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Potty training when there was only an outhouse

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74987) • United States 13 Nov 11

Ok so I looked at my sons potty chair today and thought about the fact that it was mine when I was little. Then I got to thinking what did the potty chairs look like when my mother was little and even before that. Then I thought...

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Fishing It Out or Lost Forever...

twoey68 @twoey68 (13627) • United States 25 Sep 08

In the days of outhouses, which thankfully we don’t live in anymore, ppl would occasionally drop things down the hole by accident. Sometimes kids would be playing and one would throw the shoe of another in the hole…of course the...

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Thankfully A Thing Of The Past...

twoey68 @twoey68 (13627) • United States 11 May 08

Before indoor plumbing came to be, most homes had a little shack out in back of the house. A little wooden building, usually barely big enough to get into, with a bench type seat and big hole in it. When you had to go to the...

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Want to hear something funny?

WolfSinger @WolfSinger (115) • Canada 25 Jul 07

If you check my other discussions, you'll see that I tend towards fairly serious thinking. But I do have a sense of humor which occasionally comes out, and when I read the article that follows, all I could do was laugh. Check this...

Skip Skip Skip to my Loo!

Modestah @Modestah (11177) • United States 16 Jun 07

okay, just what is that song talking about? Flies in the buttermilk shoo fly shoo skip to my loo my darling. is skipping to the loo akin to "doing the peepee dance"? does butter milk have a laxative effect? I can see...

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Would you like to?

littlefranciscan @littlefranciscan (18327) • United States 29 Jan 07

Would you like to go back to the days when they used an out house for the bathroom?

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