Toilet Paper

[Gunny]

Or just give up a sock

Or cut off the bottom of a T shirt. (don't ask how I know)

 

[SPIKER]

HEY!!!

lol, Soon as I saw the USE MOSS I though hummm M.R. is gonna get a scared look on his face! lol

Ya one of my buddies went on European Tour back 20 years ago now, said was sure shocked at how eastern europe was and when went thru the middle east just a bomb shoot in floor and a cut off hunk of garden hose no TP in sight!... Funny thing is after 3 thousand years worth of wars and fighting in Middle East only thing they all agree with is wipe with left hand and shake hands with right! lol
God bless my sister but about 20 years ago just prior to her getting her final sickness she was heading to the doc in local town across county. Well need to go hit her (medical issues had taken stuff so Doc could get a clean view) so she had to pull over to go. She hopped out of the car to try and get down in a local ditch line that is about 12' deep. She hit side of road behind rail and started to squat down footing gave way landed on her rump and slid the length on her rear into bottom.! Said she didn't need to wipe the grass was plenty wet whole way down lol Sure miss her she was quite the story teller!

Mark

 

[JamesHW]

Up at the old family farmhouse we had two flush toilets that had been added to the mid-1800's structure sometime in the 30's, one in an addition off the back and the other by flooring in the hallway above the stairwell in the main house. But we still had the old dis-used privy out back which in fact had an old moldering Sears catalogues sitting inside it. The privy which was actually a mortise and tenon timber framed structure is just a few remnants now. Neighbors up the road still used a privy while they lived in the finished basement while they built their house. I remember the big celebration when they got their toilet and septic installed in the early 60's. Went to camp a couple of summers and the facilities were an old outhouse back behind the tents we slept in.

For TP we use only the Scott brand.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Up at the old family farmhouse we had two flush toilets that had been added to the mid-1800's structure sometime in the 30's, one in an addition off the back and the other by flooring in the hallway above the stairwell in the main house. But we still had the old dis-used privy out back which in fact had an old moldering Sears catalogues sitting inside it. The privy which was actually a mortise and tenon timber framed structure is just a few remnants now. Neighbors up the road still used a privy while they lived in the finished basement while they built their house. I remember the big celebration when they got their toilet and septic installed in the early 60's. Went to camp a couple of summers and the facilities were an old outhouse back behind the tents we slept in.

For TP we use only the Scott brand.

My old Granddad was quite a character...born in 1880, he passed away in 1978 at age 98. He and Grandma lived in a house built in the 1920's and the only bathroom was added in the early 50's right after WWII. He never used the inside bathroom; he always used the old outhouse, even in the winter. He said the world was going to he77 in a handbasket when folks had to s**t in the house and eat outside.

 

[k0ua]

When I first got established here (N.E. GA Mtns.) in the early 70's (far removed from the time you recalled)...some of the first jobs I did for neighbors was adding indoor plumbing...a couple had inside (cold) running water but no real facilities...all had outhouses...

I was 6 years old before we had an indoor "outhouse"

The school I went to, I was 8 or 9 before it had indoor plumbing.

 

[Bird]

I was 6 years old before we had an indoor "outhouse"

The school I went to, I was 8 or 9 before it had indoor plumbing.

When I started to school, the school had indoor plumbing and "running water" but we didn't have either of those luxuries at home. I guess I was 12 when Dad bought a place with a good well and windmill, and I helped him put a tank up on a stand head high on a grown man to provide enough water pressure, then he hung a curtain to separate a section of a bedroom and put in a bathroom and even a water heater.

 

[Daver1963]

My old Granddad was quite a character...born in 1880, he passed away in 1978 at age 98. He and Grandma lived in a house built in the 1920's and the only bathroom was added in the early 50's right after WWII. He never used the inside bathroom; he always used the old outhouse, even in the winter. He said the world was going to he77 in a handbasket when folks had to s**t in the house and eat outside.

Worked with a feller down in Mississippi that said when he was a boy he asked his grandfather why he still used the "little house" and not the indoor privy. Reply was much the same.

Spiker;3564060
Ya one of my buddies went on European Tour back 20 years ago now, said was sure shocked at how eastern europe was

Italian rest stop bathrooms had two footprints - one on each side of the hole. If you were lucky they had heels and helped you balance on your toes.
Corfu - Greek island - got off ferry boat and had to go real bad. There was an underground toilet in the town square. A feller lived down there and you had to tip him for cleaning up after you.

Quote Originally Posted by /pine View Post

When I first got established here (N.E. GA Mtns.) in the early 70's (far removed from the time you recalled)...some of the first jobs I did for neighbors was adding indoor plumbing...a couple had inside (cold) running water but no real facilities...all had outhouses...

My English aunt married a feller from Oklahoma and that is where they moved when he got out of the Air Force. She decided she wanted to be near her older sister so they moved to West Tennessee. They eventually bought a house that had indoor water, but a "little house" out back. That was until the tornadoes came through in 1972 and laid a big ole tree down right beside their house and right on top of the "little house." Great excuse for an indoor privy.

 

[MossRoad]

Soo; scoff at my suggestion of Moss. Try it, see if you still prefer TP. It surely beats the catalogue.:thumbsup:

So you're saying I'd take a liken to lichen?

 

[Daver1963]

So you're saying I'd take a liken to lichen?

If you don't mind fungus on your fanny!

 

[Redneck in training]

I am currently working in Venezuela. Supply of the TP (and many other things) is spoty at best. One girl from the office was robbed during trafic jam. The robber asked for money but when he saw 24 pack of TP on the back seat he said screw the money give me the TP.