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@goodlessnaren

2 жыл бұрын

Okay : )

@sabineenglebright6072

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jenna , ich bin Sabine ( Deutsche aber lebe in den Staaten ) hier ein paar Antworten auf deine Fragen . In der Vergangenheit haben Leute im Baugewerbe / Construction Worker in Zoll gemessen und manche tun es Heute noch , es gibt sogar an Arbeitshosen einen extra Platz dafuer . Und manchmal sind Zollstoecke echt more practical special fuer das messen von Hoehen wo Rollmassbaender nicht gerade bleiben . Wegen Medikamenten ! , dass hat ganz einfach mit Regeln und Vorschriften zu tun , in Deutschland nehmen wir das etwas genauer nicht wie hier in North America wo man Medicine im Supermarket kauft >>>> nicht wirklich sicher .

Pills in plastic bottles - very much a danger for kids thinking it's candy. Also the pills aren't sealed well - every time you need to take out ONE, then ALL the pills are exposed to the air.

@frankmitchell3594

3 жыл бұрын

I think blister packs of medicines are usual in Europe. Non-medical pills (like vitamins for example) are in bottles.

@SteffiAkira

3 жыл бұрын

yeah i think it's more hygienic to put them in blisters instead of a bottle. cause in that bottles you try to take out ONE and touch like 3 or 4 other ones beside them.

@hartbigfan1714

3 жыл бұрын

I have seen a washer only in rooms with a water supply so bathroom, kitchen and in the basment in special washing rooms where the entire building complex have their washers...never before have I seen a washer in the bedroom...that door to the bathroom must be so small :O

@KarinMurati

3 жыл бұрын

@@hartbigfan1714 I think it was the dryer, not the washing maschine ☺

@aphextwin5712

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, 1) less easy to swallow a handful all at once (adds a hurdle against overdosing), 2) better protection against counterfeiting, mistakes by the pharmacist or malicious switching, 3) better preservation, 4) can help to keep track of whether you have already taken a pill today. I’d say (1) and (2) are main official reasons, (3) likely varies in importance from drug to drug.

I have never ever seen a dryer/tumbler in other rooms than bathroom, kitchen, basement or special room in Germany. Wow.

@user-sm3xq5ob5d

3 жыл бұрын

Me neither.

@Linda-mb9rx

3 жыл бұрын

Me neither😂

@karinland8533

3 жыл бұрын

I have👍

@SomethingStupide

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, having it in the bedroom is super weird. That would annoy the heck out of me since I like to run the washing machine or dryer over night. Having it rumble and spin in the next room feels kinda soothing while falling asleep but having it right next to my face would drive me insane. :D

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

@@SomethingStupide would drive me insane too 😝 but tenant rules in our apartment include no washing/drying over night, so it’s ok 🙃

There is no designated place for a dryer in an apartment because most people don't own a dryer. 😂

@raimundpousset6272

2 жыл бұрын

Im Jahr 2018 besaßen laut Statistischem Bundesamt durchschnittlich 42,3 % der deutschen Haushalte einen Wäschetrockner.

Nono, the way we eat our bread has nothing to do with sandwiches. On a normal slice of bread we usually put only 2 items: Butter and one of the following: meat, cheese, jam, cream cheese, honey, nutella, sliced eggs, salads (not the green ones, but usually a creamy mesh up with lots of different ingrediences). 6 days a week on one of our 3000 delicious breads, on sunday on rolls. If we want something like pickles with our bread, we do not put them on top of it, but eat them like a side dish. This is Brotzeitkultur, sandwiches are a hole different thing.

@Bismillilah

3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!

@paavobergmann4920

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely put sliced pickles on top of my slice of ham, cheese or liver sausage. But....yeah....a slice of bread and a sandwich feel like two different dishes to me.

@raimundpousset6272

2 жыл бұрын

I think the way we eat bread the German way is strongly linked want we call ABENDBROT. [Evening bread]. Here we eat our BUTTERBROT with sausage, cheese and other sour stuff. In the morning the Butterbrot is or was by tradition sweet with jam, marmelade or honey, Nutella and similar. Today and definetly Sundays the bread turns into rolls [Brötchen or Brezel]. But for the school or the job we had or have the sandwich form too, but with the sliced German bread [In Berlin I heard the term "Klappstulle"]. Meanwhile I have seen it in bakeries too sold as "Schulbrot " [schoolbread]

For the medication: Every pill is sealed so that they're not exposed to the air, humidity and other germs. That way they keep their entire effect. Also it's a lot easier to keep track on how many pills you've taken or whether you forgot one. Plus it helps preventing overdosing.

