My hot water tank runs out quick so if I let it warm up it’ll be cold by the time I get in.
I’m down to military showers, 8 minutes (heavy scrub independent of the time)
It can be a poverty thing too.
If you struggle to pay normal bills, letting it warm up makes the bill higher. So grow up poor, and you find out lots of habits of yours exist to save less than a dollar a day.
Does water service not come with a base volume in most places? Where I am, we have a base service fee of $20/m and that includes like the first 2000 gallons, and I struggle to even hit that most months. Jumping in a cold shower wouldn’t actually save me any money .
I think it’s a about heating the water and not the amount of water used
In the US, I’ve never seen that on any water bill in my life. It’s just dollars per gallon here.
How closely have you looked at your bill? This has been the case in at least 3 different places in the US for me.
Not insanely closely to be honest.
Same here, lived in a few different states and usually never got out of the first “tier” pricing bracket (where this billing method was used), so my water bills were pretty much to the penny the same every month.
Yeah, we have a base amount of water here. 2 people never got over base, with 3 we sometimes go over and have to pay more.
You’re also paying for your heater to heat that water. If you don’t use as much hot water, your electricity/gas bill should be slightly lower.
As my WW2 veteran grandfather used to say: “armpits and assholes”.
The Carlin version is armpits assholes crotch and teeth
Is 8 minutes considered a fast shower?
Maybe if you have long hair lol. I’m way faster than 8 mins
Letting it warm up means waiting until the water coming out of the faucet/shower head is warm instead of cold.
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I always wash my flip flops in the cold water while waiting for it to warm up. There’s probably something productive that everyone can do with the cold water.
I punched shower sock boy into Duckduckgo and don’t see much. Help?
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Mom never heard of college shower flipflops.
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Thank you. I figured it was old Reddit lore.
You punched Shower Sock Boy? Hasn’t he been through enough?
they actually sell these recirculating pumps to keep the hot water in the pipes
I remember in first or second grade when I realized that, when I made a mistake, I didn’t have to erase the whole word and I could just erase the part I messed up.
Thankful not to be a medieval monk and having to throw away the whole page / scroll when you make a mistake
I used to have these small faux pas lead to tension and eventually the loss of relationships.
One day I was complaining to my zen teacher about one of these instances and he suggested I apologize for it.
He said “That’s called ‘make mistake, correct mistake’” (I think he made up the saying on the spot for me).
Now some twelve years later I’m still reminding myself that I can just correct my mistakes.
I’m sorry what?
Yeah you should try it next time, it’s a game changer.
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I can’t do that. If I mess a word up the whole thing is dead.
Same for passwords. If I feel I missed a key, in deleting the whole thing and starting it over
Yeah, my hands on a keyboard can’t spell words, they just muscle-memory them. One spelling error and I have to erase amd rewrite the entire word.
Oooh, the password thing totally gets me. Usually I have to start over because I don’t know where I messed up. I type them in too damn fast and by the time the little brain part that’s monitoring things says, “Hey, that one key was wrong,” I’m ten characters beyond and wasn’t counting anyway, so I have to start over.
Yeah I might be a weirdo. I count the dots to where I was still comfortable assuming the password was correct until, delete to there, and finish the password again and pretty much always works.
When I was about 8 years old my aunt told me she returned a belt to the store because the buckle wouldn’t fit through the belt loops in her pants. I’ll never forget the look on her face when I told her to put it through the other end first.
Bested by an 8 year-old. What utter humiliation.
I didn’t realize I could dry off with a towel while still standing in the bathtub/shower until I was 26. Now my bathroom floor doesn’t get wet on a daily basis.
That’s what bath mats are for…
Ok, but why not leave all the water in the spot that actually has a drain for it?
I believe wet bathrooms have a drain in the middle of the bathroom. This is the way we should build all bathrooms.
Bathrooms should have a floor drain regardless of whether they are of the wet variety. I personally hate the concept of a wet bathroom and the behaviour it encourages. Stuff gets wet that shouldn’t, it just makes everything harder and expands the scope of cleaning while compromising “dry” tasks after someone else has used the shower if they partake in the undisciplined behaviour the design encourages. Also not a fan of all the functions being in one room.
I might be using the term wet bathroom wrong, I just mean the floor should have a drain (and be able to get wet obviously).
Because your towel will get wet when drying your feet and such.
…lift up your feet.
