Bless his heart, it’s not lye you use in outhouses - it’s lime. There was a sack of it in the girls’ outhouse on my great-grandparents’ farm, with a little beach shovel. You just always threw in a shovelful after you were done. I assume there was a sack in the boys’ outhouse too, but I never saw that one. With ten kids (Grandmaw was near the top) they had to have two outhouses, and the girls’ at least was a two-holer. In 1970 the relatives left on the farm put in septic and an electric well. I don’t miss the one-eyed owl a bit.
You had seperate out houses for boys and girls? You were rich!