@petereggers7603

3 жыл бұрын

Seeing people from North America (especially in movies of course) opening up these small bottles pouring 2 - 3 pills in the hand and than swallow it dramatically...is SO weird to me.

@alcar32sharif

3 жыл бұрын

Mixing up the medicine is also less likely. Also, no one can exchange the tablets without it being visible.

@vievie8

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcar32sharif Oh, absolutely. Agreed.

@MusicStopsTimeMST

3 жыл бұрын

And is meant to prevent overdose

@silsternensand

3 жыл бұрын

And its more diffucult to counterfeit sealed tablets. Fake drugs are a serious problem and a billion-dollar market.

You can easily open a beer with a Zollstock. The blisters are to preserve the medicine. And also, there is the slip of paper informing you about the usage and the risks of the medicine.

@arnodobler1096

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and I can better see how many tablets I have already taken today.

@m.h.6470

3 жыл бұрын

@@arnodobler1096 exactly what I thought... it is just easier to see, how many were used, so overdosing becomes much more unlikely.

@Nikioko

3 жыл бұрын

Also called the package leaflet or patient information leaflet...

the medication packaging simply makes it more difficult to take significantly more. Overdosing some medications can have very serious effects and the contents cannot be easily replaced by someone, as the damage to the packaging would be visible. It always irritated me when I started watching US films that someone just easily replaced the contents.

@Baccatube79

3 жыл бұрын

Also, you see when you've already taken your daily dose AND you don't have to fiddle with getting only one pill out of the container.

@SomethingStupide

3 жыл бұрын

Guess we found the reason for the raging North American opioid epidemic - thoughtless, preposterous pill packaging. :D

@habi0187

3 жыл бұрын

At least in the US these containers / bottles are often filled by the pharmacists according to the prescription and the name and dosis is just printed on a small label. No room for side effects and other warnings on this bottles. Additionlly I heard that each year there are thousands of cases of wrong medication since pharmcists make mistakes and put the wrong pills in the bottles. Sometimes even with fatal conseguences. I think it was even in one episode of House M.D.shown as the case of a misterous disease f the patient.

@tnit7554

3 жыл бұрын

It always made me nervous, to observe the pharmacist in the us,filling up medication into the small containers. Did he take the right one? Any information for side effects?

@melindar.fischer5106

3 жыл бұрын

@@tnit7554 some side effects are printed on labels which can be put on the small plastic bottles (along with the label with the name of the medication, name of the prescribing doctor, name of the patient, dose, etc.) Also, the patient receives from the pharmacist a sheet of paper with all of the side effects and the information I listed above. This paper has many paragraphs--printed on the front and back--and may even be on two or three sheets of paper.

In Germany, it's only in really posh neighborhoods where you won't find names besides the doorbells. The reason a German "Butterbrot" is usually open-faced is that it is normally not as packed with ingredients as you showed it. Usually, besides butter spread, it's only one slice of meat cuts or cheese. Maybe one slice of cucumber or tomato for the looks, if the sandwiches are offered at a formal occasion. :-) Cars with speeding cams in the back are not driving when in operation, but parked on the side of the road.

@Sam21998

3 жыл бұрын

In America we hage open faced sandwiches too. But we don't do the doorbell thing just numbers on the apartments. Our cellars in my neighborhood look just as creepy as in Germany though but most homes in my area are 100-200 years old haha. I thought her cellar was clean, my last apartment i had to walk through spider webs from time to time to do my laundry and there was storage lockers down in the cellar that looked like jail cells haha.

@FINNSTIGAT0R

2 жыл бұрын

In Finland people mostly eat open faced sandwiches, at least in home settings. It's pretty much the same as described by bjoern0975.

I am going to have to get myself a zollstock now :-) I have endless irritation with the retractable kind that don't stay straight over a long distance. It's fine if someone is helping you by holding the other end but very annoying when you're on your own and it suddenly "bends" just as you're about to take your measurement.

