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We live in Australia but hang the duvets most of the time over the balcony, bugs or no bugs, you can feel the heat and smell the ozone on them Mmm so good : ) I am original from the Netherlands and my mum also did hang the sheets over the balcony on the forth floor where we lived and I can still smell the freezing sheets from the winter time. When I went to bed she came with the fresh sheet (that is how she called it) and I was already laying down waiting for the fresh sheet with the lovely smell to cover me she did spread it out and let it land on me nice and softly like only a mother can do. It has a good impact on a good night of sleep as well. Thanks for sharing I love all your video's xx
A bit of advice I received early in our marriage was relating to sharing things that need not be shared. If one of you wants to squeeze the toothpaste from the end and cap it after every use, and one of you wants to squeeze from the middle and leave the cap off, get another tube of toothpaste. We've been married 35 years, and I've never forgotten this. There are things that don't need to be shared that will make sharing an entire life much easier.
This is so true we like different bedding i have mine he has his .Each on their side. I like different soap ,shampoo, car wash soap see my point, it works 34 years married.
@@karenortega2046that actually happened in NY. Someone went into a restaurant and left baby outside and someone called the police. She was from a country where it was normal
I describe it as crisp... there is a sharpness and cool cleanness to the smell, like a subtle hint of menthol. It smells like fresh ice tastes when crunched and you can blow cool air out of your mouth. Refreshing and soothing all at once.
do you have candy there that is with menthol take one and breath in and out through the moth the cool feeling from it is a good thing to get an idea of the cool air smell and feeling :D
I like the ice and freezer-frost analogy a lil better than mint or menthol. They create a feeling of coolness, but I’d go straight to the source. Frost and cold air! When I was a kid, we lived on the island of Samoa and my dad taught science on TV for Samoan kids. When he had to teach them about snow, he went straight for the frosty freezer. Ahhh… fresh ❄️🧊☃️ (as long as there’s no stinky old food in there)
from mid atlantic united states! dry snow is a specific smell, freezers can do it but it's not the same. if you've ever run so long or so hard your nose starts to hurt, it's like that but not nearly as intense (unless you're out there for too long).
Growing up in Michigan, USA, everyone had a clothesline outdoors to hang laundry, bedding, blankets-not only to dry but to freshen as well. My Grandma always aired out our bedding almost daily. Overtime, people seemed to stop this practice in most areas. Many homeowner associations enacted ordinances about what could or could not be in your yard. Many people saw hanging laundry as looking messy or lowering the property value by having clutter outside.Despite this, I try to dry and freshen my comforters outdoors because there is nothing like the smell and crispness. You will definitely sleep like a baby ❤
I hated clothes lines. My mom always had small, lacy or leopard underwear hanging up and the neighbors (other my schoolmates) would ask whose panties those were. I told them my older sister’s. 😬. Plus the clothes get so stiff and misshapen from hanging up. And you’re lucky if a bird doesn’t come around and poop on your clean clothes, or a quick rain doesn’t roll in all of a sudden (we lived in the tropics). I recall many times running out with a basket and trying to take down the clothes in rain that came out of nowhere. And it would be so humid sometimes that the clothes would get musty before they dried (again, the tropical humidity). Never going back to a clothes line.
We have separate bedrooms! I can sleep now! We love each other very much. He snores and has to have total blackness and quiet. I need a night light and meditation or sound. I like being snuggled warm. He likes freezing. It works great!❤
We have the same room but two large beds, one each 😂👌 We both feel every movement n wake up.. so this saves that issue and now we sleep well. It's more important to have a good sleep every night huh!!
I saw a video magazine article that discussed that about 30% of married couples sleep in separate rooms. No one talks about it because then you get a judgment that your relationship is not healthy. Ours improved once we decided to sleep separately,
Sounds exactly like us here... my husband also loves total blackness and quiet, and I need night lights in a couple of places in the room. We have 2 cats as well; one sleeps with him and the other with me. We all get a good sleep that way. 😄
I'm an American in the USA. I have always had seperate blankets and quilts for my husband and myself. We share a huge king size bed, but each use our own queen size blankets. To "make the bed" each day, the blankets are folded and put on the bench, and the king sized decorative quilt is spread across the bed. No fighting over pulled covers, too hot or too cold,etc. Happily married 40+ years.
There was a TV show that aired in both Sweden and the U.S. called "Welcome to Sweden". I remember one scene where the Swedish wife was getting ready to leave for work. She looked through the peep hole in the apartment door to make sure none of the neighbors was outside so she didn't have to interact with them. A culture after my own heart! 😆
I remember that!!! I feel like it came on one Saturday morning when I was forced to watch it instead of cartoons. I remember being pissed off at first and then totally engrossed and fascinated!
My husband and are both very introverted. We prefer communicating via internet versus directly. The personal space and interaction habits are SO relatable!
I am an extravert and there have been times that I've wanted to listen to my own music but get interrupted when riding the bus. But I've also talked with people when waiting too.
I live in Germany and when I hear some of the neighbors are leaving at the time when I have to leave also, I wait a bit, until they are gone, then I leave the Apartment 😅
I live in Mumbai, India, which is very humid but we always hang our clothes out to dry in the sun. The sun is free and there's no better way of drying or airing out clothes and sheets. The smell of sundried sheets and clothes is absolutely the best.
From humid Florida and my nanny hung up towels and sheets on the clothesline to dry. The smell of warm summer sun on sheets is such a treasured memory :)
Exactly! Our home came with a dryer, but one day it broke, and I began hang-drying laundry, and now I prefer this. There's no dryer that can give bedding and clothing that wonderful, sun-dried freshness 🥰
As a Norwegians, my husband and I also keep the window open during the winter. When extra cold, we were a beanie/ hood. Extras warm duvet with down and feathers. Best nights ever.
I’m from Wales, and I keep my bedroom window open all year round. I use plenty of warm bedding. The same with the house. I rarely use central heating; we have a log stove in our man living room and we wear warm clothing, I hate the feeling of hot rooms. All my bedding is always hung into line outside.
Sooooo We watched your video, looked at each other and the next day bought 2 single duvets!!! Omg what a great sleep!!!! No more fighting for the covers with the dogs! We each get a cocoon!!! Thank you for the video
It needs to be quite cold though, many dust mites can survive happily for hours on end at -4°C and can even sometimes survive down to -15°C, and dust mite eggs can survive down to -70°C. So it's good to still wash things at 55°C and above for true eradication of mites and their eggs.
Where I live it's hot and dry much of the year with brush and weed pollen blowing around a lot. So not sure I'd want my bedding out in that. I could totally see doing it in frozen tundra though.
When the pollen is high as trees, grasses and other plants wake up in spring, people with allergies couldn't put their sheets and bedding out.. that would be horrible. But it totally makes sense to air it sheets in a dry cold climate. I love sleeping in the cold. It's hard to sleep when it's too warm and humid.
Yeah. I would never hang my clothes up outside to get rid of dust. It would introduce too many allergens and defeat the purpose. I shake things out, vacuum daily, and wash and dry often on high heat to kill bacteria and microbes.
I’m American and live in a subdivision. I open my front & back doors during thunderstorms/rain so the air can travel quickly through the house. Then I put my infants/toddlers in bouncy chairs in the door ways. They sleep for 2-3 hours every time. It’s not the same as completely outside but pretty close.
I'm Scottish and had my son in May and he was outside for all his naps with our family dog under the pram ❤ I always air my bed I take my duvet off everyday and hang it over an indoor clothes horse and I always open my window in the morning.
As an American, every time I watch one of these Swedish culture videos, I marvel at how strangely we do things here, and how much more sensibly you guys do things. Honestly, we could learn a lot from you. I wish people here resepected personal space in the same way as Swedes, as I am a very reclusive and introverted sort of person. This is challenging in the United States.
Coming from Denmark, I can confirm every single thing said about the Scandinavian sleep method in this video. Individual duvets are absolutely essential to a good nights sleep
I'm American and been married 30 years. I've always bought individual blankets for my husband and I. It's much more practical that way. I'll have to tell him we are Scandinavian now. WOOHOO 🙂
It truly is! We discovered this somewhat by accident as mine sleeps better with a weighted blanket, but they make me feel like I'm trapped and suffocating 😅 separate blankets, better sleep!
Separate duvets save marriages🙌🏼🙌🏼 I'm a blanket hog so we early on started that, it's also nice because we can have different weight ones, switch ours out for the season when we want to, it's honestly just so nice🥰
My parents are originally from the Ukraine, although they’ve been in the US for over 70 years now, and my mom always had separate blankets for her and my dad. When making the bed she’d just put one on top of the other.
@@lmolarissa that's what we do, we have a Ukrainian/American household. Back in Ukraine there was never a big culture on privacy and shared spaces is most common, but having your own blankets and personal towels is normal.
Here in the US, my mother hung our sheets out on the clothes line in all seasons. She brought in frozen, stiff sheets & they defrosted in the house. I LOVED that smell! Clean , fresh bedding = 💯 better nights sleep!
Separate bedrooms are even better! No more snoring,can sleep stretched out like a starfish and I can put light on in middle of the night if needed! We are early retired so see each other enough lol
And here in sunny Greece we do exactly the same winter as summer. We take out and spread the quilts for at least 2-3 hours. Fresh air is the best we can do. The smell of fresh air and the sun is a wonderful feeling.
Same in Croatia! There is maybe only a little difference when you live in a street with a lot of traffic, because of the smog. Then we put the quilts outside during the weekend when there is less air pollution. My family lives outside the city center, we put them outside every dry weather day.
