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Dad was teasing Mom about her dishwasher and I ask, "What would be the last gadget you would give up?"
I'm thinking microwave, dishwasher..... things a kid that grew up in the 70s would think of.
Immediately, without thinking, "Running water. Especially having running hot water."
She was 16 in 1954 when they got running water in her house. Didn't even have a well, they carried water 150 yards from a neighbors dug well.
Married my dad at 18 and lived on the farm. A mile off the road with no electricity, for 3 or 4 more years. They had a hand pump, and only had to carry it bout 50 yards. But somewhat uphill. I had an aunt/uncle and cousins that still had hand pumped water and an outhouse into the '70's.
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