How many bathrooms in your house did you have growing up?

[KittyWampus]

Just curious. Watching HGTV it seems the ideal number of bathrooms in a house has gotten quite high.

And god forbid the parents have to spit in the same sink each morning. Although I do understand a working couple often needs to do some fancy maneuvering without double sinks.

This is kind of a tricky question cause sometimes there are full baths, 3/4 baths, etc.

But I'll just simplify and ask how many bathrooms in general did you have.

My family of 6 people had ONE full bath.

That's 3 school kids, one grandmother and two working parents.

[babylonsister]

Only one-for 7 people. Three girls. It was brutal. nt

[Le Taz Hot]

48. Good goddess!

Must have been a lot of pee-pee dances goin' on at your house. (pee-pee dance: holding one's private parts, crossing one's legs with a little bit of hopping up & down just for visual effect.)

[babylonsister]

49. I remember this quote from all of us at various times:

"what, are you writing 'War and Peace' in there?"

:D

And yes, dancing was common, as was hot water running out. The early bird got the worm in my house.

[tabbycat31]

54. 1 full

When I was about 5, my parents converted a closet to a half bathroom. Then when I was 11, and my mom broke her ankle (and could not easily go upstairs to the bathrooms), they converted the pantry into a powder room.

[pleah]

75. 7 here with 5 girls and one bathroom.

:wow: to add: And that was just us kids, nine counting my parents.

[Oceansaway]

1. 1full BR...with 1 stool in

the basement....6 kids...2 adults...

[Gormy Cuss]

46. Similar for my family.

8 to 10 in the house, 1 full bath and a toilet stall in the cellar.

[seabeyond]

2. growing up took a lot of years and more than one house. first 8 yrs, 1. then

we moved on up to two and stuck at that for the rest of the years.

[dysfunctional press]

3. we had one bathroom for 4 people- until my dad added another in the basement.

he was very handy that way. the basement bathroom had a shower, sink, and toilet- but no tub.

[FarCenter]

4. You don't show 0 as an alternative

Which was the case for the first 8 years, until running water was brought to the house. Thereafter, 1.

[KittyWampus]

15. please accept my apology. I just changed poll to include zero or outhouse.

[FarCenter]

33. We did have an outhouse

But in the winter, in Minnesota, chamber pots were more practical. There was one spot on the path where an adjacent building could cause some fairly sizeable drifts.

[Blue_In_AK]

95. FarCenter, I share your experience.

I have old movies of my brothers taking a bath in a big galvanized tub in the front yard. We had a sink in the kitchen with a pump and my mother would heat water on the stove and bathe me in the sink.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. 1 and 1/2. Very common in houses of the fifties and sixties

1/2 bath was called a "lavette" or a "powder room" and was usually somewhere in front of house away from bedrooms.

[Fire1]

39. I said 2 b/c 1and 1/2 option not available. But this is true.

[Xithras]

97. Yep. 1.5 here too.

Mom and dad had a half bath with a toilet and sink in their bedroom, but six of us got to share a single tub in the houses only full bathroom. It only had the .5 because my dad was handy...the house was built in the 1950's as a one bath, but was a very early example of a home with a two closet master. Neither was big enough to call a "walk-in", but my dad still managed to turn one of them into a very tiny half-bath for he and my mom.

[SharonRB]

6. In the first house we had 1

then when we moved when I was 14 we had two plus a powder room. Four people -- my parents and three kids. My parents had one in the master bedroom and the three of us shared one bathroom with two sinks.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. We had one bathroom and that really seemed to be a luxury since we had

outdoor plumbing until I was 12 years old.

[KittyWampus]

14. Hey there! I just changed the poll. Sorry. VERY sorry

[LiberalHeart]

8. 1.5 for 5 people (and nobody used the half bath when dressing).

I must live in a parallel universe because I don't how people can stand to share a bathroom (the double sinks mentioned in the OP). Can't people just take turns? What's next -- three stools in the bathroom?

[pansypoo53219]

63. why not, the had double, three, four, five hole biffys.

back on my blog saturday, the return of saturday outhouse blogging.

[Autumn]

9. One, until I was twelve

before that it was one, outside. At age forty nine the Husband and I got a house with two bathrooms.

[alsame]

10. One bathroom for 5 people - 2 parents and 3 kids. My parents

eventually added a half-bath, which helped some, but did little to alleviate the frantic mornings when everyone wanted to take a shower!

