So true! But also maybe you can solve the mystery of the hundreds of pillows on North American beds...It might look nice but all the work of removing them in the evening, putting them back bin the morning, washing them...Just, why? Plus cushions collect dust, dust mites, animal hair, saliva...
Deutsche Häuser Jenna haben dicke Steinwände die während der Heizperiode sich aufwärmen und wenn du lüftest und nach 10 min. wieder schließt wirst du merken das der Raum sicher schnell wieder erwärmt . Also keine dünnen Rigipswände (plasterboard walls) wie in Nordamerika die keine Wärme speichern !
Stimmt- ausserdem brauchen dicke Wände trockenere Luft, und da die absolute Feuchtigkeit der kalten Luft kleiner ist als die absolute Feuchtigkeit der warmen Luft, sichert korrektes (kurzes Stoss-) Lüften ejne schimmelfreie Wohnung,
I'm of German background, but came to Canada as an infant, so I know all about how stuff works in Canada. I have also spent some time in Germany during my student years, so I'm familiar with that as well. We always spoke German at home, so I got the language for free. Where I live in southern Ontario, we have always had access to various types of European foods, because of the proximity to Toronto with its European butchers, bakers, and restaurants. I grew up with rye bread, Black Forest ham, and all the various German cakes and pastries. I know that German foods are available in a lot of places across the country, so it's not as though Canadians are not familiar with them. We also have always done the "Hausschuh" /slipper thing, but all my Anglo friends do this as well - always have. No one I know would walk into someone else's house and leave their street shoes on. Where did you live in Canada? Just curious...
The way you experienced life is exactly the way I hope to raise my kids too 🥰 its amazing you had the opportunity to experience both cultures so strongly even though living in Canada! 💛 I’m from the Toronto area as well! And actually often say the best part of the GTA is that its a melting pot full of amazing food from all over the world! RE: shoes: no one I know in Canada walks into houses with the shoes on either! I always found it so annoying watching American TV shows when they sat on someone’s bed with their shoes on! 😂 My point here was that no one I ever knew wore house shoes in Ontario in their home, maybe slippers in the morning when the woke up, but not all the time and not every house they go to like they do here in Germany.
"Lüften" is important, because homes in germany are having much better home insulation. If you don't do "Lüften", you get mildew, because of the humidy in your house. I have heard, that meat and sausages should be placed in the fridge on the glasplate over the box for the vedgetables, because the cokd air falls down in the fridge and so the meatstuff has the coldest place there.
If Germans had AC they would use this. Americans use the AC to get rid of humidity in the house. If you don't run the AC in your house in the US it smells like mold.
When it comes to a schwäbisches home, it is one slice of bread, butter and or cheese or ham. Never both. Biggest part of the sandwich must be the bread. No mayonnaise, never. Mayonnaise goes into potato salad.
Yes, Abendbrot isn't called that way for no reason! 😅 It's a legit Synonym for Abendessen (dinner). Meaning "Essen" equals "Brot". What rice is to the Japanese, bread is to a German. The folded Brot/Sandwich though is also as common in Germany. For school/work you only take those. "Open" sandwiches you only eat at home, and even then not every one or every time. I solely eat folded sandwiches. 😊
German men used to stand in the bathroom too. Until they started cleaning the bathroom. In the student flat, for example. Canadian men: if you want to make yourself popular with your women, sit down. That has something to do with energy efficiency. In reality, we are just lazy and therefore efficient.
I am 3rd generation American, but these “German” traits still remain in the family. With the exception of the type of window and the open face sandwich, we do all the same in our house.
Towels: I always use a "Badetuch" which covers most of my body and a smaller towel for my hair. "Badetuch" does refer to taking a bath at home, at least I always understood it like that, not only to going to the beach.
10:20 Please don't call it sandwich. You can call it Stulle or Butterbrot (even when there is no butter on it). Everytime someone said sandwich i asume that they mean untoasted toast bread and that's weird to me. Toastbread is for toasting. The only time to use it untoasted is to put it around a hot Bratwurst to avoid sticky fingers.😄
@@LythaWausW First of all, please don't take my text as instruction. As far as I know, most Germans use the word sandwich for folded, untoasted slices of toast. Mainly the older generation, to which I belong, uses the terms Stulle, Knifte, Klappstulle (there are many other terms for this) for filled, folded slices of 'good German bread'. For most Germans, a soft toast/sandwich bread is not 'real bread'.
