BATHING BY BUCKET: BACK TO THE BASICS

When I asked him if there was any special tricks to the shower, he laughed and replied, “Yeah, see that bucket of water? Start bailing”.

After the initial shock, I am now completely convinced that I was born to bathe by bucket, to peel clothes off when the electricity cuts (almost everyday) and the fan goes off, to throw my toilet paper in the basket instead of the bowl because the septic system isn’t strong enough, to collect rain water when the faucet turns off, to heat water by stove to bathe my daughter at night, to try and avoid one of the many palm sized spiders that reside in the house, to bargain for dinner at the market, to ride a chicken bus filled with 15 too many people with my daughter sitting not in a carseat but happily in my lap.

I have finally learned to find luxury in simplicity.