Cold showers - learn to cope without hot water before you need to!

[Anchor]

Learn to cope without hot water before you need to! Take a cold shower instead!

Everyday for the last year with very few exceptions I have started the day with a cold shower. That is, just cold water and no hot! I have done this even up in the heights of the blue mountains where the water is very freaking cold.

I found out about it when listening to a Sikh talking about Ishnaan and Sadhana (videos below). It took me months of fighting with myself and chickening out, but the day I did it, I was so pumped. I was jumping mad happy that I had overcome myself to do it and felt like Superman, the feeling was amazing. I never looked back. It took some persistence to stay with it, especially during the winter, you definitely want to get dried of quicker and into warm clothes asap! The cold shower is done just after getting up in the morning.

I just went for it, but I guess you could work up to it slowly if you want to.

The reasons I do this are:

1) Wakes me up. It does. Actually that might be a bit of an understatement.
2) Cured me of my Hayfever. Apparently this is due to the strengthening effect on the mucous membranes
3) Helps circulation by bringing blood to capilliaries and increasing circulation through the body - seems to, I can get out of the cold shower and within seconds and steaming hot, misting up the mirror!
4) Improves the internal furnace, I find I can be warmer when it is cold
5) Makes loosing weight easier (you still have to follow the eat less move more diet!)
6) Makes morning meditation easier
7) It doesn't kill me, so it makes me stronger :)
8) Detoxifys, by contracting muscles to eliminate toxins - skin and hair also improves.
9) Saves energy
10) Makes me less likely to get inconvenienced in an energy disruption. I will still be showering and being clean without hot water.
11) Saves water - you shower cold until it doesnt feel cold. Stop. Soap. Rinse off, done. Trust me, in the winter, these are very short showers!

I can personally vouch for all these effects. I have not had a cold or flu since I started this, except one time when I was exhausted for other reasons.

Additionally I have eliminated all the "product" from my bathroom except: Toothpaste (fluoride free, natch), Soap and Shampoo. Nothing with Sodium Laureth Sulfate (sp) in it!.

Note: I have read that cold showers should not be taken during by women during her menstrual period. A lukewarm shower is recommended. Generally speaking, hot showers are not good for men or women at any time.

Note2: It is not my intention that you shower cold on an already cold body. My cold showers take place very shortly after I get up and out of bed, and I am still warm from that.

Here are some Youtube clips that started me off.

Medium Youtube Video (3m38s) Ishnaan Therapy (Cold Shower)]
Ishnaan, the science of cold showers
Go for it! When the cold water hits the surface of your skin (which has four layers) all the blood from way deep inside your body rushes to the surface in self-defense, vastly improving your circulation on the spot. This is called Hydrotherapy. It strengthens your entire nervous system. People pay huge sums of money for what is now called "Hydrothermal therapy" when in reality all you need is cold water!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxHagZ4W5E

Medium Youtube Video (10m54s) Sadhana - Video Lecture by Yogi Bhajan
Cold showers are a component of Sadhana.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4307fPaPY

GO ON I DARE YOU

A..

[eugene_vn]

I totally agree. . . here in Vietnam, throughout the socialist years (up until early 90s) virtually all showers were cold. In the summer it was quite refreshing when temperatures were around 30-40 centigrade, but up in North Vietnam it does get down to 3 or 5 degrees in the winter so showers were short, just like you describe! Actually most people confessed to taking only 2 or 3 showers per week in the winter time, though partly that was due to water rationing as well as the temperature.

[Steve_A]

Hi Anchor,

Cold showers here in Brazil are the norm. Actually cold water is the norm. I was suprised when I first came here that people wash dishes with cold water!

I also raised my eyebrows to think that an Aussie needs to take a hot shower. I would have thought (excuse my ignorance) that with the Australian climate there wouldn't be a need as you would all take a cold shower more to cool off in than anything.

Over here the Brazilians can have up to five showers a day! I, of course try to keep up with the British tradition. :D

Best regards,

Steve

[Jenny]

I accept Anchor.

I do take cold showers ..

I also camp a lot and I do not have a portable Toilet.
I camp near a river, very clean, which I use for all my sanitairy needs.

When it is cold outside, the sun is down and mist is covering the meadows, I sometimes wake up in the middle of a starlit night and I really need to take a ****.