[tosh]

11. One. They added a second after I (the youngest) left for college.

[yellowcanine]

12. One for 7 people until we added a second one, thank gawd.

By the time we had 4 teenagers in the house we had 2 bathrooms. Still only one shower though.

[Maine-ah]

13. 1 bathroom, family of 6

2 parents, 2 boys & 2 girls. I currently have 1 bathroom. If we have anymore kids (doubtful at this point in my life) I may want a second bathroom, but it will be a master bath that is all mine. :P

[cali]

16. let's see, I grew up in two houses

the first was a big old Georgian Colonial. There were 4 full bathrooms and 3 half baths in that house. The second house was a modern house my parents had built. It had 3 full bathrooms and 2 powder rooms.

[elocs]

17. We lived in an apartment and the bathroom was in the hallway

and we shared it with the old lady who lived down the hall. I can still remember hearing the "clump, clump, clump" of her shoes as she walked down the hall and then tried the knob while I was in there. It bothered me so much that when I was little I would go to bed and "hold" it with predictable consequences. To this day I have a phobia about using a bathroom when someone is nearby.

[KittyWampus]

27. I spent a short time in a Berlin flat w/each floor having 1 unheated toilet in the hall that FROZE

during cold winter weather. Freaking disgusting.

You had to go to the swim-house to shower.

[supernova]

18. 1 Bathroom, 5 people

Growing up in the 60s.

It was not my teenaged sister or brother who clogged it up in the mornings. No.

It was ... my Dad. He had to spend 45 minutes every single morning showering, shaving and combing his wonderful ebony wavy hair. :D

I live in the same house and one bath is plenty for me now, but I do wish I had an extra at least 1/2 bath for visitors.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. One and a half until we added on to our house.

Then it was two and a half.

The best part was that the new bathroom was downstairs, and that's where my room was, so I basically got it all to myself.

[WolverineDG]

20. We had 2

one for my parents & one for 3 kids (& guests whenever they showed up).



dg

[DinahMoeHum]

2 full BRs. 1 for my mom and dad, 1 for my brother and me.

No double sinks, no half BRs, no other features considered so "essential" nowadays.
And my brother and I were responsible for keeping our BR clean.

[bigwillq]

21. 1.5

for four people.

[riqster]

22. Only one - no way to read while, ahem, seated

...one had to get in and out quickly, IYKWIMAITYD.

[madokie]

23. No indoor plumbing as a kid

and very few of the others I grew up with or around did either.

[Arkansas Granny]

26. Yep. Indoor plumbing in our neck of the woods was a luxury. We even had

outhouses at school for my first and second grade.

[madokie]

41. Pretty much the same here Granny

Ours was a true one room school house for grades 1 through 8. Eat lunch at our desk. It was replaced with a new bigger school house that had a curtain that separated it into two rooms, one for 1 through 4 and the other for 5 through 8. This new school house had indoor plumbing and butane heaters where as the old one used a big ole potbellied coal burning stove. Dad would get up early and drive up to the school and build a fire on the real cold mornings. The teachers kept the stoves fed during the day. In the winter time by the time I got to school I'd been up about 4 hours doing chores and my brother just older than me running our rabbit traps to see if we were going to have fried rabbit for breakfast or not. I love the memories of my life back then.

[Arkansas Granny]

68. Our school only had one room until the baby boom made it necessary

to add another room when I was in the third grade (1953) and enrollment had reached 50. They bought an old Army building from a base down the road that was being phased out, had it moved to the site, added it on to the existing building and installed indoor plumbing. They also installed a kitchen and our mothers would take turns coming in to cook a hot lunch on certain days, which we ate at our desk. This was in rural SW Missouri.

Looked a lot like this one (including the bell).

[old guy]

28. Same here.

[madokie]

43. Hello there Old Guy

I haven't seen you around these parts before, its good to see you :hi:

[Skidmore]

77. Outhouse down the hill and a honeypot in the winter time to be

emptied by the last one out of bed in the morning. Good incentive to get up and dressed without an alarm clock, I say. There were 8 of us kids and we all bathed once a week in shifts in a galvanized tub set up in the kitchen by the wood stove. Same tub, when washed, did double duty as the rinse tub for the wringer washer on laundry day. Any face washing was done in a basin for that express purpose.