@@Trollmulle Thanks for answering. I asked my husband and he said exactly what you did. So I asked him why he calls his butterbrot (schwarzbrot mit butter, kaese und salami) a sandwich. He said, "Cuz we're speaking English an you call it that." Also, I went to Aldi today and they sell pre-made packaged sandwiches called "sandwiches". They were untoasted toast brot with Aufschnitt. Ugh, I can only imagine how awful they are. It's what I buy at the Frankfurt airport cuz there's literally nothing else to eat under 20Euros and I'm starving to death.
I'm currently living alone and found out that for a mug of coffee, it's more energy-efficient to heat the water in a second mug in the microwave than using a kettle. Do the math: 2 minutes at 700 watts is less than 1 minute at 2,000. (And, no, I don't have a coffee machine, I like it hand-poured. It's faster and tastes better, I think.) The Lüften thing is what many people do wrong or misunderstand. You have to open the window wide when the room is warm, so the air can circulate: Used air goes out, fresh air comes in, and it's a stupidity that people tell you you should turn your heating off during the five minutes you keep your window open. Doing so you're acting against the purpose airing out the room is intended for as you're blocking the air stream when there's no temperature difference. Tilting the window, however, only makes sense in summer, to let warm air in continuously. It also lets flies and mosquitos in, so in summer, I have a Fliegengitter in front of my window. (Don't buy the cheapest ones, their adhesive tape doesn't deserve that name. Turn to a well-known brand instead.) I have a leather couch, too, and you're absolutely right, it warms up quickly and then feels pretty cosy, and as I'm mostly living alone, don't forget the aspect of cleaning. Even when I use leather polish every half year or so, it's done in minutes, and leather is such a forgiving material: Spilled some red wine? No worries, just wipe it off. (And you have a baby, there might be other things that can be spilled.) Leather is "pflegeleicht", I can't find an English word for that. Oh, your binders! I'd wish I'd be as organized as you are. You know, most of my "paperwork" is digital, and I don't print it out and store it away on a shelf, and Ctrl-F (or Strg-F in Germany) is so easy to find, and the computer does all the search work for you. The German word for binder is "Ordner", which relates to "Ordnung" and "ordentlich", which I'm definitely not. Hausschuhe I wear in my own home, but when I visit someone, I always feel it like polite and being welcome when the Lady of the House says, you can keep your shoes on ("Du kannst deine Schuhe anbehalten"). Alright, I'm infamous for my stinky feet, but I reckon that's not the reason. The "construction dust" that makes tiles slippery is actually silicon dioxide, or quartz, or sand, "Quarzsand" in German. Yes, exactly the stuff microprocessors are made of, just not pure enough to use it for that purpose. It has some astonishing properties, like letting water evaporate and prevent other moisture from coming in, which makes it prevail over regular sand or a plastic cover. And it's no health hazard whatsoever, unless you slip out on it or mistake it for cocaine. I wouldn't want to have a Saugroboter, my cats would get crazy. Also, my home has too many stairs. What do you call a climbing Roomba? A Cloomba? Once they invent such a thing, I'll be ready to buy it. And this'll be my final word on the loo topic: I am a German male, and I WILL NOT SIT DOWN TO PEE. Never. Nowhere. At least not before I get 80 when I can't aim at the toilet bowl no more. I admit, I sometimes sat down to pee, that was when I was young and drunk like a skunk, and couldn't keep my feet, but that's an EXCEPTION, not the rule. Not even the dearest girlfriend I had in my life could persuade me to do that, and no one ever will. And, NO, males sitting down to pee is NOT part of the German (or even human) culture. Never was, and never will be. To the toilet paper, I fold it. I already use the good quality one, three times pre-folded (Dreilagenpapier), but still with crumpling, I have the feeling that I could get my finger into where the sun never shines, and that'd be gross. Not that I'm prude or something, I had other things there, but wiping your defecatory remains is not what I call amusement. Towels, I actually ordered some from the U.S. and wondered how big they were. Germans do combine their towels, not expecting that one would suffice, and as to beach towels, that can be an amusing mixture. And I'm sure you know the German stance on nudity: There's no need to warp a towel around your waist, you can just dry yourself and get dressed. (Almost) nobody will stare at you, and you won't be arrested for disturbing the