I crawl out of my warm bed, naked, and walk to the river and go in.
I do what I need to do, walk back to my tent, dry off and go back to bed.
My man wakes up and scolds me for waking him up with my very cold body.

I DARE YOU!:tongue2:

[Operator]

Hi,

Have not hot water here either. Would be easy though using a sun boiler.
However no need ...

Cheers

[sammytray]

I accept Anchor.

I do take cold showers ..

I also camp a lot and I do not have a portable Toilet.
I camp near a river, very clean, which I use for all my sanitairy needs.

When it is cold outside, the sun is down and mist is covering the meadows, I sometimes wake up in the middle of a starlit night and I really need to take a ****.

I crawl out of my warm bed, naked, and walk to the river and go in.
I do what I need to do, walk back to my tent, dry off and go back to bed.
My man wakes up and scolds me for waking him up with my very cold body.

I DARE YOU!:tongue2:

Now thats Livin!!! :thumb_yello:

[THE eXchanger]

i agree, a "cold" shower, does A lot of things,
however, a nice hot bath, is amusing too
esp. in a hot spring
love
susan
the eXchanger

[oldpaganfreak]

cold showers?....luxury...hell, i don't even have running water. i live without running water, heating utilities ( i use only wood heat ), grid electricity, refrigeration and many other luxuries. my isolated location demands some sacrifices, but it's well worth it.
do you think that when tshtf, that there will be any running water at all in the cities?
i think that running water will be one of the MANY things that those stuck in civilization will lose. the cities will be death for many.
get the hell outa dodge, people!!

[historycircus]

Cold showers are good for the body and soul, but beware, for men there is a side effect: increased, ugh, "randiness." :wub2::snog::mf_lustslow::huglove:

That can be good or bad given your own personal situation.

[smat]

Excellent post Anchor.
I will give that a go.

[Swanny]

Its winter here so I will enjoy hot showers while they last thx, plenty of time to get used to cold showers when I need to. :eek:

[Dantheman62]

I agree with Swanny, I will deal with it when I have to...brrrrrr!

[Baggywrinkle]

In all fairness, there is cold and there is cold!

Many of you posting are in warm weather countries. Jenny gets a pass.

Here in Washington state, if the water is fifty degrees (F) it is doing very well indeed!

I love my hot shower, and would curl up and die without it! Having said that. When we ran out of propane last year we maintained a large kettle of warm water on the woodstove and had very nice sponge baths.

But seriously, Dimitry Orlov has much to say about the luxury of a cold shower during the economic crash in Russia:

"It doesn't take a crisis to make public utilities go on the blink, but a crisis certainly helps. Any crisis will do: economic, financial, or even political. Consider the governor of Primorye, a region on the far side of Siberia, who simply stole all the money that was supposed to buy coal for the winter. Primorye froze. With winter temperatures around 40 below, it's a wonder there's anyone still living there. It's a testament to human perseverance. As the economic situation degenerates, events seem to unfold in a certain sequence, regardless of locale. They always seem to lead to the same result: unsanitary conditions. But an energy crisis seems to me by far the most efficacious way of depriving one of one's treasured utility services.

First, electricity begins to wink in and out. Eventually, this settles into a rhythm. Countries such as Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania, as well as some peripheral regions of Russia, have had to put up with a few hours of electricity a day, sometimes for several years. North Korea is perhaps the best Soviet pupil we have, surviving without much electricity for years. Lights flicker on as the sun begins to set. The generators struggle on for a few hours, powering light bulbs, television sets, and radios. When it's time for bed, the lights wink out once again.

Second in line is heat. Every year, it comes on later and goes off sooner. People watch television or listen to the radio, when there's electricity, or just sit, under piles of blankets. Sharing bodily warmth has been a favored survival technique among humans through the ice ages. People get used to having less heat, and eventually stop complaining. Even in these relatively prosperous times, there are apartment blocks in St. Petersburg that are heated every other day, even during the coldest parts of winter. Thick sweaters and down comforters are used in place of the missing buckets of coal.

Third in line is hot water: the shower runs cold. Unless you've been deprived of a cold shower, you won't be able to appreciate it for the luxury that it affords. In case you are curious, it's a quick shower. Get wet, lather up, rinse off, towel off, dress, and shiver, under several layers of blankets, and let's not forget shared bodily warmth. A less radical approach is to wash standing in a bucket of warm water - heated up on the stove. Get wet, lather, rinse. And don't forget to shiver.

