No Tub? No Problem!

Guest blogging with us today is Alicia Ford!

We are so grateful that Alicia was willing to share this life hack with us! She is a wonderful wife who has been married for eight years, an amazing mother of four boys, and a super busy homeschooling mamma to her two oldest boys. In her spare time she uses her creativity to make beautiful cakes and capture precious moments with her photography skills. On top of all this, Alicia also graduated last year from BYU with a bachelors in marriage and family studies.

Life hack #469 

Ok, so when we moved to our new house, we knew there was no tub. We loved it so much that we thought we could do without one. What we failed to realize was that a tub is not just a luxury for bubbles and candles. No, no... Its a necessity. End of story. Whether you have a toddler covered in spaghetti and red sauce, or a 5 year old stepped in mud, or your baby just had the poosplosion of the century, you are gonna have times where you just NEED to use a bath. Necessity always seems to be the mother of invention, and in our case it was. 

We got a plastic storage tub and put it in our shower. At first, we were so happy to have SOMETHING there instead of nothing, as the water soaked our faces, arms, and front sides and the floor in front of our shower. As with anything, there was room for improvement, dumping the water was annoying and HEAVY, and the shower nozzle still got water everywhere (although not as bad as before). One day our shower nozzle broke! It looked like a little hose! That's when I got my idea for our bathtub hack.  

We drilled a hole in the bottom of our tub (just one was enough to let it drain slowly so I didn't have to dump it, but not fast enough to let all the water out right away if the plug was bumped). Because our shower nozzle was just a "hose" now, it would spray a solid stream, but totally out of control, so I took some photography backdrop clamps (found on Amazon for around 6 bucks back in June) and clamped one to the side of the tub and one clamped to the hose and other clamp. The "hose" was no longer flailing, we had a steady stream, we had a drain (conveniently right above our shower drain) and a plug that we picked up at the "do it" store. Voila! We had a tub. And we love our ghetto tub! And when I *really* need to hose them down, I unhook one of the clamps and I can blast any mess!