6:00 _"It takes up some valuable storage space"_ - No it doesn't, because it _is_ the storage space for the dishes. You don't empty it once they're dry. You just keep them there.
The dish drying cabinet is an ingenious Finnish invention, developed by Maiju Gebhard, head of the household department of Työtehoseura between 1944-1945.
It's just insane that people aren't using these in other countries! You can get any plate out of there any time. You don't have to pick up anything from top of it. And you leave the plates and glasses in there for the next use! Or move them in their right place, if you have the cabinets for it.
The drying rack is not a waste of storage space, as e.g. I store my plates and glasses and other things in it all the time, and I am hardly the only one.
I dont have a sauna in my house. I do have one on the other side of my yard, a proper wood burning sauna in a little building. They are called ulkosauna, literally out-saunas. Also, the only way to get water in there is with buckets from the sauna-well. Electric saunas are ok but nothing beats the old fashioned wood sauna 😊
About the saunas. There is a lot of differences here: First of all not every house/apartment got one. Usually especially in older apartment buildings there is communal sauna where you have 1 hour alone permission once or twice a week. For example i live in decently nice full stone 6 story apartment building that actually has to 8 story building. Both building have own communal saunas and there is small swimming pool between our buildings. So i have 1 hour section in wednesday and friday evening when i can go to sauna and maybe cool in the pool if i want to. Usually it is just communal saunas thought with those 1 hour sections for every apartment. Other than that yeah pretty much every home got sauna in one way or another. And there is different types of saunas. There are these electric heated ones like in this video that are most common ones. Then there are wood heated ones mostly in summer cottages or single family houses and then there are steam saunas that are more luxurious and rare.
Also people think that we go to sauna just because it's cold outside. Summer when it's hot is way more popular time for people using sauna since you feel much cooler after sauna since the outside temperature is so much cooler than sauna. Mostly it's a place to relax and not just to warm up.
that being said that electricity cost for those places that have sauna in thei apartment in huge if they decide to use it..... so people dont use it that much even if it is there
One of the main reasons for leaving shoes in the hallway is cleanliness. There are all kinds of contaminants and dirt that carry in with the shoes. In Finnish houses, the home is kept clean by vacuuming and moping. Children play on the floor. But clean home is the important thing. Of course, we have snow that carries in our shoes and wets the floor and damage it.
I agree that the floor/carpet reason for taking off shoes was weird on the video. As a Finn, I'd guess that taking off shoes indoors is specifically to reduce the amount of dirt and water getting indoors. Especially in the winter snow and slush gets stuck on shoes and bringing that in would be horrible.
Often the drying racks are also where all your everyday glasses, plates etc are kept as well. You can just wash em, put em up there, and theyre ready for the next use.
most ppl i know literally just use their drying cabinet as a storage for their most used dishes 😅 like yeah they put them there to dry but never actually move them into a "real" cabinet. Works just fine that way haha
Some say that finns are crazy about saunas. It might be little bit true. I know that when finnis UN forces were in Tshad in the middle of Africa, after getting their bunktents ready, the second thing was getting the sauna ready. You might think wtf in a country where there is daily +40-+50 degree plus. But after beeing in sauna’s +80 to +90 and you get out, climate feels much cooler.
Not a word about pidet-shower? I think that is one of the best things in Finnish homes that you dont find anywhere else, can`t understand why, it is so practical. And the reason why you have a shared tools with neighbours in a community house is that the yards are usually so small that there is no point to own a lawnmower or any other bigger tools.
most older apartment buildings have a shared sauna, which you can book for 1 hour per week, some apartment buildings have a sauna for joggers, 1 day per week, 1 hour for women, 1 hour for men. Almost all detached houses have a sauna. some are electric saunas, wood-heated ones are better. summer cottages have the same + some have a smoke sauna, which is the best.
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1) Not all apartments have sauna, but many (especially newer ones) do. There's more saunas than cars in Finland, so that's one metric. 2) Sharing equipment depends on where you live. In Finland apartments in (multi apartment) buildings are usually organized into housing cooperatives, where each apartment owner has a share on. The cooperatives can organize things like what was seen in the video, but not all do that; it's up to the share owners to vote on what they want. 3) I think the wood/laminate vs carpeted floor is about scratches sand and mud causes on the wooden(ish) ones.
I have a washer and a dryer and also a drying rack. I hang clothes but for sheets and towels, I use the dryer. We also have drying rooms to hang your things. Tumble dryers are becoming more common though. I have lived in places that have a sauna in the unit and a sauna in the common spaces. I only lived in one building that did not have either. I love the clean Scandi Nordic style!!
About the prices: Right now a major problem from an investors perspective is not the rising costs of houses. The prices are actually plummeting in many parts of the country. People are not buying because of economic uncertainty. As far as I know the prices are going up only in two places: The greater Helsinki area and the greater Tampere area (where incidently a lot of people from the Helsinki area move). You could say there's a sort of a housing abundance in the rural areas because of people moving into cities, but the quality of the buildings (some inherited etc.) is sometimes questionable. So no, we dont have a situation similar to what the US and many other places are suffering from. The only place with such issues is theHelsinki area.
The "community idea" is typically a legal/ownership structure, like a condominium. Each apartment typically has shares of ownership on the common "housing cooperative". Yes, there are typically commonly owned items like the tools but the most iimportant aspect is the shared infrastructure and related maintenance.
The communal living has always been a thing, it doesnt really matter if you have bought the house/apartment or if you are renting one. There is still some sort of activity going on between neighbors. Normally that includes taking care of communal yard spaces together (pihatalkoot) and keeping things accessible for people. There are shared laundry/drying rooms, communal spaces that you can use for family catherings ect., my moms communal yard is filled with cherry and appletrees. In the fall you can just go and collect apples for free.
I can't believe some people bring all that dirt and filth from outside into your house, or especially next to your bed where you sleep, that is so disgusting.
Thank you for the great video, really wonderful content as always. As a Finn I could say one probably interesting thing about saunas is that the word sauna is actually of Finnish origin and in contrast to usual 'usage' and meaning of sauna many parts of the world, purely as a relax method and as a means to just stay healthy (obviously no problem with that of course), in Finland the meaning is incredibly profound and eclectic and is in very deep place in our lives. In fact, it's actually been the most sacred place in the Finnish homes dating back to centuries and is the place for silence, reflection and/or meditation for majority of the Finns. It's even been often the case to build the sauna first, when constructing homes, due to it's importance. So basically, there's no Finnish culture and Finnish mindset and mentality without Sauna. And the Finnish sauna and sauna culture in Finland is inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Iists recently.
I'd say that propably every house has their own sauna in Finland and many apartments too, but not all. I live in rental apartment and I don't have a sauna, but every apartment complex has a shared sauna that you can use.
