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I remember Outhouses, pumping drinking water from a well and carrying it to the kitchen in a bucket for cooking and drinking. And heating bath water on a wood burning stove.
If you were REALLY fancy, you had a hot water well in your stove that kept the water hot all the time and humidified the air in the house at the same time. If you didn't have one of those you had to keep a tea kettle on all the time or in winter your nose and eyes would dry out and be unconformable. And of course the pot bellied stove in the living room to heat the rest of the house.
The bedrooms were always upstairs, and the only heat up there was what rose through the floor grates from downstairs. You stayed warm at night by piling a half a dozen hand sewn quilts on, and in the morning when you hit the floor, you had to run downstairs to the stove to keep you feet from freezing.
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