How many of you have ever used an outhouse?

Manatee said:
A cartoon went around some years ago of a two story outhouse. The door to the upper one was labeled "Boss" and the lower one was labeled "employees".
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Fix the Outhouse, Pa
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Ma came in to the kitchen and she hollered out, "Pa you need to fix the outhouse!"

Pa replies, "There ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse."

Ma yells back, "Yes there is. Now git out there and fix it."

So, Pa moseys out to the outhouse, look's around and yell's back, " There ain't nuthin wrong with the outhouse!"

Ma replies, "Stick your head in the hole!"

Pa yell's back, "I ain't sticking my head in that hole!"

Ma says "Ya have to stick your head in the hole to see what to fix."

So with that, Pa sticks his head in the hole, looks around and yells back,"Ma, there ain't nuthin wrong with this outhouse!"

Ma hollers back, "Now take your head out of the hole!"

Pa proceeds to pull his head out of the hole, then starts yelling, " Ma! Help! My beard is stuck in the cracks in the toilet seat!"

To which Ma replies, "Hurt's like Hell, don't it?"
 

I've never used an outhouse associated with a home, but "roadside rest" facilities in my state were for many years essentially outhouses, wooden shacks with no plumbing, lights, or heating. You had to be truly desperate to use them, and no one would ever refer to them as "comfort stations!" :(
 
Shucks folks, it wasen't that bad, how you think our ancestors felt.
You make due, an outhouse was a luxury
The tenements in New York had outhouses, then one bathroom per floor,
how you think sharing a bathroom with thirty people worked??
 
One of the things we used to do when I was a kid (eons ago) was on Halloween, and gangs of us ruffians would try to push them over (that's awful, I know). We didn't often succeed, but once or twice, and that was when I didn't know any better.

But the richer folks had one made of brick, so we didn't try with those, since the owner was considered "higher ups", not to be messed with.
 
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Intriguing never knew of brick outhouse. If there had been such a structure you know we thugs would have had to attempt to do something to it. I'm not sure you can push over a brick outhouse, you can do something. This was long before people painted nasty works on structures.
 
Absolutely on many camping trips . We knew a couple who had a cottage on the French River and had an outhouse as well as indoor plumbing.
When we were kids we were sent to summer camp every year for part of the summer and they only had outhouses. Stinky things but a necessity.
 
Yup still have one here , power goes out you can haul water or use the outhouse....lol be amazed how many will haul
a 5 gallon pail up that hill. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::devilish:
Venting is the key. Half door works wonders if you have some scenery to look out.
 
Yup still have one here , power goes out you can haul water or use the outhouse....lol be amazed how many will haul
a 5 gallon pail up that hill. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::devilish:
Venting is the key. Half door works wonders if you have some scenery to look out.
 
For years, my husband and I spent a lot of time in the White Mountains of NH, and there are still outhouses at some of the more remote campgrounds and in the visitor center along the Kancamagus Highway. Also, many little stores and gas stations on rural roads offer porta-potties, but genuine outhouses can still be found. And yes, we used them, because their was no other option.
 
I'm fairly sure I've used an actual outhouse at some point in my life but I can't recall a specific time. I've used lots of porta potties but I think we all have. When one attends Burning Man unless one has an RV one uses porta potties for all of their human waste expulsion.
 
Yes. The house I moved from in 2018 to here, had one. Converted the downstairs bedroom into a bathroom including a composting toilet. I don't miss either.
 
Don't know whether this counts. But living with my grandparents we had a 'building' where the toilet was. The 'building' was attached to the kitchen or what my grandma called a scullery. Always spiders and spider webs and in winter it was cold. I'm trying to think what we used at night time because the back door to the toilet would be locked. I think we had a potty when we were little and then a bucket. When I moved at 16 the outside toilet still existed but I had an inside one in my council flat. Oooh such luxury.
 
An Andy Gump is technically a portable outhouse, so I imagine virtually everyone on this forum has used one at some time or another.

Either way, yes, I've used bona fide wooden outhouses.
 

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