Who has an outside toilet?

[SuperBunny]

What do you do with it? Do you use it as a toilet? Or for storage? Or something else? Is it actually useful to have an outside loo?

My Dad put one in the garage when we were younger for that same purpose MP

He wanted to read the paper in peace. Must be a man thing.

We do but it's not plumbed in for some reason so we use it to store stuff.

Nappyz - re. outside tap. Somewhere on the tap there will be a screw. Its usually on the part that sticks in to the wall iyswim. When the weather is getting really cold, get a screwdriver and turn that screw a quarter or half turn (whatever stops the water going through). Of course, you do have to actually remember to do this when the temp drops. I haven't done it for the past ooooooo 4 or 5 years with no adverse effects so far [fingers crossed emoticon].

As per MP, our outside loo is dh's poo loo. But also, I feel, visiting guests are relieved to have the option of outside if they want to "drop the kids off" and don't want to besmirch my inside facilities.

Ooo, I am excited about this now. I do not have a man who can use it for man poos but I am sure DS will enjoy it for that purpose.

I lived all my childhood with an outside loo. JUST an outside loo. And, for a decade, no hot water. No, I wasn't born in 1911.

I also had only an outside loo for a few years in my 20s. By then it really must have been one of the last ones around!

I love all the perky posts about the possibilities of outside loos on this thread - for me, just having one in existence (even if I didn't have to use it) would be a constant reminder of having to run out into the yard on winter nights, freezing and scared of ghosts and spiders. Or, indeed, having to use it on summer days, while my brothers and the neighbourhood boys would climb up on our bins to peer in the windows (why didn't my mum put up a curtain? I have no idea).

Oh dear, I think I need a glass of wine and some chocolate now...

Haha, Hester, that reminded me of (boarding) school bathrooms - open to the outside airs. When the new music block was built, it was such luxury that people were almost scared to go in and use them, the more so because one of the obnoxious Upper Sixth boys tried to stop the younger ones using it, despite his not being a prefect...

I imagine this school bathroom nostalgia is the reason (the only one, probably) that outside bathrooms might be considered some sort of posh. What do you all think?

My mum's neighbour had one in her garage, it was for the gardener when the house was originally built. It was wood panelled.

My neighbour still only has an outside loo

Nah, I think I'm just dead posh.

I know the thread on outside loos has been and gone, but does anyone know how to heat one?