almighty peace. Maybe in a place where it isn't appropriate, you'll be fined 50 euros or so, provided that someone even bothers to call the sheriffs. (Mind that some people do! Do not feel safe in densely inhabited areas!) "I'm super Canadian now, don't judge me", how could I ever, but the way you make a bread sandwich is an outstanding CRIME, can't say anything else. First, you put margarine onto the bread instead of real butter, then you slammed some cheese on it, and mayo, I know there's store bakeries who use that stuff, for the one reason that margarine has no taste and mayo can be flavored the way you want it. Use real butter, and for your children's sake, put some egg slices, tomatoes, green salad or whatever is available onto the bread. There's some really good bread here in Germany, why spoil it? In summers, I like to eat fresh bread with butter and chives, that's delicious and gives your body all it needs. Strange internet passwords, yes, we have the BSI (hold your breath, long word!), the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, the federal agency for security in information technology. What they do is hand out advisories to companies how to secure their IT infrastructure, and the foremost advice is, use a complicated password and change it often. What will happen is that users store it in an unsecured file on their local computer or even take it back home. What happens then, we know from history.
@@Andreas_Cologne Mikrowelle braucht weniger Strom als alles andere, Wurst schmeckt gut, und komplizierte Passwörter sind nicht sicherer als einfache. So, das war EIN Satz. Zufrieden?
Nein, definitiv nicht^^ Ich laufe Barfuß in meinem gut geheiztem Zuhause, dass nicht zehn mal am Tag gelüftet wird. Wickel mich in die größten Handtücher, die es gibt und kalkuliere auch nicht die Wassermenge des Wasserkochers. Verrückt 😅
Boiling just enough water: I take the vessel I want to fill with hot water, e.g. the mug, fill it and pour that then into the kettle. That way you have the exact amount you need. When I was a student, I had a whistle kettle to be put on the stove. There was no way to know how much water was in there. But I got so good after a while that I could fill it from the tap and had exactly the right amount in it for my 1l thermos. Another story: At the office I noticed that the wall hanging boiler was regularly filled with a lot of water. So I wrote a note to the dummy who filled it up not only for his/her cup but for the entire department. Everybody who needed hot water after her (as it turned out it) had to either boil all the water in there or let the unwanted water out. Wasteful in any way. As we say in German: to mean well is not doing it. Gut gemeint ist nicht gut.
As I know, opening the windows 5-10 min a day "Lüften" is important so that the moisture that gets in e.g. through breathing, cooking etc. gets outsinde so that the chances for mold are reduced (and it has the nice side effect of getting fresh air in). A lot of renters even have to to do it because of their contract. Hausschuhe are really practical in the winter to keep the feet warm and don't slip with your socks on the floor. Regarding the bread: Interestingly my sister seems to eat the bread the german way while I prefere the other way, because of the reason you named and because I really like the taste of bread and use less spread on it.
I do boil "just enough" water, too... the reason for that is: our water contains very much chalk and after boiling and cooling down there's a nasty chalky film swimming ontop of the water inside the kettle. It's disgusting - better heat up less water, and the next one uses fresh water
Britta Filter? da hast gute 5Monate Zeit bevor man den Kocher entkalkt. der Kalk ist dann harmlos, wohne in Berlin und sehr viel Kalk im Wasser. da kannst das Teil sonst alle 2 Wochen entkalen
If you connect to your Wifi in my street, you'll see that 80% of the names are something along the lines of "youredrivingtoofasthere", which I find hilarious.
🤣🤣 Na, einen Clown gefrühstückt? (did you have a clown for breakfast?)🤣🤣 What happend to you lately - you've always been bubbly and funny. But today's video? You're making hilarious faces and add physical comedy to it too - I really liked it! 👍💛 Regarding the topic: Germanly guilty as Canadian/German charged... (well, apart from the slippers for guests perhaps😉) The first shot in the video, after the intro, has left me wondering, though. Are you doing the haircuts of your family at home now? If so, don't you think scissors would've been the more obvious choice than putting a chair on a table right below a ceiling fan?🤣💛
@@lifeingermany_ Jetzt, wo wir Bürger Energie sparen sollen.. ist das nämlich indicated... I mean .. es ist angebracht, indiziert... poor command of English .... parlez-vous francais?
