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It may not be preferable to many, but it is do-able.
It's very do-able. I grew up in a small house that had just one bathroom. It was sold just a few years ago and the buyers haven't added a bathroom. They had (last count) three kids.
While I am not old enough to have grown up with an outhouse, I remember my friends parents remodeling their farmhouse in the 70's (they were surrounded by the suburban crawl) and for a week or two we used the old and I mean old outhouse......of course it was during the summer, but man did make me think about those olden days
A lot of us grew up with several brothers and sisters and one bathroom......my wife and I and one child I could handle.....but twin girls and one bath I cringe.
They say a luxury once tasted becomes a necessity.......and I guess the two bathroom homes were a luxury then became the norm of what a family needs. Don't get me wrong I could survive with one if need be, but I would rather not
How many kids do you have? A small house sounds nice, but two bathrooms are a must if you have more than two people. It's a basic rule of parenting that they will need to pee exactly when Dad is having his 30 minute evening sit on the throne, or that they'll need to pee while someone else is showering.
This is one thing that shows the difference in today's thinking more than almost anything to me. I was one of 7 kids, and we had, yes, one bathroom. There was an emergency toilet in the basement, but a relative died down there, and so none of us would use it.
My kids have each had their own bathrooms since they were potty trained. The first time they had to share was when they went away to college. I am so ready to give up the big house, and downsize to a little ranch. They can buy homes with as many bathrooms as they want, I can easily do with much less.
I think that a lot of it has to do with having to buy your child everything (Obviously not every parent fits into this, but I've been seeing it more and more) and technology. Also, activities are much more expensive than when I was growing up. My softball league in the 90s was $30, and now it's over $100. My basketball league was about $40, and now the basketball league here is over $200.
It's very do-able. I grew up in a small house that had just one bathroom. It was sold just a few years ago and the buyers haven't added a bathroom. They had (last count) three kids.
Yep. My dad's house growing up had one bathroom for five people. Most of the houses in that neighborhood still only have one bathroom as just about no one has added one one. Plenty of families with more than two kids live in those 850 square feet houses with one bathroom. The family that bought my grandparents' house there a couple years ago had three kids and was jumping for joy over the house because it was a step up from East L.A.
I loved when my mom gave me her "used" SUV (2010 model). I didn't need any fancy gadgets or doohickies, just a car that ran and wasn't trashed. Best gift ever IMO, as a car was way out of my price range. I wouldn't think any kid would be dissapointed in getting a car as a hand me down.
Good heavens. I don't know if my parents ever had a car for themselves that was younger than ten years old.
When I was 19, they sold me a 10-year-old Impala for $300. After two weeks, it was stolen and it never occurred to any of us that they should give the money back or anything.
To get a 3-year-old SUV as a compromise?! No wonder people think kids are expensive, if you think they have to have cars at all!
Good heavens. I don't know if my parents ever had a car for themselves that was younger than ten years old.
When I was 19, they sold me a 10-year-old Impala for $300. After two weeks, it was stolen and it never occurred to any of us that they should give the money back or anything.
To get a 3-year-old SUV as a compromise?! No wonder people think kids are expensive, if you think they have to have cars at all!
Hah, I actually wanted a 2003 Impala. The Maroone near my house had one for only $6k but my parents said that it had too many miles. The reason I got the SUV was that I was the last one to leave my parent's house and they no longer needed such a vehicle, being empty nesters.
Well, of course you can survive it if you have to...I had a couple of apartments with only one toilet, and a couple times I had to pee in the sink because hubby wouldn't vacate the throne and I couldn't wait. But ever since we had kids, we've had to have two toilets. Especially when the kids are girls and everyone gets old enough to be having periods, sometimes even with two toilets we have a line waiting to get into a bathroom.
When we looked at houses, we didn't consider any that had only a single bathroom...and believe me, we were shopping on a budget
Girls have been having periods long before multiple bathrooms became the norm. People figure out how to make it work.
If my husband had put me in a position to use the sink for a toilet simply so he could have a 1/2 hour evening constitutional, we'd be seeing either a physician or a marriage counselor before we'd be seeing a Realtor.
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The reason I got the SUV was that I was the last one to leave my parent's house and they no longer needed such a vehicle, being empty nesters.
