From the age of 4 to 12 the house we lived in out in the sticks had no bathroom. The only rooms with a ceiling were the two bedrooms in the middle of the house. The kitchen, fridge room, so called because our kerosene fridge was in there, it was a long storage room near the kitchen, probably the lounge room if we had a lounge room, and the two rooms on the ends of the front verandah all had no ceilings, just the tin roof on the rafters. All wooden floors with no floor coverings, no fly screens anywhere. One verandah room never even had a door, the older boys slept in there. The fridge room never even had a window, just a wooden door that opened covered the space where the window should have been. One end of the kitchen was all tin to house the wood stove and big open fire. We had an outside wash house with twin cement tubs, this is where we bathed, either in the tub or in a large metal dish we only fitted in til we were about 5, after that we stood in it and splish splashed the water over us. We washed our hair in a metal dish and had soap holders as pictured to swish around and make suds. We used sunlight soap for everything. I still use it today. We had boards for our paths outside the laundry. A big board nailed to the side of the kitchen to hold a dish, soap, towel for hand washing. Everyone used the same dish for cleaning our teeth. Outside dunny down the back of the house, very scary if we had to go after dark, only a lantern for light. No electricity, no fans, heat from open fire in winter was our only heating. One tank outside and a well across the paddock for water. I have so many happy memories of living in that house.