Can't say I miss those days. We didn't have indoor plumbing until I was 16 years old.

[madokie]

86. 14 years old here

All the water for bathing cooking drinking and washing clothes came from a hand pump on a 100 ft deep well. The washing machine was a maytag with a gas motor. I still have one of the single cylinder maytag motors too, one of my several prized treasures from that era.

[ogneopasno]

24. Three.

[mod mom]

25. 1 1/2 growing up w 7 kids & 2 parents. Now we have 3 1/2 baths for 4 of us.

My daughter had the audacity to complain (after being told to clean her bathroom) that some kids don't have to have their own bathroom. She has no idea how lucky she is.

[bermudat]

29. We had one bathroom for 7 children and 2 adullts.

[kiva]

30. 1 for 3 kids and 2 adults.

Now I have my own, hurrah!

[Mabus]

31. We had two bathrooms for 12

My six brothers, three sisters, me and my mom and dad. One bathroom was just a sink and toilet and the other was a full one. It's how I got in the habit of showering before I went to bed. If I tried to get in during morning hours it was a long wait to take a cold shower. Not to mention the towel situation. If I took a shower at night there was a better chance that I got a fresh and/or dry towel.

[Sydnie]

32. Two parents, 5 kids , one bathroom

and we seemed to make it work. Never had to go while someone was in the tub because we just didn't stay in that long. (No shower either, just a tub)

I have one full bath and a half bath in this house. We added the full bath upstairs and replaced the tub that was down stairs with the washer and dryer to make it a toilet and sink in a laundry room. But, my house was built in 1784 and getting plumbing upstairs had never been done before.

[cyberswede]

34. 10 people, 1 bathroom

We had 1 bathroom for parents & 8 kids.

When I was 4, we moved to new state, gained a 3/4-bath, and lost one brother (who went off to college).
It probably seemed like a treat to my older siblings to have a second bathroom - I was young enough at the time that I didn't notice. The main bathroom had only a tub (no shower), and the basement bathroom was a stool, sink, and shower only.

We now have 1.5 bathrooms in our house with 2 adults & 2 kids. Oh - and the bathrooms are both REALLY small (house built in 1940). HGTV seems to show lots of HUGE bathrooms, too. What the hell to people need to do in there that the rooms need to be so big? :)

[Phentex]

59. base housing, 1 for 9 people, and like you...

It was almost a pleasure when somebody moved out! I was on the tail-end, however. In many ways that was better since I didn't know what I was missing. We finally moved to "the big house" and I shared the main bath with just 5 others.

TODAY I HAVE MY OWN BATHROOM! And this will not change any time soon. Whoo hoo!

[Goblinmonger]

35. 5 kids, two parents, 2 bathrooms but

one was just a toilet, sink and shower in a really shitty corner of the basement.

[trotsky]

50. Hey GM, did we grow up in the same house?

There were only 3 kids in my family but we had that same damn disgusting basement bathroom. My dad put together a makeshift plywood countertop to create a "vanity" of sorts - otherwise the sink was just bolted to the studs in the wall and that was it. Wasn't until I was in high school that he put one of those plastic standalone shower stalls in down there.

[pipi_k]

36. I never even knew

people who had more than one bathroom...when I was growing up, people had one...period. No matter how many were in the family.

So in my family there were three kids, mom and dad - and one bathroom.


When I married Mr Pip nearly 14 years ago, his house had 2 1/2 bathrooms. We sold that huge house and moved out here to the wilderness into a tiny house with one bathroom. But the entire outdoors for "emergencies"...

And let me tell you...as I've gotten older, it becomes more and more important to have very quick access to a bathroom. So when we added a larger master bedroom to the first floor we also added another bathroom.

I don't know if I could ever stand to live with only one bathroom again.

I actually get scared going to people's homes where I know there is only one bathroom because of the possibility of...er....accidents if it's already occupied. :(

[ellie]

37. Three bathrooms

There were 10 people in my family: two working parents, eight kids.

[pipi_k]

38. duplicate! argh

.

[MineralMan]

40. Just one...two parents, three kids

Just one of the kids was a girl. It worked out OK, actually. I don't remember a lot of conflicts, to tell the truth.

There was no shower, just a tub. The kids took baths in the afternoon. Mom and dad in the evening. No baths in the morning.

The general rule was, "No dawdling in the bathroom," and it was strictly enforced. You got in and got out, and heaven help you if you were in there when Dad wanted to use it.

