Posted on 02/26/2016 8:10:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Or bark like a dog.
ARF!
Newspaper and leaves were good for TP but if a person has running water a bidet is a great investment.
We used the Sears’ Catalog to burn the underside of the outhouse seat. Neophytes think the catalog is for wiping but we used softer paper. Black widow spiders built up around the seat in warm weather and we set the catalog sheets on fire to burn around the seat before seating. Many a man died when a black widow bit him on the balls.
BUCKET OF WATER?!! That’s SISSY!!
Ha! I thought I was flying when we got an outhouse AND a
Sears & Roebuck catalog; THEN when I got a spray bottle, I
was on Cloud 9! (That’s the Hillbilly Bidet!)
Now they’ve got too many slick, colorful pages - even the
white bras have color added to make them sell! :O)
I also used to like the rough, unbleached toilet paper we
got at school. These days, that costs extra.
Yep! Very familiar and useful; besides giving us some pictures to look at while we were in the outhouse - UNLESS - it was winter time and then we HURRIED through!
What did people do centuries ago before toilet paper existed? On second thought don’t answer that, don’t want to know.
“”Black widow spiders built up around the seat in warm weather””
Sure glad I wasn’t aware of that many years ago. Being a female I didn’t have the problem you mentioned in the last sentence but I would have had to find someplace else to do my business if I’d known ANY kind of spiders were out there.
I would have gone to the barn or the henhouse - anywhere but there!
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