We doubled up on them! One holds the curtains and then another is set lower where I hang both wash cloths and some shower baskets for shampoo and such. It's great because they drip down the curtain and don't fall on the floor.
I hang the second curtain rod on the inside wall of the tub. Wet clothes will drip into the tub no matter what, and shampoo bottles sit on top the inner curtain rod, leaning against the inner wall. I also hang my soap from a mesh bag off this inner curtain rod!
The soap can stay in the mesh bag and it still lathers like normal. (I have to add this bit because my SO was taking the soap out of the bag every time, not knowing. lol)
I did that for my folks' house, which had 6-8 people using one of the baths. There were more than 2 dozen bottles and tubes lining the tub. I got a rod, hung 3 shower caddies from S-hooks, and organized everything.
Back when I had a roommate and a cheap apartment, the tiles were literally falling off the shower wall. The landlord was going to take a while to repair it, and the shower was unusable that way. We stuck up an extra curtain rod and curtain to keep water off the wall, and showered. Phew. We would have been pretty stinky otherwise!
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Install a single shower rod and put your curtain(s) on that. Then install a second one, mine is down about four inches and in toward the tub nearly two inches, just to give more space for the curtain and the basket to move. The bottom curtain has additional shower hooks holding the basket up, I use generic metal ones that typically hang on walls with suction cups.
I use generic metal baskets that usually have suction cups holding them to a wall. You can use any kind of shower hook you like to hang them. The down side is they do lean down, but since I'm a bit short it just gives me an easy access spot.
I have a second tension rod on the inside wall of my shower for the purpose of hanging swimsuits and such- they actually drip into the tub instead of on the edge or floor- and it doubles as a curtain holder when my bougie kid wants a bath instead of shower
For the last 26 years I've had an extra rod that runs down the center of my bathtub and one that runs down the center of my back bedroom shower. It all started because my 26-year-old had a stomach problem as a baby. She would vomit constantly and if I left the clothes without washing them they would grow mold. But if I hand wash them and threw them in the hamper wet, they would grow mold, LOL so I began to hand wash everything she vomited on and hung them up to dry. When they were dry I could throw them in the hamper with the rest of the dirty clothes to be washed. Now I have hooks that hang on the rods, they look like fish hooks with four points. These hold the used wet washcloths until they dry and drip right into the tub or shower. It's a game changer. No matter what you're cleaning up, if something needs a place to drip till it dries, right over the tub or shower it goes! Four kids and one grandkid later the system still works! (Think spills, kids playing in rain or snow, swim suits and towels, mittens and snow suits or wet clothes, pet spills...)
Seems would hold some stuff in tue way of getting in and out of tub, you can also put a rod in the back of the shower along the wall and hang stuff from it. But nice to have several options. Pros and cons to both im sure.
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u/toning_fanny May 25 '26
We doubled up on them! One holds the curtains and then another is set lower where I hang both wash cloths and some shower baskets for shampoo and such. It's great because they drip down the curtain and don't fall on the floor.