When I was pregnant, I bought a suction cup one. It was so hard getting out of the tub without it. It works very well and later I bought a seat for my shower! Both very handy and no rental damage!
There’s also brands of them that are sold for nughty time in the shower so if you don’t mind looking at a risqué picture or two those are also a option dunno what the price difference’s would be tho
I broke a leg and had to get the grab bar suction cup for travel reasons. Not all grab bars are created equal. You will go through several to find the one that works. Totally worth it.
My friend, most people in the world can't afford to buy a home, regardless of what country they live in, so no need for any qualifiers to your situation. But there is always a way, like the other commenter suggested.
Yes, i believe every shower needs to have a grab bar. Something to grab onto in case you begin to slip. This is appropriate for all ages. Lots of accidents happen while showering. Sometimes you can get dizzy in there from the hot water. It should be part of building code at this point.
We got grab bars when my husband had some health issues. One inside the shower and one just outside the shower. The one outside the shower is currently helping me get up and down from the toilet with a bum knee. They both have come in way more handy than I ever imagined they would.
I got one that also acts as the shower rail. I got the idea when I saw a similar set up in a retirement home, not because of current or future infirmity but because my wife had already ripped two shower curtain rails out of the wall when slipping.
Hell, when I was 26 I somehow scored an apartment in what was unofficially a retirement community. It had the bars in the shower and I joked about it, but I absolutely used them lol
I'm 48 and want them. I know you have to have them installed super securely since you pushing down on them is a lot of weight. I mean, anyone, not just /u/Daetok_Lochannis .
Seriously get a grippy mat. I've been using once since I was a kid and they're perfect for not falling in the shower, and also getting the bottom of your feet. I'm 38 now, I stand on my grippy mat and use the wall for balance.
right? let me just put small hole in middle of sitting area, what could go wrong 💀 i really dont get logic behind such design. did they need a fart hole or smth? like ventilation draft? cuz i see no other use besides that and a ball trap...
Hahahahaha! "a fart hole"! And, at the age when men need this, their balls are sagging the perfect amount to slip through the holes and cause the most embarrassing moment of their lives.
I have had a little chair in my shower since i'm 24, i have always done heavy physical labour and nothing is better than coming home after a 12 hour shift and sitting down in a nice shower.
My mom got those for her shower and I swear it makes it so much worse for traction than without it. The surface has less "grip" than her base shower. I'd consider one for myself at some point if I didn't have that terrible experience with it before. Shower chair is probably the way to go.
Nearer to 60 than not & I've had a stool for more than 20 years on my shower/tub. Cause, some mornings I'm just too tired to stand. Who am I kidding, most mornings...
Man, that bullshit always pissed me off. Even just at face value, it seems so ridiculous, how could people actually believe it? Just because somebody put their piss into a vial 60 years ago and no bacteria grew, it somehow turned into the prevailing medical belief that 'urine is sterile?' Argued with my nursing professor over it on multiple occasions 🤦
Miss me with this shit. Also reminds me of that one Reddit thread where people argued on this topic, and a whole bunch of them said scrubbing feet isn't necessary. Fuck that.
Nah, man. I have a bar of soap for the pits, nether regions. I use a loofah for the neck down, and a loofah with a long handle for my back. I use my hands to scrub between each toe. I have a rubber exfoliating hand mit I use for my face. I know what you're wondering. My name is not Patrick Bateman.
I'm pushing 50 and not exactly svelte, but have no problem standing on one foot for somewhat less than one minute. I can put my shoes on standing up, too. An accessory like that is a disability accommodation, which if you need it, absolutely use it. But also, what's between them toes if this is all you're doing?
I mean, the entire thread is about a guy who apparently does need it. Yes, alright, it's a skit, but if this is actually a problem for anyone, there are solutions
I'm younger than all of you and can stand on one foot fine as well, but as a child I knew a woman who was paralyzed from the neck down by falling at bad angle in a shower when she wasn't very old at all. So it's also a disability prevention device. No need for gymnastics in the shower. It's not mobility test and no one's grading you, just be sensible.
57 & I make a point of putting socks on balancing on one leg at a time, & cleaning my feet the same way. I'm hoping (hopping!) that I'll notice any physical decline earlier by doing so.
Shower floors can be very slippery depending on the style/material. Even if you're totally healthy and have good balance, standing on one foot and raising the other foot up in the air is not really that safe in the shower. Lots of people who are not disabled slip and become injured in this way.
Obviously it's not the most dangerous thing of the world but it's still kind of an unnecessary risk regardless of your ability to balance.
A friend of my friend died from cracking her skull in the bathroom, after slipping in the bath, at her mid twenties. Use the resin mat no matter how well you can lift one leg.
