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Back then, before toilets have been invented, people used outhouses, chamber pots, honey buckets, and holes in the ground. After using such means, people usually have to clear them, and there in the past in the olden days, there is a job specially created to clear such buckets, chamber pots and such.
the people also used ditches and buckets and just anything they could go in but now we have the toilets we use now.
They held it in until they invested an out house
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThey used the yard, or built and used an outhouse, a hole in the ground with a shed over it.
Water was hauled from a dug well in a bucket.
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∙ 12y agoThey would dig a hole out behind their house, build a shed around it, and go in there.
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∙ 10y agoIn the 1840s people often used the toilet by using chamber pots. The chamber pots were kept outdoors or in a private room and were emptied each day.
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