[Bigg Red]

My maternal grandparents, born in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1872 and in 1880 were familiar with chamberpots and with outhouses.

[4Runner]

It's debatable whether having brought the outhouse, as we did, into the house (with the advent of the flush toilet) was, in fact, a sign of societal progress, or, in fact, a retardation.

[heylady]

I was born in 1948 and lived on a dairy farm in Rhode Island. The first six years of my life we had no indoor plumbing. There was an outhouse next to our house and fortunately my sister and I had a “potty chair”. My Mother’s family farm never had indoor plumbing on their farm. They were rich and had two out houses and one was a two-seater. My Mother would tell stories about it being so cold in the house that the chamber pots under the bed would be frozen when they woke up in the morning. When my Grandmother passed away in the early 1960’s they sold the property, still without indoor plumbing.