How many of you have ever used an outhouse?

Smiley Holly said:
Never used an outhouse unless you would consider one of the port a potties at an outdoor event an outhouse. I have only used those once in an emergency and never again.
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You've only ever used a port-a-potty once!?! I've probably used them close to a hundred times. No biggie. Some have smelled worse than others and some required "hovering" moves, but I've always been grateful for their presence when I've needed them.
 

StarSong said:
You've only ever used a port-a-potty once!?! I've probably used them close to a hundred times. No biggie. Some have smelled worse than others and some required "hovering" moves, but I've always been grateful for their presence when I've needed them.
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Yes, I try to avoid those sort of things. I squatted over it making sure I did not touch either.
 
My mother used an outhouse and used to draw water from a river for drinking and washing clothes when she was a child. She married my father and ended up living in an upper middle class house on a canal. She always acted like Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)! :LOL:
 
In 1986 when I moved into the monastery I lived in a small cottage. I dug a pit and constructed an out house. It was about 20 yards to get to it. Man, having to go when it was below 0 was nuts! I dug new pits, covered the old with dirt, then moved the out house over the new pit. Did that about 6 times in 4 years. ( Kind of a porta-potty ) :)
 
Yes, as a kid in Ohio. It was about 100 ft from the house, & sure hated that trip in winter when it was snowing & wind blowing up the holes.

I also helped dig new holes for many around our place, as I was small & I could get down in the new hole & dig then fill buckets with dirt for people to pull up put in a pile. Had a ladder to get out as we usually dug them about 10 ft deep in the fall so we didn't have to dig one in winter.

Then several men would pry up one side of the old one & put logs under it. Then roll it over to the new hole & take out the logs. Then they used the dirt to put in the old hole & left some dirt so as it sank they could add more.

Those were the days of the Monkey wards & sears Roebuck catalogs we used for T.P.
 
Used an outhouse only when I was a kid and we visited my grandfather and great-uncles and great-aunt on their family farm. I know it had multiple holes but I'm not sure now whether two-holes or three.

I don't remember ever using an outhouse in the dark or in cold weather, I wonder if the outhouse was the reason we always stayed at grandma's (maternal gma) house in town and only visited grandpa (paternal gpa) during the day time.

It makes me sad that there is no one left from those generations (my parents and grandparents) to ask.
 
Yep sure have, some friends and I used to go up to Mount Kosciuszko to ski since we were University students we could not afford the high price accommodation, so we went to a local Station and worked for our accommodation, which was really a great deal, we would get early help around the station then it was a 7. am breakfast, home-cooked and so filling, we then had there's of the day to ourselves, head back to the station around 4.00 pm do some more work have a great dinner, then we would go to sleep in the old Shearers cabins.
It was absolutely the best time.
 
Tom 86 said:
Yes, as a kid in Ohio. It was about 100 ft from the house, & sure hated that trip in winter when it was snowing & wind blowing up the holes.

I also helped dig new holes for many around our place, as I was small & I could get down in the new hole & dig then fill buckets with dirt for people to pull up put in a pile. Had a ladder to get out as we usually dug them about 10 ft deep in the fall so we didn't have to dig one in winter.

Then several men would pry up one side of the old one & put logs under it. Then roll it over to the new hole & take out the logs. Then they used the dirt to put in the old hole & left some dirt so as it sank they could add more.

Those were the days of the Monkey wards & sears Roebuck catalogs we used for T.P.
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Like this one, but I'm sure a later version? This is a 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog that belonged to my grandfather, who handed it down to my mother when he passed away. I now have it. Priceless.IMG_0710.jpg
 
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