@chillingandy5837

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect! That's the best explanation why people in germany mainly use "Zollstöcke"!

I've never seen a washing machine in a sleeping room. Our wm has its space in our cellar.

@m.h.6470

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, never seen that as well... Mine is in my apartment, but in my bathroom, so a spill wouldn't cause that much of a disaster...

@taccat361

3 жыл бұрын

she said, it was the dryer, not a wasching machine.

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, haha it is my dryer & having it in the bedroom is not normal! Just happened because it didn’t fit through my bathroom door 🙈🙈

@wololo696969

3 жыл бұрын

@@lifeingermany_ So, you bought the wrong one. Should have used a Zollstock to measure your doors first.

@thorsten6422

2 жыл бұрын

When I see a washing machine in a bedroom, my twisted mind might suspect that it's part of the toy collection.

6:21 Apparently, you are so germanised by now that your go-to interrogatory sound has become 'Hä?' even in the middle of an English sentence. :D

@Kiwi_Bayer

3 жыл бұрын

Ja genau haha

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🙈🙈

@jjsch

3 жыл бұрын

I think Jenna has a certain "german-precondition" deeply ingrained :) I always have to smile after about 10 seconds into her videos. She raises and waves her index finger in this classical teacher way! Always get's me. That's SOOOOOO german :)

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjsch hahaha 🤣 I love hearing what others see!!! I’ve NEVER noticed I do that before!

This is not only in Germany. This is Europe in a nutshell! 😁

In contrast to a measuring tape the foldable yardstick is stiff. So you can push it around and it keeps its shape (mostly). A tape you can lock and to some extent it is stiff but has its limits in that regard.

@henner7371

3 жыл бұрын

If you wonder why every men in Germany uses folding rulers....have you ever tried to open your beer with a measuring tape ?

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

@@henner7371 🤣🤣🤣 best comment!!!

@Llortnerof

2 жыл бұрын

@@henner7371 It's also way harder to bop that stupid colleague on the head with a tape.

@chrisrudolf9839

2 жыл бұрын

Aditionally, you can use it like a ruler if you want to make markings while measuring. In addition to those practical advantages, it being more widely in use in Germany may also be due to a fact that it is actually a German invention.

I think the blister packs come from the fact that you cannot replace the pills with something else and bad guys are able to make some money with that illegally. At least , this is the plan. Another thing is that the active ingredient s are not exposed to air and they will not oxidize as fast as in those big plastic bottles and loose their effectiveness. The bottles are opened and closed a lot of times and everytime new fresh air will get into the bottle. In general, I think the blister pack should guarantee a certain level of quality all over its usage time. Is it environmentally friendly? I don't think so :(

We usually eat a slice of bread with some spread on top.. So, not really a sandwich. If we would eat a sandwich, we'd do it the exact same way as you with the second piece on top.

With the measure stick („Maßstab“ in Austria, „Zollstock“ in Germany) you can do measurements you just can‘t do with the extractable tape, as the tape only has limited stability. With the stick, you can pull out 2 pieces and have them perpendicular to the rest of the stick and measure the distance on the ceiling - something you simply can‘t do with the tape-measure! That‘s the reason, people use them. If they didn‘t have their advantages, people would not use them...

@marcmonnerat4850

2 жыл бұрын

Auch 'Meterstab' oder 'Doppelmeter' im Süden oder in der Schweiz. 'Zollstock' habe ich nie gehört

@EgoundderRest

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcmonnerat4850 Echt jetzt? Zollstock nie gehört? Ich kenne noch "Gliedermaßstab", der Rest ist eigentlich eher ungebräuchlich.

A view remarks from my experience: Zollstock: I use both a measuring tape and a Zollstock in my work, but I prefer the Zollstock in most situations. It doesn't need solid ground to stay in position, and you can measure away from your body (e.g. above you, on overhangs...). Another nice feature is, that you can use it as a ruler and mark alongside it with a pencil. The only real plus for tape is, in my view, that you can more easily measure distances greater than 2 meters. Last Name on Doors: I think this has something to do with the postal service. They can refuse delivery of parcels or mail if your name is unreadable or not marked on your door/mailbox even though the address is correct (It happened to once me after I moved). The post man explained to me later, that this is to prevent wrongful delivery of private mail. Furthermore, the problem in German apartment buildings could be, that all apartments have just one address, and within the building, the allocation is done by name.

