5 Minute Shower Timer / Shower Clock

Well I had to repurchase this item because the suction isn't great and it broke the first time. But we tied a string around the suction and tied the string to a hook in our shower. We are a family of 5 that all use this and it doesn't get wrecked and wet in the shower, it is visible and accurate. Would highly recommend.

Our little stick-on shower timer has been going strong for the better part of a year. It still turns and flows smoothly, and hasn't budged an iota from where it was stuck on. It fell a few times early on, but didn't break, and now seems glued in place as much by mineral deposits and soap scum as by suction. (You: "Ewwwww!" Us: Yeah, well the kids clean this bathroom twice a week. They don't do such an amazing job that you can peek behind the freakin' shower timer, 'k?) The shower/bath gets used at least once a day, often twice, depending on the kids' schedules. It's the main bathroom in the hallway, so the overall traffic count is on the high side. Our shower/bath enclosure surface is that smooth fiberglass from the early 1970s. That said, in the 40-some years since the house was built, the enclosure has developed some surface roughness; it's not totally slick-smooth, like, say, marble. But the main thing is, there's no embossed texture like fake tile squares, faux stone, etc. It's an unabashedly synthetic finish on a thoroughly man-made material. That probably is why our shower timer has stuck so well. I timed this thing when we bought it, and I remember that it was accurate enough. I just went in and timed it again (nearly eight months later) and it ran 4 minutes 50 seconds. It probably hasn't changed. Has it actually helped change the kids' shower habits? Well, in one case yes - although that was the one who'd always taken suspiciously short showers, and now actually sometimes runs the water long enough to maybe get clean - and in the other case, not so much. But that one's a teenager, and that's a whole other thing going on there. UPDATE early 2015: Well, wouldn't you know it, just after I posted the review the darn thing fell off the wall and broke. Fortunately, the plastic outer shell contained the shards of glass, so that was a well-engineered touch. And now it's been break-tested. I'm probably going to order the same one again since I was quite pleased with its performance.

I bought two of these so I could have one in both of our showers. Cleaned the surfaces of both showers and ensured that there was no residue before installing each of them (there is a suction cup on the back that sticks to the shower wall or glass door). The first one fell off within the first hour while my daughter was in the shower and the hourglass inside the case shattered. The second one fell off in the other shower a couple of hours later with the same result. Even if you blamed poor surface prep (which was not the case) for them falling off the wall, they were only four feet off the ground and should have survived the fall. Pieces of garbage.

I actually love the idea of this product but the the suction cups don't hold - even on completely flat surfaces. As a result, mine fell twice within the first week of owning it (while I wasn't home) and the second time the glass inside shattered. It didn't even hold up for a week. Great idea but much better suction cups would be required to make it last.

I was pretty excited to get this product. It's a great concept, looks great on the shower wall, and it worked like a charm the first time I used it. However, the second time I used it, the sand in the hourglass got stuck... My five minute shower ended up being a 10 minute shower, and all the while I was thinking "man, five minutes really goes a long way." Hoping this was just a fluke, I tried it again the next day--same thing. So all in all, it's a product I want to love, and wish worked, but which ultimately proved to be unreliable. UPDATE 1/11/12: This is long overdue, but I wanted to say I received a replacement unit in a timely manner and it's been going strong ever since! Love this item. It's such a simple device, but it really does help me keep my showers short and efficient!

This shower timer is great in theory and would be awesome if you could just get the suction cup to work. For the few days that it lasted, it was fun to watch my 5 minutes drain down but after falling one to many times, it died for good. I bought an extra one so I will now glue it or put some adhesive tape on it and try again. It's a really brilliant idea if they could just fix this one small but major problem.

Does its job. No complaints except I didn't think they needed to stick a price tag right over the top, which was hard to remove the stickiness off. Otherwise, it does what it needs to do.

Concerned when I read the 1 star reviews. However it works perfectly fine. I don't know if they've updated the product or what but I have had none of the problems others have mentioned The suction cup has stayed put for the past 3 months since I've put it up on the wall, I also put it nestled in-between a shower caddy hanging from the shower head, just in case it does happen to unsuck, but that hasn't happened yet so I've just been overly cautious. Regardless, the material seems to be perfectly fine and durable, I bought one for a friend, who dropped it, and no glass was broken. Honestly, the cost of production is probably extremely low, but ultimately, I've significant reduced the time my family spends in the shower so it was worth the $12-ish for 2 of these things