I m guessing you dont live in athens center. I try to air my quilts like my grandma used to. Not sure about the result, hahaha,. Secilia sounds great your system!
@@usurpadora3985 No, I don't live in Athens, I live in wonderful and sunny Crete, away from the gas, the hustle and bustle of the city. I live in Neapoli Lasithiou Crete a small town where everything is simple and beautiful. The air smells of musk from my roses and lilacs, the geraniums are in full bloom and the place around me is magical. The atmosphere smells of fresh bread from the neighborhood oven and of the dry-baked cinnamon rolls... So I can say that I am very lucky to live and breathe the fresh air of Crete!!! Good morning to all of you !!
My husband adopted sleeping with the two duvet, last fall, after seeing it on your channel. GAME CHANGER!!!! We constantly “fought” over the covers. Now there is total peace in the bedroom! Thank you SO much. Wish we had seen this decades ago!!!
it doesn't always work for us, sometimes my husband yanks my duvet off me in the middle of the night really mad that I've "taken his duvet". I get a grumpy apology once he realizes he kicked his off
It took two weeks of being married to my hubby for me to ask if he wanted us to have two blankets because apparently I burrito myself, and asleep me has no regard for my bedmate. He very enthusiastically said YES, and that's when I realized my man would rather freeze to death than advocate for his own comfort. LOL We've had our own blankets since then, and I highly recommend it.
Growing up in Derry, Ireland (55.5 degrees north) from May until August, we had to get used to going to bed at "night" when the sun was still shining outside and we could hear the older children still playing games in the streets. It was brutal. I protested every night to my parents. Our father took to reading us old children's classics in bed to distract us. It worked. What is it about being read aloud to that is so delicious and comforting? It feels like the ultimate Love. And it works just as well today when kids are upset or distracted. They seem to calm down and come into focus by the third sentence. A good author to read to kids is Robert Louis Stevenson - I loved "Kidnapped." Thanks, Cecelia, Patron Saint of Music.
My Irish Mom put me outside to sleep in Saskatchewan Canada in minus 40 degree .She thinks that is why I avoided getting ill during the polio epidemic in the 1950s
Polio is highly contagious - being healthy will not protect you, sadly. She fortunately must've also kept you away from other people - or you were just very lucky!
Yes because your body has built up so much immunity and if you factor in a healthy nutrition intake and exercise 😮 you might need to hide from the men in black because that's now basically super human strength 💪. Our bodies (humans) are biological artificial intelligence, the last of his kind and it knows how to heal itself and strengthen itself, of course; if the avatar managing the body knows how to take care of it properly. Your mother did well having you sleep out in the cold
My family were Swedish ancestry in Saskatchewan. It was the same for us, always napping babies in prams outdoors. I think the sunlight provided vitamin D that contributed to healthy immune function. The coldest I remember walking to school was -52 C. My mum also aired duvets outdoors and I continue to do so.
I think it's the Vitamin D kids get from being in the sun, that's so important for good health. Btw minus 40 is the one temperature that's the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius, I remember playing outside when it was minus 40, but lots of American kids now won't go outside at all if it's minus 20F, so they get sun-deprived.
@@zxyatiywariii8 in many places, like Sweden in the video, the sun you get in winter can never be enough even if you spend all daylight there. In Poland first half of the summer is also really cloudy so you really just get either darkness or half-darkness. Everyone is sun-deprived. There are other sources of vit D though, fish and pills.
My mom is First Nations (Canada) and she made me take all my naps on the balcony when I was a baby, back then we lived in Montréal. You do know we get -20 over here. To this day I sleep with the window open in winter omg so fresh such great sleep! I love the smell of snow. Also I think I need to introduce my parents to the 2 duvets idea lol
Two duvets made an enormous difference, both in our sleep and our ability to stay warm/cool enough. Linen covers are also wonderful. Airing them outside would collect pollen and pollution here in the city, though.
i am from Indiana, USA and in the winter i sleep in shorts, with four fans on high, and my window open and it is the best thing in the entire world i love it
I want to be Swedish!! The second my husband heard that you have your own duvet, he looked at me and knew that is what I would love! Swedish people rock!! Personal space respect ✅ separate duvets ✅
I am Canadian, and still always air out my bedding. I had my husband make a clothesline for me because I missed having somewhere to hang out my bedding. As well I will very often hang out my wet laundry and have them dry on the line rather than in a clothes dryer. You can’t beat the smell of line dried clothes and bedding!
I am also from Canada, originally from a very small (population 300) village where everyone hung out their clothes to dry and we also were sent out to play, regardless of any type of weather. I will say that we do not put our children outside to sleep. now I live about an hour outside of Toronto and there are by laws that we cannot have a clothes line, I do put my duvets out to air on good weather days, and carpets etc. Unfortunately in most places in Canada and the US it just would not be safe to leave a child unattended asleep outside and more than likely if one did this a neighbor would report the parents to Child protective services and they would come and tell the parents this is against the law. One could of course do this in very rural settings where no neighbor could see what was happening and the threat of kidnapping is substantially lower.
I live in the US but my grandma was Norwegian and my grandpa was Finish. So a lot of what you talked about - not thinking about it - I just assumed it was the way it was supposed to be!😂 we sleep with individual blankets, we air out our blankets. We sleep with the room dark and we believe in going outside in the sun regardless of the temp to get vitamin D. Thank you for sharing where my (unknown) sleeping traditions came from!
how is it that people from Nordic countries can speak English with almost a perfect accent? Your Swedish vowels are very different from English sounds and yet you manage to do the transition so beautifully between the two.
Children take English languages classes in school. Most English tourists don't bother to learn a nordic language, it helps business wise to speak English. Depending on where the person lives, they may know Danish, German, and many folks know French. The countries are close together and speak different languages. Where in the USA no matter where you go someone is going to speak American.
For my fellow Americans - we started doing this after watching Cecilia. We have a king sized bed and use two twin sized duvets and it works great. I think two twin sized would work well for a queen sized bed, too. We have weighted duvets and normal duvets to choose from depending what we want and the season. We're hooked!
I can confirm two twin sized (or single bed sized, like Cecilia shows in the video) duvets work great in a queen sized bed. My husband and I have been using this method for years as we each get too hot in our current middle age! It helps us regulate our own temps and not feel the other one radiating heat so much.
I am not Swedish (rather Canadian), but I am such an advocate of individual duvets - have used them for over 20 years now. I also like to be cool, and my partner likes to be warm, and I agree - the covers are not made of steel, and you can cuddle at any time but come back to your own little zone when you sleep! I actually just put out our duvets before I sat down to watch this video - a wonderful spring day with a huge flock of snow geese resting in the field just south of us.
Do the twin size duvets work out for your bed (I assume you have a queen or king?) ? I was looking at the dimensions of the twin duvets at the American IKEA and it seems like the European and American duvets are slightly different sizes.
I have severe pollen allergies and I live in Florida (so quite humid). I used to have a clothesline but after my allergies worsened despite receiving allergy shots (I'd frequent anaphylaxis episodes), my allergist told me that to minimize the amount of episodes that it was best that I no longer hang my bedding and clothing outside. However, I then took to putting my sheets and smaller blankets in my garage to hang up and turn on a uvc light along with occasionally putting them in the freezer.
I live in Florida too and there is no way that I would put my sheets outside because there’s too much pollen and bugs. I have terrible sinuses and also cannot really live in air-conditioning 24/7. I moved here for family reasons, but it really is not a climate that suits me. I’m originally from Singapore and I was frequently sick there as well. So I understand what you’re going through, and I almost wish I was back in a colder climate, in another state maybe, so I can enjoy that and feel better. I would love to hang my bedding out in cold Arctic air! 😂
I'm in Tennessee and learned hanging clothes outside gets stink bugs. I grew up in Ohio and Minnesota where that wasn't the same and we hung everything outside.
I lived in Germany for 2 years and remember the duvets hanging out windows in the winter 🥶 to get rid of the germs as we Americans would say! I thought it was the the coziest thing so I did it too and we slept w the windows cracked during the snowy winter months! So cozy w the radiator steam heat ❤. I had the best sleep for 2 years! Now I live in hot 🥵 Florida and my sleep is awful! 😞 I miss those cozy winter nights sleeps in beautiful snow capped Germany 🇩🇪 the sun didn’t set until after 10 pm so the metal shades on our townhome windows were such a delight! Your village looks like such a cozy, magical place! I also used to take my colicky baby daughter (now 17) outside in the snow at night to relax her!
I worked for IKEA for more than 28 years, most of that time in the US corporate office. I frequently traveled to Sweden and Denmark. One of the first odd thing I experienced was the reflection gasp of air. It scared me the first time and I had to ask what it meant. As you probably know, American like to share their viewpoint in meetings and like to leave knowing decisions have been made. Swedes like to only speak when they have something important to say, spend a lot of time reflecting, are looking for consensus, and you may leave a meeting having decided nothing. I learned to accept it, regardless of how frustrating it was at times.
When I was a child, during the summer my mom would hang then sheets and pillowcases outside to dry them. The smell of those sheets was the freshest thing ever and I slept so much better.
I’m in Australia and was thinking the whole video, where can I hang these without bringing in spiders or other bugs 🤣. Bit envious, I bet it’s very good for you. Great vid!
Same here.. funnel webs in fact. I’m in Qld so it’s humid AF about half the year too. Ahhh well, I might chance it now it’s coming into winter and just shake the heck out of it!! 😂
I'm in Queensland and I've never had spiders or other bugs on my washing. Mostly now i use lines on my covered veranda, or it's it winter or rainy, I hang my washing on lines in my shed (it's a 2 car shed, so big). I very rarely use the dryer. I'm in my 70s now but remember the days of helping mum hang the washing on lines strung around the yard and using props to get the lines up so sheets etc didn't hit the ground.
