If you have a child, constructing a child seat can be useful in helping them use the outhouse.
One evening recently, she needed to use the outhouse, some distance away, and she asked her sister to escort her.
In Kathryn Stockett's novel "The Help", set in the early 1960s, a black maid is fired for using an indoor toilet rather than braving a tornado to use the outhouse; her revenge, involving a chocolate pie, is not for the squeamish.Times have changed.
They refused to use the outhouses nearby, insisting on being driven to "real" bathrooms with flush toilets, mirrors and outlets for hair dryers.
Others in her extended family feel the same way, Ms. Casey-Jewett said, citing a nephew whose meals are provided by the fish he catches each day, who never uses the electricity and who insists on using the property's outhouse.
Those that knew here there have vivid memories of using the farm's outdoor shower, the outhouse, and her cast-iron wood stove.
The families who lived in these tiny rooms and used the backyard outhouses and carried water up narrow flights of stairs have names and stories.
I've grown used to the outhouse, unheated bedroom and weekly shower.
