How long should a 12 year old girl spend in the shower? (average, adults)
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Thinking about wasting water - I take at least three showers (usually four or five) on a sauna night - one before and after and one during each cooling down break. I could spend hours doing that quite happily!
Wow, I've never heard of anyone spending 30-45 minutes in the shower. I just get in shampoo if needed, wash my body and get out. I do not linger. I have a lot of other stuff to attend to. I also do not believe in wasting our resources.
I'm appalled at this!
I've never timed how long I'm in there but I'd wager to say less than 10 minutes for sure.
as long as she want, enjoy the lack of hot water now because if four year she properly won't be coming home at all. at least you know where she is and she alone, well hope she alone
7 minutes. Reminds me of summer camp when they'd only give you 5 minutes. NO WAY you're getting clean.
If you're having water heater problems it seems to me you need to go tankless so you can stop worrying and let her live her fairy dreams.
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Originally Posted by strawflower
When I take showers, I can exfoliate my entire body, make a special organic body scrub with only the most environmentally friendly ingredients (yes, I do this IN the shower), deep condition my hair (18 inches long!), remove each microbacteria individually, and shave each hair one by one (as to prevent razor burn) all in under 5 minutes. Really, it should NOT take you 10 minutes in the shower.
Lies.
Now, perhaps you're not counting the heat up time for the water. You need to count that.
Perhaps you're not counting the time it takes to grab, open, apply, close, and replace the bottles for each of those steps. While they may be small individually, they add up collectively. You need to count that.
Perhaps you're not rinsing thoroughly afterwards.
Perhaps you don't towel dry, maybe you walk around naked and air dry yourself.
Perhaps you don't lather.
All I know is, a GOOD shower is a minimum of 10 minutes, all told. 15 minutes is about reasonable. Even if I used a combo shampoo/shaving/shower wash, there's no way I'm out of there less than 10 minutes. It's 3 just to get the water right!
30 minutes to an hour is a bit much - but there are times. Especially if you've just been in dirt or mud or even painting. Sometimes you just have to take extra time - but that's the exception rather than the rule.
Last edited by revelated; 07-19-2014 at 08:53 PM..
Revelated, I take a second shower when I come home from work every day. I don't wash my hair again but I want to feel clean after working in the hospital all day. So I just soap up my body and face and rinse off. This literally takes 2 minutes from start to finish and I am plenty clean. I know how long it takes because I listen to my podcasts while I shower.
As long as something is understandable, when one is in a casual setting, such as a message board, it really comes across as pompous to tear someone apart over word choice. Now, if this was a formal essay or presentation to an employer, then you might have a call for this....but really, in this context, this is quite horrifying, to you use your own words.
I generally don't care if I see grammar mistakes, typos, or what appears to be "foreign English" (hell, if someone's 2nd language is English and they're able to post onto an English message board, that's pretty impressive).
However, I posted this in response to the common thinking that "tip" stands for "to insure promptness" when the proper word is actually "to ensure promptness". So the tip jar is really a "tep" jar. Given how the saying is based off an incorrect acronym, I felt it'd be interesting to point it out. Then someone below that got all riled up, as if the acronym being off wasn't an issue....
How do you limit a kid's shower time? I know you can, and I have suggestions, but it's not just "Ok, here's the rule, showers are limited to 8 minutes".
Most of us just relax in the shower and just want to forget the time, unless we have to go to work or something.
Here's an effective way to limit shower time: on the hot water tank there's a valve. Turn the valve off, and the shower is all cold water. Whoever is in the shower can stay as long as they like, but the water won't be warm. That's an evil way to limit it.
How do you limit a kid's shower time? I know you can, and I have suggestions, but it's not just "Ok, here's the rule, showers are limited to 8 minutes".
Most of us just relax in the shower and just want to forget the time, unless we have to go to work or something.
Here's an effective way to limit shower time: on the hot water tank there's a valve. Turn the valve off, and the shower is all cold water. Whoever is in the shower can stay as long as they like, but the water won't be warm. That's an evil way to limit it.
Knock on the door and say "time to finish up." Doesn't seem too hard.
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