• Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Assume they're talking about an outhouse. My friend used to live in a converted storage unit in the woods and had an outhouse, on the plus side you have little compulsion to doom scroll on the toilet for a hour in the morning, especially if it's cold or storming.

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They're at their best and worst when it is freezing out. No smell, but it is cold.

        Rather be cold than deal with the summer stank.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I've seen a number of bucket toilets of people who live off grid and if you use say, cedar chips to sprinkle on top there's not much smell.

    • Circra [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Outdoor loo usually. If you're in the middle of nowhere then there's prob no sewer line. Nowdays most rural places have septic tanks and indoor plumbing but this chump specified the entire return to tradition and pastoral idyl so we can assume an old style privy built outdoors.

      Honestly though it really would be prob one of the smaller hardships. He could for instance be a shepard which means spending about a month living in a freezing one roomed shack on the side of a hill so that in lambing season he's on hand to help out with births at any time of day or night.