Do you time how minutes do you use to take a shower?

United States
May 27, 2009 4:29am CST
In family, I have to share the bathroom with my sister, and my parents use their bathroom at the master room. Everytime, we have to fight for which use it to take a shower first. Sometimes, she need to go to movie, or go to somewhere, you gotta use it first. She is the one in my family who used the bathroom to take a shower the longest. I time it, the longest is 45 minutes. On average, she can take a shower right between 25 minutes to 30 more minutes. Sometimes, I just can't stand it. I have to use the bathroom too. I have to knock on the door to rush her "hurry up!". So, do you ever time yourself or other family members how fast do they take a shower?
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16 responses
28 May 09
I do not time myself but I am pretty sure that the rest of my family does because they are always yelling at me for taking too long.I have gotten better at it since I have gotten older but I still need some improvement.I don't mean to take so long. I really do hate wasting the water,it is just so cold in my house that I don't want to get out.lol I think the real problem is that my dad keeps the thermostat constantly set on 60 degrees.
@freedomg (1684)
• United States
1 Jun 09
Yes dear you have gotten much better you went from an hour long shower to around 30 minutes. And don't stress that too much I never want to step out into the cold either. As for myself around 20 minutes unless it's a bath then I'll see you when the water gets cold.
• Philippines
29 May 09
sometimes, it's not healthy to take a shower that long.. 7 minutes it's okay... we have to respect other household members... In my family, the longest time is 10 minutes... just advice your sister, to go to the bathroom earlier so she can finish before you will use
@arunmails (3011)
• India
28 May 09
It may be yes or no. During weekdays, I use to take shower within 5 to 10 minutes. But, in the weekend and if I have no work to do, then I just go and take shower...time cannot be calculated may be 1hr or 2 hr...
@draucia (164)
• United States
28 May 09
We have 2 bathrooms in our family but my parents wake up before me, so it's only me and my brother. When I have to go to college, I take about 10 minutes because I'm always in a rush. But when I'm free, My shower can take anywhere from 5 minues to 1 hr depending on my mood. I like to take a shower with mid-hot water, but whenever I come out, my mirror is always full of fog.
@enruschew (247)
• Malaysia
28 May 09
Hi clorissa,looks like I am greater than your sister as usually,I will take my shower up to an hour!!!hehehe,your sister normally singing while she take her bath?I did so!!!That is the reason why my family angry with me and in the end,I got to wait until evryone of them hoad taken their shower and I am the last one to keep on singing in the bathroom.hahaha,I know it's quite hard for people who are line up outside but I truely love to sing in the bathroom.Sorry mama,papa and bro and sis......
@bybun46 (19)
• Indonesia
28 May 09
i use my time to shower about 30 minutes. it's very long i think. but my friend ever to use her time shower about 1 hours. wow, it's fantastic. i wonder what they do in bathroom along that time. i can imagine. maybe they just to spend their time to bath up. sometimes they can take a rest with aromatherapy.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
28 May 09
Hi clorissa, we have two bathrooms in our house. My husband’s elder sister uses the bathroom next to the kitchen. My husband and I use the bathroom in our bedroom. I always bathe before my husband back from his evening jogging in the nearby neighborhood. So we don’t have to fight for the bathroom I usually would take 15 minutes or so to complete a shower. I would consume slightly more than 20 minutes to have the shower, in case I have to shampoo my hair at the same time for that evening. I usually will let my son to use the bathroom first if he is back to home during his holiday. Happy posting
@dreamr802 (985)
• United States
28 May 09
It depends sometimes I like to take quick showers and sometimes they are longer like 20 or so minutes. But then again it also depends if I am washing my hair or not. My boyfriend and I are the only ones in the apartment and we only have one bathroom. The next place that we get I want it to have at least another half bathroom so that if one of us is in the shower the other bathroom is still available.
@pengbubu (1011)
• China
27 May 09
I have not time this before, maybe is 10 minutes. And when one day I am happy, it will be a little longer, but never more than 15 minutes. I think it's enough for a man without long hair, haha! Have a good time, Clorissa123.
@MyzDy19 (919)
• Philippines
28 May 09
When school days we timed each other LoL But when not like now..vacation time, we take as long as we want to stay in the bathroom hehehe ^^ I can took 30min to 1hr in taking a bath ^O^
@yoyozhou (356)
• China
28 May 09
In summer, I usually spend 10 minutes to take a shower. In winter, I usually spend more than 30 minutes to take a shower. And in auto and spring, I spend 10-30 minutes to take a shower. It is no good to spend too much time to take a shower ,I think.
@aikhong (661)
• Malaysia
28 May 09
For me, currently i'm living outside from my home due to i'm working at out station. I rented a house and stay together with my friends. I'm in a single room, living downstairs, while my friends living upstairs. So,i'm the only one using the toilet downstairs and so i do not need to share toilet or bathroom with others. I can understand your situation that sometimes we really need to tolerate and be considerate with each other. I also think that your sister is taking a bit too long time for bath. Perhaps you may find a chance to tell or discuss with her about this.
• Indonesia
28 May 09
My maximum time in the shower is 15 minutes. I don't like to spend a lot of time in the shower because it's freezing cold in there :) My city is located on the mountain so the weather is really cold. I always take a shower as fast as possible...bbbbrrrrr....:)
@turones (206)
• Philippines
28 May 09
it takes me about 45 minutes to one hour inside the bathroom. i love long baths and i would do it longer whenever possible. we've got more than one bathrooms so they don't really care even i'd spend the whole day inside one.
• Philippines
27 May 09
we have 4 bathrooms at home so we don't fight over the use of the bathroom and we can take as long as we like when taking a shower or bath. sometimes i'm just alone in the house, and a full house could mean a dozen or so family members dropping by or staying a while. but even so, nobody has to fight over who uses it first. with the renovations coming along, the house will be adding two more bathrooms. that's a lot to accommodate a big family such as ours. i usually have my shower between 5 to 15 minutes. long showers can take as long as 30 minutes to an hour depending on what i'm doing with my hair. conditioning my hair sometimes takes longer depending on what are the instructions in hair conditioning system that i use. i have a niece (living in another city) who takes about two hours getting finished using the bathroom. she used to have a long hair so we thought that's the reason why. but she sports a short bob right now and still she takes about 2 hours. she also performs a concert in there and we are subjected to japanese songs from anime and manga series that she favors. although i couldn't understand a thing, i just know she's enjoying her bath everytime. -lol-
@med889 (5941)
27 May 09
I am the one who takes longer to bath at home,I just think it is very natural to be taking so much time in the bathroom, I share my bathroom with my sister and she is the one who takes around 20 minutes to bath so we only quarel when I am inside and she has to take a bath and hurry up. I take around 2 hours in the bathroom, washing myself, washing my hair with several shampoo and so on.