tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post4327088423797226899..comments2024-03-28T18:50:23.094-05:00Comments on Far Side of Fifty: Wistful Wednesday: 1953Far Side of Fiftyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07995757632158408442noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-7769293506966018762011-03-10T22:35:08.680-06:002011-03-10T22:35:08.680-06:00That smell comes back in three seconds or less. We...That smell comes back in three seconds or less. We lived in a cleaned up chicken house temporarily and used the outhouse until we had a new house finished in 1959. Pink toilet and tub and sink. What a luxury. The water was cistern water though so we still had to carry water to drink.L. D. https://www.blogger.com/profile/02270923121962761209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-74412953890203009972011-03-10T09:25:50.807-06:002011-03-10T09:25:50.807-06:00My grandparents (in MN) didn't get a real toil...My grandparents (in MN) didn't get a real toilet until the late 80s... so even I have experience with the outhouse (I'm only 27). My mom grew up with no indoor plumbing until she grew up and left home. My grandma had a chamber pot for us to use only at night... and she still got it out when we visited even after they installed the toilet, b/c they don't have a bathroom... the toilet is just in the corner of her bedroom. Still doesn't have a bathtub. The old farmhouses just weren't made for that stuff. And her toilet now has plumbing problems so she doesn't let people use it for solid waste... only liquid. :) Luckily for me though, using the outhouse was always kind of a novelty... not a necessity.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681286726202894813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-5175996093933718962011-03-09T22:19:08.781-06:002011-03-09T22:19:08.781-06:00I remember my grandmother's house in the UK ha...I remember my grandmother's house in the UK having an outhouse, but luckily, they moved to somewhere with indoor plumbing.<br /><br />Lots of summer cottages in Sweden still have only outhouses. The one we hired two years ago was an example. This year, the house we are hiring has the luxury of a dry toilet indoors as well as an outhouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-78482668360700290592011-03-09T21:09:19.487-06:002011-03-09T21:09:19.487-06:00my 2 year old granddaughter started her training t...my 2 year old granddaughter started her training this week, oh the praise she gets! she also has big girl underwear with butterflies, she is so proud of thempattyhttp://patty-pattyspostings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-74779233807886304832011-03-09T19:26:08.743-06:002011-03-09T19:26:08.743-06:00What a cute picture...!!!What a cute picture...!!!The Retired Onehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02466803019073952351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-26654133894567665222011-03-09T19:16:08.960-06:002011-03-09T19:16:08.960-06:00Interesting and informative post, Connie. I grew u...Interesting and informative post, Connie. I grew up in a city and never knew about outhouses until visiting parks which had them.Beatrice P. Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08281239556392874979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-87698227791498371222011-03-09T18:53:14.834-06:002011-03-09T18:53:14.834-06:00When I was eleven my parents bought a resort and w...When I was eleven my parents bought a resort and while there were indoor toilets we didn't have water so we couldn't use them, so we used the outhouse instead. One March when I was 16 or 17 our pipes froze or something happened with our septic and we had to use the outhouse again. I used the outhouse for number one but I refused to go number two in it... I drove to my grandparents to use their bathroom.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05648136604369527102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-63272684636134569742011-03-09T15:24:10.176-06:002011-03-09T15:24:10.176-06:00I was a city girl, but we had a lot of relatives o...I was a city girl, but we had a lot of relatives on farms so I was very familiar with outhouses. I didn't mind the flies as much as spiders!! I hated the spiders. When something is crawling on your bare bottom and you are afraid of spiders, you never think it is a fly. ;) <br /><br />It was a very long walk in the dark to the outhouse at the one place we stayed. (No piss pots in the house there, either.) You had to cross the yard, go across the front of the barn, and all the way down the far length of the barn to behind the barn--skinny path with tall weeds in the summer...and spiders! I'd rather freeze my tukus off and go at night in the winter. :)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043285884495492598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-60992617822974898332011-03-09T15:17:41.095-06:002011-03-09T15:17:41.095-06:00Wish we had Peach paper guess it was because we di...Wish we had Peach paper guess it was because we didn't live around a fruit farm. Grandmother did have a "piss pot" for us to use at night. You sure make me laugh making us reach way back when.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862394699499538591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-27173062538031786822011-03-09T14:51:19.901-06:002011-03-09T14:51:19.901-06:00We did have a bathroom when I was growing up. but ...We did have a bathroom when I was growing up. but not at the one room school. Little boy's and girls toilets out back. I still have the highest mark achieved in the "see who can pee highest" contests held there! One of my few accomplishments in life, but one I am very proud of! :-)<br /><br />Especially after I beat out several of the top competitors, who were girls! ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-33945691010455098312011-03-09T14:42:07.954-06:002011-03-09T14:42:07.954-06:00I too was nine before we had 'indoor' plum...I too was nine before we had 'indoor' plumbin' and remember well everything you wrote about. We've come along way baby!!!<br /><br />You look so 'stinkin' cute on your potty chair. You and your little doll too! :o)<br /><br />God bless ya and have a remarkable day sweetie!!!Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10175389676508928061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-72120790818811431192011-03-09T14:00:31.377-06:002011-03-09T14:00:31.377-06:00You betcha, Connie.