No you don’t touch the towel to the shower floor, you do everything but that. Then you step into the mat mostly dry, not cold, not making a mess to finish.
I do both. You don’t want to step on a cold floor either.
After you’ve skimmed the water off, then towel dried inside the shower, the bathmat barely needs to get wet, especially if you step onto your towel when getting out.
That’s why I use ham
No, they are for the last drops missed while toweling in the shower
The perfect bathmat is one of those brown fibre door mats, the kind people also use to get their car out of the snow. Always feels dry, never slips, and lasts for years.
Huh, I tried so many of those over the years and always hated the way they feel. Then a few years back, I discovered mats that are more like towels you can throw on the ground but thicker. So much better. The clincher was that I never knew how to clean the mats, but the towel- like ones can go in the wash whenever towels are cleaned
You can wash a small rug just fine. But the dryer on high heat may damage the backing, so use low heat.
If you put a duck board on the floor then you can put any towel you like on top of it as your mat.
I’m one of the crew that mostly dries off in the shower where water can drain, and I dry each foot as I step out. There’s no need to handle more water.
I’ve used duck boards in outside showers, so I am familiar with them, but I’m not seeing a need inside, especially where we dry off before stepping out of the shower
Moss is superior because it feels great on the feet and the water falling off you is a feature instead of a problem.
Or just one that’s more of a rug than a small towel.
They’re so pokey, though!
Preal men like scratchy mats. Puts hair on your feet.
I hate when I get hair on my feet
Rub on mat vigorously
No more mat!
No more feet
Has anyone here ever taken a cold shower on purpose? It’s quite invigorating once one acclimate.
Only time I intentionally took a cold shower was after a long bike ride, wearing formal clothing, in the middle of summer. It was freeing and very cold.
Why the formal clothing?
Didn’t that make it hard to shower?
Formal clothing can shrink in hot showers.
Not an entire shower, but I sometimes end with a cooler second rinse.
Sure, on some Arizona summer days.
Cold shower after workout is great for preventing muscle soreness.
The trick is to start at the end of your limbs and move slowly inward until you think you had enough, and definitely not so fast you start to pant: The calmer you are, giving time for the body to switch to the change, the more you’ll be able to take, so take it slow. Also don’t feel obliged to use only the cold tap, especially in winter that can be rather extreme. Just up to elbows and knees more often than not get you that nice metabolism boost and that’s a perfect pre-coffee, OTOH some days are torso days and even others are head days.
Nah, just go all in for maximum impact. Bonus: showers take like 2 min.
I go hot for the muscles, pores, and lungs. At the end I wind it down to freezing or as close as I can get, a bit at a time. Typically ends in some kind of barbarian spiritual catharsis involving grunting. Then I picture polar bear club and want to die.
I like to do the same and put myself face first into the cold ass water and act like I’m some wild man standing under a freezing waterfall and gasping for breath.
Try it sometime.
Exactly! I recently installed a double showerhead, so now when I look straight up, it’s immersive and horrible! I start taking meditation breaths right before ratcheting the temp down.
Just close your mouth dude you don’t have to inhale the water
ITS PART OF THE EXPERIENCE
Everyday on the southern hemisphere, minus in winter.
I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.
This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.
It has some nice health benefits. Tricks your body into suvival mode.
I have easier ways to provoke a fight or flight response from my brain, such as receiving a phone call from an unknown number, or having to schedule an appointment in advance
Surprise: it’s an unknown charge on your credit card. You’ll have to call support and get a new card issued! Oooooo
Jokes on you, I can disable the old card and order the new one though the mobile app now! Which happened at least once already. Welcome to the future, where we automate away the human contact and I’m all for it
The app needs to update and forgot your stored credentials oooooooooooO
Cool thing is you can train your flight or fight response with things like cold plunges to be more useful. Cold showers might be a way to reduce your unneeded response to harmless things like phone calls.
Fortunately, this one is self induced.
Someone on Reddit once said they didn’t realize the white part of your finger nails are where it’s unconnected to your skin, and they’d just clip wherever, and often bleed because they’d clip the skin.
Nah, I almost spit out my coffee
Oh god wtf
Pretty mild, though an ex struggled with a standing light for years. It had one of those skinny, turntable hatched poles that you twisted. This one was rather tough to turn to the point that your fingers would slip. I remember looking at her struggling with it one day and asked, “Do you have any rubber bands?”
Same thing. She stopped, stared at me, and got flustered, “I…can’t believe I never thought of that…”.