Next, water pressure drops off altogether. People learn to wash in even less water. There is a lot of running around with buckets and plastic jugs. But the worst part of this is not the lack of running water; it is that the toilets won't flush. If the population is enlightened and disciplined, it will realize what it must do: collect their excretions in buckets and hand-carry them to a sewer inlet. The super-enlightened build outhouses and put together composting toilets, and use the proceeds to fertilize their kitchen gardens.

Under this combined set of circumstances, there are three causes of mortality to avoid. The first is simply avoiding freezing to death. It takes some preparation to be able to go camping in wintertime. But this is by far the easiest problem. The next is avoiding humans' worst companions through the ages: bedbugs, fleas, and lice. These never fail to make their appearance wherever unwashed people huddle together, and spread diseases such as typhoid, which have claimed millions of lives. A hot bath and a complete change of clothes is often a lifesaver. Baking the clothes in an oven kills the lice and their eggs. The last is avoiding cholera and other diseases spread through feces by boiling all drinking water.

It seems safe to assume that the creature comforts to which we are accustomed are going to be few and far between. But if we are willing to withstand the little indignities of reading by candlelight, bundling up throughout the cold months, running around with buckets of water, shivering while standing in a bucket of tepid water, and carrying our poop out in a bucket, then none of this is enough to stop us from maintaining a level of civilization worthy of our ancestors, who probably had it worse than we ever will. They were either depressed or cheerful about it, in keeping with their personal disposition and national character, but apparently they survived, or you wouldn't be reading this."

[371]

It seems, soon we'll all be spending most our lives- living in an amish paradise...

[motov]

I accept Anchor.

I do take cold showers ..

I also camp a lot and I do not have a portable Toilet.
I camp near a river, very clean, which I use for all my sanitairy needs.

When it is cold outside, the sun is down and mist is covering the meadows, I sometimes wake up in the middle of a starlit night and I really need to take a ****.

I crawl out of my warm bed, naked, and walk to the river and go in.
I do what I need to do, walk back to my tent, dry off and go back to bed.
My man wakes up and scolds me for waking him up with my very cold body.

I DARE YOU!:tongue2:

hope am not downstream taking a sip of water....:roll1:

[conjuredUp]

10 years in the Navy took care of this for me. :-)

[THE eXchanger]

the "amish" in canada
near niagara falls-certainly know how to create
real cozzy homes, even in the depth of the winter

[Deoxyan]

never taken cold showers in cold times and never will!! haha

[Antaletriangle]

I've got a canal half a mile dine the road-i just jump in there with the old rusty prams and bikes-no harm done-the fish jump out though when i jump in!!lol.
Nice post-there are a few posts in the canal also!!lol.

[raulduke]

Good suggestion Anchor, I do hate to step out of a nice hot shower into the cool air, which of course feels ten times colder than it is after a hot minute in the shower. So, I'll give it a shot.

Cold showers are good for the body and soul, but beware, for men there is a side effect: increased, ugh, "randiness." :wub2::snog::mf_lustslow::huglove:

That can be good or bad given your own personal situation.

I'm not quite sure what other personal experiences are, but I've been told that a cold shower would quash that sort of randiness, fortunately, I guess, I've never been quite that hard up as to take a cold shower for that reason.:lol3:

[Connecting with Sauce]

I did it this morning :) Brrrrrr…. It certainly did kick start me, so to speak and I did have to make loads of animal noises to get through it :D but it was quite nice to have a loverly warm feeling out of the shower and to not have steamy mirrors :D

[iainl140285]

It seems, soon we'll all be spending most our lives- living in an amish paradise...


Or so many on this site would have you believe .... :lol3:
For so many claiming to live off the 'fat of the land' there aren't half a lot of folks with internet access. :lmao:

Must have the flexes plugged into lemons huh.



Peace
Iain

[historycircus]

Good suggestion Anchor, I do hate to step out of a nice hot shower into the cool air, which of course feels ten times colder than it is after a hot minute in the shower. So, I'll give it a shot.