Exactly! I’m in Los Angeles, between the strong winds and curious birds, spiders, daddy-long-legs, squirrels and the occasional ant or grasshopper I wouldn’t hold out much hope for clean bedding. Love the idea though.
I’m in Australia and have no bugs when I hang out my bedding on the hills hoist. Queensland sunshine is great for giving your sheets that breezy sunny freshness. The separate doonas is brilliant that would of saved so many relationships 😂
I'm Canadian and my parents used to bundle me up and set me in the pram on the front porch for naps in the winter. Now this was 60+ years ago don't know about parents of today. But I'm still here.
Just a little tip if you're planing to come to Australia our humidity ranges between 60 and 90% especially if you live near the coast. Some days you might actually be dampening your duvet if you put it outside. In this case I would recommend a dehumidifier
We live in Wisconsin with cold winter's ( -10° to 32° F). We just open bedroom windows to refresh our beds and bedrooms. Open window shut door all day brings in luscious cold air to crisp up our bedding!❤
Agreed, I grew up on the MN-WI border to second gen Norwegian parents and they did this for us while we were all at work and school (and to reduce energy costs, of course). Now that I work from home as an adult that's no longer an option, but a few times across the winter I'll move my necessary work stuff out to the dining room and close up the bedroom with the windows open. It's so nostalgic!
We often hang our bedding out to air on a line. Live in the UK and we always have! There is NOTHING like the smell and feeling of fresh air fresh clothes and bedding. UV light from the sun is magic! Also, as a baby I was put outside to sleep as was brother, in our yard / back garden.
This is the best way and the oldest way to freshen up your sheets, bed covers, pillows, you name it. I am from Egypt, and we have been doing this for as long as I can remember. I took it from my mother and grandmother, she took it from her mother..etc. this is why we don’t use dryers for our laundry, we have to air dry it outside. Even if we don’t have space or garden, people make laundry rakes outside their windows or in balconies. It makes your clothes last even longer.
I'm an American who lived most of my life in Virginia. Horribly hot/humid summers. Very distinct seasons. Hanging laundry on the line was a pleasure. Cows would line up by the fence and watch me peg clothes and bedlinens. An orgasmic pleasure; hanging bedlinens on the line, gardening and getting hot and sticky, getting a cool shower at the end of the day, getting into a line dried loose cotton nightie and slipping into the just made bed at the of the day. Nothing smells like line-dried cotton. A deep pleasure that cost nothing!!
I live in Oregon and it’s almost always humid, especially in the winter when it’s just wet and rainy all the time. Any idea if I can do better than just making sure to check the weather?
One famous happy Finn here 😁 Separate duvets is a must! At winter time you can easily air your bedding out, but in the summer time it's not so easy. It's humid, rains, bugs, pollen and many other things. Then we air the whole house or at least the bedrooms out. Fresh air, better sleep. Also at summer time the sun shines or it's very brigh outside, so good blackout curtains. You can also duple or triple the effect, if you have blinds etc. The problem usually is that I can't calm down for the night, because the light gives me signal to DO things. So by 23.00 I just have to go to a dark room to calm myself down. And no electronics after 22.00. If I have to, I read. Usually I read all the time, so that is no problem 👍😆 And yes, I have slept outside as a baby, and my kids have slept outside. Usually the best sleep has been outside. And even now I enjoy a good nap in a hammok, in a cosy chair or anywhere soft outside.
Having separate duvets is a simple but GENIUS way of living. I can imagine that has saved a lot of relationships 😂 Feel like I'm a Swede at heart, with all the personal space stuff! I wish everyone in the UK was like that.
I am from Trinidad and even though it's the tropics we aired our sheets and blankets out on lines. So here is the crazy thing, I have been doing the Scandinavian sleep method all my life. Everyone makes fun of me for it but I have always had a personal blanket even under the top cover and I love it.
After visiting Iceland and Switzerland, I was like 2 duvets makes so much sense!!! And have adopted it. My husband still thinks it’s weird we’re sleeping with different blankets but I’ve never been happier. LOL! And sleep is my top priority also!
I live in Canada and had never heard of sleeping with two duvets, but I saw one of your older videos where you talked about it and I went right out and bought two twin duvets and covers. Best thing ever! We don’t disturb each other when we move around anymore and if you’re hot you can flip the blanket down without stealing it from the other person, amazing! ❤ Highly recommend!
Cecilia, I think that the concept of letting children nap outside when they're fully protected from being too cold is wonderful. At the same time though, during our ice storm here in Texas 3 years ago we had 7 days of indoor temperatures of 31 degrees during the day. We felt it with no way to start a fire and not being able to run our stove constantly. Our usual winter weather is about 18C during the day. There really must be no bad weather, just bad clothing for it. I think that you and Christopher would have breezed through it and carried on happily as long as the stove worked, and you could make hot drinks. I love your videos and thanks for sharing about your Swedish heritage. It's always lovely to learn new things about people and places.
I used to let my daughter sleep outside in her stroller in minus degrees because my mom did the same with me and my siblings when we were babies. I certainly think it improved my daughter's quality of sleep by a mile. Scandinavian weather conditions, especially during winter, is prefect for sleep. I loved sleeping with the window open during colder months while growing up. We would keep the radio on too. It was the best. 🥰
Best sleep EVER! Thank you for teaching us how to share our bed better. This method should shared in marriage counseling. Everyone gets what they need and closeness is never challenging.
Canadian here and we all grew up sleeping outside. I always leave my bedroom window open a bit even in the Winter. I wish I had a good spot to put my bedding before going to bed though!
I had never heard of the Scandinavian Sleep Method until I started watching this channel. My husband and I started sleeping under our own blankets when I was pregnant with our first child because I was constantly stealing the cover all night and it worked so well that we still do this. I can’t sleep if I’m cold though. When I was little I had a friend who’s parents kept their house cold at night and when I would sleep over they would wake up looking for me and I would be in the living room under their heater. They still tease me about this many years later! Lol!
I’m from the west coast of Canada and the only person that I know of who doesn’t share a duvet with her partner. To discover that there are 3 countries of people who share this practice made me feel so good and normal! Thank you for sharing your videos! They are a joy to watch.
Lol there are many more, all of the Nordics (like my country, Finland) and the Germans in this comment section have said that they also do separate duvets. 👍 Probably a big part of the rest of Europe as well.
I come from New Zealand. My four babies all slept outside in their prams, ( unless it was raining) after their morning bath and breast feed. I air my bed every morning and air my duvet in the sun once a week. I love Mondays because that's my change the sheet day. My mother and my grandmother did the beds on Mondays, ironed all the linen on Tuesday. The rest of the week was apportioned to housekeeping, cooking, preserving etc. Sunday was for Church and resting. I'm 73 and enjoy carrying on their traditions.
It used to be this way in the USA during earlier times. There were clothes lines and children were in the carriages sleeping outside and outside playing.
Sad that you can’t leave your children out side unattended here in the US. Born in 1950 and I remember how I loved the smell of laundry just picked off the line.
Thank you for showing. I'm Swiss and my husband and I sleep the same way....except....we even started to sleep in separate rooms...and we absolutely love it.
I grew up in south Texas having to hang all laundry out on the clothesline and there is nothing more refreshing than the fresh outdoor smell on sheets and towels. More power to y'all!
Texas wow -- fresh air when I travel through Texas I smell oil and when i get to the country side i smell stink from the animals , just saying Texas stinks
The other half and I have been doing this for a while. He’s a blanket hog and I was so tired of waking up shivering lol. We now have our own blankets and sleep has never been better. I’ve also started airing them out over our balcony and can attest to the huge difference! I need to thank you so much for that tip. Pulling a nice crisp clean smelling blanket up under my chin is incredible!! Sleep masks are wonderful! I have one that has speakers and I play soothing sounds through it overnight to help me sleep. 100% would recommend. Love you bye!
This was very interesting. I enjoyed hearing how others around the world do things. Very fascinating! I love more videos like this. (I showed my 7 year old granddaughter one of your videos, first thing she said was “She’s beautiful” and “I love the way she talks” 😊😊 True and true!
After two European trips where we both slept so much better, we switched to the Scandinavian way last May. It's more difficult to air our bedding outside in Texas, but shaking out the bedding every day helps. We love it!
I'm in SE Texas, the pollen can nearly choke you some days, especially in early spring when the pine trees turn everything yellow within a few hours. I remember my grandmother hanging clothes out to dry on the clothesline while growing up in Ohio. I miss being able to do that and not get a face full of pollen.
In Australia most homes with backyards have a clothesline where we hang clothes to dry after washing. The sun & fresh air makes a massive difference compared to using a dryer. Thanks to Cecilia I've also started hanging out my duvet to air once a week when I change my bedding. The bugs aren't too bad where I live in Aus!
Same… never owned a dryer. I tell my grown kids that I use free solar and wind power to dry/air my washing. No problem with bugs, ever, despite living in Queensland, Everything in this video is also practiced in my home country of Finland.
Separate duvets is brilliant. I was married to a blanket hog and this would have been perfect. I just started watching you yesterday and I am loving your channel. ❤
I'm just now discovering this is Swedish, and I'm so excited there's a whole country where this is the norm! Always my parents did this, and I never knew anyone else's parents who did. But now I can just tell people, "It's the Swedish way!" 😊
Danish here and I like my sleep, cocoon, too! The separate covers are perfect for us because he sleeps all tucked in and I like everything loose and movable.
