On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:36:05 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 10/13/2012 1:44 PM, Don Wiss wrote:
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Why are these so in these days? ...

Fads come and go...who knows necessarily how any of them start?

... how many people around today grew up in a farmhouse?

+1 here. (But old enamel cabinets/sink...)

Same here, but only the summers.
A washtub and a wash pan filled with buckets of water hoisted up from
the well. No sinks.