Are you happy to "shower in someone else's dirt"?

I cannot understand why any one would not use campsite amenities most are more than adequate I’ve been driving artics for 30+years and taken a piss shit and shower in some pretty awful places and never found a campsite as bad. Yes we do use on board facilities but what’s wrong with also using site facilities lots of effort and cost goes into providing this service most are very good.
 
i have worked in sum fairly bad places around the world but sum of the site oblation blocks i would no even step in to them let alone bare my bum to their walls.
or toilets.
bill
 
If I'm on a campsite or aire and the facilities are good I'll use them, if not then I'll use the van. My opinion on moho's having showers and loos are that they're there when you need them whatever your preferences about using campsite facilities or your own. I've used plenty of shared facilities after playing football, swimming baths, gym, work so I'm happy to use campsite facilities most of the time (but definitely not some which were disgusting). At the end of the day it's what you're comfortable with ?
 
I check the showers n if ok then i use them
Saves the water usage in the camper
I take a jug in my shower bag to rinse it down before i use if need be
My thort is people are clean wen they come out of the shower ..
If we are low on water its the best feeling avin a shower that u dont need to turn on to get wet
Turn off to apply shampoo
Turn on to rinse
Turn off to soap up
Turn on to rinse off
Still feels gud either way
 
Tea break said:
I cannot understand why any one would not use campsite amenities most are more than adequate I’ve been driving artics for 30+years and taken a piss shit and shower in some pretty awful places and never found a campsite as bad. Yes we do use on board facilities but what’s wrong with also using site facilities lots of effort and cost goes into providing this service most are very good.
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I mean why would you pay £20 quid a night and still shit in a cupboard.
I'd be using as much of their electric / water/ toilets / showers as I could if it meant I didn't have to use my own plastic, cramped, low flow, piddling, limited hot water shower and bog ?
May as well go park in a layby if you are going to do that and save your twenty notes for the pub. ?
 
HandyAndy said:
I mean why would you pay £20 quid a night and still shit in a cupboard.
I'd be using as much of their electric / water/ toilets / showers as I could if it meant I didn't have to use my own plastic, cramped, low flow, piddling, limited hot water shower and bog ?
May as well go park in a layby if you are going to do that and save your twenty notes for the pub. ?
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Who in there right mind pays that much.:D2
 
tonyidle said:
I read them too. Quite like spitting feathers. ?
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Really is no hope for some people.

I have the stupid mag come through the door as a ½ price senior member you can't have a online only membership. It goes straight in the recycle bin without looking at it.
 
We always use site facilities . We find it’s a good idea to use cheap flip flops on your feet because it’s the floors that are the biggest concern . After all the water coming out of the shower is clean !
 
I only use site showers when it's quiet or better still empty and preferably after they have been cleaned. There's nothing worse than listening to someone in the next stall coughing and sneezing and generosity spreading all those germs with everyone else. I also wear a cheap pair of flip flops in the shower. If the sites are busy we shower in the van.

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Ive always found club site facilities fantastic, the wardens work extremely hard in keeping them clean. I always wear crocs when showering and when i swim i wear flip flops until i get into the pool.
For those who are worrying about germs , if you use public transport dont even think about the germs (including urine and faeces) on the seat your sitting on. We sit down and think all is ok if theres no crumbs etc on it. Think again.
 
Some folk seem a bit "precious". I grew up in a house with 7 people and 1 bath. Got a bath once a week, in the water my sister had come out of.
Went camping in the summer, not on a site, used a bucket or public toilets. Went to nearby Fisherman's Mission to bathe.
Most site toilet/shower blocks are quite luxurious by those standards. :)
 
JJ - just remember that you and yours are strangers to the rest of us.
 
Candapack said:
Some folk seem a bit "precious". I grew up in a house with 7 people and 1 bath. Got a bath once a week, in the water my sister had come out of.
Went camping in the summer, not on a site, used a bucket or public toilets. Went to nearby Fisherman's Mission to bathe.
Most site toilet/shower blocks are quite luxurious by those standards. :)
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Agree. There may be two different types of motorhomer those who came to it late and want the luxurys of home and all its cleanliness, and thosse who came up through the ranks having camped with tents with buckets and holes for toilets and therefore able to cope with the odd speck of muck.

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Like many of the older generation my bath used to hang on a nail in the back yard ,until it was required every Saturday ,in the kitchen in front of the coal fire ,we didn’t have the luxury of a bathroom until I was about 19 so I guess I’m in the minority nowadays .Believe me I have been in some crap showers as I was in the TA for years but so long as their is hot water and a clothes hook I’m ok with that but I do wear flip flops or crocs .
 
Other half insists on using onboard loo and shower. I tend to use site ones if they are available. Maybe old habit from previous van not having any The few sites we've used so far have had great facilities. Also means I don't have to empty grey tank, fill water and empty cassette as often.

Not been abroad yet, but if as ropey as some say then will both be using onboard.
 
