When you were young did you have running water in the house?

Question

I grew up on a farm and I can remember for a time we had no running water in the house everyone drank from the same water bucket that parents filled from the pump we had outside . When I was born my parents put in a bathroom in the house but had to haul in water in to bath or flush the potty this was in the late 1950's to sometime in the 60's. My kids cringe when they hear about this and can't believe that was the way of my life back then.

Answer 1

We got running water and indoor plumbing around 1952. My mom had a wringer washer and the cook stove. I will never forget her baking potatoes in the coals on that stove. The biscuit warmer was just above the stove top so we always had fresh warm busquits for snacks during the day. Maybe it was poverty, but poverty at its finest. I would not want to change a single thing.

Answer 2

Although we didn't have indoor bathrooms, we DID have running water. Our water came from a well at the front of the house, into the house in the basement via pipe, using a pump and then through the pipes in the house, via the same pump.

It was quite comforting to hear the sound of that pump going off once in awhile.

Answer 3

Yes we had running water but when I was very young the WC was out the back. That was back mid to late 1950s. I hated it because the cistern was up high and open so all the frogs lived in it. They would hang over the top looking down on you and I was terrifed they would jump onto my head. When you flushed they would be swept down into the toilet bowl and that scarred me for life. Im still terrified of frogs.

Answer 4

Flush toilet? You were spoiled. We lived in town and didn't have
running water until I was 12. We used to bathe in the same square laundry tub. Only one of us 5 kids fit in it, so the cleanest one went first and so on down the line. My mom was 5' tall and she had to haul a 5 or 10 gallon pail of human excrement out back by herself. Dad was always too busy working or out drinking. Until the day she fell and the bucket drenched her and her new coat. We were broke and the coat must have cost a fortune. Dad emptied it after that. There were other things too numerous to mention here.

Answer 5

I grew up with running water. but many of my kinfolks had none. It was a delight to drink from a ladle out of a bucket hanging in the well. To pump to get water in a trough. Take a visit to the out house. Of course I was a child and did not have to do it to survive.
I remember asking my grandmother (since it was her family w/out water) did she ride in a covered wagon when she was a child. She laughed till tears rolled down her face...and called me a little dickens..and yes they had a wagon until she and my grandfather bought the first car when my mother was a baby in the 30's.

Answer 6

there is probable 2 issues you may desire to be waiting to do. the biggest reason your warm water is going chilly is via the fact your warm water tank isn't sufficiently great. What you may could desire to do is replace your warm water heater with a water heater that has a much better conserving tank or use a tankless water heater. Tankless water warmers warmth the water as you employ it and that they get plenty warmer than a common water heater through fact they could desire to warmth up the water speedier as a substitute of heating the water then storing the nice and comfortable water in an insulated tank. Tankless water warmers are greater powerful yet probable greater costly than one with a tank. yet another element you may desire to be waiting to do to elongate your bathe time is to interchange the showerhead. If the showerhead is an previous showerhead it could desire to enable greater gallons according to minute by way of it than a clean showerhead. Doing that could desire to lengthen your warm water for somewhat longer even with the shown fact which you will maximum probable have extremely much less water tension once you bathe on account which you would be making use of much less water over the comparable volume of time. it extremely is greater fee-effective than changing the water heater, even with the shown fact that it could desire to not accomplish what you're hoping, exceptionally if the present showerhead is a greater modern showerhead. if it extremely is the case, it could desire to not help in any respect.

Answer 7

Yes of course Texas 1950's
But my grand parents who lived in the county didn't. They had a well and an out house.

Answer 8

I am 66, we always had full plumbing..but my dad was a builder, so it would follow .... we moved once every 5 years or so, into a new house he had built. The only experience I have with pump and outdoor john was very early in life with my grandmother's house. My father built her a full bathroom and installed plumbing in her kitchen and basement for her. The old out house was filled in and taken away. Funny, my father was the only one who ever did anything for my mother's mother, and yet she disliked my father for a very long time..he was a divorced man. Strange how we judge people, isn't it? With the exception of my mother and dad, none of this woman's kids did anything for her!

Answer 9

My Great Grandfather lived to be nearly 100. He eventually had running water into the kitchen. He never had a bathroom toilet inside the house. We all went to the out house.

Answer 10

I can also remember when we had to get our water from a pump outside and the bathroom was a little walk out back. I kid my children and tell the that the problem with them is they have always had porcelin and toilet paper.