I figured out that turning the bathroom light off cut the power to the outlet and stopped the noise. From then until we moved we just left the light off and kept the curtain open during the day and used a flashlight at night. There wasn't a window across from the bathroom and the houses were very close together so no one could see in. It was upstairs too.

Personally, I LOVE my showers.

In, washed, shampooed, pits shaved, face washed, and out in 10 minutes or less. Back to my life.

I do realize that shower-haters have some valid points. I abhor head-movers-- but I've learned to deal with moving it back. Mark the spot on the wall where the spray is supposed to hit with a dot from a Sharpie. Works wonders-- I swear, someone at my in-laws delighted in moving the shower head so it would spray water on the floor just so they could yell at me for getting water on the floor. This makes it fast and easy to put the shower head back in the right place.

They're really NOT kidding about the dishwasher/washing machine/toilet flushing while in the shower business. It was very difficult for my mother (a 45-minute shower fan) to get me to understand and remember this. Saint Alan cured it easily: ONCE, while I was in the shower, he flushed the toilet-- I never scalded anyone again. ONCE, he ran a load of "hot" laundry-- I never froze anyone again. Please be advised that he made sure to explain what had happened, and that he'd done it deliberately to illustrate a point, and to be kind in the explanation, not loud or accusatory or angry, just sensible. Try it on YOUR family.

Spray hurts-- sometimes, I can't tolerate it either. That's generally when I take a sponge bath, or use the kid's leftover bathwater and a pitcher.

The important things here are soap, water, shampoo, and a washcloth. It matters that they are applied frequently. The method of application is far less relevant (unless you happen to be an environmentalist, or just strapped for dihydrous monoxide-- in which case the sponge bath is definitely preferred).