Yes some of us do! I'm from America and my Mom always hung the sheets and blankets on the cloths line in fall and winter because the smell is absolutely heavenly, but they seem to smell good longer!
I'm actually going to tell my son about the 2 duvet method because he was complaining that he and his wife have different temperature needs at night. It is so simple when you think about it. Don't worry about bugs in your bedding in Australia - most people wash their sheets weekly and hang them out to dry in the sun. They smell amazing that way. I personally don't make my bed as soon as I get up, because of the humidity etc, but pull the covers back and let them air out for a while before I make the bed. Btw, most Aussie homes have got flyscreens on the windows so we open our windows most of the year around for the fresh air.
I figured out the two duvet method more than 20 years ago. It’s a great idea although some people seem to think that married couples should share the same blanket. I do not! I like my own space under my blanket and it’s much more comfortable, and my husband agrees. Airing my blankets outside is not exactly possible here especially during the winter when it gets to -30 Celsius. What I do instead is flip the duvets back over the end of the bed and let them stay like that for a few hours until I make the bed.
Thanky for sharing. We're a quilt culture here in Minnesota. Lots of them. Pile em on! In winter, the heavier the better. Quilting is very popular hobby. Though we do keep bedroom window open most nights when possible. You did inspire me to air couple quilts out today. :) Everybody loves that smell.
I loved all the footage of Grim! And the detailed information about the two duvets was great. We have a king size duvet but I often use a small blanket underneath the covers to help me fall asleep. I hope you enjoy your polar day and soak up all the vitamin D rays. Lots of love from Alberta, the sunniest province in Canada ❤
Love your channel! :) I grew up in Poland and my parents and grandparents also put the duvets outside during winter to freshen them up and eliminate bacteria. We never slept outside as kids, though. I live in Canada now and my daughter was born last winter. I was petrified to take her outside at first because of the harsh winter but learned that with proper gear and clothing it can be enjoyable and she slept peacefully during our walks ❤ Greetings to you and thank you for teaching us your Scandinavian lifestyle! :)
Back in the days before 2000's, here in Finland we also had babies sleep in their carriages outside while we went to a restaurant or whatever. We also had the outdoors unlocked even at night (when we were at home). After the 9/11 and other stuff, all of this slowly faded away and even though it's sensible, I miss those days when violence wasn't an everday worry.
Love this thank you! My Danish ancestors and late Swedish grandmother agree! I get the need personal space and fresh air on a deep level. It’s terrific to hear the dry snow crunching under your feet. Excited to find your channel!
I am so jealous of this! It sounds amazing. I live in Florida and it’s never cool enough here, even at night, to make sheets feel fresh. And it’s so humid here, anything outside becomes damp. Also, bugs. Dog only knows what sorts of critters might come back in with them if you were to hang your sheets outside. But, I’ve visited places where this is possible and it is truly magic for sleep. Cecilia, thank you so much for sharing your life with those of us that live so differently.
Plenty of places around the world that are as hot and humid as Florida where people air out their sheets, dry their laundry, etc. They will get hot certainly but it's still beneficial in killing germs, mold, etc and it smells fresher. As someone with dust mite allergies, it helps me a lot to air out bedding.
In Alabama - those sheets would be coated in frickin pollen like everything else 😢 Same with my kid’s lungs. I swear we go to the ER once a month during the Spring for breathing issues.
❄️Minnesotan here, we grew up with Mom leaving windows cracked open all night in the frigid winter and no heat on. Loved it, as well as driving on frozen lakes and ice fishing. ❄️❄️❄️
We sleep like that! I got my fiance into it, even when it's a snowstorm here in MI we have our bedroom window open. In the summer we don't have central air but we do have a room air conditioner for the bedroom. It's not ideal but it's better than not being able to sleep. I actually look forward to winter for the fresh air at night.
There have been many times when my bedroom window has frozen open, 😂 Thankfully I live in the solitude of the country so airing/drying bedding etc is no problem. My sisters were very impressed when I coined it “solar drying” back in the 70’s.
My husband and I traveled to Iceland last year and at first I was horrified by the lack of top sheets. But pretty quickly we realized this was brilliant. I tend to move down the bed at night and pull the sheets with me. Now we have separate duvets and I can move all I want and not disturb him! It’s also nice since he comes to bed later, so I don’t wake up from him pulling the comforter anymore
I am from Brazil, and since my husband did a very delicate surgery on his shoulder a few years ago, we started to use two duvets... And we still like that until those days. It's really amazing!
i clicked right away coz i agree and love how you always share & show the scandinavian sleep method and finally a whole video just for it!! Thank you so much for this vid Cecilia!
Loved the show this morning. Being an American of Swedish decent, I am always curious as to Swedish customs. I nodded in agreement that I like my own space when in a room or in line. The answer to a good night's sleep...the duvet. Who would have guessed. Didn't know about babies taking naps outside year long.❤ Love all your videos. Keep up the great work.
We live in a condo townhouse complex in Canada and we are not allowed to hang any laundry outside due to “aesthetics”. It’s ridiculous. I miss having a yard and a clothes line like we did when I was a kid and lived in Montréal.
@@cheryldueck318 I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that. That truly is ridiculous. And such an infringement on basic personal liberty. How you choose to wash and dry your clothes should not be dictated by another person’s sense of aesthetic. They can decorate their own yards and houses and vote on public spaces like parks, they don’t get to dictate your apartment and your exterior space in near proximity to your home without touching someone else’s space. Their care about aesthetics should not be more important than you deciding to save costs or not use certain chemicals or too much electric power. That should be completely your choice. For all the benefits the city has, sometimes the country really does win out because you have neighbors but further spaced out and a lot more personal freedom with your own home (where it is perhaps most important to have freedom, where you are “king of your own castle”).
My Italian grandmother would always air out the bed and bedding every morning, no matter the weather. Windows open, etc. I've carried that into my life as well. I've noticed the difference in my quality of sleep through doing just that.
This is what brought me to your channel and I'm sure a lot of other people the first time I ever seen you shake your sheets and put them on that bar in the cold you had me
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This is fascinating. Thank you and please keep the culture videos coming!
What size?❤
We live in Australia but hang the duvets most of the time over the balcony, bugs or no bugs, you can feel the heat and smell the ozone on them Mmm so good : ) I am original from the Netherlands and my mum also did hang the sheets over the balcony on the forth floor where we lived and I can still smell the freezing sheets from the winter time. When I went to bed she came with the fresh sheet (that is how she called it) and I was already laying down waiting for the fresh sheet with the lovely smell to cover me she did spread it out and let it land on me nice and softly like only a mother can do. It has a good impact on a good night of sleep as well. Thanks for sharing I love all your video's xx
What’s brand is the clock? I’ve been searching for a good and recommended light alarm for ages.
A bit of advice I received early in our marriage was relating to sharing things that need not be shared. If one of you wants to squeeze the toothpaste from the end and cap it after every use, and one of you wants to squeeze from the middle and leave the cap off, get another tube of toothpaste. We've been married 35 years, and I've never forgotten this. There are things that don't need to be shared that will make sharing an entire life much easier.
This is so true we like different bedding i have mine he has his .Each on their side. I like different soap ,shampoo, car wash soap see my point, it works 34 years married.
Try leaving a kid in America out in the cold and Dfs will be knocking cause somebody gonna tell on you. Even if it’s the healthiest way.
@@karenortega2046that actually happened in NY. Someone went into a restaurant and left baby outside and someone called the police. She was from a country where it was normal
@@HaloHighlightz it was a danish family and iirc cps actually took their kid and idk if they got their kid back :/
Unfortunately it's not safe to do so in the states, and probably some other countries as well.
"Smells like snow and cold air"
I'm from the Caribbean, nearly 50 and don't know what that's like. Hoping to start traveling one day 🙏
I describe it as crisp... there is a sharpness and cool cleanness to the smell, like a subtle hint of menthol. It smells like fresh ice tastes when crunched and you can blow cool air out of your mouth. Refreshing and soothing all at once.
do you have candy there that is with menthol take one and breath in and out through the moth the cool feeling from it is a good thing to get an idea of the cool air smell and feeling :D
I like the ice and freezer-frost analogy a lil better than mint or menthol. They create a feeling of coolness, but I’d go straight to the source. Frost and cold air!
When I was a kid, we lived on the island of Samoa and my dad taught science on TV for Samoan kids. When he had to teach them about snow, he went straight for the frosty freezer. Ahhh… fresh ❄️🧊☃️ (as long as there’s no stinky old food in there)
I imagine its like the freezer of the fridge
from mid atlantic united states! dry snow is a specific smell, freezers can do it but it's not the same. if you've ever run so long or so hard your nose starts to hurt, it's like that but not nearly as intense (unless you're out there for too long).
Growing up in Michigan, USA, everyone had a clothesline outdoors to hang laundry, bedding, blankets-not only to dry but to freshen as well. My Grandma always aired out our bedding almost daily. Overtime, people seemed to stop this practice in most areas. Many homeowner associations enacted ordinances about what could or could not be in your yard. Many people saw hanging laundry as looking messy or lowering the property value by having clutter outside.Despite this, I try to dry and freshen my comforters outdoors because there is nothing like the smell and crispness. You will definitely sleep like a baby ❤
Well, to be fair, clothes dryers and softening products have gotten a lot more advanced. It can approximate outdoor freshening now.
There has been pushback against those HOA policies against clotheslines. Clotheslines are the original solar-powered dryers!
We did that in Louisiana as well 😊 Very fond memories of those colorful clothes blowing in the breeze.