I am grateful every day for i...You betcha, Connie.<br /><br />I am grateful every day for indoor plumbing, the telephone and the frig. (we had an ice box till I was about 8). Those supposedly lucky people who have been born into a world of modern conveniences are really to be pitied..........they take everything for granted, cannot reminisce about the good old days (?) and, worse yet. have fewer things to be grateful for.<br /><br />Of course, I sort of hate living in spider web nest of tangled wires for every damned electrical device in the world, but (sigh) you can't fight progress.Lohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08398370059689865989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-21980390234415716102011-03-09T13:47:03.819-06:002011-03-09T13:47:03.819-06:00Not too long ago, my father used the 'faciliti...Not too long ago, my father used the 'facilities' during one of his visits... he ran out of paper and used one of the magazines on the floor...Hubby lost the cover to his Triumph magazine that day...at least it didn't clog up the works...teehee...Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414361079501574872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-86510321033067210592011-03-09T13:11:45.073-06:002011-03-09T13:11:45.073-06:00Oh yes, the awful outhouse. I had a horrible phobi...Oh yes, the awful outhouse. I had a horrible phobia about falling into the hole and being left there. That is one memory I do not cherish from childhood.Raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858158707328118375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-38356229220985861602011-03-09T12:50:40.210-06:002011-03-09T12:50:40.210-06:00Never had an out house other then camping always h...Never had an out house other then camping always had an in house bathroom. I remember I had a pink potty though lol<br />Hubby is a bathroom reader as well, sometimes I would yell to him , things like, you allright in there ? or Still breathing in there? or did ya fall down the hole ? lol it's a constant joke with us haha ! Have a great day !Country Gal https://www.blogger.com/profile/08693944554850315123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-19840406794023266612011-03-09T12:49:46.402-06:002011-03-09T12:49:46.402-06:00Oh yeah, I remember the outhouse - full of yucky s...Oh yeah, I remember the outhouse - full of yucky spiders and their webs. I think that is where my fear of them began. <br /><br />Our farm house had an empty room for the bathroom, but it wasn't adapted for that purpose until I was about six years old.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18296050573667055406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-32235941775276985122011-03-09T11:23:06.380-06:002011-03-09T11:23:06.380-06:00Boy I'm glad that we always had indoor plumbin...Boy I'm glad that we always had indoor plumbing! However, in the summer when we'd go stay a week in ND with aunts and uncles, we had to use a outhouse! Great post!West Side of Straighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306258644484219373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-67807110974076977082011-03-09T10:57:45.523-06:002011-03-09T10:57:45.523-06:00I'm so proud of you!
Could be a flush toile...I'm so proud of you! <br /><br />Could be a flush toilet is why I was raised a city girl instead of a country girl. From stories I was born ahortly after most places out here (the "country") managed to have indoor plumbing. But my folks were settled on town long before I came along. Only the oldest houses in the neighborhood where I lived even had remnants of outhouses. I do believe out houses were one of the reasons my mother found country living quite unsettling. Well that and mud, animals, flies...Lannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018584509455303394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-77919704117575402252011-03-09T10:13:22.590-06:002011-03-09T10:13:22.590-06:00Larry spent part of his childhood in an outhouse:)...Larry spent part of his childhood in an outhouse:) Then it was sort of funny about 5 years ago he worked at a place that was within a few hundred feet of one of the houses he lived in that had an outhouse.<br />I remember my grandmothers 'outhouse' back in England. She lived in an old stone row house, kitchen and living room downstairs, and two bedrooms upstairs. The bath was under the kitchen table, and the toilet was in a stone little room out in the stone back 'yard'. The water tank for the toilet was way up high and you pulled a long chain to get it to flush.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08938874724231860923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-9566026531975321032011-03-09T09:47:34.051-06:002011-03-09T09:47:34.051-06:00We got our "flushie" when I was about 5...We got our "flushie" when I was about 5 or 6. Thanks again for the memory!!!Muffy's Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13826630430126318583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5456722259350114571.post-81179818168987773472011-03-09T09:43:19.306-06:002011-03-09T09:43:19.306-06:00We were lucky....the house in FL had indoor plumbi...We were lucky....the house in FL had indoor plumbing.....but....when we went to the family farm in the summers...to help with the harvest....there was only the outhouse and a pump sink......i guess i was about 7-8 when they added a "real" bathroom onto the back porch......ahhhhh...the good ole days...!!BlueRidge Boomerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00549047992944619968noreply@blogger.com