Off the grid items (confused)
I have a lot I've popped the off the grid trait on the lot I'm making for Island Living and I'm trying to figure out what I can and can't use. The oil lamps I had out (basegame) need electricity, so I...
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"Amapola76;c-17129891" wrote:"SimQueenie9;c-17129888" wrote:"Amapola76;c-17129875" wrote:"SimQueenie9;c-17129853" wrote:"Amapola76;c-17129837" wrote:
I continue to shake my head over baths v. showers. I mean, for those who are doing retro builds or challenges, think about it: What did people use hundreds of years ago? Baths*, or showers? I think we all know the answer to this.
(Ok, maybe they didn't take a LOT of baths... but it was at least an occasional option. :D )
Both. Both is good.
Don't get me wrong. I don't mind them including showers. Heck, in real life, I own a camping shower that requires zero plumbing: you just fill the water bottle, let it warm in the sun, and then, voila, plumbing-free shower. Perfectly off-the-grid.
I'm just saying, if you HAD to choose between the two, it makes absolutely no sense to include showers but not baths, which is what they did.
ETA: and my other point was that historically speaking, people did NOT have showers in the past. They did have baths. So obviously plumbing is in no way necessary for baths.
Some people did. Not a lot, but some.
For example?
I'm willing to believe that somewhere out there, some ancient culture somewhere had some form of shower. (Now that I'm saying this, I'm thinking maybe the Romans.) But obviously baths were more common. Again, my point is very clearly that baths were more common than showers. So there's no good reasons not to include baths.
From "America's Women", by Gail Collins:
In 1798, Elizabeth Drinker, a highly respected sixty-five-year-old Quaker matron in Philadelphia, bathed in a shower box that her husband set up in the backyard of their house.
I agree that baths would've been a thousand times more common, and should've won out if you had to choose between the two.