Parrot Face said:
Ha Ha! I even read the CCC magazine letters...even funnier. When my kids were teenagers they used to read them and would fall about laughing asking if all old people were that boring.
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We always used to say that the majority of letters seemed to start with....

Dear Sir, I am outraged...

Some of the letters do crack me up
 
mike mcglynn said:
Like many of the older generation my bath used to hang on a nail in the back yard ,until it was required every Saturday ,in the kitchen in front of the coal fire ,we didn’t have the luxury of a bathroom until I was about 19 so I guess I’m in the minority nowadays .Believe me I have been in some crap showers as I was in the TA for years but so long as their is hot water and a clothes hook I’m ok with that but I do wear flip flops or crocs .
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Yes, 1960s we had one bath per week -- even 1970s actually. If you were lucky you got fresh water rather than your sibling's :-)

Early 1960s we were fortunate: we already had a bathroom extension on the back of the terrace house! The neighbours were still doing the tin bath routine.

Grandparents even had outside bogs into the late 1970s (with a paraffin lamp in the winter to stop the bowl freezing).

I am now suddenly reminded of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen':

 
BobtheBass said:
Once at a posh dinner party we got into a debate around the table about baths and showers, what was your preference. Sue said she loved wallowing in a hot bath and one of the upper class twits there was astonished. He said, and it's a phrase we still use occasionally today and laugh at, "What! You sit in your own effluvia?"
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So true,,bathing in your own dirt.Give me a shower any day.BUSBY?

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MyrtleGuru said:
Yes, 1960s we had one bath per week -- even 1970s actually. If you were lucky you got fresh water rather than your sibling's :)

Early 1960s we were fortunate: we already had a bathroom extension on the back of the terrace house! The neighbours were still doing the tin bath routine.

Grandparents even had outside bogs into the late 1970s (with a paraffin lamp in the winter to stop the bowl freezing).

I am now suddenly reminded of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen':

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It wasn't to stop the bowl from freezing but the cistern.
 
On a site in Spain recently and I put some washing in the site washing machine. Some of my clothes came out with grease stains on them. So another question ARE PEOPLE HAPPY TO WASH THEIR CLOTHES IN OTHER PEOPLES DIRT?
 
Candapack said:
Some folk seem a bit "precious". I grew up in a house with 7 people and 1 bath. Got a bath once a week, in the water my sister had come out of.
:)
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Cuh! You were lucky; when I was a kid growin' oop in t'Uddersfield........

(First thing I always do before settling in is to give the shower flow a test in case the water's chilly or just a dribble or aimed at the wall. Nothing worse that being stripped off and poised with Radox in hand to find there's barely a dribble).

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ceejayt said:
We always used to say that the majority of letters seemed to start with....

Dear Sir, I am outraged...

Some of the letters do crack me up
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Too many old Forum contributors are equally boring ;)........ operations, bad backs, numerous aches and pains, hangovers...........:rolleyes:
 
Parrot Face said:
On a site in Spain recently and I put some washing in the site washing machine. Some of my clothes came out with grease stains on them. So another question ARE PEOPLE HAPPY TO WASH THEIR CLOTHES IN OTHER PEOPLES DIRT?
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No. Which is why I won’t use laundrettes. Before getting a washing machine I had more than one load of washing ruined, either with grease, oil or everything coming out covered in pet hair.
 
On an aire whilst emptying my cassette (you know, the plastic box with 1 purpose in its life, to collect wee and crap) the man emptied his and the water was almost clear.
He asked me if I knew if there were any toilets close by as they don't use their toilet for number twos. Except in an emergency he added.
I wanted to ask what do they do, hold it back until a toilet is found?
Why spend tens of thousands on a motorhome with all the facilities when you can buy an old transit and chuck a mattress and a bucket in the back?
 
Larby said:
On an aire whilst emptying my cassette (you know, the plastic box with 1 purpose in its life, to collect wee and crap) the man emptied his and the water was almost clear.
He asked me if I knew if there were any toilets close by as they don't use their toilet for number twos. Except in an emergency he added.
I wanted to ask what do they do, hold it back until a toilet is found?
Why spend tens of thousands on a motorhome with all the facilities when you can buy an old transit and chuck a mattress and a bucket in the back?
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Well I agree with the other guy - I use the onboard facilities if I need to at night but will simply use my legs and walk to the facilities the rest of the time.

Yes I’ve paid a lot of money for my MoHo with great facilities, lovely carpeting, awesome furnishings, nice bedding and curtains..... that’s why I won’t $hit in the van leaving the smells to impregnate my soft furnishings - I’d rather leave those smells in the campsite loos thank you very much!

Besides, it saves me having to troop to the chemical disposal point on a too regular basis to enjoy watching the contents of my bowels disappear down a grating.
 
Wow, 4 pages of replies so far, the thread title seems misleading.

if you go to work everyday like me,go off for the day to a town, city, museum, weekend without the van etc, are you happy to shit, shower, wash in someone else's dirt?

Emphatic yes.

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