Man, I really started something this time! LOL!
When I was born, and until the summer I was 3.5, we lived in a 10 foot wide trailer with no running water. There was a well that Mom carried all of our water from. The toilet/outhouse was probably 150 or more feet away, and through a gate/fence where the cow was.
Mom had an old ringer washer outside she did laundry in with rain water and a line to dry them on. Mostly, we had to go to the laundry mat.
I got a bath in an inch more or less of water...or in the sink in a big orange dish pan. :D
Mom would carry a bucket of water up to the trailer several times a day and put a little in the tub and use the rest for cleaning and things...the stopper in the tub was not functional, so she stuffed a wash cloth in the hole....and sometimes I would take it out! She'd have to go fetch more water for the bathtime that way! Of course, she always heated up some hot water and added to the tub before the bath.
We were dirt-poor! I remember some of it.
I'm SO glad I don't have to live like that with kids! I know how hard it is to take care of them with water and all the modern things. I can't imagine how hard Mom's job was.
BUT...her childhood was way, way, way more UN-Modern than the first 3.5 of mine.
Mom says she doesn't like to camp now. She camped for 3.5 years with me. She says, really, all she had was electric. Most campers/Travel Trailers are way nicer than what we had back then....
oh, the good ole days!
:D