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I WISH I only needed 5 minutes in the shower.

In Sydney you aren't supposed to take more than 3 minutes. Drought.

Does that mean that a bath is twice as efficient if you can't manage to get out of the shower in less than twenty minutes?

good grief. who takes a 5 minute shower. that's about enough time to shampoo & BEGIN conditioning. what about shaving & all that?

Is the shower design shown a DIY or is it actually produced somewhere. Looks like it might be a tiny bit clautrophobic but the swirl looks like a lovely and peaceful way to start the day.

5-minute shower is unrealistic; and besides, sometimes you just need a good long soak in the tub...

Yeah, I agree a five minute shower is unrealistic. I can do ten minutes if I don't wash my hair or shave. I'm not a bath person anyway though. 3 minutes in Sydney though? I'd never be clean!

I WISH I got 5 minutes. My hot water runs out after about 4.

We grew up pretty poor, we had well water, and only had a ten gallon hot water tank in our basement. These factors, combined with my mom being Nature and Conservation Girl, meant we had to take military showers, as follows:

1. Put a stopper in the tub drain.
2. Turn on water and get wet.
3. Turn off water.
4. Lather up while standing there freezing.
5. Turn water back on to rinse.
6. Get out.
7. Use a small bucket to scoop the dirty shower water out of the tub and pour it into a five-gallon bucket.
8. Use the dirty shower water to flush the toilet.

Now you'd think after that I'd be a total rebel as an adult, luxuriating in a hot thirty minute shower every day, but I'm not. I take about an 8-minute shower, unless of course I'm at a fabulous hotel, in which case I will stay in there about fifteen minutes. Ahhhh hot water.
~Monica