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You Don’t Need a Shower

Look, you don’t need a shower.

I don’t have a shower, I have a tub. Dozens of people have looked at my bathroom in amazement, saying “how do you shower?” The truth is, the bathtub shower is much better than a regular shower, and I’d love more folks to understand why.

Here’s what you see on Pinterest: beautiful clawfoot tub in an impractical situation. Here’s the reality: clawfoot tub with a rigged-up chrome shower curtain holder, and a shower curtain that gets moldy and gross.

New Orleans is full of clawfoot tubs and rigged up shower curtains. Honestly, it looks like hell. And the experience of showering in a tub completely surrounded by a plastic liner is, um, slimy.