It all started at Christmas.
Both of my aunts are librarians. I could count on receiving books for presents every year.
While the rest of the family visited by the fire, I sat alone in the hallway devouring my new book.
I love to read just about anywhere. The beach. The airport. The hammock. The cupboard under the stairs. I always have a book in my bag so I can catch a few chapters at the kids’ dentist or while waiting for a tennis match to begin.
Aside from my Aunt Pat’s hallway on holidays, my favorite place to read as a kid was the bathtub. It still is today.
I know this sounds tricky. It’s all in the balance. I’ve only lost one book to the bathwater in 30 years of pruned reading.
My record is four hours. My average is two. Growing up in a household with only one bathroom, my favorite past time, though frequent, was not popular.
I got really good at ignoring my older brother banging on the bathroom door. (Sorry Charlie!)
Not only am I great at balancing my book above water, I am also talented at adding hot water with nothing but my toes. I hate it when the water gets cold so I frequently add more hot water. When the water level gets dangerously high and my balancing abilities become too challenged, I let out some cold water (again with my toes) before adding more hot water. This process gets repeated over and over.
When the hot water would finally give out or my hands got too pruned to safely hold my book, I would hop out of the tub and read wrapped up in a towel in front of the heat register behind the bathroom door. The banging on the door continued.
Curious about this bathtub reading habit? You should give it a try yourself!
The best kind of book to read in the bathtub is a story you can get lost in. This past summer I spent my bathtub time at Hogwarts. It was fantastic.
I recommend Cheap Love for your first bathtub reading experience. I’ve been told once you start reading it, you can’t stop. Warning: this love story full of financial life lessons could leave your pruned in the bathwater! But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check out what other readers have to say about the power of Cheap Love right here.
Have you ever tried reading in the bathtub? What is your favorite place to read?
Do you have exercises that you do with your toes to aid you in your ability to work the faucet and drain button? Just askin……
It’s all those years of working the faucet and the drain switch with my toes that makes them so strong. Now I can even pick up pencils and spare change with my toes. Such a useful skill…really, you need to work on this if you want to truly enjoy life!
I would never read my copy of Cheap Love in the bathtub – couldn’t risk dropping it!
(it’s an e-book and on my iPad – im sure it’d fine, i just don’t trust myself 100% with it in the bathtub)
Thank you for valuing Cheap Love so highly! I like that. And I don’t recommend you bring your iPad into the bathtub-ever. No matter how good your balance or talented your toes, that could be a disaster! Thanks again for being such a loyal Cheap Love fan! =)