@@Rentta growing up we always had a sauna in all of our apartments, but since I've been adult living on my own I haven't had a sauna in any of my apartments. Usually cheaper city owned rental places don't have them, but many private owned apartments do.
@@Rentta I have lived in 7 apartments, 1 did not have own sauna but a communal one. There are 1.5 million families in Finland and 3 million saunas which implies that your sample is skewed.
8:20 Many finnish ppl do have dryers nowadays. 10:20 Most homes have saunas especially rowhouses, semi-detached house and detached houses pretty much always have saunas and in appartment buildings there usually is at least community sauna but there can also be saunas in the appartments on top of that. 15:49 hmm.. it really depends on the neighborhood, but yes there usually are some shared stuff in building societies and people are often also friendly enough to share tools if needed.
As a Finn I don't really know if these are only Finnish things, but some things that they didn't mention on the video but that I think are nice: - In kitchens, in the drawing cabinet for cutlery, the topmost section isn't usually a proper drawer but we actually have a cutting board for bread that can be drawn like a "drawer shelf". - Sometimes houses are not heated by radiators but instead they have a heated floor. Or both. Floors can be heated with electricity but another common way is to do it with district heating from some powerplant that creates heat as a by-product. - Windows have usually three layers. And my favorite are windows where these three layers are attached together, some neutral gas is in between and you never need to wash the inside panes. Although these windows aren't common as far as I know.
The community aspect might be somewhat common. I remember a shared sauna in the backyard (with your own turns), a shared toolshed from another apartment. We also shared some of the maintenance duties, every household had a designated week when we cleared the snow in winter. I remember taking part in voluntary work gatherings as well. As adult, I´ve had a shared laundry room in an apartment building, that´s pretty common. Where I live now we have: a shared sauna (with communal turns once a week, and opportunity to reserve your own turn), a shared laundry space (with laundry machine, dryer, two dryer rooms, a mangle) and we´ve had a few gatherings for communal work too.
As someone already corrected, not every houses has a sauna, only some do. And in some apartment buildings there is a common sauna, where the residents can each take their turn. These are usually electric saunas, but at the cottage we use a proper wood-fired sauna. Okay, some wealthy people who have electricity in their cottages may have an electric sauna there too. But yes, a wood-fired sauna is much better than an electric one. And of course, practical thinking is always better, so as a Finn I sometimes wonder about the lack of practicality in some places.
Sauna is for relaxing and getting warm after a day out in the cold. Sure! But I feel I don't get properly clean using just the shower. In sauna the moist in the air softens your skin and all the dead skin cells come out easily. And the sweating pushes the dirt out of your pores. You feel very clean after a sauna (and a shower afterwards!). You don't get that in just a shower. Not all Finnish homes have a sauna, but quite a few. There are about 5 million people in Finland and about 3 million saunas! Do the math! For me it was a culture shock in North America to go to a public swimming pool and there was no sauna!! In Finland you can not have public swimming pools or hotels etc. without a sauna. You just wouldn't get any customers! :D
The actual history of taking your shoes of indoors comes from way back when most of the working people worked in the fields and in the mud, even building their own homes in bogs and swamps, If you have boots on after working a whole day in the mud then you will take your shoes of or get a slap from your wife that has just cooked you a meal on the table.
Not that way back when, Finland was still a dominantly rural farming country up until the end of WWII, and only then started to change into a more urbanized country we have to day
On the topic of "taloyhtiö", which Google translates to "building society", it's a form of a stock company, where typically every apartment or house corresponds to certain stocks in the company. Ownership of the aparments is according to the ownership of the corresponding stocks in the company. For example, in a 10 apartment building one might have the apartment number 1 correspond to stocks 1 through 1000, second apartment stocks 1001 through 2000 and so on. This has the added convenience that if you want to buy an apartment with a partner, it's very easy to split the ownership as you like, from a bookkeeping standpoint. Not every house or apartment belongs to a taloyhtiö, but most apartment complex buildings and many terraced houses and semi-detached houses do form a taloyhtiö, because it's simply a rather convenient way to run the apartment complex in a democratic manner for the good of all the tenants (aka shareholders).
Literally every single house or apartment don’t have a sauna however you’d have access to sauna. Also dryer is much more common than what he makes it sound.
Building a new house in Finland costs around 1700-2000 EUR per square meter of indoor space. It's pretty expensive but the biggest problem is that the properties are so expensive. Even a small property without an existing house can easily cost 200000 EUR anywhere near Helsinki. I'd say that this specific home is clearly owned by a family interested in home decoration because pretty much everything looks like in a furniture magazine. Our house has double the amount of drying rack the typical Finnish house. The idea is that it doubles as your cupboard because it makes no sense to keep moving bowls and glasses around in different cabinets. Most houses have sauna but it's not technically required. I would say the resale value of your house is pretty poor if it's missing sauna which basically guarantees that every new house will have at least some kind of sauna. And I would say that the "taloyhtiö" is used in Finland *despite* it requiring to keep contact with your neightbours because it's more cost effective overall.
Saunas are great - and there are multiple reasons, why they are so great. For example, if you are into sports (like running or skiing etc.) you'll find that the heat of the sauna relaxes your aching muscles very efficiently. Also, sauna is a great social place, where you can share your thoughts with your friends. And there are absolutely no titles in the sauna - everybody is naked, so everyone is equal - there are no lords and there are no peasants in sauna. That's why our former president - Urho Kekkonen - often held meetings in the sauna with soviet union leaders. He wanted to strip their high status off along with their clothes. He wanted them to be naked in the sauna with him - so that all of them would be equal human beings. And then they can start and talk business :) So, sauna is the great equalizer :) But if you go to the sauna by yourself after a hard working day, you'll often find that the warmth, silence and solitude of it all is very meditative - almost hypnotic - experience. Deeply relaxing.
The most awesome part about the drying cabinet is that if you used hot water to wash the dishes, the dishes are warm so they dry REALLY FAST, im talking 30seconds fast
Finland has maintained high level of residential construction and there is no shortage of homes. There is in fact a surplus of apartments in large cities, which has kept rents increasing only 1-2% annually despite Finland having no rent controls. Landlords have to compete for tenants. Finnish home prices relative to income have decreased over the past 10 years despite new homes being constructed in better locations near transit hubs and upgrades in older homes to keep them competitive. There very few countries without housing shortages, but Finland is one of them.
It depends the heating system of your house if the drying rack saves electricity. If it's done by electric heating system it can use even more electricity than a dryer. There is no a such thing as free energy. Drying clothes needs warm energy to dry.
We live in a brand new apartment in Helsinki and the dish drying cabinet has a top storage shelf and two drip shelves. The bottom also has a drip collection tray that can be removed and emptied (if required). We have a sauna, but not every apartment has one, especially smaller apartments. However, every apartment building has a communal sauna that you can book your own time once a week, and also attend the shared sessions. We don't take sauna that often though and would much prefer to have the added space the sauna takes up, but there was no option for our size apartment.
