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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 8:52:20 PM

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 9:00:45 PM

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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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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/8/2007 11:08:29 PM

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When my parents were building the house out in the country, they put in an outhouse because there were no bathrooms nearby.
It stood and was in use all through my living there(18 years), and I'm willing to bet it still is. They're great for when somebody is hogging the bathroom!

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 12:01:20 AM

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When we went camping we had those awful porta porties sometimes. True outhouses are rare, but I know what they are/were.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 12:13:49 AM

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Hey Popeye are you ready for this. Bottle diggers including myself have dug up 100 year old outhouse and well holes. They filled them in with trash when they were done. If you find a Civil War era one, you can find some thousand dollar bottles down in the ground. You name it, it has been found, some people sift the dirt for old coins and marbles. Old plates that can be repaired if you find both halves and even silverware. My mother and father grew up in Coal Mine company owned house in West Va. in the 50s and told us they had outhouse, and were so glad to grow up and get indoor plumbing.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 2:34:27 AM

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My great grandmother had an outhouse. She lived in Kentucky & I would visit during the summer. It was so weird as a kid using an outhouse, I too was scared of the 'monster' that lived in it. No way would I use it at night lol. If I remember correctly it was clean & never smelled, unlike a porta potty at a concert ew!

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 2:34:51 AM

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sigh, outhouse/porta potty eeeeeeeeks!
those facilities are a daily occurance where I work.
135 degrees in the summer, frozen in the winter.
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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 4:42:29 AM

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My dad bought a farm (not THE farm, just A farm) back in 1970 which was pretty dilapidated in many ways (think Green Acres) and it still had a pretty nice outhouse out back, as outhouses go. Thank god the house did have indoor plumbing so we didn't have to use it, but when my cousins came over on summer weekends, they used it so they wouldn't have to stop whatever they were doing to come in the house.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 5:02:57 AM

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I remember my so called friends locking me in one when I was a boy.
The thought of it can still induce feelings of unease even to this day.
The barstards.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 5:09:52 AM

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my uncle in PA still has his outhouse where he lives on the mountain even though he has an indoor bathroom. the outhouse is used as a tool shed these days however i do remember it was the best hide-n-seek spot at his place.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 5:12:15 AM

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My great grandmother had an outhouse. She lived in Kentucky & I would visit during the summer. It was so weird as a kid using an outhouse, I too was scared of the 'monster' that lived in it. No way would I use it at night lol. If I remember correctly it was clean & never smelled, unlike a porta potty at a concert ew!

Haha! Sorry.. all I keep hearing in my head is " You better behave, young lady, or the poopmonster's gunna getcha!"

Those concert portajohns are just.. yuck. And they're scary. I always thing somebody is going to tip it over when I'm in one. Really, considering how much concerts cost, you'd think they'd get better facilities.

My grandmother had 5 other siblings she had to share an outhouse with. The fighting in the morning had to be fierce. She used to tell me that sometimes the last in line would just use the trees. =) Can't say I blame 'em, either, lol

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 5:15:57 AM

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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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When I moved out of the city 20 years ago I bought one of the composting toilets and still use it today. They are not legal in most jurisdictions because bureaucrats do not understand how they work and find it easier to say no than yes to a request for a "variance" to permit them. In my case I live so far out that the building inspectors are not interested in coming out to check on me. As for outhouses I have one without walls just a "throne" with an awesome view but I eschew its use when the temp gets below freezing.
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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 7:41:38 AM

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ya my dads hippie friend who also lived off the grid had an outhouse [we lived off the grid but my dad built a bathroom LOL] anywho, he had seaweed to put in for when ur done so it doesnt smell. the prices we pay to use a sauna! lol

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 8:04:02 AM

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My grandparents lived on the family homestead in the 1950's-60's and just didn't even think about city life or the conveniences that might have been available to them. Thus I got to experience real life in a house where they used long flat boards to build the house and then glued newspapers over the inside walls to keep out the wind - no insulation or double walls. We had 2 bedrooms a big eat in kitchen with wood stove to cook on and pot bellied stove for extra heat. One bedroom also had a potbellied stove for heat. One big room in the middle served as living room-dining room whatever room. The huge front porch was also used fo sleeping in the summer and we learned to shake our shoes each morning for scorpions and shake the bedcovers in the evening for snakes! We had an honest to goodness well and 2 or 3 of us went each morning with a bunch of buckets and filled them for use that day in the house. I guess we were fortunate as our outhouse was a 2 holer! It never smelled but yep - the wasps and the black widow spiders!!! ohh and daddy long-legs! We fed table scraps to the animals and burned other trash or burried it. The girls (cousins, siblings, whoever was there) went int he big kitchen every other night and closed the doors and got undressed and took a big communal "sponge bath" - what a picture that was! The boys went to the river when we said they could not come in an eat cause they stank too bad!!! wow what great memories! Thanks for reminding me and I will stop least I bore the entore board to death!

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 8:15:47 AM

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There are still areas of the country today who actively use outhouses.
Here in Nebraska if you go out into the country many houses still have no indoor plumbing. Doug's cousin bought one a few years ago and has spent every free moment he has the last few years equipping it to todays plumbing.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 8:32:28 AM

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I have a small cottage in the state park here in Massachuettes--and even today we have a very usable two seater outhouse--The State will not allow excavation of any state land for sepic systems-soo we use the ole "Outhouse"--been there 43 years--emptyied it twice--one Company came in--their slogan was "your Shit is Our Bread and butter'

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 8:47:40 AM

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the suaquehanna valley has many places with no runnning water. drive 20 back from main hwy rt11/15, or rt 522

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 8:56:55 AM

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Stef, see? You really don't see that word around much anymore, I couldn't even remember how to spell it!

I'm not sure how much one has to do with the other, but that's neither nere nor there.

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You used coal for heating up until 1987?

My parents used the coal stove to heat the main areas of the house up until they moved in 2004. There was electric baseboard heaters that could be used to heat the house as well, but I don't recall their thermostat ever being set above the lowest possible setting.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 9:21:24 AM

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i remember also my great-grandparents getting coal shipments every other month to heat their home in Harrisburg, PA before switching to oil/natural gas. they had a wooden burning stove in the kitchen and no AC to cool off from the summer heat.

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RE: How many in here can remember "Outhouses?" - 3/9/2007 9:37:39 AM

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i'm in my 20s, however my paternal grandparents, who own about 100 acres in rural Virginia, had an outhouse on their property (with toilet still inside) until the late '90s, when it got damaged in a storm and my grandfather finally took it down. so i've always known what outhouses were. in that area very few people, especially blacks, had electricity or indoor plumbing before the mid to late '60s, so everyone had an outhouse, and many are still around today (tho grown over with rosebushes and such) if you drive down there and look around.

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