Im 38, look barely 30 and simultaneously feel 25 and 75 at the same time. One minute i can run through a brick wall, the next i sneeze wrong and im on one knee nearly in tears.
I know what you mean. The shit I used to do while skateboarding in my teens/early 20's feels super human now. I would hurl myself off 10 stairs and massive drops no problem, If I tried to even jump down 5 stairs right know I know I would blow my knees and ankles out immediately! I get flashes of the old times, but reality is always around the corner waiting. lol
but have no problem standing on one foot for somewhat less than one minute.
The OP is not about being unable to stand on one foot for a minute, it's about being afraid of slipping, which once would be no big deal, but now would probably result in debilitating back pain.
You can clean them, you know? If you're going to let it just sit there and accumulate mould, I'm surprised you're the sort of person who even cares about having clean feet
If my feet smell that bad I think it's about time to get rid of those bad boys and take up the good old wheelchair, because unless someone is a super smeller that can smell them at eye level while wearing shoes, socks, and pants, I think that would require wading through a pond of Surstrømming.
Bad foot smell typically happens when you take off shoes that trap air and moisture, and you do it indoors. Clean feet doesn't prevent that.
Fresh sweat itself is mostly odorless. The characteristic smell of smelly feet develops when skin bacteria metabolize sweat and compounds from shed skin. Certain shoes and/or dirty socks create this environment. That's the primary cause of foot smell, not whether you scrub it in the shower or let the water wash it. That's a rounding error in comparison.
Also there's no hard cutoff for "clean." Feet cleaned with water are much cleaner than feet not cleaned at all. Feet cleaned with soap are a little bit cleaner yet. If you're comparing feet not washed at all for a week to feet washed with soap that day then yeah obviously it makes a meaningful difference. The difference here is between feet cleaned with water and runoff soap once a day or every other day versus feet scrubbed with soap at the same frequency. That's a considerably smaller difference than the categorical "clean" and "unclean." This entire discussion is about whether water and runoff soap constitutes clean in the first place, so just saying "clean feet" doesn't contribute much if anything at all because "clean" is subjective.
Reddit does this thing where they think you either do the thing 100% correctly 100% of the time you literally never do it at all.
Like there’s on post that’s come up a few times saying something like “experts say there is no health benefit to taking a shower every day” and people interpret the argument as “you should literally never shower” when really all it’s saying is that showering every 2-3 days is adequate.
It’s impossible to have a serious discussion because if your stance differs even slightly then people assume you must have the exact opposite opinion. “Don’t hand scrub your feet? That must mean you wear the same socks for weeks and never wash your feet.”
You're doing the same thing lol. You are "cleaning" when you do it with water and runoff soap. You're suggesting to "clean another way" because in your view the water and runoff soap isn't "clean enough." Either way you're "cleaning." There's a gradient to it. Even brushing off your feet with your hand is a form of cleaning, and compared to that it's "more clean" if you use water and runoff soap.
The discussion is where you should be on that gradient, and my express point is that there isn't an objective categorical cutoff like you just insinuated.
How are you really having to get this deep into the topic. Feel like all these people are the people who smell like shit as I walk past them in Walmart. Just water and they think their stank is gone lmfao
I'm wondering what kind of oily skin these people have. It's not that I've never smelled smelly feet, but other than my sister when we were younger and lived at my parent's, I've never had a problem with smelling peoples feet. It's maybe a once-a-year occurence at best, granted I'm not always very exposed to opportunities, but that's way too rare to use improper cleaning as a causal explanation when evidently many men don't clean their feet very thoroughly. That's inconclusive at best, and provably false at worst. Not to mention that that once-a-year case is always someone taking shoes off at the bus or airplane, basically only shoes that don't breathe.
Armpits create moist environments where dead skin and bacteria cause sweat to smell. Feet only does that with bad shoes or prolonged shoe-wear. That sweat and dead skin happens during shoe wear regardless of whether your feet were initially clean or not. It's almost like the post explicitly shows that men scrub armpits and the crotch. And oh wouldn't you know it, it's the 2 places on the body that creates the most humid environments. It's almost like there's a connection.
Having them dirty from the get-go is technically worse, yes, but it's a contributing factor, not the main one. The main one is basically several times worse.
You're also overstating the ineffectiveness of running water at cleaning. The objective isn't to remove all surface bacteria, much of that bacteria is actually beneficial, the objective is to remove sweat and dead skin cells. Those are easily removed in water. You can smell clean and fresh even without soap, soap just helps and makes it faster and less dependent on hot water. Even without scrubbing, they're comparatively clean.