About mentioning that the drying racks take up storage space. Well not really cause you can just store your dishes there. At least that's what i do and i think most others do as well, there's no reason to move them to another cupboard lol
About house prices, bigger the city, bigger price, best places in helsinki cost something like london prices, but if you look other than top 30 biggest cities in country you can get very cheap places, eastern border area there is plenty of houses priced less than bulding expences. Other is condition, this one is propably less than 10 years old and well keeped. there is other end of spectrum builded about century ago and last twenty or forty years mostly empty when owner died and enheriter doesnt have use or will to sell.
as a single finnish man i can attest that the drying rack does not cause problems with cabinet space. I just never empty it and whenever i need a plate or spatula etc. I take it from the rack 😄 * not wife/girlfriend tested method *
After seeing this as a Finn I realised that we aren't that introverted hermits our country legend calls us. I'd love to change this reputation right away.
we have electric saunas and wood burning saunas. The average stove for an electric sauna is 6kW, so you can calculate the electric consumption from that (6kwh in one hour). I and I´d say most people prefer the wood stove in saunas. The "löyly" is better and its a lot cheaper to use. I have one and we heat it up about three times a week
Yes it costs a lot to warm up a sauna, but old fire used saunas are the best! You should try a sauna. it's very fresh and chill feeling you get, now easy on the water, sauna can go over 100 Celcius easily. And it's good for your skin
Not every house has a sauna, but I guess most do. Most people live in apartments though, which less commonly have Saunas. There are two general types of saunas. The ones common to urban houses and apartment buildings are heated with electricity. That can obviously get expensive, depending on the electricity prizes. In rural areas the saunas are often heated with wood billets. These are probably not that expensive to buy, and if you own some forest along your house, you have free wood right there. All you need to do is fell one, and saw and hack it to proper size.
It's better for your feet to walk without shoes. Humans were not meant to wear shoes in the first place. So takin off your shoes while indoors, is actually good for your feet. Barefoot or with socks, it balances your weight on your feet better, than with an artificial shoe around it. And it is considered extremely disrespectful to walk in someone's house with your shoes on... :)
I very rarely pour water on the hot rocks. I sit in the hot (85 ºC is enough) sauna 15-30 min. I want to sweat properly. Steam prevents the proper sweating (it's physics). I want my skin pores loose all dirt away and then I wash the dirt away in the shower.
My father used to say that it is about 10 euros to use the sauna. I don't know how accurate that is also given that nowadays the cost of electricity has risen.
The ultimate climate changes throughout the year kinda forces to build the houses certain way. From -35 to +35c demands alot of practicality to make the houses last more than 50 years. Loads of material uses in houses and interiors comes from practicality and easiness to clean and remove backteria. Finns body have enough to handle living in extreme weather condition as it is, without building our houses to collect mold and impurities.
I am on my decluttering journey& have been since Covid, I am really happy how it is going, I have cleared so much stuff, but it’s ongoing. Great tip that, will give it a try, thank you 🙏
The house/apartment prizes varies widely based on where you live. The capital Helsinki is ridiculously expensive. In a small rural town withing driving distance of Helsinki, you can get a large house for the prize of a 30-40m2 apartment in central Helsinki,
He left his shoes in first room välieteinen 2×2 meters. After which is another door. That is two doors with air between them is a innovation due of cold climate reducing draft and insulating, well at least it was before❄⛄
And about saunas... Sauna is a relaxing place. It goes to about 60-100 degrees celsius. I've been in sauna which was 140 degrees but that's not good. It's not enjoyable anymore when it's that hot. 60-80 is good for me, but everyone has their own prefer on that. Sauna is a place where you don't cuss, or curse, or talk bad things about anything. It is a sort of "ritual" place. Where everything is quiet and the whole world is good. But there are a lot of different opinions about this... To me it means this. But a lot of people don't know the physicals about sauna. It heats your body to extreme temperatures. Your body is trying to fight against that. All your blood is drawn from your inner organs to your toes and fingers. Even if you don't know that. Your body doesn't know that you are there voluntarily, so it is in an "emergency mode". Human body is not meant to be in a 80 degree environment :) When you go to ice-swimming after that, your body suddenly rushes all the blood from your toes and fingers, arms and legs to your inner organs. Because your body thinks that you have just accidently fallen into an icy lake or river. So it gives all the blood and strength to your organs to fight to survive. And that rush of blood feels better than any drug in the world :D Many say that it feels good, yeah... but most people haven't thought about the physiology behind that. Your blood pressure in sauna might be 120-150, and when you dip into icy water it drops down to 50 in 2 seconds... It might feel a little dizzy sometimes, which is why I never go there alone. You might actually pass out. So you have to have a friend there to take you out if that happens. But when you're used to it, that doesn't happen. But it's good to be sure anyway :)
Absolutely not "every single home or apartment has a sauna", I've lived in at least ten apartments in Finland without one and I've seen about a hundred others of the like. But there are still a lot of apartments that have saunas, (especially comparing to any other country where its quite rare) 😁
Saunas are common in Finland but as said not every home will have one. Large apartment buildings will generally have a common sauna that you can reserve for an hour or 1,5 hours on the days they run them. It's a bit of a luxury to have a (usually small electric) sauna in an apartment, but for some extra cost that is certainly possible. Small housing like in this video is likely to have saunas for every apartment, though. And individual homes will most certainly have one, be that a separate sauna building (common for farmsteads, for example) or a sauna in the house itself. Same goes for summer places, be that a purpose-built summer cottage or an old house in the countryside. Electric saunas are pretty common in new construction - they're easier to put in since you don't need a chimney. A wood-burning sauna stove is still the favorite for many even if a really large electric one with lots of stone also gives really good "löyly". A wood stove is certainly the only choice for summer places that don't get electricity (beyond solar panels for lighting and charging phones). Of course, the rarest sauna I've ever had a sauna bath in used heating oil... Neste, lately known as Fortum, was the state-owned company importing and refining oli products for Finland. And when you have oil every problem can be solved with oil. Their recreational area, open to employees, had a large sauna building with a huge oil burning sauna stove. Very steady, very good, great löyly. Open the door on the right and take a few steps down into the sea.
The communal tool and sharing thing is very common here. Unless you are full single family house owner i think you are part of this kind of communal sharing ring. If it is apartment building then the cost for all of those things goes to separate "building society" fund where you pay anything from 100€ gardening tools to million € pipe reworks.
Many (not all) homes have their own sauna or the apartmanent complex have saunas for rent. Electricity has been one of the few affordable goods in Finland, though lately the energy market has been rather shaky, mainly because of the Uktraine war. Right now the prices are very low.
Why car glasses does not freeze under the roof is due to the thermal radiation that is radiated from the car, and reflected back from the roof. What I wonder is why this works for longer periods. Maybe because the floor (or lower parts anyway) of the car has time to get cold sooner than upper parts, and air moisture condenses and freezes there instead of classes?
