The recent cold snap started me thinking...days before indoor plumbing.

[raccoon]

It would be bad enough to venture out to the outhouse for an extended stay in an SC winter.

What did people in very cold states do????

[hobbit709]

1. chamber pot.

[NightWatcher]

2. do it indoors then fling it outside

ever heard of a chamber pot

[raccoon]

3. Yes, but I thought you just did #1 in them. nt

[NightWatcher]

4. fortunately I have no idea

I loves my indoor crapper, even though the seat was so freezing cold last week that when you sat down you forgot why you were there to begin with

[grasswire]

5. no no

in ancient times the poop was even collected and sold. I kid you not. In the Edo period in Japan, it was a profession. The poop was called "night soil".

google "night soil"

[Silver Swan]

6. Chamber pots

Or slop jars, as we called them were used for both 1 and 2, and were emptied in the outhouse in the morning.

My grandmother continued to use a slop jar at night, even though she had an indoor bathroom next to the bedroom. She also liked to use the outhouse in good weather. This was back in the early 1950's.

[hippywife]

7. Aunt Jean's Bean Pot.

When we would go stay with our relatives in the country, there was a "bean pot" under one of the beds in every room. You used it for both functions.