i too come from a poor family. as a child we lived in a condemned four room house with no running water or bathroom. the house was so bad that you could see the outside through cracks in the walls. in winter we would use any scrap of plastic to cover the windows and plug the holes in the wall. most winters we all ended up blocking off all the rooms except for one room that we shared as a living space. using an outhouse in 15 below is one hell of a way to wake up in the morning. have had my rear end get stuck to the seat more than once.