Vasta viimevuosina tullut tuo asumismuoto vaihtoehdoksi, missä omakotitaloja rakennetaan tiiviisti. Ja niistä tehdään nippu taloyhtiö. Tuollainen ei ole vielä kovin yleistä suomessa
there is electrical and wooden sauna but wooden sauna has better löyly, sauna is good for skin and veins, sometimes we hit ourselves with vihta which is also very good for skin
Those new "home parks" as I might call them are somehow anxiety inducing. Like someone was farming humans. They look so unnatural, someone just slammed rows of copies without any personality in the yard either, it's just houses and nothing else. Often times it's still gravel between houses instead of gardens or grass or anything that makes you feel like it's a natural living area. And I, accompanied by most people I know, would never handle living in those kind of mental asylum homes where everything is just white or black and white. Lacking any and all personality and emotion. Talking about no shoes, I actually only wear socks when I'm about to leave the house. The thing about the drying cupboard taking space is two-sided. If you store some kitchenware in the drying cupboard, it's not necessarily taking space from storage space - since it's used for storage. However I've seen UK homes that have a sunny window in front of the sink and that'd be lovely too. Not every home has a sauna, a lot of apartment buildings have just a common sauna or two. It totally depends on how much a person enjoys sauna. When people move to a place with their personal sauna, they might be doing sauna 3 times a week or sometimes even more. I personally usually arrange it so that I go to sauna three times a week so I wash my long hair at the same time. And there are supposedly some health benefits, but what I'd name particularly is relaxation. You'll sleep better often times if you have a hot sauna and cold shower. I also like to sauna after lifting or judo. Not sure if it helps with recovery, but at least it feels nice to relax after. I think Finland faces the same issue as every other western society currently. The young people can no longer dream of owning a home. At least not anywhere near populated areas where their jobs most likely will be.
I paid 46 000 euros for 88sqm^2 , two floor row/terraced house with sauna, own backyard, car plot in front of the door + wall charger for tesla. Just stay away from top 3 big cities and it's cheap.
At 7:30 ,what's all this nonsense about not using dryers? You literally have constant deals of a "washing towers" that have both machines stacked on top of eachother to save space. Even in this video the place he has his washing machine is clearly designed to fit both machines in a tower config. Personally haven't lived a single day in an apartment without a dryer since the 80's. Even few decades ago in my small single room apartment I had both machines, couldn't even imagine using that drying rack thing as a dryer is just so much more convenient. On new construction of houses a dryer (and a place for it) are often considered basic necessities.
@Trespas I don't know anyone who owns a dryer (unless you count?). They are more common now but there's still a lot of people without a dryer. It's usually not because they aren't available to buy but often because it wears the fabric down faster than other drying methods, many people also buy clothes that can't be tumble dried or just a lack of money might be the reason.
@@Servali the additional wear on clothes with modern dryers is marginal, usually around 4-10%, lower percentage with right use of course. Sales statistics say that dryers are increasing in demand in Finland every year. I personally don’t know anyone without a dryer, especially families with little kids.
@Trespas That still sounds like a lot of damage over time. I can't imagine any shirt that could survive that for ten years or so but I haven't tested that myself, so can't be sure. Most of my friends don't have kids, so that might be the reason for no dryers. For me it's mostly the damage for the fabric, it makes no sense to have clothes (well, some clothes are replaced more often, but im talking mainly about shirts or sheets etc) that last only few years.
@@Servali Sure, people have different priorities. For me, it's mostly about the time saving. If I absolutely need a certain piece of clothing clean fast, I can have it washed and dried in under 60 minutes. Some prefer the energy savings / saving the fabric for longer. As a bonus, the lint that comes off the clothes anyway is not floating around the house, instead it gets nicely collected by the dryer, so the air inside the apartment is cleaner and no extra humidity from wet clothes hanging around. The amount of stuff stuck in a dryers lint screen is also part of the reason why peple think dryers wear out clothes way faster than they actually do. The difference in wear in something that is expected to last for 10 years is at max 1,5 years based on 15 % (added 5 % just in case) additional wear, which is a lot, and
That's absolutely not an average Finnish home. An average Finnish home looks like a place where somebody actually lives. This is just a wife who has spent tens of thousands of euros on interior design to create a soulless, sterile, "beautifully designed", "good vibes only" space for Instagram pictures and not an actual living space where you can relax and, I dunno, maybe watch a movie without the picture being obstructed by two black metal bars for no reason. Like the guy admits in the video, it's not really his home, but a design project for his wife. That makes me so sad. He tries so hard to fake happiness and enthusiasm, but you can still see the pain in his eyes.
Homes are generally not like that in Finland. Maybe the wealthy peoples homes are, or at least some of them. Usually Finnish homes are pretty dirty and full of junk. At least here in Pori area.
We Finns do not wear shoes inside mainly because shoes are dirty…not because of the wooden floors
6:00 _"It takes up some valuable storage space"_ - No it doesn't, because it _is_ the storage space for the dishes. You don't empty it once they're dry. You just keep them there.
Tuon asunnon kuivauskaapissa oli tosi vhän astioita. Minulla on paljon enemmän.
The dish drying cabinet is an ingenious Finnish invention, developed by Maiju Gebhard, head of the household department of Työtehoseura between 1944-1945.
It was simultaniously also invented in America, but did not catch on
Mä olin kirjoittaas ihan saman kommentin kun sä mut huomasin hyvissä ajoin niin ei tarvitse laittaa kun sä oot jo ehtinyt sen kertoa. 😉👍🏽✌🏽
It's only Italy and Finland using these.
It's just insane that people aren't using these in other countries! You can get any plate out of there any time. You don't have to pick up anything from top of it. And you leave the plates and glasses in there for the next use! Or move them in their right place, if you have the cabinets for it.
@@WeeJiiWee I can`t even imagine living without this cabinet.
The drying rack is not a waste of storage space, as e.g. I store my plates and glasses and other things in it all the time, and I am hardly the only one.
The dish drying cabinet does not waste space as you can store the plates, mugs and glasses in there.
I dont have a sauna in my house. I do have one on the other side of my yard, a proper wood burning sauna in a little building. They are called ulkosauna, literally out-saunas. Also, the only way to get water in there is with buckets from the sauna-well. Electric saunas are ok but nothing beats the old fashioned wood sauna 😊
Siinä sinä olet oikeassa... Puu lämmittimen ulkosauna sen olla pitää ja mieluiten järven rannalla 😉✌🏽👍🏽
About the saunas. There is a lot of differences here:
First of all not every house/apartment got one. Usually especially in older apartment buildings there is communal sauna where you have 1 hour alone permission once or twice a week. For example i live in decently nice full stone 6 story apartment building that actually has to 8 story building. Both building have own communal saunas and there is small swimming pool between our buildings. So i have 1 hour section in wednesday and friday evening when i can go to sauna and maybe cool in the pool if i want to. Usually it is just communal saunas thought with those 1 hour sections for every apartment.