None of the houses I have lived in since had more than a single bathroom, either.

[mnhtnbb]

42. Two full bathrooms (1 tub, 1 shower) for 4 people. A 1/2 bath in the basement

for the workshop, laundry, rec area/guest bed space and later used by my brother as his room when grandmother came to live with us and she moved into his main floor bedroom.

[WilliamPitt]

44. 1.5

[Gidney N Cloyd]

45. Remember the Arrested Development episode where the parents discovered the 2nd bathroom?

It had been filled with junk since they'd moved into the house years before. After they found it the parents decided to keep it a secret from the kids.

[tularetom]

47. The first house I lived in had no indoor plumbing

When we finally got settled our house had one bathroom. My sister spent hours in there every morning before school and my brother and I had to brush our teeth in the kitchen and go outside to take a leak.

[ourbluenation]

51. Grew up in gated community in the 70's. 4 people 3 full, 2 half.

My parents were an immigrant success story. They did very well for themselves and worked hard for it. Our house was like a hotel with all the family from the 'ol country constantly coming for visits. Good times. Gorgeous home.

[cali]

58. didn't even know they had gated communities in the seventies

I grew up in an enormous old house but there were only 3 full baths for 8 family and guest bedrooms and 1 full bath for 4 maids rooms. The maids rooms were used as storage and for a crafts room for the kids.

[ourbluenation]

70. Originally the house had 2 full baths and 1 half before a remodel. One bedroom was an office..

and 2 guest rooms that were in use quite a bit. I miss that house in SoCal...we had a pool and an inground trampoline. It was great fun. I was quite the mermaid.

[ellenfl]

52. one until i was in high school.

ok, technically, two. we lived in a trailer but the park had a bath house. there were 6 of us using one bathroom in a series of trailers built way before double-wides became available. my sister and i slept on the fold-out couch on the screened-in patio . . . even in the winter when, in the morning, we would make a mad dash for the door where mom would have our undies warming up in the oven.

small cost for growing up on the beach in florida. ;-)

ellen fl

[WI_DEM]

53. one

[JNelson6563]

55. 1.5

For a family of five. Never seemed to be a problem.

Julie

[alfredo]

56. I lived in the country, everywhere was my bathroom.

[FarCenter]

88. In the country, you go outside to pee. In the city, you go inside to pee.

[alfredo]

90. Weird isn't it. A home isn't a home until you mark your territory.

[Marr]

57. One bathroom, family of six. To make things worse, I used to lock myself inside it and

draw pictures, because it was the only place in our small house where you could get some privacy. I was just a little guy-- 6-8 or so. I can still remember this one house I drew laying on the floor, ignoring the desperate pounding on the door. Hahaha.

[KittyWampus]

101. remember the scene in Christmas Story where Ralph is decodeing the Little Orphan Annie message?

:D

[Marr]

120. Haha- absolutely.

Just like that.

[Aristus]

60. I was an Army brat, so I grew up in a number of different houses, so I'll pick one.

Junior officer's family quarters on Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Small cinder-block houses with a swamp cooler and one tiny bathroom. Each house was painted in one of three lovely (:sarcasm:) pastel colors, blue, pink, or green.

[Vinca]

61. One full and a half in the laundry room.

I can't imagine having a half dozen bathrooms to clean. If you watch HGTV long enough, it'll make you wonder whether thay were partially responsible for the mortgage meltdown. They've got people brainwashed into thinking they're inferior beings unless they have X number of bathrooms, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. They encourage homeowners to take ever dime of equity out of their houses to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade.

[KittyWampus]

71. the granite countertops and stainless steel appliances is another thread I'm contemplatingr

I've watched countless people on HGTV walk into perfectly nice tiled or formica kitchens and say "OMG!, this needs updating".

White appliances. THE HORROR!

[Vinca]

81. I've come to view myself as white trash since I prefer Formica

counters and vinyl flooring. They're easier to clean. And . . . the horror . . . I have a white fridge and a black stove. I strive for one of the "before" kitchens. LOL.

[Xithras]

96. I just put in a new kitchen...stainless appliances and a formica countertop.

The design guy was blown away by the fact that I didn't want granite or Corian or one of the quartz counters. When I pointed out to him that formica was lower maintenance, easier to install, and so cheap that I could change it out every five years to update the look if I wanted, he replied: "Yeah, I know. It's the greatest counter material ever, but NOBODY asks me for PRACTICAL kitchens anymore." He told me later that I was his favorite client in years because I put usability over style.