When I was 30 I learned that I had pronounced and spelled the German word “unbedingt” wrong my entire life. I thought it was “umbedigt” as in “um jeden Preis”. I thought all others spelled and pronounced it wrong or spoke more elaborate than I.
Ah, don’t worry. There are tons of those in the German language. Mine was “Firmament”, I thought it was “Firnament”. Yours is a bit worse ;)
Gesamt oder gesammt? Kommt doch von Summe
Btw I also pronounce it umbedingt although I know better
Had an argument with my ex once (both speaking german as a third language) about the pronounciation of ‘Umgebung’, where she made it sound like “Um’g-bung” for some reason. Ended up asking a random train conductor to settle it.
Oom-gay-bung.
Germans are gay for the environment.
Just pretend you wrote it in Swiss German and you’re good!
My wife, to this day, shuts off the shower and then immediately steps out while water is still running off her soaking wet body, inevitably creating a puddle in the bathroom.
“Honey, why don’t you drip for like five seconds, or even grab the towel and give yourself a quick dab before you get out?”
The first time I told her this she just stared at me for a solid 20s while her brain rebooted. But then her “never admit anything ever under any circumstances” instinct kicked in and she responded “wow are you really policing my shower habits?”
So anyway, now she knows better, but still does it because marriage is about compromise, or something.
A (very smart and educated) girlfriend once told me it was so smart how I actually dry off my body with the towel instead of just wrap myself and wait for myself to dry naturally. We only have 4 limbs.
I give myself knife hands over my body before going for the towel. Towel stays significantly more dry and I can use it several times before it needs a wash.
I can use it several times before it needs a wash.
Look at this guy over here, washing his towels.
alt-text: relevant Dilbert
That’s how you fuck up your towel mushroom harvest.
This is it, my least favorite comment chain today
The good ol’ hand squeegee
I just shake like a dog for a good 10 seconds.
I’ve done this for years!
I got ridiculed for doing this by my partner. I do it very quickly and vigorously, it just makes a ton of sense to me; I end up being dry faster and more efficiently than going straight to the towel.
Sometimes it’s okay to tell your partner to go fuck themselves.
Just give them a vibrator/fleshlight, same message but more constructive.
Why does your towel need to be washed more often if it gets wetter?
The water coming off your body is pretty clean (you just showered).
Things like to grow on wet stuff. Even if you’re clean, wet towels will start to grow things and get an odor. The quicker the towel gets dry the quicker it doesn’t grow stuff.
IMO it matters more how long it has been since you last washed it, not how wet it was. It also depends a lot more on the climate. A wet and humid client will be worse than a house with central heating in the winter, where things are notoriously dry.
Am I the only one who lays a towel out on the floor in front of the shower? This thread has me thinking what I thought was standard practice might not be.
Yes, because other people have bath mats…
Which you then need to keep clean and replace. Using a towel is smarter, but some people just love putting unnecessary rugs everywhere.
- Hang towel over shower screen.
- Shower.
- Turn off water.
- Wipe water off body.
- Towel dry.
I do this out of habit
Oh shit, I do that too! Never occurred to me to stand there and drip for a minute. 😅
That’s a really shitty way to talk about your partner.Is this supposed to be funny or something? I’m neurodivergent and can’t tellsomeone can totally love their partner and still find some of the stuff they do infuriating.
also my oldest kid did this. it’s infuriating! (but i love him.)
Really shitty? This is mildly shitty at worst IMO.
Fair enough
This comment has it all. This is Lemmy.
Ya know what? I was getting a bit frustrated by the reaction to this, but this genuinely brightened my night. I… don’t get people sometimes, but I do enjoy this place.
Yep, has a humorous tone for sure. Don’t worry, this guy doesn’t hate his wife.
If anything, this guy is describing a healthy relationship. You don’t have to have a discussion where you share your heart and feelings about every issue. That’s exhausting having to learn and grow all the time.
Imagine a friend that you joke around and are comfortable with. You would say “fuck you, I’ll drip wherever I want. You’re just mad because you have no drip.” That’s a healthy relationship.
That’s best friend energy alright. Or, perhaps, a loving sibling energy
Minus the witnessing eachother dry off after a shower.
Only in Kentucky and Alabama.
Lul damn that’s a good comeback at the end there.