I'm not quite sure what other personal experiences are, but I've been told that a cold shower would quash that sort of randiness, fortunately, I guess, I've never been quite that hard up as to take a cold shower for that reason.:lol3:

Hot showers actually cause the brain to release chemicals that inhibit sexual arousal, while cold showers have the opposite effect. It might not seem like it while IN the shower, but it does.

Taking a cold shower to inhibit "randiness" is a myth; it has the opposite neurological effect.

[historycircus]

Or so many on this site would have you believe .... :lol3:
For so many claiming to live off the 'fat of the land' there aren't half a lot of folks with internet access. :lmao:

Must have the flexes plugged into lemons huh.



Peace
Iain

You make the mistake of assuming that technology plays no part in environmental consciousness. "Living off the fat of the land" does not necessitate forgoing modern technology. I believe that it is the development of nearly instantaneous communication methods that will allow us to return to the land. The technology revolution will render urbanism obsolete.

[Antaletriangle]

The ideal would be to have high technology and live in unison with the planet,living and respecting the land.Eco friendly house next to a waterfall-a proper shower -thanks for the post.

[Steve_A]

Hi Antaletriangle,

You're in the wrong place in the UK for canals, although I heard that the Caldon Canal had a re-vamp some time back, so I suppose the recycling companies did a rip roaring trade back then.

I used to live on the Grand Union Canal in Rickmansworth near to Watford on a cruiser (didn't have the money for a narrow boat). It was nice, although I remember being woken by the quack, quack, friggin' quack of the ducks at five in the morning. But these things were sent to test us!

I left the boat with the authorities when I decided to go a roaming in Europe. :tears: :original: (bitter sweet)

Best regards,

Steve






I've got a canal half a mile dine the road-i just jump in there with the old rusty prams and bikes-no harm done-the fish jump out though when i jump in!!lol.
Nice post-there are a few posts in the canal also!!lol.

[Reunite]

ok Anchor you convinced me I'm trying it this weekend..hopefully it will get rid of my sinus

[pineal-pilot-in merkabah]

ive been living in a converted garden shed since june 2007 and have mostly been washing under an outside tap!!!!! it was -9 this past winter and so im getting more and more used to the cold...

ive been washing from an outside tap all summer and up to now.. i get a hot shower about once a month.!!

im half way there lol.. things seemed to have moved me to this point in my life to get me used to being totally in natural enviroments and such..

im in the north of england to brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

i also started using this product as i noticed i can no longer use typical anti persp/deoderant.. it gives me lumps under my arms.. i think the aluminium blocks my pours?


http://www.pitrok.co.uk/

[Connecting with Sauce]

two days on the trot now!!! Brrrr :D

[Antaletriangle]

Hi Antaletriangle,

You're in the wrong place in the UK for canals, although I heard that the Caldon Canal had a re-vamp some time back, so I suppose the recycling companies did a rip roaring trade back then.

I used to live on the Grand Union Canal in Rickmansworth near to Watford on a cruiser (didn't have the money for a narrow boat). It was nice, although I remember being woken by the quack, quack, friggin' quack of the ducks at five in the morning. But these things were sent to test us!

I left the boat with the authorities when I decided to go a roaming in Europe. :tears: :original: (bitter sweet)

Best regards,

Steve

What dya mean Steve stoke on trent is littered with canals the now redundant pottery industry is all but dead but the cauldon canal is about half a mile from my house!!I know i jumped in it this morning with a loin cloth on!!lol.
http://www.projectavalon.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=4759

[sunshineseastar]

one question.....half the time i live in the forest and take a shower in the mountian stream.......but when the weather starts getting colder so does the water especialy in the winter..... i watched the videos you sugested but they did not answer my question......now for the body it´s okay but when i stick my head under after a few secounds i get a head ache.....also sometimes it gives me a cramp in my feet.....so usually i will (heat) doesn´t get warm.....but baerable the water in the sun.....do you know why this may happen ?? or how i can over come this ???
thanks.....

[Anchor]

one question.....half the time i live in the forest and take a shower in the mountian stream.......but when the weather starts getting colder so does the water especialy in the winter..... i watched the videos you sugested but they did not answer my question......now for the body it´s okay but when i stick my head under after a few secounds i get a head ache.....also sometimes it gives me a cramp in my feet.....so usually i will (heat) doesn´t get warm.....but baerable the water in the sun.....do you know why this may happen ?? or how i can over come this ???
thanks.....

