How many of you have ever used an outhouse?

[Gaer]

Have you ever used an outhouse?

 

[Linda]

For many years when I was young. I lived though it.

 

[treeguy64]

Yeah. Couldn't stand it, no pun intended.

 

[Capt Lightning]

I had to look that up to confirm what it meant in the U.S.
It's what we would have called an "outside toilet" and these were not uncommon at one time. We use the term to mean any separate building eg a workshop or storage room.

 

[Aunt Bea]

When I was a kid my grandmother had a three holer.

She installed indoor plumbing in 1954 but kept the old outhouse for family reunions, picnics, etc...

These days the seats turn up as mirrors and coat racks, very strange.

 

[Ruthanne]

Yes, I used them when we went camping in the 60s. Yuck! Smelly, too!☺We had a good time anyhow in the Girl Scouts.

 

[Wren]

Many years ago when I was first married and lived in a very old farm house, ugh...

 

[terry123]

No.

 

[toffee]

when we moved to London we had one --spiders gap under the door -freezing cold -awful toilet paper called izal
must have been about 4 years old ..

 

[rkunsaw]

Yes that's all we had until I was 12. I built this shed to store garden tools several years ago.
It's on my album here on SF

 

[IrisSenior]

We a cottage in the Haliburton Highlands when I was a kid and it had an outhouse. Hated using it at night...spiders, mice, etc.

 

[Ken N Tx]

 

[Lvstotrvl]

No! Just having to use a public toilet freaks me out!

 

[moviequeen1]

Yes,in the 60's when I went to summer camp

 

[Pepper]

Yes, on travels to Europe and Western U.S.

 

[Pappy]

Yep....And here it is:

 

[twinkles]

i used one till i was 17 thats when i left home

 

[Gary O']

You bet

For the last five years
At the edge of civilization

The path to it was always cleared

 

[jujube]

My great-grandparents had one on the farm. They got an indoor toilet somewhere around 1956 or so, but my great-grandfather wouldn't use it. I hated using the outhouse and was glad when the indoor facilities went in.

Camping as a child, usually that was all that was available in the campground. An outhouse and a central spigot.

 

[Keesha]

Many times.

 

[CarolfromTX]

Yes, but on a farm when I was young. Can't remember whose farm, though. Kinda creepy. I don't much like port-a-potties either. My freshman roommate grew up on a farm and didn't have an indoor bathroom until she was a teenager. Man, did that shock this city girl!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I don't remember the circumstances, but, when I was a kid, I used one. The wood to build it was really thick. The odor was horrendous -God ,it stunk!! I couldn't believe you just left it there, without flushing.

 

[Duster]

Yes, when camping and hiking.
My husband's grand parents didn't have indoor plumbing until they moved in the mid 1980's. They had an outhouse, chamber pots, and an outdoor hose {if you wanted a shower}.
I once owned some land with an outhouse on it. No indoor plumbing in the cabin, either. I sold it in the late 1990's.

 

[toffee]

Yep....And here it is:

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it looks kinda small pappy -just enough to sit - and tilted LOL

 

[SeaBreeze]

Many times over the years, we've done a lot of traveling by truck and camping, although many places we camp don't have outhouses, most of those are in public campgrounds and we try to get away from people and into nature.