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Bathtub My Guilty Pleasure

Posted on June 6, 2015April 12, 2021

A lingering hot soak in a bathtub is my guilty pleasure. It is possible only when I travel because at home we do not have a bath tub. Let me rephrase it, we are the kind of people who grew up in homes without bathtubs. Hence it is the norm for us, we do not intend to have it at home ever! But as using a bathtub is environmentally wasteful, I am going to bring it down even while traveling. 

When I travel on sponsored trips, I get to stay in upmarket properties which have bathtubs! And that is when I indulge in long hot water soaks. My days are usually quite packed on these trips.

As I often wake up like a dead fish, I rarely have enough time to linger in the mornings. I usually end up taking a quick shower and head out for the day.

But at night I so look forward to a soak in the bathtub as a winding up ritual. It happens for only a few nights in a year that I stay in upscale properties. But at the back of my mind I was always felt guilty about wasting water. I would assuage it by saying I do not do it regularly. There is no bath tub at home so I am not a culprit.

When I penned down my scattered thoughts about the world environment day, I was quite dissatisfied with the things I have been doing till date. I searched on the web for various things environment and a lot of it looks like greenwash. So, being more conscious is not going to be as easy as I thought. But as a first step I am going to cut down on my guilty pleasure of soaking in bathtubs to one per trip. If I am able to do this successfully, I would try to bring it down to zero.

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14 thoughts on “Bathtub My Guilty Pleasure”

  1. Somali K Chakrabarti says:
    June 6, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    Shower is any day quicker Mridula.. and soaking once in a while..should not be a cause for guilt or should it? 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 7, 2015 at 11:00 am

      Somali not if I don’t do it every night of a three night stay.

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  2. Tushar says:
    June 6, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    I rarely get a chance to use bathtub because I am not rich but whenever opportunity arise I like it specially in winters. 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 7, 2015 at 10:59 am

      Tushar I also get to use them when I am traveling on a sponsored trip!

      Reply
  3. Sid's Blog says:
    June 6, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    I too like bathtubs… But the waste…as u said..

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 7, 2015 at 10:59 am

      Sid I started thinking along these lines just recently.

      Reply
  4. Indrani says:
    June 7, 2015 at 7:50 am

    Shower definitely saves water. A bucket and mug saves even more. 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 7, 2015 at 10:58 am

      Indrani but the hotels where a bathtub is there, they don’t have bucket and mug. 😀 And at home we don’t have a bathtub.

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  5. Nisha says:
    June 7, 2015 at 10:45 am

    As Indrani has mentioned, shower definitely saves water.. bucket and mug are the best.
    More than wasting water I think I waste time if I am using a tub. 😛

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 7, 2015 at 10:57 am

      Yes Nisha but most of the hotels where a bathtub is there, they don’t have bucket and mug. 😀

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  6. Kalpanaa says:
    June 8, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    This is a thorny issue with me too – I agree that a bathtub is an indulgence and certainly bad for the environment because I too am an environment warrior but it’s also ok to indulge oneself occasionally. So don’t feel too guilty Mridula, don’t cut it out completely and yes, if you soak in the tub one night on a three day trip, it’s fine. Enjoy 🙂

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 16, 2015 at 7:57 pm

      Thank you for the thumbs up Kalpanaa 😀

      Reply
  7. Shrinidhi Hande says:
    June 10, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Because we don’t have it at home, we find it interesting. Install one at home, you will get bored of it in sometime and then you won’t feel like using it that much

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    1. Mridula says:
      June 16, 2015 at 7:58 pm

      Shrinidhi I will first need a bigger bathroom I guess 😀

      Reply

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I am Mridula Dwivedi and I started this blog in 2005. It has been an amazing ride. I have visited 33 countries till date! I have worked with many tourism boards and prominent travel companies. My blog was featured on the BBC and the Guardian.

I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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