Other than that yeah pretty much every home got sauna in one way or another. And there is different types of saunas. There are these electric heated ones like in this video that are most common ones. Then there are wood heated ones mostly in summer cottages or single family houses and then there are steam saunas that are more luxurious and rare.
Like this Canadian cleverly said "EVERY SINGLE Finnish home USUALLY have one"
Also people think that we go to sauna just because it's cold outside. Summer when it's hot is way more popular time for people using sauna since you feel much cooler after sauna since the outside temperature is so much cooler than sauna. Mostly it's a place to relax and not just to warm up.
that being said that electricity cost for those places that have sauna in thei apartment in huge if they decide to use it..... so people dont use it that much even if it is there
One of the main reasons for leaving shoes in the hallway is cleanliness. There are all kinds of contaminants and dirt that carry in with the shoes. In Finnish houses, the home is kept clean by vacuuming and moping. Children play on the floor. But clean home is the important thing. Of course, we have snow that carries in our shoes and wets the floor and damage it.
I agree that the floor/carpet reason for taking off shoes was weird on the video. As a Finn, I'd guess that taking off shoes indoors is specifically to reduce the amount of dirt and water getting indoors. Especially in the winter snow and slush gets stuck on shoes and bringing that in would be horrible.
Often the drying racks are also where all your everyday glasses, plates etc are kept as well. You can just wash em, put em up there, and theyre ready for the next use.
most ppl i know literally just use their drying cabinet as a storage for their most used dishes 😅 like yeah they put them there to dry but never actually move them into a "real" cabinet. Works just fine that way haha
Some say that finns are crazy about saunas. It might be little bit true. I know that when finnis UN forces were in Tshad in the middle of Africa, after getting their bunktents ready, the second thing was getting the sauna ready. You might think wtf in a country where there is daily +40-+50 degree plus. But after beeing in sauna’s +80 to +90 and you get out, climate feels much cooler.
Not a word about pidet-shower?
I think that is one of the best things in Finnish homes that you dont find anywhere else, can`t understand why, it is so practical.
And the reason why you have a shared tools with neighbours in a community house is that the yards are usually so small that there is no point to own a lawnmower or any other bigger tools.
most older apartment buildings have a shared sauna, which you can book for 1 hour per week, some apartment buildings have a sauna for joggers, 1 day per week, 1 hour for women, 1 hour for men. Almost all detached houses have a sauna. some are electric saunas, wood-heated ones are better. summer cottages have the same + some have a smoke sauna, which is the best.
1) Not all apartments have sauna, but many (especially newer ones) do. There's more saunas than cars in Finland, so that's one metric.
2) Sharing equipment depends on where you live. In Finland apartments in (multi apartment) buildings are usually organized into housing cooperatives, where each apartment owner has a share on. The cooperatives can organize things like what was seen in the video, but not all do that; it's up to the share owners to vote on what they want.
3) I think the wood/laminate vs carpeted floor is about scratches sand and mud causes on the wooden(ish) ones.
Sauna is perfect in hot weather too cuz it is warmer in sauna so warm environment feels cooler
I have a washer and a dryer and also a drying rack. I hang clothes but for sheets and towels, I use the dryer. We also have drying rooms to hang your things. Tumble dryers are becoming more common though. I have lived in places that have a sauna in the unit and a sauna in the common spaces. I only lived in one building that did not have either. I love the clean Scandi Nordic style!!
About the prices: Right now a major problem from an investors perspective is not the rising costs of houses. The prices are actually plummeting in many parts of the country. People are not buying because of economic uncertainty. As far as I know the prices are going up only in two places: The greater Helsinki area and the greater Tampere area (where incidently a lot of people from the Helsinki area move). You could say there's a sort of a housing abundance in the rural areas because of people moving into cities, but the quality of the buildings (some inherited etc.) is sometimes questionable. So no, we dont have a situation similar to what the US and many other places are suffering from. The only place with such issues is theHelsinki area.
The "community idea" is typically a legal/ownership structure, like a condominium. Each apartment typically has shares of ownership on the common "housing cooperative". Yes, there are typically commonly owned items like the tools but the most iimportant aspect is the shared infrastructure and related maintenance.
The communal living has always been a thing, it doesnt really matter if you have bought the house/apartment or if you are renting one. There is still some sort of activity going on between neighbors. Normally that includes taking care of communal yard spaces together (pihatalkoot) and keeping things accessible for people. There are shared laundry/drying rooms, communal spaces that you can use for family catherings ect., my moms communal yard is filled with cherry and appletrees. In the fall you can just go and collect apples for free.
I can't believe some people bring all that dirt and filth from outside into your house, or especially next to your bed where you sleep, that is so disgusting.
Thank you for the great video, really wonderful content as always.
As a Finn I could say one probably interesting thing about saunas is that the word sauna is actually of Finnish origin and in contrast to usual 'usage' and meaning of sauna many parts of the world, purely as a relax method and as a means to just stay healthy (obviously no problem with that of course), in Finland the meaning is incredibly profound and eclectic and is in very deep place in our lives. In fact, it's actually been the most sacred place in the Finnish homes dating back to centuries and is the place for silence, reflection and/or meditation for majority of the Finns.
It's even been often the case to build the sauna first, when constructing homes, due to it's importance. So basically, there's no Finnish culture and Finnish mindset and mentality without Sauna.
And the Finnish sauna and sauna culture in Finland is inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Iists recently.
I'd say that propably every house has their own sauna in Finland and many apartments too, but not all. I live in rental apartment and I don't have a sauna, but every apartment complex has a shared sauna that you can use.
Out of 50 ish apartments i have visited or lived 3 had own Sauna. It's not common at all to have one
@@Rentta growing up we always had a sauna in all of our apartments, but since I've been adult living on my own I haven't had a sauna in any of my apartments. Usually cheaper city owned rental places don't have them, but many private owned apartments do.
@@Rentta I feel like a lot of new apartments have saunas at least where I've been looking
@@Rentta I have lived in 7 apartments, 1 did not have own sauna but a communal one. There are 1.5 million families in Finland and 3 million saunas which implies that your sample is skewed.
In Helsinki there aren't many saunas inside apartments. New apartments there might be more.
8:20 Many finnish ppl do have dryers nowadays.
10:20 Most homes have saunas especially rowhouses, semi-detached house and detached houses pretty much always have saunas and in appartment buildings there usually is at least community sauna but there can also be saunas in the appartments on top of that.
15:49 hmm.. it really depends on the neighborhood, but yes there usually are some shared stuff in building societies and people are often also friendly enough to share tools if needed.
