5 Minute Shower Timer / Shower Clock

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.

This was a great product -- I can't believe how fast five minutes flies by in the shower. It WAS a great product until the suction cup released from the wall. This happened a couple times, but on the fourth time, the timer glass cracked and sand poured out on the shower floor...not such a great product any more.While this is a great product, it's not made to stay on the wall of your shower when you're not in it.

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.

Suction mechanism didn't work for more than a few days before it fell. This is annoying, but in and of itself would not have been a deal-breaker, except for the fact that the hourglass inside is glass behind a plastic cover. The glass broke and the timer doesn't work anymore.

Color is not the same as its shown here. As of now its still stands on wall. Doesnt drop often.

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!

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.

I liked the concept of a timer that doesn't require batteries to help conserve water however this was poorly designed. I read other reviews about the timer falling off the wall and the interior glass timer breaking. I thought a solution would be to stick it to the tiles just outside the shower. No such luck. It fell off maybe two days later and shattered. At least they thought enough to encase the glass timer in plastic so I didn't have to pick up tiny shards of glass or anything but I'm really disappointed that they didn't just make the whole thing plastic. They could even make it out of recycled plastic. I'll be looking for a different shower timer...