Love the smell of washing dried outside ❤
I hated clothes lines. My mom always had small, lacy or leopard underwear hanging up and the neighbors (other my schoolmates) would ask whose panties those were. I told them my older sister’s. 😬. Plus the clothes get so stiff and misshapen from hanging up. And you’re lucky if a bird doesn’t come around and poop on your clean clothes, or a quick rain doesn’t roll in all of a sudden (we lived in the tropics). I recall many times running out with a basket and trying to take down the clothes in rain that came out of nowhere. And it would be so humid sometimes that the clothes would get musty before they dried (again, the tropical humidity). Never going back to a clothes line.
We have separate bedrooms! I can sleep now! We love each other very much. He snores and has to have total blackness and quiet. I need a night light and meditation or sound. I like being snuggled warm. He likes freezing. It works great!❤
We have the same room but two large beds, one each 😂👌
We both feel every movement n wake up.. so this saves that issue and now we sleep well.
It's more important to have a good sleep every night huh!!
I saw a video magazine article that discussed that about 30% of married couples sleep in separate rooms. No one talks about it because then you get a judgment that your relationship is not healthy. Ours improved once we decided to sleep separately,
@@goldenemily1 exactly! Well rested!
Sounds exactly like us here... my husband also loves total blackness and quiet, and I need night lights in a couple of places in the room. We have 2 cats as well; one sleeps with him and the other with me. We all get a good sleep that way. 😄
Sleep divorce best thing ever
I'm an American in the USA. I have always had seperate blankets and quilts for my husband and myself. We share a huge king size bed, but each use our own queen size blankets. To "make the bed" each day, the blankets are folded and put on the bench, and the king sized decorative quilt is spread across the bed. No fighting over pulled covers, too hot or too cold,etc. Happily married 40+ years.
There was a TV show that aired in both Sweden and the U.S. called "Welcome to Sweden". I remember one scene where the Swedish wife was getting ready to leave for work. She looked through the peep hole in the apartment door to make sure none of the neighbors was outside so she didn't have to interact with them. A culture after my own heart! 😆
Although I'm only 1/8th Swedish this is very very relatable to me! 😅😂
I remember that!!! I feel like it came on one Saturday morning when I was forced to watch it instead of cartoons. I remember being pissed off at first and then totally engrossed and fascinated!
My husband and are both very introverted. We prefer communicating via internet versus directly. The personal space and interaction habits are SO relatable!
I am an extravert and there have been times that I've wanted to listen to my own music but get interrupted when riding the bus. But I've also talked with people when waiting too.
I live in Germany and when I hear some of the neighbors are leaving at the time when I have to leave also, I wait a bit, until they are gone, then I leave the Apartment 😅
I live in Mumbai, India, which is very humid but we always hang our clothes out to dry in the sun. The sun is free and there's no better way of drying or airing out clothes and sheets. The smell of sundried sheets and clothes is absolutely the best.
From humid Florida and my nanny hung up towels and sheets on the clothesline to dry. The smell of warm summer sun on sheets is such a treasured memory :)
So much the best. I love sleeping outdoors, and sun dried sheets are the next best thing.
Same in Aus. Where I am people only use a dryer if it's been raining for a week. Cost of electricity is ridiculous and unnecessary.
Absolutely! Smell the sun in your clothes!!❤
Exactly! Our home came with a dryer, but one day it broke, and I began hang-drying laundry, and now I prefer this. There's no dryer that can give bedding and clothing that wonderful, sun-dried freshness 🥰
As a Norwegians, my husband and I also keep the window open during the winter. When extra cold, we were a beanie/ hood. Extras warm duvet with down and feathers. Best nights ever.
I’m from Wales, and I keep my bedroom window open all year round. I use plenty of warm bedding. The same with the house. I rarely use central heating; we have a log stove in our man living room and we wear warm clothing, I hate the feeling of hot rooms. All my bedding is always hung into line outside.
We in Serbia do that too :)
I do that in Florida (US) too
Drives my husband crazy but I crack our windows open to sleep. If the tip if my nose is cold I can breathe
I love cold weather sleeping. The long nights and fluffy blankets
Its less common now, but most older housekeeping books included open windows in the morning to air out sheets in the AM.
I’ve been doing this. Turning the sheet & comforter way down and leaving it that way next to the open window.
Sooooo
We watched your video, looked at each other and the next day bought 2 single duvets!!! Omg what a great sleep!!!! No more fighting for the covers with the dogs! We each get a cocoon!!! Thank you for the video
The cold kills dust mites too! Perfect for those with allergies. :)
Yes, + shaking the bedding + UV in sunlight add to the effect!
OMG I need to do thisss
It needs to be quite cold though, many dust mites can survive happily for hours on end at -4°C and can even sometimes survive down to -15°C, and dust mite eggs can survive down to -70°C. So it's good to still wash things at 55°C and above for true eradication of mites and their eggs.
Where I live it's hot and dry much of the year with brush and weed pollen blowing around a lot. So not sure I'd want my bedding out in that.
I could totally see doing it in frozen tundra though.
But cold can create mold. Damned if ya do and damned if ya don’t 😂 Allergies suck
When the pollen is high as trees, grasses and other plants wake up in spring, people with allergies couldn't put their sheets and bedding out.. that would be horrible.
But it totally makes sense to air it sheets in a dry cold climate.
I love sleeping in the cold.
It's hard to sleep when it's too warm and humid.
Same. I would love to air out my sheets and blankets. But I live in FL and the pollen and humidity is crazy. 😭
@@ATomas4I’m in Bama and I was thinking the same thing. Right now my porch is quite literally yellow from pollen and I swept it this morning.
Yeah. I would never hang my clothes up outside to get rid of dust. It would introduce too many allergens and defeat the purpose. I shake things out, vacuum daily, and wash and dry often on high heat to kill bacteria and microbes.
True, in humid climates I can't do this, the duvet would end up damp and awful.
@@ATomas4me too….and not to mention MOLD is the state flower of Florida!
My parents were Scottish we all slept during the day outside in the yard. Our dogs were always watching over the carriage.
Aww that’s so sweet..
I'm English, and so did we.
I’m American and live in a subdivision.
I open my front & back doors during thunderstorms/rain so the air can travel quickly through the house. Then I put my infants/toddlers in bouncy chairs in the door ways. They sleep for 2-3 hours every time.
It’s not the same as completely outside but pretty close.
That sounds lovely! ❤
I'm Scottish and had my son in May and he was outside for all his naps with our family dog under the pram ❤ I always air my bed I take my duvet off everyday and hang it over an indoor clothes horse and I always open my window in the morning.
As an American, every time I watch one of these Swedish culture videos, I marvel at how strangely we do things here, and how much more sensibly you guys do things. Honestly, we could learn a lot from you. I wish people here resepected personal space in the same way as Swedes, as I am a very reclusive and introverted sort of person. This is challenging in the United States.
I always call it “ smell the sun on the duvet” love it! My mum( from the Netherlands) always hung bedding outside! I live in New Zealand!
Coming from Denmark, I can confirm every single thing said about the Scandinavian sleep method in this video. Individual duvets are absolutely essential to a good nights sleep
Same in Germany!🙌🏼
Yes, we used to do this in Germany as well. Now living in Australia it's unheard of. Am considering going back to the 2 cover option as well.
I've tried it and I'm an American and I agree no fighting over blankets that someone else takes from you in the middle of the night.
Same in Estonia!
Finland here, this video is definitely very relatable. I live alone and sleep with two duvets, can’t imagine sharing just one with somebody haha.
I'm American and been married 30 years. I've always bought individual blankets for my husband and I. It's much more practical that way. I'll have to tell him we are Scandinavian now. WOOHOO 🙂
It truly is! We discovered this somewhat by accident as mine sleeps better with a weighted blanket, but they make me feel like I'm trapped and suffocating 😅 separate blankets, better sleep!
Separate duvets save marriages🙌🏼🙌🏼 I'm a blanket hog so we early on started that, it's also nice because we can have different weight ones, switch ours out for the season when we want to, it's honestly just so nice🥰
My husband and I have individual blankets as well....he would never sleep under as many blankets as I do😂
My parents are originally from the Ukraine, although they’ve been in the US for over 70 years now, and my mom always had separate blankets for her and my dad. When making the bed she’d just put one on top of the other.
@@lmolarissa that's what we do, we have a Ukrainian/American household.
Back in Ukraine there was never a big culture on privacy and shared spaces is most common, but having your own blankets and personal towels is normal.
Here in the US, my mother hung our sheets out on the clothes line in all seasons. She brought in frozen, stiff sheets & they defrosted in the house. I LOVED that smell! Clean , fresh bedding = 💯 better nights sleep!
Same, in New England
I am not Swedish nor my husband is but we have been using separate duvets for years. Best decision ever.
What size did you get can I ask? It seems like a terrific idea
@ two queen size. Mine is goose down, it gets too hot for him. He has synthetic feather.
@@e-squared1053 thank you.
Separate bedrooms are even better! No more snoring,can sleep stretched out like a starfish and I can put light on in middle of the night if needed! We are early retired so see each other enough lol
And here in sunny Greece we do exactly the same winter as summer. We take out and spread the quilts for at least 2-3 hours. Fresh air is the best we can do. The smell of fresh air and the sun is a wonderful feeling.
and also in Italy !
Same in Croatia! There is maybe only a little difference when you live in a street with a lot of traffic, because of the smog. Then we put the quilts outside during the weekend when there is less air pollution. My family lives outside the city center, we put them outside every dry weather day.
I air out my pillows in the sun always.
I m guessing you dont live in athens center. I try to air my quilts like my grandma used to. Not sure about the result, hahaha,. Secilia sounds great your system!
