Working for the state or other public employer we bring packages of coffee/tea to work according to our consumption and we are provided coffee makers, filters and an electric kettles for tea. Anybody can make the coffee for others.
Well there kinda is a coffee drive-through but it's mcdonalds etc fast food chain coffee of course. So not the best quality coffee. I would still go for the workplace coffee in the morning over that. Well and I do :)
@@bettyhappschatt3467 In my former workplace everyone who drank coffee were expected to bring a pack of coffee (500grams) maybe 2 times a month. So I think it¨s fair for all. And you could buy sandwich bread, pastries etc. for everyone. It a was a private employer.
Finlayson and Iittala are actual (design) brands, not comparable at all to Ikea :D We want to support Finnish products and we hold them in high esteem.
You buy Ikea when you are a young and poor student. I had some, but nowadays none. Now I have finnish brands (Iittala, Arabia, Fiskars cutlery) and some italian glassware. Quality over quantity for me, please.
Also, products by these brands are quite popular as gifts. Like for wedding, graduation etc you might receive a lot of Finlayson, Arabia and Iittala products. Some companies even give them as retirement gifts. I'vee got plenty of Iittala and Arabia tableware and I think all of them have been gifts :D
@@paivimarinela2695 Yeah James Finlayson was a Scottish businessman who started textile industry in Finland, 200 years ago. The name still a strong brand.
The door thing is to keep cold out, kind of an airlock. In my apartment too I have two doors, and theres like 10 cm between them, so theyre very close, but id imagine its for soundproofing. And it goes to stairwell, not straight outside. And every store sells bandaids, at least those basic small ones with adhesive. And I think you can get coffee from McDonalds drivethrough. So Ive heard, I dont go to McDollar nor drink coffee (gasp!).
Using people's first names in conversation is almost non-existent in Finland. In my apartment block I know my neighbors' surnames, because they are listed in the resident list downstairs and on the mail slots on doors. No problem, greeting when meeting doesn't suffer a bit. Alko is a fully state owned company with a mission to steer the consumption down and promote a healthy drinking culture. They are doing what no private company would do, maintaining a stunning selection of wines whether they sell a lot or a little.
Moomin characters were created by Tove Jansson: author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She wrote her stories originally for adults and the first versions of Moomin characters were more rugged than nowadays. She used the Moomin Valley to stage epic stories about many serious matters. Fairytale framework and compassionate dialogue make her novels suitable for any age group. As her career progressed she developed the characters in the cute direction. Seeing a Moomin character on any item evokes in most Finns the sense of love, safety and innocence we have found in Ms Jansson's novels.
I don't think it's completely accurate that you need to buy all band-aids, contact lens fluids, etc in the pharmacy. Most of that stuff you can get in the market, especially in bigger ones like Prisma or K-Citymarket. You also get vitamins, health products, and some such that don't need a licence there. But specifically all Medicine that needs licences to be sold are sold in the pharmacy. Ibuprofin does need a licence, and thus you can't buy that in the market.
the brands are important for us because, as a small country, taking pride in our own products is important. Even if most of them are now manufactured abroad. The extra door space upon arrival inside a house blocks the cold weather from getting all the way in during our harsh winters. (Plus we don't wear shoes inside)
She is quite new youtuber and I like her attitude and spirit. This video is a great example, she never sounds degrading or arrogant. Just telling how she feels.
Also one of the biggest reasons why Tampere became the industrial capital of the Finland. (At the time) Industry together with culture and sports are what drove the Tampere for what it is now. Most populous inland city in not only in Finland but also Nordic countries aswell. Another interesting fact nugget is that James Finlayson also knew personally Thomas Edison who invented lightbulb. He wanted those in his factories and the lightbulb on Finlayson factory in Tampere was first in north europe and fifth on the continent.
Iittala, arabia etc are very strong in our history and are highly appreciated here and other countries.. btw Moomin mugs are made by arabia.. we have a long history in industrial and artist design and some of them have been awarded valued awards...
Foraging in Finland has been a big part of the culture for a long time and hasn't really decreased in popularity. All the time I see people in my work who are for example worried about missing the berry or fishing season because of their injury. They very rarely actually work in the field of getting your produce from the nature. Granted it's more likely to be an adult person over 40. How is it in your country? Are things like I mentioned considered normal?
Lidl is the exception in Finland regarding weighing produces yourself. They do have scales for customers to check how much their purchase will cost, but you don't have to use them. The cashiers have their own scales.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I've ever been to a place where they give free coffee refills. Some might give the second cup free, but definitely not as many refills as you want.
I just foraget lingonberries from the forest and have some of those to my mom and sister too. It's quite common to people to foraged their own berries for the winter. I wish I had time to forage blueberries but I missed the time those where ripe.
