Do Not Do This in the Shower

Some of us are all for multitasking, but sometimes a line needs to be drawn. The “do not cross” threshold is when we step into a shower. Lifehacker recently encouraged us to “clean your bathtub while taking a shower” and it left me wondering, “Who are these people that do this?”

Getting a few minutes of downtime is a sanctuary. It is a quiet, uninterrupted moment where thoughts can just roam freely without any sort of commitment – like cleaning anything other than ourselves.

Can you fathom standing in the shower to clean it first and then yourself? The smells alone from cleaning products mixing with shampoo, conditioner and soap alone would send some of us into sensory overload with that sort of mash up going on. We will not be “So Fresh, So Clean” upon exit, but more like “Roses” and not the kind that grow from the ground.

Some things just need to stay separated. Keep your household duties away from the refuge of showering, please. No one needs that kind of undertaking.