I have been meaning to tell this story for a couple of weeks now and keep forgetting to, but it's worth it so here goes. Sometimes here in the DR one might find him/herself without the usage of water for any amount of time from a couple of hours to a couple of days. When this happens to someone, they must make some decisions such as; do I go without a shower today and hope it will be on tomorrow or later tonight? Do I go over to a friend's house and hope they have water, when it's a strong probability they won't but at least you would all smell together? Or if it's raining do I play in the water and pretend that was a shower? Or last option is to collect rain water, which yes is not the cleanest and really defeats the purpose of taking a shower, but at least it's water and you hope the soap action will overcome the rain water. So, when one has options such as these, you normally pick one of the top 2, but what happens when you have already not showered in 2 days and your neighbors don't have water either? Well, you guessed it you resort to the last option is showering with rain water.
So, how does one bathe in rain water you ask...here are the steps of that process:
- Collect as many tupperware bowls, pitchers, buckets, vases, or whatever else could be used to hold water.
-Set these apparatuses underneath your gutter pipes for water to run off into them therefore collecting water.
-As one is full you take it to the bathroom and wait for the next to fill up.
-Repeat process until you feel you have enough water to bathe, shave, wash face, flush the toilet, etc.
-Then get in the shower, lather up and pour a bucket of water over yourself to wash off the soap.
-Repeat until you are fully cleansed and take pride that you have just taken your first "bucket bath".
oh the joys of the dr:)