Did not read all comments, but Alko is a state owned monopoly of which it shares (via governement) money etc to young sports, disabled people, culture...
I love her disclaimer ❤ Pretty much everyone will eventually get a bunch of Moomin products, they are not only valuable design products, but they are almost always incredibly well made products that will last for generations. This is related to the later design section. IMHO Iittala, Pentik, Fiskars, Hackman and Arabia simply make the best quality/design/price household products. Especially having also lived in Asia, the quality is just on a whole different level than anywhere else. The Shower thing depends a lot on the house and apartment type. It is also a preference/cost issue. In the long run, it is 100% times better to build the whole bath room waterproof, than just the shower area. The bathroom floors are also almost always heated, which also helps a lot with the water as well as the general heating. So since there is not really a need for a separate shower area/solid wall/corner/closet whatwver you called it, they are more of a luxury item in moat cases, or if there is a very small bathroom, where the shower-closet helps isolating tight spaces better You can get coffee from most drive-throughs (we have plenty of those), but there is not one specifically for just coffee, since absolutely no one would use it. If you want a good coffee at work, just make it/buy it there, or even have it delivered there, and you'll get it fresh and hot for coffee break with your co-workers
I think it's better that meds are sold only from the pharmacy. Then pharmacists can together with the customer choose the painkiller/medicine that it's best for the customer. To be sure that it's compatible with the other prescription meds possibly used. The expertise in medicines is important, and also a safe issue.
Having very little sunlight during the winter is definitely rough, especially if you spend those few daylight hours indoors at work or school. Personally, the cold and the lack of sunlight just drains all the energy out of me. I believe the medical term is the very aptly abbreviated seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Common treatments include ample supply of vitamins and exposure to bright lights. Last new years I went to the Canary Islands for a couple weeks and it's almost magical how much energy I suddenly had when there was a proper day-night cycle and it was 50°C warmer outside.
Alko store is hard liquors, markets got light wine and 8% beer, ciders, long drinks. This lady hit more those exotic spots at once than anyone else before I've seen. + beautiful forrest clip.
About the brands thing, i.e Iittala and Finlayson are kept in very high regard as quality products. They are also often on more expensive side, and you more often find these in more well off homes, or as some people collect i.e the moomin mugs. Which are actually a very sought after collectible in Finland. I think a couple years back there was this misprint on sale that went close to 5k euros or something like that. It's big money for a coffee cup. I.e I'm a single guy living in a apartment. You won't find any Iittala here. E: and yes, Alko's monopoly drives the price of alcohol. You can actually get beer etc. from stores but hard liquor is in alko and it's ridiculously priced partly due to monopoly and partly due to taxation. Taxation also drives the pub prices, and they are probably on higher end in Europe all together. A 0,5 liter beer in a pub is 6-8 euros depending on store and location. Often even more. It's based on idea that people drink less if alcohol is expensive, but there has been discussion about this counter productivity for a long time already. Example situation: 2 guys want to get a beer. If they go to pub, and buy 2 beers for each, that's quickly over 30 euro. If you buy a case from store that's 25, or couple bottles of hard liquor, its 25e. So it's been argued that this system actually makes people drink more since they opt to buy large quantities.
4:07 If you're interested about Moomins, maybe you want to give them a little look. 😊 The real national Anime of Finland - Muumilaakson Tarinoita ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ZJ2yT-4AGk.htmlsi=XopKdk7gU99lWBvL (To be clear, this isn't a episode of Moomins, but in this video a person speaks about Moomins in Finnish, has English subtitles) While in these two links to playlists are episodes of Moomin = In this playlist is spoken in English = MintleafCakes - The Moomins (1990): ru-vid.com/group/PLC1fB0g57tl3fcx0oQ9XJtLzjUxTNt8Te&si=HlYNRAnUlQRFr_to While this Playlist is in Finnish, but, sadly it doesn't have English subtitles = SandePeikko - Muumilaakson Tarinoita: ru-vid.com/group/PL5Kl0X239KVSpVOJD3qmZ-7PYwQMNJWwp&si=H_F52lgNDOvtan74
9:36 To this i would like to say that i personally like when it's really dark, but many people also develop depression in the autumn (I don't know the English equivalent, but in Finland we call it "kaamosmasennus"), it is a depressive state that occurs repeatedly during the dark season, the symptoms of which usually appear at the same time every year.
I think that that maybe children could drink soda at dinner... so thats weird for me. But then again, Americans eat dessert for breakfast, so go and tell.