@SomethingStupide

3 жыл бұрын

Mailman here - can confirm. I return letters to senders every day if there are no names on the letterboxes. It's to prevent wrongful delivery of private information, as you said, but you also be surprised how often people order parcels to addresses they don't live at, addresses that don't exist, forget to enter their street names, misspell their personal names, forget to change addresses on online accounts after a move - it's insane. By having your name on the mailbox, you can help us to prevent fraud but also help yourself. If your name's on your letterbox of doorbell, your mail carrier will have memorised it after a while and will be able to get your mail to you even if the street name is wrong (think something like 'Bergstraße' instead of 'Bergmannstraße'), if the house number is wrong, if the ZIP code is wrong etc. No name, no mail is my motto at work.

@wora1111

3 жыл бұрын

@@SomethingStupide Danke. Wieder etwas gelernt.

@Sam21998

3 жыл бұрын

In America we do apartment address then a number like when I lived downtown in NY it was 290 ____ (street address) #34 apartment for example and then also put my name. In America we change our address through the post office and mail it back to them with the changes and it takes 2 weeks usually to change it. Sometimes mail get sent to the prior address but most people just leave it out and even sometimes write return to sender wrong address or something like that. So we get it eventually.

@blackbarolo1208

2 жыл бұрын

Und der Zollstock kann auch dafür benutzt werden, Bier zu öffnen :)

Our basement in our apartment in Goslar was much like a cellar in the US, but our basement in our house has a full bathroom, a sauna, a tanning bed, a mechanical room, a workshop, a bar, and a storage room. Our neighbor's basement has a lounge area, a full bath with spa tub, and a laundry room. I guess it depends on the house.

#1 Actually the name "Zollstock" is the more traditional one coined at a time before the metric system, "Zoll" being the word Germans used for "inch". ("Zoll" can also mean toll, which is etymologically related to "Zahl" / count and "zahlen" / pay.) Many Germans will nowadays rather refer to this thingy as "Meterstab". It allows in certain situations for more accurate measures as the floppy roll-up thingy - and it is the traditional tool for at least all craftsmen working with wood. Tailors however will use a measuring tape. #2 The so-called blisters are thought to be more safe. You get an exactly counted number of pills all separately packaged, and children will not so easily take them for candies. So this type of packaging supplanted the formerly used glass or plastic bottles in most cases. #3 Older apartment houses did often not have a dedicated place for such machines. Washing machines were for the rich only. Some houses had collectively used laundry rooms, however - in German called "Waschküche" - washing kitchen. The logic behind this naming was to have a cauldron on a stove to heat the washing water in it: you cooked your laundry to get it clean. The first modern washing machines needed a special base because of their vibrations, so in many houses they could only be put in the basement in the collectively used laundry room. With wealth then came the need for more privacy, and as the technology allowed for putting the washing machine in your own apartment it was put in one of the rooms having water supply. That was often the kitchen, since kitchens were generally far more spacious in old buildings then baths. And dryers were never thought at by architects before the 1960s or after the 1990s, so they had to go where was space, if you wanted some so badly. #4 Many privately owned homes have what you call "basements" - the owners will presumably call it their "Hobbykeller" (hobby room), "Partykeller" or "Kellerbar". But for the builders of apartment houses this is only a store room which does not have to be fancy because its fancyness can't serve as a reason for a higher rent (or a higher price for a condo). That's also true for older houses in general: The cellar was only an (often damp) store room. Wealthy people lived above ground only, and the higher the status the higher the apartment.

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to write me 🥰 your answers were sooo interesting! I love hearing from you all. I seriously learn more from the comments about Germany than anywhere else! ♥️♥️

@jennyh4025

3 жыл бұрын

That „the higher the status the higher the apartment“ part is only true for the time after the invention of lifts/elevators. Before that, it was the „Herrschaften“ on the ground floor and one (rarely two) stories upstairs and the help living under the roof.

