Anyone here old enough to remember having an outside outhouse?

West Coast of Tasmania, 1960's.
Our toilet was outside. Not very pleasant getting up in the middle of the night, pouring with rain, very cold.
There was a Nightsoil collector who would come around once a week to take away the dunny can and replace it with another one.
There were plenty of stories of the dunny can bottom giving way as it has hefted onto the shoulder of the "Dunnyman"

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Piper · 61-69, F

Yes, but only at the house my mother grew up in. It was an old house when I spent time there in the 60's. A 'nice' house, with a barn and chicken coop and, and some cows. I think there was a horse...early on. A garden growing vegetables, and one with flowers. I remember chickens pecking around underneath the outhouse, and old catalogs were the toilet paper.

There were chamber pots, for when nature called in the middle of the night or wee hours of the morning.