I hate the heater in my bathroom and have an entirely different problem with it. It holds enough hot water at a time to only allow a 3 minute shower. So one of the most relaxing times of the day has been transformed into a hectic stress filled three minutes of making sure I get clean before the hot water runs out and freezes me to death. On the bright side I guess I’m saving the planet
My mum was at one point so fed up with the long shower habits of me and my brother that she started a competition. Before and after taking showers we had to read the meter and note it down in a list. The one who "wasted" the least, won and got a cinema voucher. During that time I made it a habit to take super quick showers and turn off the water for shampooing, shaving, etc. (I always won)
Still doing that to this date.
But even with that experience - 3 Minutes is SO short, like wtf
Haha 3 minutes of running hot water btw..now I usually wash my hair with cold water first and switch off the water to soap up and all but when I rinse I know the water is limited so I can’t really enjoy it. Although if I wasn’t in a hurry I could always wait for five to ten minutes till the water heats up again
First world problems yo
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But seriously, during last year we had a Day Zero plan (for quite a few months) where you were only allowed two-minute showers and no baths, you had to flush with your caught up water, you weren't allowed to flush when you only peed, you weren't allowed to use above a certain amount of litres per house or you'll be heavily fined or detained depending on the offence.
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Shit was rough.
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The entire city almost ran out of water.
They considered dragging an iceberg up here. Not even kidding.
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Two-minute showers were (and still somewhat is because it stuck around for so long) the norm around here.
It’s my first world problem in a third world country haha but that’s awesome that you guys stuck to it and while I joke about it I’m honestly glad that I’m saving water too.
The closest I’ve come to something like that is when a few years ago something went wrong at the desalination plant that provides our city with fresh water and they weren’t able to fix it for weeks. Cue absolute havoc as a city of over 150k people realized that they will indefinitely not receive any water at all. Shops were basically cleared out of any water and buckets and whatever container people could find and rain water was collected used by families. Offices and schools were closed and most people just didn’t shower and stayed indoors or travelled to other islands until the problem was solved. Tough couple of weeks and made people appreciate water a whooole lot more
Yeah, it's easy how scary it gets when you realise: shit, there's no water left. Then people reallly start appreciating "basic resources" when they realise how necessary they actually are.
Shit, back in the HS days sleep was more precious, so I'd just hop into cold water. I can clean everything in under a minute. I don't enjoy it, but I can do it. Also, back then it was good for a quick wake up jolt in the "morning" (it was still pitch fucking black outside).
I remember when I was roughly 12-13 I went to a summer bible camp with a friend from elementary school who had moved away (from Texas to North Carolina, camp was in South Carolina)... and all our shit got moldy as fuck in less than a week. Once we got back to his house he took the downstairs and I took the upstairs and we both just sat in hot showers for three hours. Second best shower I've ever had.
They get wet, then shit just starts to grow if you don't properly dry the clothes. We were kids, we didn't understand that UV light would stop mold growth... plus there was like 30 of us so once it took hold it rapidly took over everyone's shit. You couldn't see it, but my god, you could smell it.
Yeah lol. Part of the reason I stayed in the shower so long was because all the clothes I packed were "contaminated", so I had to wait on the laundry as well. I wound up just throwing away the suitcase and just used a little laundry bag on the flight back.
Still doing that to this date.
But even with that experience - 3 Minutes is SO short, like wtf
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But seriously, during last year we had a Day Zero plan (for quite a few months) where you were only allowed two-minute showers and no baths, you had to flush with your caught up water, you weren't allowed to flush when you only peed, you weren't allowed to use above a certain amount of litres per house or you'll be heavily fined or detained depending on the offence.
.
Shit was rough.
.
The entire city almost ran out of water.
They considered dragging an iceberg up here. Not even kidding.
.
Two-minute showers were (and still somewhat is because it stuck around for so long) the norm around here.
The closest I’ve come to something like that is when a few years ago something went wrong at the desalination plant that provides our city with fresh water and they weren’t able to fix it for weeks. Cue absolute havoc as a city of over 150k people realized that they will indefinitely not receive any water at all. Shops were basically cleared out of any water and buckets and whatever container people could find and rain water was collected used by families. Offices and schools were closed and most people just didn’t shower and stayed indoors or travelled to other islands until the problem was solved. Tough couple of weeks and made people appreciate water a whooole lot more
I remember when I was roughly 12-13 I went to a summer bible camp with a friend from elementary school who had moved away (from Texas to North Carolina, camp was in South Carolina)... and all our shit got moldy as fuck in less than a week. Once we got back to his house he took the downstairs and I took the upstairs and we both just sat in hot showers for three hours. Second best shower I've ever had.