@MichaEl-rh1kv

3 жыл бұрын

@@jennyh4025 This is also only partly true. The "mansard" or attic held often the rooms for the domestics. But in a typical patrician house in a medieval city nobody lived on ground level. That was reserved for business: Reception rooms, offices ('Kontor'), (mostly) in the rear buildings sometimes store rooms, garages (for coaches) or horse stables. In many cases the main kitchen was also located at ground level as well as the bath (if the house had one which was not often the case after the end of the medieval era; public bath houses often used also the basement for additional bathing rooms). In a craftsman house the ground floor held the workshop. Patrician houses (as well as bigger craftsman's houses) had at least two stories between the ground floor and the mansard, because building area was scarce in fortified cities. The second floor (first above ground level) held mostly representative and living rooms, the third the bedrooms. In the 19th century the first multifamily residences for middle and upper class inhabitants were build. And even if most of them had no elevators: As a rule of thumb it was even then "the higher the apartment the higher the status" or vice versa. The ground level and the mansard were reserved for servants and store rooms, the stories between were for the "Herrschaften", and the third floor had higher status than the second (which would be named the first floor in Germany or Britain). The fourth floor was at least equal to the third, but the fifth - if there was one beneath the mansard - would have lower status again because of the many stairs.

@jennyh4025

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaEl-rh1kv You’re right, I was only talking about the last ~200 years, because very few people nowadays live in houses, that were built before 1800. most older houses I know, that are still used to live in, are old farmhouses and don’t have more than two floors and an attic. But usually the wealthier people (as in rich enough to not share a house with strangers) didn’t want to climb up to the fifth floor above the ground and just stayed in houses with fewer floors.

@Nikioko

3 жыл бұрын

The correct word would be "collapsable measuring stick" ;-)

You will find these cellar like basements in most older houses - sometimes you will even find the room where the coal for the stoves was stored/delivered into directl from the outside. You can imagine the coal dust going everYwhere in that basement. Just like the communal washing machine rooms, it depends on the age of the building. I think somewhere in the late 60s you would find a room with a spot for each Tennants' washing machines and a power socket connected to their individual meter.

@matzek.3220

3 жыл бұрын

@Nils Mikloweit I can fully agree to this. When I was younger I saw such a coal storage room in my grandma's house in Berlin. And on the sidewalk next to the house's wall was that flap which covered the opening to pour the coal into the storage. @Jenna In general I would say you will find these cellar type basements in apartment houses where every apartment has its seperate room down there. Whereas the basements you described are more typical for a detached house (Einfamilienhaus), where the rooms down there are used for celebrations (Partykeller) or even to accomodate guests. Grüße aus Köln nach Düsseldorf 👋🏻!

Question for the Americans: With medication coming in bottles, is the outside of the bootle the only place to put instructions, side effects, etc.? Or is there a paper inside like there is in the German boxes? If not, that is precious little information given to the consumer...

@Ashley-jp4nn

3 жыл бұрын

If there is more information than can fit on the label a bottle usually will have a fold-out piece of paper glued to the outside. A lot of times the info can just fit on the outside like a drinks bottle.

@annabear3553

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ashley-jp4nn Wow. So there is a lot less information given. Thanks for answering!

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

In Canada, we get the personalized bottle with the instructions/dosage printed on the label and then more instructions on a piece of paper which is put into a little paper bag and is stapled shut 🙃

@melindar.fischer5106

3 жыл бұрын

@@lifeingermany_ for your German viewers: the same is true in the USA. If it is a prescription from a doctor, we receive from the pharmacist a sheet (or two sheets) of paper with dosage, side effects, etc. If it is over-the-counter medicine (acetaminophen or ibuprofen), the information is printed on a label on the bottle AND on a box the plastic bottle is in. 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦. 🇺🇸❤️🇩🇪

The highway police might have cameras in their cars and are able to film you when following behind you. By the way, these cars look like normal passenger cars. While doing so they can measure your speed. If you have been too fast they will lead you to a parking area, show you their recording and present you with a ticket/fine.

The sandwich is an invention by the Earl of Sandwich. It always comes with an upper and lower layer of bread and is typically cut diagonally to form triangles. “Belegte Brote” are a layer of bread, typically covered with a spread of butter and other foodstuffs.