As far as I know alko can be considered both cheap and expensive. They have a fixed amount of profit and tax they add onto the import price. Which means rare wines that can go for 200€ in europe, can be 70€ in alko. Cause they are not allowed to add more profits just because world market says it’s that expensive. But at the same time the tax is so high that common booze like vodka, whiskey etc. is quite pricey. For example 0,7L bottle of absolut vodka is almost 26€ and 0,7L bottle of jack daniels is 40€. Also they only have monopoly on >5,5% drinks that are made out of spirits and over 8% drinks that are made by fermenting. So a 7% gin & tonic is not allowed to be sold in grocery stores but an 8% beer or cider is. Of course breweries have managed to get 8% mixed drinks on shelves, haven’t read the ingredients but I assume it’s made from wine, not a spirit. Generally people go to alko for wine, liqueur or stronger drinks like whiskey or vodka. Hope this explains our somewhat complicated alcohol law. Also we joke around quite a bit about the monopoly. Alko barely manages to make profit, having monopoly on selling strong alcohol for a heavily alcoholic nation. Kind of funny, we joke about how bad they have to be at their job to not make tons of profit.
Yeah regarding the no sun in the winter we actually are taught in school about how to not get depressed when you basically don't see the sun all day. Wouldn't have it any other way though.
The Moomin mugs are a kind of Finnish institution :) Originally Moomins were cartoons and characters from children's story books in the 1950s. They release mugs with new pictures on them regularly, the mugs have actually become collectable, the most rare ones cost thousands.
Alko is a government owned enterprise. You can buy beer and other alcohol up to 8% from the grocery stores, anythin higher than that it's Alko... or restaurants and what have you. Apparently in the olden times finns had a bit of a drinking problem so it was first completely prohibited until the WW2 and then the government decided that if finns drink, they will control what and how much.
You don't have to go to pharmacy to buy contact lens solution or bandaids, you can find them in the bigger stores or sometimes even smaller. Maybe she hasnt just found them in the stores. What you have to go to the pharmacy for is anything that has any medicinal substances, like ibuprofen or medicinal ointments or anything that has medicine in it really.
I just picked some chanterelles (type of mushroom) and made a risotto. Very good 😊👍🏻 I don't do it very often and I think a lot of Finns have estranged from nature compared to the "good old days". Should definitely do it more..
I feel like even if we know people's names we don't use them. In a 5 people friend group conversation, for example, asking "how was the math test?" and only those two who had math test will answer even if they weren't separately addressed by name. I am very bad with names and it takes a lot of time for me to remember new coworkers names etc.
As a Swede i find 1-4,7,10-21 and 24-25 are perfectly normal and 5, 6, 8 and 22 not unusual 9 is slightly unusual here and #23 apart for prescription drugs you can by that at the bigger grocery stores and a lot the biggest have a Pharmacy attached . Btw #15 the best invention to ever come from Norway.
Best thing was my classmate in university.. First time we met we didn't really greet each other in a formal manner, and kept just hanging out.. after like 6 months and like 20 -ish student parties later we realized we didn't even know each others names with that girl
You can pick up berries etc, and camp for 3 days. Even on private land. Just not at yards of homes/summer cabins And certain regions are limited, because dedicated to military exercises..
Any Finn here who doesn't have Fiskars scissors or some gardening tool in their house? I got mine (left handed ones) from my grandmother as a gift 25-30 years ago.
You can fight against the silence with headsets. But seriously, there are more social and chattier places in Finland too. Why do you need to know someone's name to talk to him? You are already talking to him when you ask his name. Name is kinda personal, you know. Almost like underwear. It's strange when E.g. in British TV shows people address their words to someone by their names even when it's clear who they are talking to. Bandage and such you can buy from regular stores in FInland, medical products not for the safety reasons. As well as alcohol products below 8 percent alcohol content. I can't even remember when I drank soda last time. Nor can I think of some food soda would go with. An example of foresting: "The Poisonous Mushroom Finnish People Love to Eat". If Moomins interests you, here's a BBC documentary about them and their creator: "BBC Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson".
I could comment a lot, but I try to keep it relatively short. - I have no interest in small talk with strangers, I don't know you, so leave me alone with my thoughts. A lot of Finns feel this way. - If it's an acquaintance that I see once in a while in the store, at the gym, wherever, I couldn't care less what their name is. If you become my friend, then I might want to know your name. - I don't think my family ever owned a Moomin product. I and my siblings were never interested in Moomin as children. So no, not everyone in Finland have Moomin related products. - I think the double door thing mostly has to do with insulation to keep the cold (and noises) outside. - It's actually been shown that spending a little bit of time regularly in the forest is good for your mental health, it helps you calm down and lower your blood pressure. - Having almost no sun in the winter can be difficult for many and cause depression. This also relates to the other point about Finnish people being less energetic and outgoing in the winter. - I don't know anyone who drinks soda with their lunch or dinner. It's either water or milk or piimä (a kind of buttermilk). - Nobody buys plain bottled water. If people need water, they buy a container, fill it up with our superb tap water and carry that with them. - It's very regulated who can sell medical products and medicine, i.e. only pharmacies do that. - Yes, alcohol is very expensive in Finland. The alcohol tax is high to keep the consumption down.