The name of my WiFi network ist "Oktopoden rocken", so I guess I'm guilty of giving it a kinda weird name. I am also guilty of bringing my Hausschuhe with me when I visit specific friends or family. I am glad that's not just me. Now that I think about it. I check all these boxes. Should I be worried?
Toilet paper: I grew up with an American mom in Germany. Only when I had a child myself, did I realize that I crunch the toilet paper into a small ball, whereas Germans fold their paper. (When my child startet using the real toilet, of course she crunched too, which really suprised her daddy!) This is why I like thin toilet paper, it 's much easier to crunch. But my husband prefers thicker paper, which can be folded more easily.
I‘ve got a robot vacuum cleaner too, it also does wet wiping. It’s called Robbi - and a valuable member of our household. 😉 And if you cut the bread in half before folding it over you need less cheese.
Seeing you with your little baby was so sweet. Hope everything is ok? I have to walk and stand all day and on one point I'm just to lazy to stand at the toilet and on the other hand it's just disgusting to clean the toilet after someone else used them. Fresh air can help to warm up the temperature in your room for a while and then helps with the heating.
Letting in the fresh air😅. I do it in the winter too. In the morning, before I turn on the heating (it is off during the night). The reason is: 1. We had a ventilation system in the flat, we lived in as I was a kid, so it was no necessary to air extra. But our present flat don't have it, you don't air, you get fungi (especially in the bathroom). 2. In the winter almost always there is someone with a cold or i caughing due to the heating: fresh air = you can breath better and also there are less microbes in the air. My grandpa actually let the window open in the night also in the winter because you can sleep better in the cold air. I still do it if the kids get "Krupphusten", works wonder. Also a tipp for those who have winter babies who cry a lot and sleep little: wrap the baby warm, turn off the hitting, air the room or leave the window open, see what happens;). (alternatively put the baby in a winter sleeping bag in a pram on the balcony). Congratulations on your baby:).
Closing your sandwich makes it become a KLAPPSTULLE. The approved take away meal from home. You bring Stullen to any road trip, picnic, school or other WANDERTAG, and some old folks will take a box of homemade Stullen to work. Preferably with LEBERWURST AND PICKLES. Because watching Monika blanche makes chewing through your snack all the more worthwhile. After all, Moni can always lüften.
Fresh air? Modern houses in Germany have nearly no air exchange except open windows or air exchanging systems. So you have to open the windows regularly to get oxygen and get rid of all the carbon dioxide and water. Otherwise you have mold in your house very fast. On the other hand the density of air is app. 1/1000 of the density of water and the heat capacity is 1/4. Exchanging 100 m³ of air of 20 °C with air of 0°C costs you roughly the same energy as heating 6 liters of water to 100 °C. (Using an "Luft-Wärme-Pumpe, it´s less than 3 liters.) When fill your electric kettle 5 times a day with 1,5 liters of water and only use 300 ml, it is the same amount of energy than one time of fresh air. But with significant benefits.
Some comments: I never put more water in the kettle than I actually need. Never even occurred to me that I might fill it up to the top if I don't need to. Airing in winter: Only once a day. I hate the cold, but I never wear slippers. Inside, I wear socks in winter and go barefoot whenever it is warm enough. Peeing standing up is just: uuugh! In Latin America, men never sit down and it's always a mess. Same when I worked in an international office with Germans, Russians and Us-Americans. We had unisex toilets and You could always tell if one of the Russians or Americans had been in the toilet before you. Despite being German (expat, though), I totally ditched open face bread. The UK made me a fan of proper sandwiches (BLTs are the best!). I've never seen a bread drawer, but German bread boxes (the wooden ones) are great, and finally: my internet passwords are super long and complicated (note: I'm an IT-person).
