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first poster here--I know the maid's quarters were downstairs. My point was that they ONLY has 3 bedrooms in such a huge house. How does one have room for maids quarters, but only 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom for 6 kids? [/quote]

Actually I knew a lot of real actual (not sitcom) families during the Brady Bunch era where the kids shared bedrooms and bathrooms. In fact, in most families I knew, everybody used the same bathroom, including the parents. Though these families did not have live-in housekeepers who wore uniforms.[/quote]

I actually grew up in a house with (gasp!) ONE BATHROOM.

Perhaps that should be a new thread. "I grew up in a one-bathroom house. Ask me anything."[/quote]

Grew up in a family of seven with one bathroom and three bedrooms. We lived. [/quote]

My dad was one of 18 with one outhouse.  No indoor plumbing until 1986.  Woo hoo, Appalachia!  3 kids per bed, slept head to foot.

When I was growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, my shared room with my brother was so cold a glass of water would freeze.  On really cold nights we would bury in old Army sleeping bags, the kind with a hole for your face and that’s all.  On the floor by the coal stove. We got the coal from a seam on our land, we dug it with a pickax.

I don’t want an Alice.  I am so thankful for what I do have and it would make me uncomfortable.  I cannot see someone working without pitching in.  That is just how it was for poor people and I am not willing to change.  I will never be too good for any menial task or except someone to do a job I wouldn’t do.[/quote]

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