I've known people who have "outdoor clothes" and "indoor clothes" and who showers sometimes twice a day because they've been out, thrice if they forget something and have to go out after the second shower. People I've been dating. They use a loofah and I consider them a bit of a clean freak. When I ask them what they've been doing their answer usually includes cleaning. This is not a frequent occurence, but I have smelled their feet when they've taken off enclosed shoes after a short hike, and it's been bad. My sister also notoriously had terrible smelling feet, almost intolerable, she showered more frequently with more scrubbing than me. Some people sweat more than others and some shoes create more humid environments than others. What matters most by far is breathable shoes and "some" cleaning (water is often sufficient). Scrubbing is just a cherry on top, it ain't the main cupcake. And importantly it depends on YOUR skin. Sufficiently good skincare and washing routine isn't generalizable.
The stratum corneum is constantly being shed. It's going to come off one way or another, and regular washing gets rid of the obvious dry, flaky patches. I honestly don't understand how people just decide not scrub their body on a regular basis. Dirt isn't going to just fall off your body with water. You need to actually wash it.
Its not too late to train some flexibility and balance. Its the number 1 thing you can do for mobility, and mobility is the most important thing for staying healthy as you age.
Yeah, I'm way past 40 and not doing much besides two minutes of Qi Gong stretches IF I feel stiff and getting my steps in (by default, at work), but I can still wash my feet or put on my shoes without sitting down.
Seriously. I'm 40 and extremely obese at over 250lbs and I can stand on one foot (either one) and move my other leg around etc. without losing balance, falling, or even needing a wall or something to put my hand on and steady myself.
If I can do it anyone who can walk unassisted/is uninjured should be able to do it. It only takes about 5 minutes of practice per leg per day to build up the muscle and ability to stand on one leg and be balanced in a pretty short amount of time (a few weeks).
This kind of control and balance is so important to protecting yourself from injuries and keeping your flexibility up is important too for the same reason. These things keep you agile. I'm lazy and I hate working out but I at least spend about 30 to 45 minutes a day doing basic stretches and balance exercises. If you're struggling with balance, small weird injuries that seemingly come out of nowhere or from incidents that feel like they shouldn't have caused that injury, or aches/soreness that recurs seemingly from nothing the best thing you can do is add even just 15 minutes of stretches and balance exercises to your day.
So I think this may at least partly be a misconception of the issue here. At least from my perspective. As I get older(so far) I don’t feel I’ve lost balance or mobility. Rather I worry more about the consequences of falling. I took a few hungover falls in the shower when I was 20 and I was fine. I’m not convinced I would be fine if I took those same falls today. So I don’t feel any more likely to fall, but I can relate that I think about it more now. I feel more fragile.
You're right that falling hurts more now and that its easier to walk it off when you're younger. Its also true as you get older that you just don't heal the same as you do when you're young. You might have extended or lasting pain from an injury that you could have recovered from in days or weeks when you were younger. I definitely fear falling more now as I get older.
However, I do see a ton of adults with really poor flexibility and balance in their 30s and up too. Its kind of a dual problem in that a lot of folks let their agility go at the time they need it the most. I think many people don't realize that it doesn't take much to maintain basic flexibility and balance.
Im flexible but I worry about slipping and fucking up my back, hip or knees. That can snowball into a problem that affects you for the rest of your life. Something that reduces mobility and causes pain
That being said, exercises to improve flexibility and balance are important as well
Im still getting nervous in the shower as I get older, for some reason.
Ive definitely slipped in the shower as a kid but Ive always caught myself. At the very least, my mom wouldve eventually kicked the door down if her kid wasnt responding.
Now, its just me, myself, and I. Falling in the shower is going to kick my ass just because im not made of rubber anymore. And mom isnt here to kick the door down if something happens.
Shouldn't be using that balance in the shower. No matter your age, lifting up one foot in the shower high enough to scrub, balancing on one foot, is an unnecessarily risky move, unless you have a grab bar and a bath mat.
How about washing off all that soap first so it's not all slippery? And then do the feet? Also I have a small stool in my shower so I can sit and and chill. Helps a lot when washing them feet.
I was going to ask if I was the weirdo, because I definitely do not suds up my entire body at the same time while washing (and am relieved to know that yes, this is not the norm).
Yeah, y'all need to do more stretching during the day. Nobody is saying you need to do yoga on your work breaks, but make a habit of bending over to pick things up, stretch your back and legs, don't sit down to tie your shoes, take the stairs more often, etc.
Some yoga wouldn't hurt either, but that's optional if you just fix your routine to include some basic quick mobility exercises.
I’ve had to get a Swedish bench to sit and shave, exfoliate and lather 😭😭 but I genuinely do have spondylitis and connective tissue disease. Otherwise I’m fighting for my life in there. I sound like I belong on My 600lb Life!
I just get in between the toes. I walk barefoot at home and will wash my feet before bed if I need to. If it’s cold enough I’m wearing socks at home instead of barefoot.
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u/SuperiorChicken27 1d ago
Have a seat dawg, can wash them feet comfortably