As a Finn I don't really know if these are only Finnish things, but some things that they didn't mention on the video but that I think are nice:
- In kitchens, in the drawing cabinet for cutlery, the topmost section isn't usually a proper drawer but we actually have a cutting board for bread that can be drawn like a "drawer shelf".
- Sometimes houses are not heated by radiators but instead they have a heated floor. Or both. Floors can be heated with electricity but another common way is to do it with district heating from some powerplant that creates heat as a by-product.
- Windows have usually three layers. And my favorite are windows where these three layers are attached together, some neutral gas is in between and you never need to wash the inside panes. Although these windows aren't common as far as I know.
I use sauna at least weekly. It's good for your skin and it's really relaxing
The community aspect might be somewhat common. I remember a shared sauna in the backyard (with your own turns), a shared toolshed from another apartment. We also shared some of the maintenance duties, every household had a designated week when we cleared the snow in winter. I remember taking part in voluntary work gatherings as well. As adult, I´ve had a shared laundry room in an apartment building, that´s pretty common. Where I live now we have: a shared sauna (with communal turns once a week, and opportunity to reserve your own turn), a shared laundry space (with laundry machine, dryer, two dryer rooms, a mangle) and we´ve had a few gatherings for communal work too.
As someone already corrected, not every houses has a sauna, only some do. And in some apartment buildings there is a common sauna, where the residents can each take their turn. These are usually electric saunas, but at the cottage we use a proper wood-fired sauna. Okay, some wealthy people who have electricity in their cottages may have an electric sauna there too. But yes, a wood-fired sauna is much better than an electric one.
And of course, practical thinking is always better, so as a Finn I sometimes wonder about the lack of practicality in some places.
tip for windshield freezing, if there is no direct light on it, it will not freeze.
Sauna is for relaxing and getting warm after a day out in the cold. Sure! But I feel I don't get properly clean using just the shower. In sauna the moist in the air softens your skin and all the dead skin cells come out easily. And the sweating pushes the dirt out of your pores. You feel very clean after a sauna (and a shower afterwards!). You don't get that in just a shower.
Not all Finnish homes have a sauna, but quite a few. There are about 5 million people in Finland and about 3 million saunas! Do the math!
For me it was a culture shock in North America to go to a public swimming pool and there was no sauna!! In Finland you can not have public swimming pools or hotels etc. without a sauna. You just wouldn't get any customers! :D
The actual history of taking your shoes of indoors comes from way back when most of the working people worked in the fields and in the mud, even building their own homes in bogs and swamps, If you have boots on after working a whole day in the mud then you will take your shoes of or get a slap from your wife that has just cooked you a meal on the table.
Not that way back when, Finland was still a dominantly rural farming country up until the end of WWII, and only then started to change into a more urbanized country we have to day
That's right.👍🏽✌🏽
I would rather have mud inside my house than the filth you get on your shoes in cities.
Didnt show the toilet bidet shower
On the topic of "taloyhtiö", which Google translates to "building society", it's a form of a stock company, where typically every apartment or house corresponds to certain stocks in the company. Ownership of the aparments is according to the ownership of the corresponding stocks in the company. For example, in a 10 apartment building one might have the apartment number 1 correspond to stocks 1 through 1000, second apartment stocks 1001 through 2000 and so on. This has the added convenience that if you want to buy an apartment with a partner, it's very easy to split the ownership as you like, from a bookkeeping standpoint.
Not every house or apartment belongs to a taloyhtiö, but most apartment complex buildings and many terraced houses and semi-detached houses do form a taloyhtiö, because it's simply a rather convenient way to run the apartment complex in a democratic manner for the good of all the tenants (aka shareholders).
Apartment buildings dont sometimes have A own sauna, but they have often A shared sauna that everyone Can use A few times A week. For A small fee.
Literally every single house or apartment don’t have a sauna however you’d have access to sauna. Also dryer is much more common than what he makes it sound.
Building a new house in Finland costs around 1700-2000 EUR per square meter of indoor space. It's pretty expensive but the biggest problem is that the properties are so expensive. Even a small property without an existing house can easily cost 200000 EUR anywhere near Helsinki.
I'd say that this specific home is clearly owned by a family interested in home decoration because pretty much everything looks like in a furniture magazine.
Our house has double the amount of drying rack the typical Finnish house. The idea is that it doubles as your cupboard because it makes no sense to keep moving bowls and glasses around in different cabinets.
Most houses have sauna but it's not technically required. I would say the resale value of your house is pretty poor if it's missing sauna which basically guarantees that every new house will have at least some kind of sauna.
And I would say that the "taloyhtiö" is used in Finland *despite* it requiring to keep contact with your neightbours because it's more cost effective overall.
Saunas are great - and there are multiple reasons, why they are so great.
For example, if you are into sports (like running or skiing etc.) you'll find that the heat of the sauna relaxes your aching muscles very efficiently. Also, sauna is a great social place, where you can share your thoughts with your friends. And there are absolutely no titles in the sauna - everybody is naked, so everyone is equal - there are no lords and there are no peasants in sauna. That's why our former president - Urho Kekkonen - often held meetings in the sauna with soviet union leaders. He wanted to strip their high status off along with their clothes. He wanted them to be naked in the sauna with him - so that all of them would be equal human beings. And then they can start and talk business :) So, sauna is the great equalizer :)
But if you go to the sauna by yourself after a hard working day, you'll often find that the warmth, silence and solitude of it all is very meditative - almost hypnotic - experience. Deeply relaxing.
Houses might have wooden sauna, but apartments and terraced houses (and new houses) usually have electric sauna. Summer cottage saunas always wooden 🔥
The most awesome part about the drying cabinet is that if you used hot water to wash the dishes, the dishes are warm so they dry REALLY FAST, im talking 30seconds fast
Almost every finnish home has a sauna, but small apartment building don't have individual saunas, there's usually community sauna that has turns
Yes in own house in country there are saunas often but there aren't many saunas in apartments in city like Helsinki for example.
Finland has maintained high level of residential construction and there is no shortage of homes. There is in fact a surplus of apartments in large cities, which has kept rents increasing only 1-2% annually despite Finland having no rent controls. Landlords have to compete for tenants. Finnish home prices relative to income have decreased over the past 10 years despite new homes being constructed in better locations near transit hubs and upgrades in older homes to keep them competitive. There very few countries without housing shortages, but Finland is one of them.
It depends the heating system of your house if the drying rack saves electricity. If it's done by electric heating system it can use even more electricity than a dryer. There is no a such thing as free energy. Drying clothes needs warm energy to dry.
We live in a brand new apartment in Helsinki and the dish drying cabinet has a top storage shelf and two drip shelves. The bottom also has a drip collection tray that can be removed and emptied (if required).
We have a sauna, but not every apartment has one, especially smaller apartments. However, every apartment building has a communal sauna that you can book your own time once a week, and also attend the shared sessions. We don't take sauna that often though and would much prefer to have the added space the sauna takes up, but there was no option for our size apartment.