That symptom you get is that like the "brain freeze" you get when eating cold ice-cream to fast :)

I have heard that prolonged exposure of the head to really cold water is not a good idea. (Lots of heat loss through the head, so maybe thats why?)

When the water gets colder (in the Winter) I do it just enough to wash and rinse my hair - no more.

A..

[3rdEye]

I had my first cold shower today! Couldn't stop sneezing afterward! But I will do my best to stick with it... does it matter if you have really luke warm shower and then gradually turn the hot water off?

[Anchor]

Its best to go straight to cold and get it over and done with. Its hard the first few times, but it gets easier.

Cool avatar ;)

A..

[Sol Invictus]

one question.....half the time i live in the forest and take a shower in the mountian stream.......but when the weather starts getting colder so does the water especialy in the winter..... i watched the videos you sugested but they did not answer my question......now for the body it´s okay but when i stick my head under after a few secounds i get a head ache.....also sometimes it gives me a cramp in my feet.....so usually i will (heat) doesn´t get warm.....but baerable the water in the sun.....do you know why this may happen ?? or how i can over come this ???
thanks.....


Medical explanation.

Cold water acts as a vasoconstrictor - in short, your peripherals such as your arms and legs get alot less blood because the core suddenly thinks it needs to survive and reduces the blood flow rapidly. This rapid vasoconstriction also forces up blood pressure, up goes the heart rate and so up goes the resperation rate to get enough oxygen for that faster beating heart, and then up goes the blood pressure... so on and so on. The body is just trying to preserve the core organs, and yes it will allow the brain to die first before the heart and liver... The cramps in your feet are also signs that your bodies not getting its required fuel and blood to remain 'alive', and the pain is just a way of your body telling you this.

(You will get a head ache as the brain is suddenly assaulted by freezing temperatures, the body reacts by shutting down as many and as much blood vessels and capillaries as it can to preserve heat, and in short, your starving your brain of the required nutrients for its survival. Hence you get a head ache.)


I lived in the cold for a long time, and I can tell you now for free that if your in any temperature below or approaching freezing and you start showering under cold water, you are not going to remain healthy for long. Heat your water and use a flannel or sponge. A cold shower on top of an already cold body? meh.... thats not a route I will be going down any time soon.

[Anchor]

A cold shower on top of an already cold body? meh.... thats not a route I will be going down any time soon.

That is such a good point, and I should have mentioned that when I was showering it is just after I get up, thus I am warm from getting out of bed.

If was already cold I would not cold shower.

Will edit OP.

A..

[freekatz]

I'm investing in a solar panel for my hot water heater so hopefully I can avoid any discomfort:tongue2:

[Sol Invictus]

Boil the water and sponge off.

problem solved, water conserved, and whats left in the pot (don't dip your sponge in the pot!) can be used for a brew, washing up and general use.

I can see alot of folks here have never lived 'really wild' for any time at all, because if they had, they would be telliing people how hard they strove to stay warm at all costs - its all gucci having a cold shower after a nice warm bed and then a warm breakfast sat in your central heated room, but when its frosted up windows time, your breath is visible in your 'room' and snow is on the ground, you will not I promise 100% want or be thankful for a cold shower.

[Anchor]

I can see alot of folks here have never lived 'really wild' for any time at all, because if they had, they would be telliing people how hard they strove to stay warm at all costs - its all gucci having a cold shower after a nice warm bed and then a warm breakfast sat in your central heated room, but when its frosted up windows time, your breath is visible in your 'room' and snow is on the ground, you will not I promise 100% want or be thankful for a cold shower.

I so get that image. You even made me feel cold reading that. I agree, its the last thing I would want.

Luckily I live in Australia, so its Gucci warm all the way here :) (But no real need for central heating).

A..

[Sol Invictus]

Lucky ####.

I live in very unsunny and very wintery Inverness and believe me, from June to August I MIGHT take a cooler than usual shower.

I appreciate though that you who live in hot climates will get great benefits from cooling off every now and again.

[3rdEye]

Ive been taking cold showers now for 5 days.... and i do get the numb fingers and toes also, I have been getting very irritated skin so I am starting to think it might not be so good for me? Maybe I should have the water slightly warmer? In saying all that, my skin does look a bit more even in tone, I have noticed a slight difference...

