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How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:22:56 PM

popeye1250

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When I was a young boy growing up ten miles north of Boston, Mass in the 1950's we'd go outside to play and wander all over the neighborhood in all directions.
We noticed these old wooden shacks with a door on them at the back of some houses backyards and didn't know what they were so I asked my mother's aunt what they were and she told us that people used to use them to go to the bathroom in before they had bathrooms in the house.
We found that funny because we had always had an indoor bathroom. "What? You mean people would go outside to take a dump?"
I guess that after people got indoor bathrooms they just left them there to rot.
We went in one one time and found old yellowed newspapers from the 1930's, "The Boston Globe" I think. It didn't stink or anything as it probably hadn't been used in a couple of decades. We looked down into the hole but couldn't see anything.
There were about 4 of them that I can remember just standing there in people's backyards maybe "waiting" in case the indoor bathroom didn't work for some reason.
Anyone else remember them?

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:27:30 PM

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My grandmother remembers having one as a kid.

A good outhouse shouldn't stink too bad - after you do your thing, you are supposed to toss in a little lime and the bateria does it's job. These days, you can even have indoor composting toilets. These are popular with people interested in 'green' living and vacation cabins in remote areas with no plumbing.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:29:23 PM

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Yup, even used one at my uncle's hunting cabin. One of those things everyone should do once in their lives to make them appreciate the little things you otherwise take for granted!

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:34:20 PM

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OMGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You CANT / Can NOT be serious!!!!! It is STILL at LEAST 20-25% OF the population At LEAST use them here!!!
OMGOSH.............I MUST be used to it! Its like an everyday thing Here where i live !!!! HERE check this site out!!!

http://mwr.polarnet.com/photopages/ppchatanika.htm

OMGOSH! Im so used to this .......................and you talk about the 50's!!!! I dont know what to think now!!!???!?!?!?!

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:36:41 PM

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My Great Grandmother in Bowling Green Missiouri had an out house in her back yard.

In the late seventies, a small town known as Woodville, TX made headlines when an Out House was delivered by chopper to a museum area known as Heritage Villiage.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:40:13 PM

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Not in my household but a friend who decided to just drop-out (he and his wife both left Fed. Govt. jobs) bought a one-room shack on the mountains with no power or telephone and with an outhouse for both bathroom needs. Two years later...sold it and bought a larger house with power but little house which precipitated a divorce only one year later. She told me she was NOT spending another winter up there with that man.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:40:22 PM

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we still have them for back up in the boonies.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:41:39 PM

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My Grandpa built a house on a tall hill where no one thought they could successfully drill for water, and long after he had passed away my family hauled water up to "Grandma's house". With no indoor plumbing even into the 1980's we always used her outhouse whenever we went up there to visit her. It sat over a ditch that had irrigation water in the summer, and the shit froze in the winter, so it usually didn't stink. But there's always something about taking a dump outside in an old shed that's different, something about it that makes your butt hole pucker kind of weird, and I'll always remember those Sunday visits to Grandma's house.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:42:34 PM

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Ah yes, my Dads mom has one out in her cornfield for when the need arrises and you are too far away from the house to make it home in time. Lovely thing to have to visit mid-summer after it has been left afew days.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 7:45:30 PM

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My grandparents had one on the farm in the 60's and when I was in basic training in the early 80's every training area had one big enough for 5 or 6 at a time. Used to wear our gas mask just to go in there! lol..... (no pun intended!)

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:28:07 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: ta2dqt

OMGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You CANT / Can NOT be serious!!!!! It is STILL at LEAST 20-25% OF the population At LEAST use them here!!!
OMGOSH.............I MUST be used to it! Its like an everyday thing Here where i live !!!! HERE check this site out!!!

http://mwr.polarnet.com/photopages/ppchatanika.htm

OMGOSH! Im so used to this .......................and you talk about the 50's!!!! I dont know what to think now!!!???!?!?!?!

Ta2dqt, I am serious!
Well, I see that you live in Alaska so of course there'd be outhouses in the country up there.
I grew up just outside Boston, a major city so we had sewers then back in the 50's and 60's.
Also, probably in 1958 I remember walking home from school and seeing coal trucks backed up to houses and they'd be pouring coal down a long shute into someone's cellar to use for heating.
There's a word you don't see often anymore, "shute."

Ta2, I just looked at that link, funny! Outhouse races.
I guess it would make sense to have an Outhouse out in the fields on a big farm though.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:31:24 PM

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Nothing like using an outhouse at -25^, reminds you that you are alive. They do not stink at all if properly maintained. I have rented a few places with outdoor plumbing.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:33:31 PM

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There a little out house at our camp on the river, the girls are afraid to use it at night so they go together carrying a flash light...One told me she didn't know what kind of monsters may live there... evil grins...actually its a porta potty..I remember as a boy visiting my grand parents thats all the had.. bounty

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:37:04 PM

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I live in the south and people still have outhouses here. In the extremely rural areas some have never gotten indoor plumbing. Seems strange this day and age but some don't want to change.

Also our cabin in Alaska is rustic and has an outhouse. No indoor plumbing for miles there.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:40:28 PM

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Yup, a little lime and it is fine, except for when it needs the yearly cleaning out. Good to do that in the springtime, put it where flowers will grow. ; )
Good task for a new slave, test her devotion.
Used to use corn cobs before we wasted toilet paper.
Still a good place to get away from most folks since they are not used much now.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:43:43 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BOUNTYHUNTER

There a little out house at our camp on the river, the girls are afraid to use it at night so they go together carrying a flash light...One told me she didn't know what kind of monsters may live there... evil grins...actually its a porta potty..I remember as a boy visiting my grand parents thats all the had.. bounty

colder than a witches tit in winter and had to fight the fuckin wasps in that hot stinkin motherfucker in the summer

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:45:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: sweetnurseBBW

I live in the south and people still have outhouses here. In the extremely rural areas some have never gotten indoor plumbing. Seems strange this day and age but some don't want to change.

Also our cabin in Alaska is rustic and has an outhouse. No indoor plumbing for miles there.

Nurse, I guess if you grew up in the country you'd still have them in many areas and be familiar with them.
Us "city folk" haven't had them since the 1940's I guess as cities tend to get stuff first like cable t.v. for example.
I had a satellite for t.v. when I lived in the country in New Hampshire, no cable there.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:48:31 PM

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The Army still uses them on field sites and ranges.......it's amazing how long one can wait......we used to get TP in our C-rats, but learned very early that when you were allowed to go to the PX (in Basic Training), you always got extra rolls......I don't think i carried anything army issue in my rucksack the whole time I was there......

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:49:54 PM

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I didn't mind the cold but those bald face wasps are sobs for sure..bounty

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:52:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I grew up just outside Boston, a major city so we had sewers then back in the 50's and 60's.
Also, probably in 1958 I remember walking home from school and seeing coal trucks backed up to houses and they'd be pouring coal down a long shute into someone's cellar to use for heating.
There's a word you don't see often anymore, "shute."

No, but you do see the word "chute."

The house I lived in until 1987 had a coal chute, and we used it because we had a coal/wood stove that we used all winter long. Granted, our coal was delivered in 50lb sacks and not a truck with a trap gate on the back.

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