@Llortnerof

2 жыл бұрын

He's most likely not the actual inventor, however, it was most certainly named for him. Also, sandwiches are a form of "belegtes Brot", which covers just about *everything* that involves putting stuff on bread. Which is literally what the term means, for that matter.

First things first - for me as a german with about 50 years of life to look back... That was my first bedroom dryer ... ever ... but I've seen a shower in a kitchen once and thought I've seen it all... you never know. Those creapy "Keller" or cellars - yes they are like that - but just in the older buildings in bigger cities. In smaller town or villages it is quite common, that you have your own house and the cellar (if you have one) would be that space for the dryer... and a pingpong table. I've seen the so called "Radarwagen" or driving speed traps in the back of cars. They are quite common IF you are using the Autobahn a lot in areas where speed is regulated, you a most likely to see them every couple of month. That is...if you know, how to spot them

as an electrician i can say that are you way faster to measure the length of a cable with a folding ruler (gliedermaßstab the correct german term but zollstck in the north and meterstab in the south) than with a tape measure. also you can use the folding ruler for pointing out something for an colleague (a way to go with a aperture or cables and and and).

The speed traps in the back of cars are used when the car is parking

We use the Zollstock or Meterstab because it doesn´t collapse like the retractable ones. And as a bonus, you can open beer bottles with it ;-) We have special washing rooms in our houses too, or we put our washing machines in our bathrooms. I don´t know if you have to register in canada, but over here you have to register at the city you live and give them your full adress, that and the fact, that the postoffice, or other services should find you without problems, is the reason why we put our names at the doorbells.

It was explained to me that the way the mail is sent in Germany is different than in North America and this would explain why the names on the buzzers are important. (And I might be wrong, so comment if you know more.) Basically in the US/Canada the post office delivers to an ADDRESS and in Germany they are delivering to a PERSON. In Germany, you apparently can't send mail to an address without knowing the name of the person. This would mean you really cut down on "junk mail", which is common in the US. That's mail sent to an address as advertising, without knowledge of the occupant. Have you noticed less "junk mail"?

@mantaoschwab9303

3 жыл бұрын

Yes this is correct, the post man is not allowed to put mail through the letter box if the name is not on it, as the person might not live there anymore. So no one gets to open letters of another person, which I personally find more important than that someone can see my name on the door, they can do way more damage with my post in the wrong hands than with just my name. If you think gdpr wise.

@petereggers7603

3 жыл бұрын

In addition to your very helpful comment I would also mention the different system of registration in Germany vs. the US (don't know exactly for Canada). In Germany everyone has to be listed in the popular register...and with a special dedicated mailing address (Meldeadresse). Regarding contracts or other juridical claims the german term "ladungsfähige Anschrift" is important, for any service of process (e.g. court orders, bills of complaint) has to be delivered (including date stamp for connected respites/deadlines) to the specific person.

@vikaziza1506

3 жыл бұрын

I live in EU, i have to put a sign No junk mail so i won't get any

@cyrielwollring4622

3 жыл бұрын

I´m not from Germany but from neighbour country the Netherlands. If you don´t know the name they will put To the residents of such and so street. One US music band, The Residents found their name this way.

@nomirrors3552

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyrielwollring4622 You know The Residents? :)))))

Good morning Jenna, it's so adorable to watch you talking about all these things, your energy is so nice and motivating. Der Zollstock is a very practical and an traditional helper in every household, for every worker and constructor around Germany and Austria. You just need to know how to handle him, now I have both tape and stick. A lot of these medications are very strong, the right dosage is absolutely necessary, especially if you are older, it's easier and important to pick it the right way. An accidental overdose can bring you some serious issues. Kleingartenvereine/ Allotment associations are very common and have a long tradition in Germany, in the cities the apartments are not always that big, not every apartment offers a balcony or something like that. Getting a little garden/plot (Parzelle) somewhere in city was like finding gold, there were often long waiting times to get a garden. And like always in Germany, depending on the region, you can have a lot of strict rules for what to do and of course not to do. Allotment gardens (Schrebergarten) are a serious thing to relax.🤭😉 The cellar you showed us is nothing, that's a clean very bright basement room. I can show you some very frightening and creepy cellars of you are interested?🤔✌️🔦🕯️ Thanks for your video, have a good time!!

zollstöcke are never broken (usually). you still can use them in a hundret years instead of buying them again. also, you easy can measure on top of a ladder swinging it over gaps and they are easy to handle single handed

You are talking about a finished basement. In the us it depends on your house. Our basement over there wasn't finished. Only for stuff, washer and dryer, furnace...that was it. I prefer the zollstock. I hurt myself numerous times with this rectractable. I like having names on doorbells and mailboxes.