There aren't communial saunas in many apartment complex in Helsinki.
For me it's like why the heck would you wear shoes in house.. like no there is no need.
Doors open always out. Not in. If house is burning, you can go out easily.
Very typical Finnish home. We like scandinavian style in our homes. And this sharing things with our neighbours is also common.
About mentioning that the drying racks take up storage space. Well not really cause you can just store your dishes there. At least that's what i do and i think most others do as well, there's no reason to move them to another cupboard lol
About house prices, bigger the city, bigger price, best places in helsinki cost something like london prices, but if you look other than top 30 biggest cities in country you can get very cheap places, eastern border area there is plenty of houses priced less than bulding expences. Other is condition, this one is propably less than 10 years old and well keeped. there is other end of spectrum builded about century ago and last twenty or forty years mostly empty when owner died and enheriter doesnt have use or will to sell.
I absolutely fucking love your accent.
as a single finnish man i can attest that the drying rack does not cause problems with cabinet space. I just never empty it and whenever i need a plate or spatula etc. I take it from the rack 😄 * not wife/girlfriend tested method *
Even when finish people went to Australia. They build saunas there. Because when you go to A hot sauna, the heat outside feels cool after that.
"Every day is 32 degrees Celcius." As a fellow reddish person, I gotta ask you: how the hell do you survive?
After seeing this as a Finn I realised that we aren't that introverted hermits our country legend calls us. I'd love to change this reputation right away.
we have electric saunas and wood burning saunas. The average stove for an electric sauna is 6kW, so you can calculate the electric consumption from that (6kwh in one hour). I and I´d say most people prefer the wood stove in saunas. The "löyly" is better and its a lot cheaper to use. I have one and we heat it up about three times a week
Yes it costs a lot to warm up a sauna, but old fire used saunas are the best! You should try a sauna. it's very fresh and chill feeling you get, now easy on the water, sauna can go over 100 Celcius easily. And it's good for your skin
Not every house has a sauna, but I guess most do. Most people live in apartments though, which less commonly have Saunas.
There are two general types of saunas. The ones common to urban houses and apartment buildings are heated with electricity. That can obviously get expensive, depending on the electricity prizes. In rural areas the saunas are often heated with wood billets. These are probably not that expensive to buy, and if you own some forest along your house, you have free wood right there. All you need to do is fell one, and saw and hack it to proper size.
Scotland should join The Nordic countries.
It's better for your feet to walk without shoes. Humans were not meant to wear shoes in the first place. So takin off your shoes while indoors, is actually good for your feet. Barefoot or with socks, it balances your weight on your feet better, than with an artificial shoe around it. And it is considered extremely disrespectful to walk in someone's house with your shoes on... :)
we have more saunas then cars in finland
In Finland we have more saunas than cars
I very rarely pour water on the hot rocks. I sit in the hot (85 ºC is enough) sauna 15-30 min. I want to sweat properly. Steam prevents the proper sweating (it's physics). I want my skin pores loose all dirt away and then I wash the dirt away in the shower.
My father used to say that it is about 10 euros to use the sauna. I don't know how accurate that is also given that nowadays the cost of electricity has risen.
The ultimate climate changes throughout the year kinda forces to build the houses certain way. From -35 to +35c demands alot of practicality to make the houses last more than 50 years. Loads of material uses in houses and interiors comes from practicality and easiness to clean and remove backteria. Finns body have enough to handle living in extreme weather condition as it is, without building our houses to collect mold and impurities.
I am on my decluttering journey& have been since Covid, I am really happy how it is going, I have cleared so much stuff, but it’s ongoing.
Great tip that, will give it a try, thank you 🙏
The house/apartment prizes varies widely based on where you live. The capital Helsinki is ridiculously expensive. In a small rural town withing driving distance of Helsinki, you can get a large house for the prize of a 30-40m2 apartment in central Helsinki,
He left his shoes in first room välieteinen 2×2 meters. After which is another door. That is two doors with air between them is a innovation due of cold climate reducing draft and insulating, well at least it was before❄⛄
7:31 Well it's more optional some houses do have them. But even than we only put socks and underwear there.
And about saunas... Sauna is a relaxing place. It goes to about 60-100 degrees celsius. I've been in sauna which was 140 degrees but that's not good. It's not enjoyable anymore when it's that hot. 60-80 is good for me, but everyone has their own prefer on that. Sauna is a place where you don't cuss, or curse, or talk bad things about anything. It is a sort of "ritual" place. Where everything is quiet and the whole world is good. But there are a lot of different opinions about this... To me it means this.
But a lot of people don't know the physicals about sauna. It heats your body to extreme temperatures. Your body is trying to fight against that. All your blood is drawn from your inner organs to your toes and fingers. Even if you don't know that. Your body doesn't know that you are there voluntarily, so it is in an "emergency mode". Human body is not meant to be in a 80 degree environment :) When you go to ice-swimming after that, your body suddenly rushes all the blood from your toes and fingers, arms and legs to your inner organs. Because your body thinks that you have just accidently fallen into an icy lake or river. So it gives all the blood and strength to your organs to fight to survive.
And that rush of blood feels better than any drug in the world :D
Many say that it feels good, yeah... but most people haven't thought about the physiology behind that.
Your blood pressure in sauna might be 120-150, and when you dip into icy water it drops down to 50 in 2 seconds... It might feel a little dizzy sometimes, which is why I never go there alone. You might actually pass out. So you have to have a friend there to take you out if that happens. But when you're used to it, that doesn't happen. But it's good to be sure anyway :)
Absolutely not "every single home or apartment has a sauna", I've lived in at least ten apartments in Finland without one and I've seen about a hundred others of the like.
But there are still a lot of apartments that have saunas, (especially comparing to any other country where its quite rare) 😁
In real life our sofas are not full of decorative pillows. 😃
Drying rack is commonly used to store the things that you left to dry
Saunas are common in Finland but as said not every home will have one. Large apartment buildings will generally have a common sauna that you can reserve for an hour or 1,5 hours on the days they run them. It's a bit of a luxury to have a (usually small electric) sauna in an apartment, but for some extra cost that is certainly possible. Small housing like in this video is likely to have saunas for every apartment, though.
And individual homes will most certainly have one, be that a separate sauna building (common for farmsteads, for example) or a sauna in the house itself. Same goes for summer places, be that a purpose-built summer cottage or an old house in the countryside.
Electric saunas are pretty common in new construction - they're easier to put in since you don't need a chimney. A wood-burning sauna stove is still the favorite for many even if a really large electric one with lots of stone also gives really good "löyly". A wood stove is certainly the only choice for summer places that don't get electricity (beyond solar panels for lighting and charging phones).
