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Grandparents had a three holer on the farm in Indiana.
 
Next to the chicken coupe, chickens ran wild thru the stuff. And Sears catalogs for TP. Not wealthy, used from farm down the road. When grandad retired he brought a brick and sticks from another farm, hauled in on a one horsensled and dropped on other side of yard and wired for light and a plug in heater. My aunt in Tennesse (Crossville) got one set up as an addition to the house with a locked door, just for her, for her birthday.
 
LarryK said:
Next to the chicken coupe, chickens ran wild thru the stuff. And Sears catalogs for TP. Not wealthy, used from farm down the road. When grandad retired he brought a brick and sticks from another farm, hauled in on a one horsensled and dropped on other side of yard and wired for light and a plug in heater. My aunt in Tennesse (Crossville) got one set up as an addition to the house with a locked door, just for her, for her birthday.
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That sounds like something I'd inherit.
 
LarryK said:
Next to the chicken coupe, chickens ran wild thru the stuff. And Sears catalogs for TP. Not wealthy, used from farm down the road. When grandad retired he brought a brick and sticks from another farm, hauled in on a one horsensled and dropped on other side of yard and wired for light and a plug in heater. My aunt in Tennesse (Crossville) got one set up as an addition to the house with a locked door, just for her, for her birthday.
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Shoot, now you claim you aren't from a wealthy family and then go on to tell us about outhouses with electricity, heaters, and locks on the doors.

I have only ever lived at one house that had an outhouse for a toilet, and it had a drafty door, no power, and one hole.
 
Grandad was a farmer of 40 acres and a rural mail carrier. Planted 5 acres for food, cows for milk and chickens. Did a lot of manual labor himself, being an old Scotsman. Lived in a tar paper shack from WW1 until retirement in 1965 at 70 yrs old. Hired thencraftsman carpenter down the lane to build a house out of the lumber on other 40 acres of the farm. White oak timbers and framing. Took a year. Died at 93 yrs of age in 1988.
 
waltesefalcon said:
Shoot, now you claim you aren't from a wealthy family and then go on to tell us about outhouses with electricity, heaters, and locks on the doors.

I have only ever lived at one house that had an outhouse for a toilet, and it had a drafty door, no power, and one hole.
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Well,back in Tom's day,they didn't even have dirt.....
 
He is not much older than me!😂
 
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