My parents raised my siblings and I in a rustic environment.
The two of us always had running water, however often the water gas furnace would quit working and we’d be forced to only use cold.
The roof had so various holes in it from underneath overhangs that there was an entire squirrel family living in the attic. My dad had the chance on numerous occasions to fill the holes to prevent more squirrels from getting inside to stay hot during the freezing Winter season, although he was never interested in taking the time to do things right in the house or outside. He would argue with my mom and claim there was legitimately nothing he could do about the holes, claiming that the squirrels would create new holes as soon as he filled the existing ones. To get an plan for my dad’s sheer laziness, the people I was with and I went with only one single bathroom in the house for years when there was a perfectly fine spare bathroom in the basement. It just needed to be cleaned and to have a new toilet installed. It had water hookups installed from the previous renter, so only one or numerous weekend’s worth of labor were needed to get it working again. Regardless, it took my dad almost 10 years of us in that house before he’d fix the basement bathroom. He was also hardened about the use of air conditioner within the house. Sure, the people I was with and I faced more freezing weather throughout the year compared to heat, however my mom was irritated without a/c in August and October every year. Now I’m extremely thankful for my cooling system; I suppose grateful for finally having access to a/c after so various years of living without it.