I'm not sure if I should continue with this or not! :sad:

[Connecting with Sauce]

I've been doing it too :D for ~7-8 days. No shower this morning as it is saturday and I will have one later :)

It certainly wakes you up. My skin is fine.

[raulduke]

O.k. A.,

That's it for me.

I'm a wuss.:lol3:

It's 20*F here and I just had another cold shower after juming out of a warm bed. Yikes!

My teeth are still chattering.

Fortunately though while scrubbing up in a hurry I remembered something I should have put in my first post here.

I've only used these things on summer campouts, but they'll heat the water just the same in winter as long as you've got a couple hours of sunlight. In the summer at least the water got almost unbearably hot.

http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_517266_imageset_01?$main-Large$

With the compact, easy-to-stow Sun Shower (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=5&q=http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0038016517266a.shtml&ei=BPYnSaOPPJzgM9OzkYUC&sig2=-Gev4Uy6TgqVao20Zbv7WA&usg=AFQjCNHdotcb0XULqkjRBO9K3xTaZRRNeQ), you can use the power of the sun to enjoy a hot shower at even the most remote, out-of-the-way locations. Simply fill the puncture- and tear-resistant four-ply bag with water and set it in the sun. An innovative TempTracker indicator tells you the internal water temperature.

So for all the other wusses out there, as long as we've got the sun, we've got a warm shower!

[Connecting with Sauce]

I'm doing it for the health benefits and immune boosting benefits. I have cheated with the odd blast of hot then cold to hydro shock my body...

With my C1 bone aligned, my 9 amalgam fillings removed, distilled water, this and my virtually veggie diet I'm feeling good :) All I need now is for my water energier vortex jug to arrive and I'll be cooking on environmentally friendly gas....

[Kimmie]

RAULDUKE,
I've spent many a day traveling by sailboat and the "sunshower bags" we used were the pleasure of everyone onboard. The ones we had were the same concept ad the one you showed, yet more crued ..they could have easily been punctured, the one you show is a vast improvement.

Yesterday I jumped in the shower, knowing I was in a rush, and hadn't waited for the water to get warm.

"AHHH, yeah..get used to cold showers"...I said to myself. The I remembered another post from someone else who said,.."I'll get used to cold showers when I have to, for now I'll enjoy the warn"....I enjoyed the warm shower yet was thankful that for today I have a choice. I take NOTHING in my life for granted...I've learned to be thankful for so many things.

And when our only choice is to have cold showers...then i will be thankful that i have a shower at all..as there will be others who don't even have water..Isn't life good.

Just a slow stream of water rolling across my fingers from a kitchen faucet or garden hose calms me and make me feel at ease!

WATER.. WHAT a GIFT

Kimmie

[Sol Invictus]

Ive been taking cold showers now for 5 days.... and i do get the numb fingers and toes also, I have been getting very irritated skin so I am starting to think it might not be so good for me? Maybe I should have the water slightly warmer? In saying all that, my skin does look a bit more even in tone, I have noticed a slight difference...

I'm not sure if I should continue with this or not! :sad:

Advice - Do not, I repeat DO NOT continue with the showers if your having circulation problems as you are. The numbness in the fingers and toes is a sign that your body is shutting down the blood supply to them and cannot cope with the cold.

Not only is this bad for your fingers and toes (no blood, no life energy) but its bad for you on a morale point of view too. You'll think 'but in a situation where there is no hot water...'

Just let me tell you this. When there is no plumbing, no luxuries, you'll heat water in a pot, pour some into a bowl, add a bit of cold water and sponge clean yourself. With WARM water.

[Sol Invictus]

O.k. A.,



http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/cabelas/s7_517266_imageset_01?$main-Large$


So for all the other wusses out there, as long as we've got the sun, we've got a warm shower!


Great for summer and spring, and here is a tip - in winter time, scavenge some plexi glass or glass, and make a hanging green house and throw this up underneath it.

Works wonders as you create a micro climate for it.

[Anchor]

Well I have kept up my cold showers.

Its raining today, and I can't do anything I wanted to right now.

I have just analysed my electricty bills. I can proudly state that over the year, our cold showers have resulted in a saving of 615 kWh of electrical power over the year!

A..

[Connecting with Sauce]

I gave up after ~2 weeks :D not a wuss but just decided I'd paid for a boiler which is pretty good at heating the water and it has been cold here in the UK...