At the same time, sometimes it’s good to say “yeah, your way might be better.” Of course, I’m single, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
Bashing your partner is a really popular form of humor, unfortunately. The older sitcoms for example are full of it. It gets appreciated not because it’s great humor but because it’s a form of coping with the issues, for both the one making the joke and the ones laughing.
Sure, that’s exactly what your comment history seems to imply. You are not using it as an excuse at all (even if you are)
I squeegee my whole body with my hands before stepping out
Me too. At least my head if not everything.
I call it knife hands.
Me too! No pools of water on the floor, no wet towel after 1 shower.
She reminds me of my 3rd ex wife.
It’s a good thing she’s not single, I would hate being in a relationship with your wife!
Anyone whose first instinct is to get defensive when offered good faith advice… yeah keep em away from me
Yeah but this guy could be a controlling asshole who follows her around all day laying down “life hacks”.
We just don’t know.
Thank you for your service, OP
My ex did the same, then wondered why her base boards nildewed.
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me too
Excellent username! I needed a reminder that losing is Fun™️ this morning.
“I am dumbass, quit soaking the bathroom.”
I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it’s a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.
Because sometimes I leave the towel hanging on the door hook :')
Ok? And?
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Think dripping all over the floor the farther the towel is from the shower :)
There was a post with something similar but with the water pressure being too high in the shower. Like, what? Just don’t open it all the way then?!
I had a very cold shower once until I realized you had to open it all the way to get hot water (no separate hot and cold taps). What a bizarre design.
Depends on the tap
That does tend to be how you control the pressure yes
Some shower taps don’t let you control pressure at all; only temperature.
Mine is just a single knob you turn counterclockwise. The further you turn, the warmer the water. All the way clockwise = off.
Every fucking hotel shower in western Canada at least. Hate those taps.
Pretty much every shower I’ve used since my childhood bathroom tub shower with two knobs.
No, some showers you get on off and temperature.
Im gonna be the AkShUalLy guy here and say this isnt always the case…. There are shower controls that turn on immediately to full pressure and then adjust for temp as you keep turning, no way to actually control the water pressure without just having fully cold water. These have been around forever…
I installed a newer Delta one in my house a few years ago (2021 or so). They now have a feature where the water temperature is always whatever you set it- no fluctuations of scalding water when someone flushes a toilet or random freezes if someone turns on hot water elsewhere in the house. Or even 2 showers/baths fighting for hot water at the same time. So it’s like an auto-adjusting thing that happens inside that requires max input pressure to work right. Of course, i always want max water pressure, so this was a win-win for me!
To note- this wasnt a crazy expensive, high-end model…it was basically what most of the single knob/lever shower controls are now.
Huh, I grew up with those and thought everyone had them, except somehow people we visited
Now decades later, my shower doesn’t have that function. However it doesn’t matter because there’s only one bathroom so you’re not likely to get pressure changes (I also thought it was normal to have 3 bathrooms)
I lived in a place I had to do the opposite. The heater was broken, but the tank was outside exposed to the sun. So to get as warm water as I could, I had to go in right away and get the best of it.
So, one day I’m hanging out with my friend, and he introduces me to his friend. Middle-aged guy, seems pretty nice, but he’s having a shit day. Why? Because he had to copy something from an email, and he spent about an hour, flipping back and forth between two windows, copying the email into a Word document or something. I was dumbfounded, and I said “Why didn’t you just copy-paste?” The guy stalks off with his head down, muttering under his breath.
My boss will purposely screen shot text he writes so I have to rewrite it and not copy paste… not fun.
Now you can use text capture to copy the text from a photo
Text capture saves hours and hours
I use Microsoft PowerToys for that and dozens of other QOL life hacks.
I’m pretty sure that requires admin access to enable though.
That’s when you just screen shot it again and paste the image in where you need it.
You need an OCR tool.
Or an iPhone with access to the email. Probably a feature on Android too, idk, I’ve been away from modern Android for ~3 years.
Lots of times I’ve realized it’s easier just to take a screenshot (or even a photo of someone else’s phone…did that tonight when my wife was getting a weird error in Netflix) and then copy the text (or just go right to search from the selection).
Google Lens can do OCR since a few years ago I believe
I know everyone complains about Microsoft AI but you can just screenshot text and have it tell you what the text says.
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Or a new job with a boss that’s not a wanker.
An acquaintance was always complaining about how cold the water was when washing dishes. He had never thought to turn on the hot water.
He and his wife were conservative talk show hosts in Indiana, specializing in talking about how stupid liberals are.