Of course, I did choose a granite pattern formica.....

[Thirtieschild]

72. Outdated seems to be the keyword on HGTV

I want to yell at those couples who don't want Outdated, telling them that eventually an open floor plan, stainless appliances and granite will be outdated. They have no idea, and yes, I've also wondered how they paid for it, and if they are still able to pay for it. I remember Warpy once calling it Housing Porn.

I grew up with one bathroom for two parents and three daughters. We considered ourselves lucky since our grandparents still used chamber pots, except we called them slop jars, and an outhouse. I was afraid of the outhouse, afraid a black widow spider was lurking on the underside to bite me. Our kids grew up with two bathrooms (both small - house built in 1939) and a toilet in the basement. We retired in a triple wide with one huge bathroom and a small guest bath. We didn't read the part that said that the axles and wheels had been removed and had no idea we were buying a trailer. A stucco mobile home with a tile roof?? Oh well. Built like crap but comfortable until it falls apart. And a great view.

[Selatius]

78. That's what you call "manufacturing demand." Make people feel like they are lacking unless...

they, too, have two or three full bathrooms. It's how ALL marketing campaigns for new products and services work. You make them feel like they are in a lesser position to those who do have. Advertise it as something that you "must have." That is how you keep the whole sick operation turning.

[KoKo]

85. Remember their "Flip It" real estate show.... It was on during the

housing bubble. I definitly think the real estate industry pays for that channel... The "Flip It" encouraged everyone to go buy because "prices are going up, up, up and you may miss your opportunity.

Tons of young folks who were going to make thousands, quick.

[Xithras]

98. A few shows like that are still on.

"Flip It" on A&E follows a few crews of professional flippers, "Flip that House" and "Property Ladder" on TLC are a lot like Flip It following do-it-yourself flippers. The difference today is that you often see them losing their asses, or they conclude with a line like "...and after six months of work and 18 months on the market, Jack sold the home for a tidy profit of $15,000! He's now looking forward to his next flip!"

I actually think the shows are more entertaining NOW than they were back when everything was booming!

[Donnachaidh]

62. One bathroom for six people

Five of which were female. Grandparents, their two daughters, and two grandkids. I always wondered why my grandfather got up REAL early in the morning (4:30 am) but the bathroom might be a big factor in the early rising.

I MISS that bathroom and it's spacious clawfoot tub. Modern bathtubs are built for short square people. :grr:

[azmouse]

64. Til I was a teenager, we had only one bathroom for 5 people.

We moved when I was 15 to a place with 1.5 bathrooms. I thought it was heaven!

[Apotheoun]

65. 4 1/2

Three full from 1896, one full and one half from 1948. 12 bedrooms (4 kids, we each had two rooms), 12 fireplaces. I miss those Victorian faucets and tubs. A poltergeist too!

My current studio can best be categorized as a 0!

[Burma Jones]

66. From my birth to age 12, my family lived in 10 different places

A lot of it was Married College Student Housing, so it was one bathroom for everyone - Parents and three kids. At age 9, we rented an apartment with two bathrooms, THEN a townhouse with two and a half bathrooms as Dad went to Tulane for his Doctorate. Finally, we became homeowners of a house with two full baths. When my folks divorced, my Dad bought a house with two full baths and my brothers and I lived there. Finally I went off to college where there were toilet and bathing facilities galore.

I have a wife and three kids and the house I live in was built in 2000, we bought it in 2003 (when we only had 2 kids) we finished the basement in 2004. The house had four full baths when we bought it, even a full bath on the main level where there are no bedrooms. When we did the basement, the contractor (my brother), threw in a shower in the basement bathroom for no extra charge. So now we have five full baths for five people. We use three of them as full baths.

Yes, the number of bathrooms has gotten out of hand........

[NashVegas]

67. Are You Kidding? It's the Root Of My "What's Wrong With Kids Today" Theory

And has been for over a generation.

I grew up in a house with one bathroom for seven - seven - people.

It taught me and my siblings to have patience and good communications & sharing skills.

