Today’s topic is technology in the bathroom!

I can recall, as a young child, watching my father lather up his face with shaving cream, using a brush, and shaving with a single-blade razor.  My mother did the same with shaving her legs. 

Wet hair was simply dried naturally, we didn’t have any kind of hair dryer at home.  If we wanted to curl our hair, we put our wet hair up in plastic or wire brush rollers and tried to sleep in them overnight.  (Notice I said TRIED!)  Toothbrushes were all manual, we had to move the brush up and down and side to side ourselves.  The bathtub, sink, and toilet were all scrubbed manually.

Now, a look at today’s bathroom shows electric shavers to shave our various body parts.  We have blow driers to dry our hair, and heated curlers or curling irons to curl our hair.  We have electric toothbrushes (and electric waterpiks) to brush our teeth for us.  Our toilet bowl is kept clean (more or less) by some version of automatic toilet bowl cleaner.  Currently I’m using the newest version of “Never scrub” which seems to be working pretty well.  And, our bathtub is kept clean with the daily use of the automatic Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner (which I like quite a bit.)

My hubby gave me a soap & shampoo dispenser for my birthday last fall that he hung in the shower that also has a clock and radio in it.  (I think he gave it to me because HE wanted it!)  My hubby listens to the radio in the shower, I prefer to just listen to the running water and try to relax.

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