@@usurpadora3985 No, I don't live in Athens, I live in wonderful and sunny Crete, away from the gas, the hustle and bustle of the city. I live in Neapoli Lasithiou Crete a small town where everything is simple and beautiful. The air smells of musk from my roses and lilacs, the geraniums are in full bloom and the place around me is magical. The atmosphere smells of fresh bread from the neighborhood oven and of the dry-baked cinnamon rolls... So I can say that I am very lucky to live and breathe the fresh air of Crete!!! Good morning to all of you !!
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Lol too true
I will be doing this from now on with my blankets and sheets!
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My husband adopted sleeping with the two duvet, last fall, after seeing it on your channel. GAME CHANGER!!!! We constantly “fought” over the covers. Now there is total peace in the bedroom! Thank you SO much. Wish we had seen this decades ago!!!
it doesn't always work for us, sometimes my husband yanks my duvet off me in the middle of the night really mad that I've "taken his duvet". I get a grumpy apology once he realizes he kicked his off
in my head: why didn't i think of that??? live your best couples life❤❤❤
@@Bethanjbjrs😂😂😂😂
We've been doing this for about 10 years now, it's made such a difference!
It took two weeks of being married to my hubby for me to ask if he wanted us to have two blankets because apparently I burrito myself, and asleep me has no regard for my bedmate. He very enthusiastically said YES, and that's when I realized my man would rather freeze to death than advocate for his own comfort. LOL We've had our own blankets since then, and I highly recommend it.
I love the freshness and smell of air dried linens its nostalgic. This sounds like heaven. Crisp bedding every night 🥰
Growing up in Derry, Ireland (55.5 degrees north) from May until August, we had to get used to going to bed at "night" when the sun was still shining outside and we could hear the older children still playing games in the streets. It was brutal. I protested every night to my parents. Our father took to reading us old children's classics in bed to distract us. It worked. What is it about being read aloud to that is so delicious and comforting? It feels like the ultimate Love. And it works just as well today when kids are upset or distracted. They seem to calm down and come into focus by the third sentence. A good author to read to kids is Robert Louis Stevenson - I loved "Kidnapped." Thanks, Cecelia, Patron Saint of Music.
Because listening requires different brainwaves, and forming pictures in your mind the same.
My Irish Mom put me outside to sleep in Saskatchewan Canada in minus 40 degree .She thinks that is why I avoided getting ill during the polio epidemic in the 1950s
Polio is highly contagious - being healthy will not protect you, sadly. She fortunately must've also kept you away from other people - or you were just very lucky!
Yes because your body has built up so much immunity and if you factor in a healthy nutrition intake and exercise 😮 you might need to hide from the men in black because that's now basically super human strength 💪. Our bodies (humans) are biological artificial intelligence, the last of his kind and it knows how to heal itself and strengthen itself, of course; if the avatar managing the body knows how to take care of it properly. Your mother did well having you sleep out in the cold
My family were Swedish ancestry in Saskatchewan. It was the same for us, always napping babies in prams outdoors. I think the sunlight provided vitamin D that contributed to healthy immune function. The coldest I remember walking to school was -52 C.
My mum also aired duvets outdoors and I continue to do so.
I think it's the Vitamin D kids get from being in the sun, that's so important for good health.
Btw minus 40 is the one temperature that's the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius, I remember playing outside when it was minus 40, but lots of American kids now won't go outside at all if it's minus 20F, so they get sun-deprived.
@@zxyatiywariii8 in many places, like Sweden in the video, the sun you get in winter can never be enough even if you spend all daylight there. In Poland first half of the summer is also really cloudy so you really just get either darkness or half-darkness. Everyone is sun-deprived. There are other sources of vit D though, fish and pills.
My mom is First Nations (Canada) and she made me take all my naps on the balcony when I was a baby, back then we lived in Montréal. You do know we get -20 over here. To this day I sleep with the window open in winter omg so fresh such great sleep! I love the smell of snow.
Also I think I need to introduce my parents to the 2 duvets idea lol
I assuming-20C?
@@deekang6244 You're assuming correctly.
Two duvets made an enormous difference, both in our sleep and our ability to stay warm/cool enough. Linen covers are also wonderful. Airing them outside would collect pollen and pollution here in the city, though.
i am from Indiana, USA and in the winter i sleep in shorts, with four fans on high, and my window open and it is the best thing in the entire world i love it
I want to be Swedish!! The second my husband heard that you have your own duvet, he looked at me and knew that is what I would love! Swedish people rock!! Personal space respect ✅ separate duvets ✅
The way you do the sponsored part with Grim is hilarious and original ! Thank you for being creative for this part as much as for the rest !
I am Canadian, and still always air out my bedding. I had my husband make a clothesline for me because I missed having somewhere to hang out my bedding. As well I will very often hang out my wet laundry and have them dry on the line rather than in a clothes dryer. You can’t beat the smell of line dried clothes and bedding!
I am also from Canada, originally from a very small (population 300) village where everyone hung out their clothes to dry and we also were sent out to play, regardless of any type of weather. I will say that we do not put our children outside to sleep. now I live about an hour outside of Toronto and there are by laws that we cannot have a clothes line, I do put my duvets out to air on good weather days, and carpets etc. Unfortunately in most places in Canada and the US it just would not be safe to leave a child unattended asleep outside and more than likely if one did this a neighbor would report the parents to Child protective services and they would come and tell the parents this is against the law. One could of course do this in very rural settings where no neighbor could see what was happening and the threat of kidnapping is substantially lower.
I live in the US but my grandma was Norwegian and my grandpa was Finish. So a lot of what you talked about - not thinking about it - I just assumed it was the way it was supposed to be!😂 we sleep with individual blankets, we air out our blankets. We sleep with the room dark and we believe in going outside in the sun regardless of the temp to get vitamin D. Thank you for sharing where my (unknown) sleeping traditions came from!
how is it that people from Nordic countries can speak English with almost a perfect accent? Your Swedish vowels are very different from English sounds and yet you manage to do the transition so beautifully between the two.
better education
State funded and yet very good state education, may I add. Also apparently they have subtitles in films on tv, which is not a standard in Europe.
She speaks better English than many Americans I encounter.
Children take English languages classes in school. Most English tourists don't bother to learn a nordic language, it helps business wise to speak English. Depending on where the person lives, they may know Danish, German, and many folks know French. The countries are close together and speak different languages. Where in the USA no matter where you go someone is going to speak American.
TV and games. Not education like all the fart sniffers are saying
For my fellow Americans - we started doing this after watching Cecilia. We have a king sized bed and use two twin sized duvets and it works great. I think two twin sized would work well for a queen sized bed, too. We have weighted duvets and normal duvets to choose from depending what we want and the season. We're hooked!
I can confirm two twin sized (or single bed sized, like Cecilia shows in the video) duvets work great in a queen sized bed. My husband and I have been using this method for years as we each get too hot in our current middle age! It helps us regulate our own temps and not feel the other one radiating heat so much.
I am not Swedish (rather Canadian), but I am such an advocate of individual duvets - have used them for over 20 years now. I also like to be cool, and my partner likes to be warm, and I agree - the covers are not made of steel, and you can cuddle at any time but come back to your own little zone when you sleep! I actually just put out our duvets before I sat down to watch this video - a wonderful spring day with a huge flock of snow geese resting in the field just south of us.
Do the twin size duvets work out for your bed (I assume you have a queen or king?) ? I was looking at the dimensions of the twin duvets at the American IKEA and it seems like the European and American duvets are slightly different sizes.
I have severe pollen allergies and I live in Florida (so quite humid).
I used to have a clothesline but after my allergies worsened despite receiving allergy shots (I'd frequent anaphylaxis episodes), my allergist told me that to minimize the amount of episodes that it was best that I no longer hang my bedding and clothing outside.
However, I then took to putting my sheets and smaller blankets in my garage to hang up and turn on a uvc light along with occasionally putting them in the freezer.
I’m in Florida too. I had the same thoughts, bugs and pollen.
I live in Florida too and there is no way that I would put my sheets outside because there’s too much pollen and bugs. I have terrible sinuses and also cannot really live in air-conditioning 24/7. I moved here for family reasons, but it really is not a climate that suits me. I’m originally from Singapore and I was frequently sick there as well. So I understand what you’re going through, and I almost wish I was back in a colder climate, in another state maybe, so I can enjoy that and feel better. I would love to hang my bedding out in cold Arctic air! 😂
I'm in Tennessee and learned hanging clothes outside gets stink bugs. I grew up in Ohio and Minnesota where that wasn't the same and we hung everything outside.
Putting them in the freezer for 2 weeks kills bedbugs, I've heard. I wonder if Scandinavians have fewer infestations?
@@tiryaclearsong421We have stinkbugs in even northern Ohio now :( For probably a decade at this point.
I lived in Germany for 2 years and remember the duvets hanging out windows in the winter 🥶 to get rid of the germs as we Americans would say! I thought it was the the coziest thing so I did it too and we slept w the windows cracked during the snowy winter months! So cozy w the radiator steam heat ❤. I had the best sleep for 2 years! Now I live in hot 🥵 Florida and my sleep is awful! 😞 I miss those cozy winter nights sleeps in beautiful snow capped Germany 🇩🇪 the sun didn’t set until after 10 pm so the metal shades on our townhome windows were such a delight! Your village looks like such a cozy, magical place! I also used to take my colicky baby daughter (now 17) outside in the snow at night to relax her!