Then again, maybe that's why we're all so anal :)

[Maru Kitteh]

69. One full bath only. 2 kids in school and 2 working parents. We never thought anything of it.

The neighbors had 5 school kids and one working parent with one bathroom. I can't even remember knowing anyone in my early life who had more than one bathroom. I think I was about 15 or 16 when I first met a family with two bathrooms.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

73. We Had 3, 2 For Anyone And One In The Master Bedroom.

[Sebastian Doyle]

74. Technically it was two.

But the one with the working shower didn't have a sink to shave or brush your teeth in, so you had to use both of them anyway.

Guess it was fortunate in this case that my dad went to work really early, mom didn't work outside the home, and I was only fighting with one sister for bathroom time.

[Silver Swan]

76. We had one bathroom for six people

But it was really just a half bath--just a toilet and sink, no tub or shower.

[Iggo]

79. Sometimes one. Sometimes two.

Once we had three.

[AngryAmish]

80. 1 than 2

We got an addition.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

82. I moved a few times...so it would be between 2 1/2 baths for 5 people down to 1 bath for 4 people.

I presently have 2 baths and a powder room for 4 people.

[Lugnut]

83. We had one but not always.

Dad finally put a bathroom in when I was 9 years old. Before then we used an outhouse and a chamber pot.

[galledgoblin]

84. 2 for 8 people, one upstairs and one downstairs (n/t)

[dugaresa]

87. One bathroom can work really well if people are courteous

The biggest issue is when you have to go...you have to go and if you have someone reading the Sunday paper then it sux.

I had relatives with outdoor toilets and that generally didn't make you want to linger and read.

We did have a shower in the basement (just a shower) and it was where were we supposed to shower to keep the main bathroom nice (don't ask me)
imagine cold winter mornings and going to take a shower in a cold basement, it was horrible.

Today I have 2.5 baths.. Half bath on main floor and two bathrooms (one in a master bedroom), and I like it, but I hate cleaning so many bathrooms.

In the end I could always go back to having just one bathroom if I had to.

[On the Road]

89. One Bathroom Was Pretty Much Par for the Course

in the 60s. Makes sense given the demographics here. My mother's family had six children and IIRC only one bathroom in a big three-story house with a basement.

A year ago, I looked a townhouse in Maryland with 2 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths. That's what it's come to nowdays.

[CTyankee]

91. Man, a lot of answers here are right out of "Deliverance"!

I lived in Texas and grew up in the 40s and 50s and we didn't have anything like some of the stories on this thread. We had 2 bathrooms for a family of 4.

[MajorChode]

92. Can I count all the trees in the back yard?

[Blue_In_AK]

93. None when I was really small...

unless you count the little building out back. Later we had one, and still later we lived in a house with a bath and a half.

[Beaverhausen]

94. 2.5 for 5 people

we did OK

[Sisaruus]

99. Two

Growing up: 2 full bathrooms for 4 people.
Now: 2 1/2 for one person.

[TommyO]

100. Family of five, one full bath

One half bath in my parent's bedroom as well. After I moved out, they added a shower to this bathroom by breaking into the linen closet on the other side of the wall.

[Critters2]

102. In one house, we had one. Then we moved to a larger house, and had 1 1/2. nt

[SoCalDem]

103. One bathroom was the norm for MANY years

and in some areas indoor bathrooms were a luxury, far later into the 20th century than you would imagine.. In the 1960's an elderly aunt on a farm STILL had a "privy" outside..and "running water" available ONLY to the "service porch" just outside the kitchen..
It would have cost her too much money to update it and she was born there and was quite used to the way it was..

In large cities, some apartment buildings probably still have the "bathroom at the end of the hall" that's shared too..

"Spa" bathrooms that people want to spend a lot of time in, are relatively a new phenomenon. Until recently, people used a bathroom to take a quick shower/bath or relive themselves and they spent little time there.

[mitchtv]

104. 7 of us 2BR 1 BA

plus the dog NYC living

[Skittles]

105. always had one bathroom - for a family of seven

[gollygee]

106. We moved when I was 8 because of the number of bathrooms in the house

Old house had 1, new house had 2.5.

I now live in a house with 2.

[schmuls]

107. We lived in a cold water flat and the toilet was in the basement.

I was terrified of going down there, and my younger brother and I "went to the bathroom" in a little pot next to the kitchen sink behind a curtain. I'm glad we moved when I was eight, and could use a regular toilet in an actual bathroom.

