// December 8th, 2009 // NaBloPoMo
I dislike spending huge amounts of time in the bathroom. My daily purpose there is to get clean, and nothing else. My bathroom routine involves splashing cold water on my face, brushing my teeth, and hopping into the shower with some hypoallergenic soap. It usually takes no longer than 20 minutes for me to finish.
Now it’s getting near my birthday/Christmas, I’ve been getting many gift sets with bath items in them – and no, I don’t smell, so I’m not going to take it as a hint. I do love getting presents (see my earlier posts on T-shirts and the like), but…
I don’t use shower gels or body scrubs or bath bombs or body lotions or anything else that comes in one of those sets. EVER.
Bath sets are to me what socks and jumpers are to everyone else at Christmas.
I have tried to use them before, but they just delay my shower/bath, and turn what should be a 5 minute event into a 30 minute process. After managing to open the damn bottle with wet hands, lathering it all over my body, and finally managing to wash ALL of it off, I’ve wasted valuable time that I could’ve spent doing something else.
It doesn’t help matters that my boiler is on the fritz, and hot water only comes out at random intervals. In between using the weird expensive shower gel that I got as a gift from my mother’s French friend and washing it off, my water supply goes from scalding hot to nothing to absolutely freezing in a matter of minutes.
It’s a rule of thumb for me that I try to avoid being hurt by my wonky boiler for as long as possible. But the longer I spend in the shower, the more chances I have of being burned by the hot water. Yay me. >.>
My skin has also become increasingly sensitive in the past couple of years. This means that 9 times out of 10, whenever I try to use a nice-looking shower gel or body scrub that I got from a friend for a Christmas/birthday gift, I’ll end up with a massive itchy rash.
Even the body lotions that come with them eventually make me want to tear my own skin off with the reactions they cause.
…I’ve given up.
I love the shapes of the delicately-wrapped bottles and tubes of lotions and gels that I get every Christmas, but they never get used, and will sit in the corner of my room, gathering dust.
[...If you want a free bath set, here's your chance! I've got about 10 in a pile in the corner of my room. They've obviously never been used, and probably never will be. Most of them are also perfectly safe to use until 2020 or something.]
If you’re really stuck on what to get me as a cheap gift, some tubs of E45 cream will make me ecstatic.
Twitter: mirandabreon
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Ah, the bath sets. I think those might be the quintessential “I have no idea what to get you” gift.
I completely understand what you’re saying, though! I actually enjoy those things, but only ones that I’ve picked out for myself.
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Twitter: mirandabreon
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And as for those you have sitting in a corner of your room, I have one word:
Re-gift!
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Bath Sets are the Bane of Christmas.
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What’s E45 cream? My husband is fragrance sensitive. When house guests come, we ask them to use our hypoallergenic, unscented products.
I could soak in a tub for an hour and use about 20 products if it didn’t bother him.
Yay re-gifting. Or a blog giveaway, except they woulldn’t be easy to mail.
Twitter: broncasaurus
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Hold up. Was that bracketed text for real? If not, it may be confused with false advertisement.
What about your Lush stuff Rammi?
Haha! I know what you mean though, I’ve been trying to avoid buying any bath stuff this year but failed on Monday when I bought a little something for my aunt from The Body Shop. I’m still trying to find something to give her with it ’cause my uncle and cousin’s gifts are much more imaginative!
GIMME THOSE BATH SETS! my baths are marathon affairs that last at least an hour
I don’t share your aversion for shower gels, unless you’re referring to the reallllly sweet, flowery, girly smelling ones. I like shower gels and the little spongy things I use to lather up. And I’m black, so lotion is a MUST to avert the ash factor. But I HATE baths. I don’t get them.
1-The thought of filling a tub with water (which means I willl HAVE to clean the tub first, regardless of when I did that last),
2-then awkwardly laying in the damn thing–I never really fit in ‘em. If I sit up, my boobs are out of the water, if I squat down, then my knees are freezing.
3-Then I still have to shower because now I’ve been soaking in whatever dead skin has come off my body. yuck
4-THEN I have to clean the damn tub AGAIN!
5-Not to mention that the water never stays warm
ugh. see my point?
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ooooooh! How’d ya do that? There’s a link that shows my last post after my comment!!! That is sick groovy. Gimme Gimme!
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