Chamber pots for NY couple paying $300 rent?
People do all kinds of things to save money on rent. One site brings us the story of chamber pots in a studio with no bathroom.
Are chamber pots making a comeback? One site says a couple living in Brooklyn's somewhat upscale Park Slope neighborhood have been using chamber pots instead of a toilet.This seems too ridiculous to be true -- and in fact it seems likely that the posting is a parody. But according to The Hairpin website, Marcela and Ryan Marshall pay just $300 a month in rent for an apartment that doesn't have a bathroom.
The couple is trying to make the best of it, finding pots from an artist who glazed them with sea glass. They started out sharing one, but quickly found that it didn't work out very well.
"It's not necessarily for the squeamish, but we've been doing it for three years now, and it's helped us feel closer to the building, to its history, and to each other," Ryan Marshall told the site.
They empty the chamber pots into the gutter in the early morning, they said, and then rinse the pots with water.
The posting on Hairpin fooled even some of its regular readers. It got picked up by the Daily Mail, and then it went viral on Twitter.
Would you do the same for $300 a month in rent, especially to live in New York? "Never! Not in a million years!" said one commenter on the Daily Mail's report on the issue.
Others were more sympathetic. "As a born and bred New Yorker, I believe this is extreme but people do make some huge sacrifices to live here, especially Manhattan," said another.
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"They empty the chamber pots into the gutter in the early morning"
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Around here, people do clean up after their dogs, who cleans up after them? Their neighbors must love them, it reminds me of Cousin Eddie flushing out his RV's toilet into the storm drain in front of Clark Griswold's house in Christmas Vacation.
Another notable quote: "As a born and bred New Yorker, I believe this is extreme but people do make some huge sacrifices to live here, especially Manhattan,"
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Yes, bred in New York, where garbage is put out at the curb on the sidewalk, the supreme ego trip, does this make people like that the Manhattan Hillbillies?
It isn't legal to dispose of human waste that way. They could make an arrangement with a local business to flush waste there--but otherwise, they should be using something that is legal. A 10-gallon bucket with a toilet seat attachment, a tight lid, a thick plastic bag, and kitty litter should be legal. Put some kitty litter in the bottom, do your thing, and throw a cup of kitty litter on top. Put the lid back on.
Then, you are just disposing of kitty litter, like any person with 10 cats. You should make an arrangement to have a place to dispose of it correctly--but kitty litter or a camp toilet is what these people should be using.
Dumping a chamber pot into the gutter is just plain gross--I hope they get caught and fined.
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