Wifi-names: some of my neighbors have funny names, some have left preset ones and some included the address in it, and others the family name... My favourite is: TakatukaLANd which is where Pippi Longstocking's father is King
Please, can you speak a little slower. I only understand half of it. That's why I always stop and read the text. If you speak German at that rate, I probably only understand half of it. It's probably because of my age.
I am russian and I do absolutely the same thing in Russia) Even if it is freezing cold, I open a window to let some fresh air come into a room. But at -15 and lower, just 30 seconds is enough)
Air out rooms: We do this 1-2 times a day in the rooms we use and in the sleeping room before going to bed. About 5 mins each. For this short period of time it makes almost no clue to switch off the heating whilst airing out. The air that goes out is already warm. And the warmth that is stored in the walls and furniture and everything almost entirely stays there for this short period, helping to rewarm the room some minutes after closing the window. Of cause the solid brick walls of German houses do help here against the flimsy american cardboard walls... Our new thermostat in the livingroom has an "air-out-sensor" wnich shuts down the heating during that time, but since the radiator is still warm enough we see no difference to the old analog thermostat.
Having house slippers/shoes is Not a German thing. I am from Bulgaria and there it is considered rude to go inside people2s home with your dirty shoes... It is simple hygiene.
Random question that just popped up in my head: do you think this generation of babies will learn to speak earlier, if their parents shoot videos with them like that? Because otherwise you would be alone at home and only talking the usual things to your baby, such as talking about playing, eating, getting dressed, singing children's songs etc. and otherwise only having the occasional, limited conversation with friends or partners?
Exspecially before she could talk I talked about everything I saw on the streets with the baby, including bridge constructions. It is up to you, if you only talk about basic needs. You do not need youtube for it.
So interesting! All these rules and strict guidelines would drive me crazy. Maybe one would grow to accept and like them but not at my age! You mentioned in a sort of joking way that Canada doesn't have good food. I actually do enjoy the food in Canada. I have a lot of Canadian relatives and many of them are great cooks. Plus Montreal and Quebec has very good food as do the Maritimes. It's not all North American fast food although there is that.
I can totally understand that too! What’s your favorite dish in Canada?? (I find that most originate from the USA and that a lot of our dishes tend to be desserts)
Natürlich wird auch im Winter gelüftet. Stoßlüften tauscht ja nur die Luft aus und lässt die Wände und das Mobiliar warm. Dabei wird natürlich die Heizung runtergedreht. Dann wieder schließen und es ist nach 5 Minuten wieder warm.
Just have to comment, because I live in Germany.. I still pee standing, BUT, I am also the one cleaning the apartment, cause I live alone, so there you go. And I also have a huge towel to use after shower. But, I don't do the luft-thing that native Germans do. I moved to Germany from Finland.. so I am not a native here.
Yeah, and I guess if you did the "luft-thing" in Finland at this time of year you might not be able to close the window again because you'd probably be shock frosted right at the spot...😉💛
Das Butterbrot kenn ich auch noch als Hasenbrot. Hat sich der Papa morgens fuer auf Arbeit geschmiert, einmal abgebissen und den Rest wieder mit nach hause gebracht. Und sobald ein Mann zum ersten Mal sein Klo selber putzen muss sitzt der ruckzuck auf der Schuessel. Sollte auch in Kanada funktionieren.
Here's how I do electric kettle: fill at minimum to the stated minimum (I believe that it actually saves some energy as the kettle can shut off at the right time more reliably), pour required water into the desired container and dump any extra down the sink. This (again might well be superstition) most likely helps keep the drain free, as warm water binds easier with soap and can thusly clean off some of the residues, and not leave the water in the kettle to reduce lime residues inside that one as well (also keep open after use for it to properly dry).. I do wonder of any of my quirky things I do with the kettle actually are rooted in science or if they just make sense on first glance, but are completely bs once dug deeper..
In summer or when the weather is dry, I think it's nonsense to force visitors to take off their shoes in the house. Not everyone showers every day and for general well-being it is sometimes better for guests to keep their shoes on. In winter, when the weather is muddy, that's of course something else. I'm not a fanatical stand-up pee, but since I clean my toilet myself it's sometimes more practical.
7:25 I don´t know if this is really true. Sure, there are some, but i don´t know anybody who does that. And if i would know one, i would make fun of him...