I worked for IKEA for more than 28 years, most of that time in the US corporate office. I frequently traveled to Sweden and Denmark. One of the first odd thing I experienced was the reflection gasp of air. It scared me the first time and I had to ask what it meant. As you probably know, American like to share their viewpoint in meetings and like to leave knowing decisions have been made. Swedes like to only speak when they have something important to say, spend a lot of time reflecting, are looking for consensus, and you may leave a meeting having decided nothing. I learned to accept it, regardless of how frustrating it was at times.
When I was a child, during the summer my mom would hang then sheets and pillowcases outside to dry them. The smell of those sheets was the freshest thing ever and I slept so much better.
I’m in Australia and was thinking the whole video, where can I hang these without bringing in spiders or other bugs 🤣. Bit envious, I bet it’s very good for you. Great vid!
Yikes, you guys got some dangerous bugs.😢😂
Same here.. funnel webs in fact. I’m in Qld so it’s humid AF about half the year too. Ahhh well, I might chance it now it’s coming into winter and just shake the heck out of it!! 😂
I'm in Queensland and I've never had spiders or other bugs on my washing. Mostly now i use lines on my covered veranda, or it's it winter or rainy, I hang my washing on lines in my shed (it's a 2 car shed, so big). I very rarely use the dryer. I'm in my 70s now but remember the days of helping mum hang the washing on lines strung around the yard and using props to get the lines up so sheets etc didn't hit the ground.
Exactly! I’m in Los Angeles, between the strong winds and curious birds, spiders, daddy-long-legs, squirrels and the occasional ant or grasshopper I wouldn’t hold out much hope for clean bedding. Love the idea though.
I’m in Australia and have no bugs when I hang out my bedding on the hills hoist. Queensland sunshine is great for giving your sheets that breezy sunny freshness. The separate doonas is brilliant that would of saved so many relationships 😂
Between washings, I turn off the heat in my bedroom, open all the windows, turn back the sheets, and leave them to air all day. I love it!
I'm Canadian and my parents used to bundle me up and set me in the pram on the front porch for naps in the winter. Now this was 60+ years ago don't know about parents of today. But I'm still here.
Just a little tip if you're planing to come to Australia our humidity ranges between 60 and 90% especially if you live near the coast. Some days you might actually be dampening your duvet if you put it outside.
In this case I would recommend a dehumidifier
My German mom taught us to hang our laundry on our clothesline. Some days the bed sheets were frozen but very fresh. 😊
We live in Wisconsin with cold winter's ( -10° to 32° F). We just open bedroom windows to refresh our beds and bedrooms. Open window shut door all day brings in luscious cold air to crisp up our bedding!❤
Hello . I'm from Wisconsin too. Love a cracked window in the Winter 😊
My husband could live in a sauna
❤ this idea!
Agreed, I grew up on the MN-WI border to second gen Norwegian parents and they did this for us while we were all at work and school (and to reduce energy costs, of course). Now that I work from home as an adult that's no longer an option, but a few times across the winter I'll move my necessary work stuff out to the dining room and close up the bedroom with the windows open. It's so nostalgic!
We often hang our bedding out to air on a line. Live in the UK and we always have! There is NOTHING like the smell and feeling of fresh air fresh clothes and bedding.
UV light from the sun is magic!
Also, as a baby I was put outside to sleep as was brother, in our yard / back garden.
Me too, I love airing out my duvet! My parents put me and my brother to nap outside as babies too (late 80s/early 90s England) 😊
Same…my mum and dad always put us outside as babies…it was quite the norm in the UK wasn’t it. I did it with my babies as well.
This is the best way and the oldest way to freshen up your sheets, bed covers, pillows, you name it. I am from Egypt, and we have been doing this for as long as I can remember. I took it from my mother and grandmother, she took it from her mother..etc. this is why we don’t use dryers for our laundry, we have to air dry it outside. Even if we don’t have space or garden, people make laundry rakes outside their windows or in balconies. It makes your clothes last even longer.
I'm an American who lived most of my life in Virginia. Horribly hot/humid summers. Very distinct seasons. Hanging laundry on the line was a pleasure. Cows would line up by the fence and watch me peg clothes and bedlinens. An orgasmic pleasure; hanging bedlinens on the line, gardening and getting hot and sticky, getting a cool shower at the end of the day, getting into a line dried loose cotton nightie and slipping into the just made bed at the of the day. Nothing smells like line-dried cotton. A deep pleasure that cost nothing!!
I live in Oregon and it’s almost always humid, especially in the winter when it’s just wet and rainy all the time. Any idea if I can do better than just making sure to check the weather?
One famous happy Finn here 😁 Separate duvets is a must! At winter time you can easily air your bedding out, but in the summer time it's not so easy. It's humid, rains, bugs, pollen and many other things. Then we air the whole house or at least the bedrooms out. Fresh air, better sleep. Also at summer time the sun shines or it's very brigh outside, so good blackout curtains. You can also duple or triple the effect, if you have blinds etc. The problem usually is that I can't calm down for the night, because the light gives me signal to DO things. So by 23.00 I just have to go to a dark room to calm myself down. And no electronics after 22.00. If I have to, I read. Usually I read all the time, so that is no problem 👍😆 And yes, I have slept outside as a baby, and my kids have slept outside. Usually the best sleep has been outside. And even now I enjoy a good nap in a hammok, in a cosy chair or anywhere soft outside.
Having separate duvets is a simple but GENIUS way of living. I can imagine that has saved a lot of relationships 😂 Feel like I'm a Swede at heart, with all the personal space stuff! I wish everyone in the UK was like that.
I am from Trinidad and even though it's the tropics we aired our sheets and blankets out on lines. So here is the crazy thing, I have been doing the Scandinavian sleep method all my life. Everyone makes fun of me for it but I have always had a personal blanket even under the top cover and I love it.
YES to the 2 duvets. No longer pulled from me, quieter sleep, and just so much better.. love love love.
Ok seriously though - how are you guys so much better than the rest of us??? I swear, Scandinavians are just further up the evolutionary ladder 🙌
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After visiting Iceland and Switzerland, I was like 2 duvets makes so much sense!!! And have adopted it. My husband still thinks it’s weird we’re sleeping with different blankets but I’ve never been happier. LOL! And sleep is my top priority also!
I live in Canada and had never heard of sleeping with two duvets, but I saw one of your older videos where you talked about it and I went right out and bought two twin duvets and covers. Best thing ever! We don’t disturb each other when we move around anymore and if you’re hot you can flip the blanket down without stealing it from the other person, amazing! ❤ Highly recommend!
Cecilia, I think that the concept of letting children nap outside when they're fully protected from being too cold is wonderful. At the same time though, during our ice storm here in Texas 3 years ago we had 7 days of indoor temperatures of 31 degrees during the day. We felt it with no way to start a fire and not being able to run our stove constantly. Our usual winter weather is about 18C during the day. There really must be no bad weather, just bad clothing for it. I think that you and Christopher would have breezed through it and carried on happily as long as the stove worked, and you could make hot drinks. I love your videos and thanks for sharing about your Swedish heritage. It's always lovely to learn new things about people and places.
I used to let my daughter sleep outside in her stroller in minus degrees because my mom did the same with me and my siblings when we were babies. I certainly think it improved my daughter's quality of sleep by a mile. Scandinavian weather conditions, especially during winter, is prefect for sleep. I loved sleeping with the window open during colder months while growing up. We would keep the radio on too. It was the best. 🥰
Best sleep EVER! Thank you for teaching us how to share our bed better. This method should shared in marriage counseling. Everyone gets what they need and closeness is never challenging.
Canadian here and we all grew up sleeping outside. I always leave my bedroom window open a bit even in the Winter. I wish I had a good spot to put my bedding before going to bed though!
I had never heard of the Scandinavian Sleep Method until I started watching this channel. My husband and I started sleeping under our own blankets when I was pregnant with our first child because I was constantly stealing the cover all night and it worked so well that we still do this. I can’t sleep if I’m cold though. When I was little I had a friend who’s parents kept their house cold at night and when I would sleep over they would wake up looking for me and I would be in the living room under their heater. They still tease me about this many years later! Lol!
I love the fresh air smell that comes from hanging bedding, blankets and clothes outside. 😊
I just wash them.
I’m from the west coast of Canada and the only person that I know of who doesn’t share a duvet with her partner. To discover that there are 3 countries of people who share this practice made me feel so good and normal! Thank you for sharing your videos! They are a joy to watch.
Lol there are many more, all of the Nordics (like my country, Finland) and the Germans in this comment section have said that they also do separate duvets. 👍 Probably a big part of the rest of Europe as well.
I come from New Zealand. My four babies all slept outside in their prams, ( unless it was raining) after their morning bath and breast feed. I air my bed every morning and air my duvet in the sun once a week. I love Mondays because that's my change the sheet day. My mother and my grandmother did the beds on Mondays, ironed all the linen on Tuesday. The rest of the week was apportioned to housekeeping, cooking, preserving etc. Sunday was for Church and resting. I'm 73 and enjoy carrying on their traditions.
It used to be this way in the USA during earlier times. There were clothes lines and children were in the carriages sleeping outside and outside playing.
Sad that you can’t leave your children out side unattended here in the US. Born in 1950 and I remember how I loved the smell of laundry just picked off the line.
We were left outside to nap in the fifties…
America used to be a lot better
@@cherylkruisheer3365 There is nothing stopping current parents from leaving their kids to sleep in their stroller on the back porch.
@@ShadeadderI think it's the safety of leaving a child in many places in North America. That's all.
Thank you for showing. I'm Swiss and my husband and I sleep the same way....except....we even started to sleep in separate rooms...and we absolutely love it.