If you prepare a Butterbrot to go you usually have a slice of bread below and one on top. But still no sandwich. Where I come from we call it "Klappstulle"

@TheRealChaosQueen

3 жыл бұрын

Doppelbrot 😁👍

@corabluff

3 жыл бұрын

Hallo Berlin🤗

When I eat bread with something on it I won't usually put another bread on top unless I plan to take the whole thing along because a Klappstulle is easier to pack, so that's what I took to school for the mid-morning break along with an apple and Capri-Sonne (those fruit drinks in plastic bags with a straw that's really difficult to stick into). In the evening we ate belegte Brote ... one layer of bread with various stuff on top.

You need a name on your doorbell cause you will get papers delivered by the POST that have to check that people mentioned on the envelope live there ... and sometimes letters from the court even need a signature. And it is required to get parcels too cause that is about a high value.

Those plastic bubbles or blisters have a very practical use. Since they are sometimes in rows of two or seven, you can easily remember if you took one in the morning or on that specific day in the week without having to use a medicine box. But you‘re right, for the use on demand like you normally do with pain killers a little bottle would be nice. But it still would be easier to see how mich you already took on that day, since many pain killers have a maximum dose per day. I‘ve not been caught by a camera in car, but I once saw a civil police car in. a speed limit zone where a car was tailgating it and the police car has immediately pop up their follow me sign and pulled that car out of the traffic.

Ich habe schon wirkich viel gesehen, aber noch nie einen Wäschetrockner im Schlafzimmer.

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 ich weiß 🙈🙈

@e.458

3 жыл бұрын

- bathtub in the closet ✔️ - restroom without a sink to wash your hands✔️ - shower in the kitchen✔️ - fridge in the living room✔️ - dishwasher in the garden shed✔️ - bathroom with a hole into the neighbour's flat ✔️ - bathroom outside the flat ✔️ - Jack and Jill bathroom shared with the neighbour's flat ✔️ - house with a kitchen for him and one for her (to keep the peace)✔️ - dryer in the bedroom ❎

@butenbremer1965

3 жыл бұрын

@@e.458 "bathroom with a hole into the neighbor's flat" is the best I've ever heard of!! Sounds to me like a Studenten-WG in an Altbau in either Berlin or Leipzig. Thank your for putting such an efford into creating this hilarious post!!!!

@e.458

3 жыл бұрын

@@butenbremer1965 It was actually the house I grew up in. It has been demolished a few years ago ... 😅

In some houses with many tenants (or Wohnungsbaugenossenschaften :D ) it's also common to have a "Waschküche" - a room with many washing machines, dryers and sometimes even a place to iron your clothes. Most of the times you can get in there anytime and just use a free machine but sometimes (with many tenants who wants to use them) you have to schedule your "Wäschetag" and ask the janitor, if it's possible. If he says yes you will get coins so you can use the washing machines. I think it's workable for small apartments or for people who don't have the money for a good washing machine. And it safes space :)

Moin Jenna, interessant und amüsant zugleich wie immer! Die Art, wie du 'Torondo' aussprichst erinnert mich an unsere Freunde in Thunderbay. XD Den 'Zollstock' gibt's übrigens auch mit Brailleschrift. Und ich meine, daß es sogar das Maßband mit Punktschrift gibt. LG und einen schönen Sonntag nach Düsseldorf Ben

As Germany so is Europe regarding packaging of medication.

In Berlin, I have seen mobile speed traps set up in the backs of parked cars. So you’ll be driving down a street past a row of parked cars and one of them Blitzes you. It’s like the German version of the cop with a radar gun hiding behind a billboard. I guess more to the point, unlike in North America, almost all traffic control that I have seen here has not been done by police. You drive too fast, you get Blitzed, and a few weeks later you get a fine delivered to your house. It’s a lot less random, and honestly, a lot less dangerous than live traffic stops.