Of course, the rarest sauna I've ever had a sauna bath in used heating oil... Neste, lately known as Fortum, was the state-owned company importing and refining oli products for Finland. And when you have oil every problem can be solved with oil. Their recreational area, open to employees, had a large sauna building with a huge oil burning sauna stove. Very steady, very good, great löyly. Open the door on the right and take a few steps down into the sea.
in finland today minus 20 degrees celsius in south
The communal tool and sharing thing is very common here. Unless you are full single family house owner i think you are part of this kind of communal sharing ring. If it is apartment building then the cost for all of those things goes to separate "building society" fund where you pay anything from 100€ gardening tools to million € pipe reworks.
Many (not all) homes have their own sauna or the apartmanent complex have saunas for rent. Electricity has been one of the few affordable goods in Finland, though lately the energy market has been rather shaky, mainly because of the Uktraine war. Right now the prices are very low.
We Finns invented the dish drying cabinet
Why car glasses does not freeze under the roof is due to the thermal radiation that is radiated from the car, and reflected back from the roof. What I wonder is why this works for longer periods. Maybe because the floor (or lower parts anyway) of the car has time to get cold sooner than upper parts, and air moisture condenses and freezes there instead of classes?
There is some moisture in the air that slowly lands on top of your car window.
That will land on top of the roof instead.
We go crazy if we can"t go sauna. Allmost every house or apparment has sauna
Why in some countries like Malaysia they have washing machines outside the building next to kitchen etc.?
Vasta viimevuosina tullut tuo asumismuoto vaihtoehdoksi, missä omakotitaloja rakennetaan tiiviisti. Ja niistä tehdään nippu taloyhtiö. Tuollainen ei ole vielä kovin yleistä suomessa
there is electrical and wooden sauna but wooden sauna has better löyly, sauna is good for skin and veins, sometimes we hit ourselves with vihta which is also very good for skin
At least the same amount of homes in Finland have dryers than the ones who don't have one.
No mention of bidee shower?
the TV must be in livingroom. size matter...i'm talking about the TV
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Those new "home parks" as I might call them are somehow anxiety inducing. Like someone was farming humans. They look so unnatural, someone just slammed rows of copies without any personality in the yard either, it's just houses and nothing else. Often times it's still gravel between houses instead of gardens or grass or anything that makes you feel like it's a natural living area. And I, accompanied by most people I know, would never handle living in those kind of mental asylum homes where everything is just white or black and white. Lacking any and all personality and emotion.
Talking about no shoes, I actually only wear socks when I'm about to leave the house.
The thing about the drying cupboard taking space is two-sided. If you store some kitchenware in the drying cupboard, it's not necessarily taking space from storage space - since it's used for storage. However I've seen UK homes that have a sunny window in front of the sink and that'd be lovely too.
Not every home has a sauna, a lot of apartment buildings have just a common sauna or two. It totally depends on how much a person enjoys sauna. When people move to a place with their personal sauna, they might be doing sauna 3 times a week or sometimes even more. I personally usually arrange it so that I go to sauna three times a week so I wash my long hair at the same time. And there are supposedly some health benefits, but what I'd name particularly is relaxation. You'll sleep better often times if you have a hot sauna and cold shower. I also like to sauna after lifting or judo. Not sure if it helps with recovery, but at least it feels nice to relax after.
I think Finland faces the same issue as every other western society currently. The young people can no longer dream of owning a home. At least not anywhere near populated areas where their jobs most likely will be.
I paid 46 000 euros for 88sqm^2 , two floor row/terraced house with sauna, own backyard, car plot in front of the door + wall charger for tesla. Just stay away from top 3 big cities and it's cheap.
We used to have sauna. We moved. In this apartment have no sauna.
reality NEVER WORKS
My home doesn't have a sauna. I am not too poor.
We have four different seasons.
At 7:30 ,what's all this nonsense about not using dryers? You literally have constant deals of a "washing towers" that have both machines stacked on top of eachother to save space. Even in this video the place he has his washing machine is clearly designed to fit both machines in a tower config.
Personally haven't lived a single day in an apartment without a dryer since the 80's. Even few decades ago in my small single room apartment I had both machines, couldn't even imagine using that drying rack thing as a dryer is just so much more convenient. On new construction of houses a dryer (and a place for it) are often considered basic necessities.
@Trespas I don't know anyone who owns a dryer (unless you count?). They are more common now but there's still a lot of people without a dryer. It's usually not because they aren't available to buy but often because it wears the fabric down faster than other drying methods, many people also buy clothes that can't be tumble dried or just a lack of money might be the reason.
@@Servali the additional wear on clothes with modern dryers is marginal, usually around 4-10%, lower percentage with right use of course. Sales statistics say that dryers are increasing in demand in Finland every year. I personally don’t know anyone without a dryer, especially families with little kids.
@Trespas That still sounds like a lot of damage over time. I can't imagine any shirt that could survive that for ten years or so but I haven't tested that myself, so can't be sure. Most of my friends don't have kids, so that might be the reason for no dryers. For me it's mostly the damage for the fabric, it makes no sense to have clothes (well, some clothes are replaced more often, but im talking mainly about shirts or sheets etc) that last only few years.
@@Servali Sure, people have different priorities. For me, it's mostly about the time saving. If I absolutely need a certain piece of clothing clean fast, I can have it washed and dried in under 60 minutes. Some prefer the energy savings / saving the fabric for longer.
As a bonus, the lint that comes off the clothes anyway is not floating around the house, instead it gets nicely collected by the dryer, so the air inside the apartment is cleaner and no extra humidity from wet clothes hanging around. The amount of stuff stuck in a dryers lint screen is also part of the reason why peple think dryers wear out clothes way faster than they actually do.
The difference in wear in something that is expected to last for 10 years is at max 1,5 years based on 15 % (added 5 % just in case) additional wear, which is a lot, and
@Trespas I hate shopping clothes with passion, so anything that reduces the time I can wear the item is my nightmare 😄
YOU GO TO A FINNISH sauna only in finlad
sttill remember not a normal finn
That's absolutely not an average Finnish home. An average Finnish home looks like a place where somebody actually lives. This is just a wife who has spent tens of thousands of euros on interior design to create a soulless, sterile, "beautifully designed", "good vibes only" space for Instagram pictures and not an actual living space where you can relax and, I dunno, maybe watch a movie without the picture being obstructed by two black metal bars for no reason.
Like the guy admits in the video, it's not really his home, but a design project for his wife. That makes me so sad. He tries so hard to fake happiness and enthusiasm, but you can still see the pain in his eyes.
Ihmiset yleensä säilyttää astioitaan tuossa kuivauskaapissa. Niin ei se vie säilystystilaa
Homes are generally not like that in Finland.
Maybe the wealthy peoples homes are, or at least some of them.
Usually Finnish homes are pretty dirty and full of junk.
At least here in Pori area.
see him at -25 to 30 c
You are always asking questions, but you are somehow not acknowledging or discussing the answers.
In finnish homes there are lots of books.