Comments on: In the Navy (Day 229)… http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/ making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being too smug about it) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Daisy http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5548 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:14:34 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5548 I like to keep my bathrooms as hot as possible or keep my house warm before I take showers that way not having such hot water doesn’t bother me. I live in Florida so I am sure I have no idea how nice it is to come home to a hot shower in winter however I think you should do this in whenever you can. Saves on your electric bill by not running such hot showers and changing your thermostat is never a bad thing.

]]> By: kimberly http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5477 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:44:53 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5477 that’s awesome. my dad’s been trying to get us onto that shower tip since we were kids. it took me more than 2 decades to finally realize the merit :P good stuff…

]]> By: Kim http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5434 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:12:06 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5434 Yes, please get the showerhead Stacey recommends. THey sell that at Wal-Mart and almost every single hardware store I’ve ever been it. I love mine and even at full power its 1.5 GPM.

]]> By: emily http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5433 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:54:14 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5433 Like limesarah, I learned to take navy showers while in Germany. Here in the US, I get called an extremist.

My tip for wintertime showers is that, if you have bathroom vent, leave it off while you’re wet and naked; you can turn it on to get rid of mildew-causing steam later. That cold breeze is sometimes enough to push me over the edge, and then I rinse off warm for so long that there are no savings! (In a rental, it can be hard to decouple the light and the vent, though…)

]]> By: Stacey http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5430 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:14:15 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5430 One more thing! On really cold days, instead of turning the water all the way off and freezing to death, you can turn it down to a mist and avoid hypothermia.

]]> By: Stacey http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5429 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:12:25 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5429 At every apartment we rent, my husband and I replace the showerhead with one of these:

The great thing about it is that you turn your knobs at the beginning of your shower to find your temperature, then regualte the flow from the showerhead.

]]> By: gettinggreen http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5428 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:56:07 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5428 Hmm, yeah, that’s a good idea — washing the hair first, then getting into the shower after. But no, I don’t have a detachable showerhead, unfortunately. I do, however, have the kind of one-handle, pull out to adjust flow, turn around to adjust temperature kind of dial so that’s pretty easy to maneuver. And blah, you’ve just made me realize how utterly ridiculous my shower routine has become!! Haha, oh dear.

]]> By: blah http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5426 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:16:50 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5426 Rhett, where did you get your low flow shower head? I’ve looked for one with a pause button and couldn’t find one anywhere

]]> By: blah http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5425 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:15:37 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5425 If I were you Vanessa, I’d really reconsider this whole taking a shower in the dark thing. It seems more like a safety factor to have the lights on when you’re in the shower, especially since you’ve now narrowed it down from hot steamy 10 minute showers to 3 minutes of bathing in with luke warm, trickeling, water that is conserved at the bottom of the shower to shave your legs in and then later used for grey water (ok, that’s a little much, but you get what I’m saying) :-)

]]> By: Rhett http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5424 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:23 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/10/15/in-the-navy-day-229/#comment-5424 We just made this switch, too, and should be doing an episode of Greentime on this as soon as we have a chance to do a little research (maybe tonight, but my doctoral research is kinda in need of my efforts tonight).

We used to have a massive shower head and I am scared to think of how much water it poured out every minute. We weren’t happy with the thing, anyway, and wanted to ditch it, so I got us a detachable shower head that has two high pressure mist (low flow) settings and a “pause” setting that reduces the flow to the tiniest trickle. Taking a navy shower with it is a breeze…just twist the knob one click to the “pause” setting, lather up, then click it back on to rinse. I love using the wand-style heads anyway because I like being able to direct the water as I want it. Plus, when the shower head is closer to your skin, you generally set it a little less warm, since it doesn’t cool off on the way to your body.

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