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If anyone is still out there from way back when (1st world country, I'm not responsible)...

How strange was it to bring the toilet from the outhouse into the home? Was there concern to safety in regards to health/sanitation? Was it difficult to accept that such smells (possibly sounds) would be the new normal? Was loss of privacy a big deal, as far as being only a wall away at minimum vs greater open distances?
25 years ago (as in 1997), my two closest neighbors STILL had outdoor "plumbing."

My neighbor mentioned she was 'getting her bathroom fixed.'

Sure enough, when I came home from work two burly men were walking the outhouse to the new hole.
ninjavu · 51-55, M
@Mamapolo2016 🤣 Only had to read that three times to get it! 🙄
@ninjavu 🤩 My work here is done.
ninjavu · 51-55, M
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Closets in homes were transformed into restrooms. Ceramic toilets with water traps can be sanitized not to stink like outhouses and we’re considered more hygienic. People were proud to have installed indoor toilets and bathrooms
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti My mother used to talk about her parents converting a tiny bedroom to a bathroom right off the master bedroom. They were so proud and happy to have a permanent bathtub that could be filled and drain from indoor plumbing, and the toilet was brand new...in the 1940's.
antonioioio · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou it was 1973 when my father put in bath, toilet and shower and it was the early 70s when most of our neighbours done the same 😊
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou I remember seeing some houses that were built before there was electricity to the village, they got it wired later but like my grandpa’s house in between the two bedrooms there was a space big enough to be converted into a bathroom with a tub, shower and sink. He didn’t really even use it for a closet. He still had a little outhouse behind his house, a water well pump right behind the house and a little white shed size building with windows high up towards the top, and a metal bathtub in there that he put water and maybe a couple of buckets of water he heated on his gas stove (that well water was ice cold even in the summer). There were some shelves below the windows to put his towel and clean clothing This was in the early 60’s. I later saw other houses in cities that were older and had their bathrooms between two bedrooms and it seemed odd that you could be in the bathroom and someone could come in on the other side but then I remembered that empty little room in another house that had no bathroom. i guess they built homes with designs that could later be converted to bathrooms when the people had electricity to pump the water etc.
To quote Disney's Hercules... "Indoor plumbing, it's gonna be big"
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Virgo79 · 61-69, M
I have both😁
Ambroseguy80 · 51-55, M
That had to be a pretty strange concept at the time. 😄

At first only the very rich had indoor plumbing, but eventually it became seen as a very basic need for all individuals.

 
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