[City Lights]

108. One, shared by five people (four were female).

No dillydallying allowed.

[FloridaJudy]

109. One full bath

And a small toilet with a wash basin just off the laundry room. That seemed to be pretty standard in the fifties and sixties. I think it made sense - I mean how many family members could be taking a bath simultaneously? And we had two kids, parents, an uncle and a set of grandparents living there. As I remember having enough hot water for all of us was a problem: space, not so much.

San Francisco bathrooms were unique: the toilet and the tub/shower were housed in two separate small rooms. I've never seen this arrangement anywhere else, but it does make sense. No need to force the other members of the family to cross their legs while you take a nice, long bath.

[ebayfool]

110. summer=orchard winter=everyone had their own private Mason jar

As an adult, I was told by a kidney doc that mine was the biggest bladder he'd ever seen. That's what happens when you grow up scared to go to the 'tree' cuz the uncles liked to hide on the path & jump out to scare the kiddies!

But come winter, we all had a private loo'.

One bedroom house w/an add-on room for the grandparents & the remaining kids at home. The canning shed (tin roof/walls} is where we spent the early years w/my mom - neither building had a bathroom 'till grandpa built one on the house when I was @ 10yrs old in the mid 60's. Long line of rock farmers, & dirt poor to boot - indoor plumbing, the first tv, etc ... that took a looooong time to make an appearance!

Right now, I've got banana trees over-wintering in my bathroom, so it's stair-climbing to the upstairs loo. Kiddoes don't quite get the idea that one loo is a luxury, two is an embarrassment of riches!


Priorities, people ... my bananas would freeze outside!

[conspirator]

111. I only had 1 bathroom growing dope. The other was for regular use nt

[uppityperson]

112. 1 1/2 until kids got near teenage yrs, then 2 full and a couple 1/2s

Parents took a look when they noticed they had a bunch of preteens and 1 bath and decided that not only was it time to get a bigger house than a tiny one, but to put in a second full bath with 2 sinks and mirrors.

[Cleita]

113. Amazingly I have had only one bathroom that I shared with others my whole

life, not even a 3/4 nor a 1/2 bath. It's because we rented all our lives. Owning a house was never a dream we could achieve. Since I was widowed, this is the first time in my life I ever had a bedroom and a bath to myself. It's rather lonely.

[RebelOne]

114. My bedroom was connected to my own private bath.

We had a large house that only had two bathrooms, but the other bathroom and bedrooms were on one end of the house. So I was lucky to have the bedroom at the other side of the house with the private bath. I also had a private entrance where I could sneak out at night and meet my boyfriend down the street.

[applejuice]

115. We had one until I was 7 and then we moved

to a house with one as well! My dad did put a second one in (himself) when we got to be young teens. There were 4 kids and 2 adults (six in all) so two bathrooms was NICE.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

116. one full bath.

Two adults, two girls. Three females and one male in the house.
This is 1950s post-war suburban tract housing. Three bedrooms, one bath, NO central air, so it's insufferable.

It got pretty bad sometimes.

Then when the grandparents visited it got ridiculous.

Grandpa was the lord and master, and he had to sit on the throne and belch loudly.
It was thoroughly disgusting.

So we all had to pee in a coffee can in the garage, because Grandma enforced the sexism. Nobody was ALLOWED to ask him to get out of the bathroom so that five other people could have a chance.

If I had ever belched like that, I would have gotten my rear spanked. My grandmother's sexism and deference to her old man husband still disgusts me.

It is amazing what "rich people" had back in the 60s by my standards:

Rich people had central air conditioning, carpets or rugs, nice hardwood floors (ours had all the varnish worn off of them), more than one bathroom, a laundry room, a 2 car garage, houses you could keep clean because they didn't have to keep the doors & windows open for ventilation.


They can KEEP the bad old days.

[MazeRat7]

117. Should we count the servants quarters, guest house, and the motor home ?

Just asking ?

Peace,
MZr7

[onethatcares]

118. with three sisters and a brother.

but somehow it worked out. Even today, we have a three bedroom/one bath house.

[108blessings]

119. Three. But before you get any ideas about what that means

understand that my house was modest. There were three bedrooms upstairs, where one bathroom was located, and a powder room on the first floor. In the basement, we had a bathroom, but it really wasn't functional. There was a shower that didn't work and a toilet that we couldn't flush most of the time. But it existed so I am counting it.