I am Canadian but my family is Scandinavian. I have re-adopted the individual duvet sleep method and it’s life changing. I will never go back. ❤
I grew up in south Texas having to hang all laundry out on the clothesline and there is nothing more refreshing than the fresh outdoor smell on sheets and towels. More power to y'all!
Texas wow -- fresh air when I travel through Texas I smell oil and when i get to the country side i smell stink from the animals , just saying Texas stinks
That view of the ocean is spectacular
Love this video. I’m from the US but my mother was German. She often aired our bedding. Two duvets is genius!
The other half and I have been doing this for a while. He’s a blanket hog and I was so tired of waking up shivering lol. We now have our own blankets and sleep has never been better. I’ve also started airing them out over our balcony and can attest to the huge difference! I need to thank you so much for that tip. Pulling a nice crisp clean smelling blanket up under my chin is incredible!! Sleep masks are wonderful! I have one that has speakers and I play soothing sounds through it overnight to help me sleep. 100% would recommend. Love you bye!
This was very interesting. I enjoyed hearing how others around the world do things. Very fascinating! I love more videos like this. (I showed my 7 year old granddaughter one of your videos, first thing she said was “She’s beautiful” and “I love the way she talks” 😊😊 True and true!
Literally refreshing! I remember living in Germany 57yrs ago similar daily practice. Now live in Arizona! Love the content! Thank you!
After two European trips where we both slept so much better, we switched to the Scandinavian way last May. It's more difficult to air our bedding outside in Texas, but shaking out the bedding every day helps. We love it!
I'm in SE Texas, the pollen can nearly choke you some days, especially in early spring when the pine trees turn everything yellow within a few hours. I remember my grandmother hanging clothes out to dry on the clothesline while growing up in Ohio. I miss being able to do that and not get a face full of pollen.
In Australia most homes with backyards have a clothesline where we hang clothes to dry after washing. The sun & fresh air makes a massive difference compared to using a dryer. Thanks to Cecilia I've also started hanging out my duvet to air once a week when I change my bedding.
The bugs aren't too bad where I live in Aus!
Same… never owned a dryer. I tell my grown kids that I use free solar and wind power to dry/air my washing. No problem with bugs, ever, despite living in Queensland, Everything in this video is also practiced in my home country of Finland.
Separate duvets is brilliant. I was married to a blanket hog and this would have been perfect. I just started watching you yesterday and I am loving your channel. ❤
Yay, thank you! 😍🧡
I'm just now discovering this is Swedish, and I'm so excited there's a whole country where this is the norm!
Always my parents did this, and I never knew anyone else's parents who did. But now I can just tell people, "It's the Swedish way!" 😊
Danish here and I like my sleep, cocoon, too! The separate covers are perfect for us because he sleeps all tucked in and I like everything loose and movable.
Yes some of us do! I'm from America and my Mom always hung the sheets and blankets on the cloths line in fall and winter because the smell is absolutely heavenly, but they seem to smell good longer!
I'm actually going to tell my son about the 2 duvet method because he was complaining that he and his wife have different temperature needs at night. It is so simple when you think about it. Don't worry about bugs in your bedding in Australia - most people wash their sheets weekly and hang them out to dry in the sun. They smell amazing that way. I personally don't make my bed as soon as I get up, because of the humidity etc, but pull the covers back and let them air out for a while before I make the bed. Btw, most Aussie homes have got flyscreens on the windows so we open our windows most of the year around for the fresh air.
I figured out the two duvet method more than 20 years ago. It’s a great idea although some people seem to think that married couples should share the same blanket. I do not! I like my own space under my blanket and it’s much more comfortable, and my husband agrees. Airing my blankets outside is not exactly possible here especially during the winter when it gets to -30 Celsius. What I do instead is flip the duvets back over the end of the bed and let them stay like that for a few hours
until I make the bed.
Thanky for sharing. We're a quilt culture here in Minnesota. Lots of them. Pile em on! In winter, the heavier the better. Quilting is very popular hobby. Though we do keep bedroom window open most nights when possible. You did inspire me to air couple quilts out today. :) Everybody loves that smell.
My mother in Poland 25 years ago was throwing bed covers out on fresh air, I recently started doing that again. This morning ritual seems right to me.
I love that you enjoy your beautiful view and don’t take it for granted. I also love that you share it with us.
I loved all the footage of Grim! And the detailed information about the two duvets was great. We have a king size duvet but I often use a small blanket underneath the covers to help me fall asleep. I hope you enjoy your polar day and soak up all the vitamin D rays. Lots of love from Alberta, the sunniest province in Canada ❤
After watching Cecilia advise two duvets, we switched over and oh my goodness! No more fighting for the blankets. 😂 It’s life-changing!
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Love your channel! :) I grew up in Poland and my parents and grandparents also put the duvets outside during winter to freshen them up and eliminate bacteria. We never slept outside as kids, though. I live in Canada now and my daughter was born last winter. I was petrified to take her outside at first because of the harsh winter but learned that with proper gear and clothing it can be enjoyable and she slept peacefully during our walks ❤ Greetings to you and thank you for teaching us your Scandinavian lifestyle! :)
Back in the days before 2000's, here in Finland we also had babies sleep in their carriages outside while we went to a restaurant or whatever. We also had the outdoors unlocked even at night (when we were at home). After the 9/11 and other stuff, all of this slowly faded away and even though it's sensible, I miss those days when violence wasn't an everday worry.
I love sleeping with a sleep mask - it is fabulous if you want to nap during the day 😴 I like the ones that have a moulded piece around the nose
Love this thank you! My Danish ancestors and late Swedish grandmother agree! I get the need personal space and fresh air on a deep level. It’s terrific to hear the dry snow crunching under your feet. Excited to find your channel!
I love the individual sleeping cocoon. Im a very sensitive sleeper, my partner and I need separate rooms.
I am so jealous of this! It sounds amazing. I live in Florida and it’s never cool enough here, even at night, to make sheets feel fresh. And it’s so humid here, anything outside becomes damp. Also, bugs. Dog only knows what sorts of critters might come back in with them if you were to hang your sheets outside. But, I’ve visited places where this is possible and it is truly magic for sleep. Cecilia, thank you so much for sharing your life with those of us that live so differently.
Exactly- South Carolina is the same-- bugs and pollen!! And humid
Plenty of places around the world that are as hot and humid as Florida where people air out their sheets, dry their laundry, etc. They will get hot certainly but it's still beneficial in killing germs, mold, etc and it smells fresher. As someone with dust mite allergies, it helps me a lot to air out bedding.
In Alabama - those sheets would be coated in frickin pollen like everything else 😢 Same with my kid’s lungs. I swear we go to the ER once a month during the Spring for breathing issues.
❄️Minnesotan here, we grew up with Mom leaving windows cracked open all night in the frigid winter and no heat on. Loved it, as well as driving on frozen lakes and ice fishing. ❄️❄️❄️
We sleep like that! I got my fiance into it, even when it's a snowstorm here in MI we have our bedroom window open. In the summer we don't have central air but we do have a room air conditioner for the bedroom. It's not ideal but it's better than not being able to sleep. I actually look forward to winter for the fresh air at night.
There have been many times when my bedroom window has frozen open, 😂 Thankfully I live in the solitude of the country so airing/drying bedding etc is no problem. My sisters were very impressed when I coined it “solar drying” back in the 70’s.
I’m in West Virginia. I love my bedroom open during the winter and hanging bedding and clothes outside on a clothesline. Fresh air is the best !!
My husband and I traveled to Iceland last year and at first I was horrified by the lack of top sheets. But pretty quickly we realized this was brilliant. I tend to move down the bed at night and pull the sheets with me. Now we have separate duvets and I can move all I want and not disturb him! It’s also nice since he comes to bed later, so I don’t wake up from him pulling the comforter anymore
I am from Brazil, and since my husband did a very delicate surgery on his shoulder a few years ago, we started to use two duvets... And we still like that until those days.
It's really amazing!
i clicked right away coz i agree and love how you always share & show the scandinavian sleep method and finally a whole video just for it!! Thank you so much for this vid Cecilia!
Loved the show this morning. Being an American of Swedish decent, I am always curious as to Swedish customs. I nodded in agreement that I like my own space when in a room or in line. The answer to a good night's sleep...the duvet. Who would have guessed.
Didn't know about babies taking naps outside year long.❤
Love all your videos. Keep up the great work.
I have a clothes line in my back yard. My neighbors don't like it but I'm not giving up my fresh, sunshine scented, bedding for anyone.
What a weird thing for a neighbor to care about, it’s your property and your clothes
We live in a condo townhouse complex in Canada and we are not allowed to hang any laundry outside due to “aesthetics”. It’s ridiculous. I miss having a yard and a clothes line like we did when I was a kid and lived in Montréal.
@@cheryldueck318 I’m so sorry you’re dealing with that. That truly is ridiculous. And such an infringement on basic personal liberty. How you choose to wash and dry your clothes should not be dictated by another person’s sense of aesthetic. They can decorate their own yards and houses and vote on public spaces like parks, they don’t get to dictate your apartment and your exterior space in near proximity to your home without touching someone else’s space. Their care about aesthetics should not be more important than you deciding to save costs or not use certain chemicals or too much electric power. That should be completely your choice.
For all the benefits the city has, sometimes the country really does win out because you have neighbors but further spaced out and a lot more personal freedom with your own home (where it is perhaps most important to have freedom, where you are “king of your own castle”).
My Italian grandmother would always air out the bed and bedding every morning, no matter the weather. Windows open, etc. I've carried that into my life as well. I've noticed the difference in my quality of sleep through doing just that.
This is what brought me to your channel and I'm sure a lot of other people the first time I ever seen you shake your sheets and put them on that bar in the cold you had me