It’s Friday night and I’m exhausted. Not from an exciting date night but from cleaning the three bathrooms in our home. When we were building our home in 1993 we were remodeling a portion of the old cabin and adding on new space. When we moved the existing stairway in the cabin we were left with more space upstairs that could be used for a storage closet.
We started thinking ahead to the future when our four children would all be teenagers. We opted for a second bathroom upstairs instead of a storage closet and one bathroom on the first floor. What was I thinking? I hate cleaning bathrooms.
I’m ready to lock the bathroom doors and declare them closed for business. I want to build an outhouse in the backyard.
Just think no more hairspray to clean off of just about every surface in the bathroom. No more toothpaste on the counters, multiple bottles of care products from one end of the counter to the other and mirrors to clean.
The best part of all would be no toilets or shower stalls to scrub. If we returned to the use of outhouses, the time spent in the bathroom would be cut in half especially in the cold Minnesota winters.
To complement my new outhouse I would install one of those old-fashioned claw foot tubs for Saturday Night baths. It would cut in half or more the number of towels that would need to be washed and there would be only one of them to clean instead of three shower and tub combinations.
One of the disadvantages of our bath/shower stalls is that the bathtub is not deep enough. There is always one part or more of the body that is out of the water . I’d like to soak up to my neck in the tub. I think that our electric bill and propane use would go down significantly if we changed to Saturday night only baths and the quality of baths would improve.
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