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In a local newspaper it was said that Arnold had no running water at home and going to a shower at 15 years of age was a first. Have you been in such a situation or can you imagine having no running water?
Most of Europe and small town US didn't have running water before WW2. I have known a number of people born around 1919 who took baths behind the stove or washed up on the porch.
In a local newspaper it was said that Arnold had no running water at home and going to a shower at 15 years of age was a first. Have you been in such a situation or can you imagine having no running water?
There is one positive to using an outhouse in sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures. Odor is not a problem any longer.I visited a friend's home in rural Philippines,
where they had neither electricity nor running
water.
They had worked out ingenious and simple
ways to cope, and, really, it worked very well.
Northern Europe in the middle ages was probably
not very nice.. I hate to think.
In a local newspaper it was said that Arnold had no running water at home and going to a shower at 15 years of age was a first. Have you been in such a situation or can you imagine having no running water?
Fiji? That's interesting.A couple times, visiting family in Fiji.
My only experience with this was at my other grandparents' place. You would need to go to well some couple of hundred meters and sometimes you needed to boil the water before use. They did have some water storage starting 1980s though and there was always full barrels for washing up in the sauna.I can only imagine the hardship. The closest we have come to this is when, for 24 hours we had a plumbing problem and water was shut off. But there are municipalities that will shut water off if bill is not paid. If someone cannot pay the bill how are they going to pay when interest and fees are added?
Sitting outhouse or one of those landhole things?On holiday as a child in a mountain farm in italy. Washing was via a bowl of water collected from the stream, you dont want to know about the toilet.
I can imagine the happiness...Translation - we have the electricity, today they connected my house to the electricity.
Well, duh...living in my grandparents house in the 1960's; thankfully they had electricity but no running water. They had a well beside the house and one of my chores as a ten year-old was getting that heavy bucket out of the well without spilling it. Another one of my chores was starting a fire out back to heat the water for washing and bathing. And, yes, we took baths in a washtub; and, no, these were not "the good ol' days...".
They're great in winter. Go mostly naked and walk bristly into the sauna 100 meters away in -30 Celsius, perhaps when coming back you will need an "oatshake" (=beer).Cleanliness was not an issue. They had a separate building with a sauna in it. A proper Finnish sauna that got very hot. One would wash outside of the sauna room and then sweat out anything left in the sauna itself. A small room is easy to heat to near boiling point temperatures.
They did have some water storage starting 1980s though and there was always full barrels for washing up in the sauna.
Things have developed quite fast in our generations time, haven't they... it's quite hard after living in a city for 30 years to go back to how it was back in those days...Most of Europe and small town US didn't have running water before WW2. I have known a number of people born around 1919 who took baths behind the stove or washed up on the porch.
I think your post just won the thread...Oh. and of course we had an outhouse over a pit. At -40 degrees in the winter, you tended to make only quick visits, and hold your poop in until you made it back to school or my parents workplace.
If you had food and sauna it could be bearable. Though it's easy to understand why everyone drank so much beer in those days. My great-grandparents lived on top of some hill and had to climb down to some river a kilometer away to wash clothes, there was another spot for water. Needless to say, the weak often died in those times just of normal life.Northern Europe in the middle ages was probably
not very nice.. I hate to think.