I'm Finn but never had Muumin mug. It's not something I should have. Iittala and Arabia brands are good. Maybe every Finnish household have Fiskars orange scissors!
90's childhood, cola 4 times in year. 4 Birthdays because sisters and me. 4 cola bottles 4 litres of cola in one year, so exotic thing thing in our Finnish home. Eating horse and reindeer is normal, salmon many times because nature is near. Lot of berries (vitamins), 50 meters to swamp area. Family had dairy products because oows. Own farming products, lot of work and clean organic food without any toxics/poisons. Silence, Indonesia was noisy place compared to Finland, just listen Finnish nature, trees and animals.
Long days in summer and short in winter really does mess up circadian rhythm for me. S.A.D. is pretty common here cause of that, to some at least, maybe even many ppl.
Alcohol is expensive in our monopoly Alko stores, but the reason is high alcohol tax. The monopoly aspect is being discussed a lot, though. Many people think it is bad. It puts different businesses in unfair positions. For example producers in other EU countries wanting to sell alcohol products in Finland - they have only one party to turn to.
On the other hand, it's a state monopoly so it's not trying to gouge the consumer. You get good service and selection everywhere as in if there's Alko in the middle of nowhere, there is going to be a fairly okay selection of everything on the shelf and anything they don't have they can order in for you from Alko's selection free of charge. They'll have the same prices everywhere. There's also advantage in them being a fairly large buyer. And they have a pretty large selection of wines. Of course, part of their remit is "reducing the harms of alcohol", which from the consumer point of view might be a pro or a con. Also, what they don't have, they don't have. You can order it yourself from abroad (or bring in from travels) but it is a hassle because there's additional Finnish tax and weird shipping rules because of the monopoly. Also, you can't buy retail any products, that are under the monopoly, even from Finnish producers anywhere else in Finland, though they can be served. I should also point out Alko doesn't have monopoly on all alcohol products.
@@blechtic Yes, but even the products that Alko did not have a monopoly on, for decades, were carefully legislated such that domestic producers got the upper hand in the market. For example beer alcohol limits. Now that is changing, which is a good thing. Monopolies on consumer products never benefit the consumer. They are always net negative.
@@m1k1a1 Technically, most net positive is not drinking any alcohol. And let's be clear: just because competition has positives, it doesn't mean it leads to net positive even in its own context. Sometimes it can lead to reduced choice and race to the bottom. Nevermind, that there are such things as natural monopolies. The shelf space in grocery stores isn't going to magically increase to accommodate more choices in alcohol products and their staff aren't going to be as well-trained to serve the customer. Smaller sellers are going to have to pay higher wholesale prices and pass them onto the consumer. They also most likely can not afford to have as large a selection. They might not even achieve that in aggregate. Furthermore, their profits aren't going to go to general wellfare projects and they will be competing for sales, not trying to engage in harm-reduction (unless they choose to have a reduced selection or do something similar to serve the customer worse). There are going to be hard trade-offs in breaking the monopoly and once the monopoly is gone, you can't get it back no matter how badly things might go. We all know one political party is going to sell the former monopoly off at below market value even if it were make good profit and stayed relevant after the monopoly was broken. We might end up with large foreign chains owning the market, taking the profits elsewhere and leaving us nothing except the downsides of increased alcohol usage. This is a one-way ratchet. It's worth thinking about all the ways things might go wrong before going forward. It might actually make more sense to handle private imports and postal sales by simply channelling them all through Alko. The consumers would get their increased selection and they would make sure all relevant taxes would get paid, etc. It would likely lead to Alko also increasing their selection by having their own small volume imports.
Honestly, i cannot imagine myself asking someones name. i have done it in work setting (forgotten a name or never had it) like TWICE in my life. Otherwise just no :D
@@wmbdshrmp may I ask, are you finnish? I dont mean to say this being rude. But black out curtains is the obviouse solution and of course that's what you do as the first thing. But at least for me, my brain is in tune with whats going on outside no matter how dark its inside the bedroom. In the mid-summer time, I sleep less than 6 hours per day for like a month. But somehow I feel like I also need less sleep in the summer. Where as in the winter I sleep much more and feel tired more easily. I like the summer, but i dont like the 24/7 light.
@@Ville-u8g yes im Finnish 😁 i guess people react differently to summer time, even if their bedroom is fully dark. For me it's enough to get the room dark for sleeping, but If any light enters i wake up 😅 the summer heat is more of an issue for me, but it's also managable with aircon or other options
@@wmbdshrmp you're right, it seems to be different for different people. "Different folks, different strokes". Its funny how different people also behave in the season... Summer time people become more outgoing, wintet time people are very "finnish" 😁