I'm not from Germany, but we have things no. 1, 2 and 5. That surname thing is normal not only if you live in a flat. I live in a family house and we have it too. And i'm still confused by that bottles for pills everytime i'm watching an American movie 🤔

Dankeschön, du machst das super.

Klasse Zusammenstellung! Lauter 'neue' Themen für mich. Ich Frage mich bei solchen Unterschieden immer, wie sie wohl entstanden sind und glücklicherweise gibt es immer wieder Zuschauer/Zuhörer, die das wissen und erklären können.

I HATE cellars. I have arachnophobia and I just hate also bugs in general and well you find quite a few of those down there. So I don't like them... As a kid it was terrifying to go to the cellar whenever I had to get my bike. If I ever move back to Germany/Europe, I will try to find a place without a cellar or I will not use it. I actually don't like attics either but I prefer them over cellars.

The speed cameras are usually inside parked cars and they make photos out of the rear window. It's mostly a vw caddy with a big rear window.

Did you notice that on most tv channels the beginning of the evening shows is timed on 20.15 just after the Tagesschau?

The speed trap: Yeah that happens a lot here. I've only once been caught normally I don't speed where it's nit allowed. I was in a foreign area and missed one traffic sign announcing to slow down and bang - there was a speed trap =) sometimes police places a speed trap in my neighbors garden because there are a school and a kindergarten right next to me and a lot of people are speeding there. My father once was trapped when they places a speed trap at the edge of a forest along the road.

I'm German and I think measuring tapes are very impractical :D They bend, preventing you from taking accurate measurements. And for longer distances or going straight up you always need another person to make sure it's straight and all

Super Video! :)

Some say, the VW Caddy was specifically designed for building a speed trap in its trunk. Actually, whenever i see a parked VW Caddy, i look for that speed trap in the trunk.

@lifeingermany_

2 жыл бұрын

Hhaha no way! I’m actually looking into buying that car (or similar model) as my “family car” at the moment! 🤣♥️

@benjaminloehner257

2 жыл бұрын

@@lifeingermany_ Sadly. Our Verkehrsüberwachungsdienst has at least 2 in use. ^^ But it is still a good car. It fits a speed trap, so your groceries won't be a Problem ;)

Haha, never seen a dryer in the bedroom. Comes handy when you need something dry in the morning, so let it run through the night, and have it right at your bedside when you need it.

Ich find Deine Videos total lustig und interessant. Macht Spaß zuzusehen.

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

🥰♥️ vielen lieben Dank!!

In my previous three apartments, I had the washing machine in the kitchen (no dryer). I now have the two appliances in the bathroom (dryer stacked on top of washing machine). Friends of mine have the stacked appliances in their bedroom; the kitchen and even the bathroom are too small for them or there are shelves in the way. Interesting that you are unfamiliar with a carpenter‘s rule (Zollstock). It‘s more or less what I grew up with (USA). I have both a retractable measuring tape and a carpenter‘s rule. I see some of the other viewers have commented on the possible advantages of the latter in some situations.

been caught in speed traps 2 times now, but neither one got me a ticket. cause sometimes if they try to catch masses of speeding people they just dont bother with anything 3-15 km/h over speedlimits, they only go for the people speeding big time, the rest is just a hassle for their system and doesnt get them much money. i nearly got a heartattack both times though and refrained from going just a little bit over for quite some time. so....seems to work quite well as a deterrent.

I'm pretty sure the pills in the red plastic containers are shipped in Blisters to American pharmacies where the pharmacist then takes them out, counts them and puts them in one of the red containers, whereas in Germany the blisters are given directly to the costumer. So one is not more sustainable than the other I guess. One could say that the German way is way more efficient though. My Canadian girlfriend has to wait DAYS for a prescription to come through to the pharmacy, which takes ages to count and fill her very necessary meds. In germany I just take a written prescription from my doc to the pharmacy and I get an original packed Blister. No hassle. Even for "harder" drugs or psych meds

The garden of the Gartenverein (mostly Kleingartenverein) is called Schrebergarten :) And yes those cars are always somewhere on the streets, thats very common and nice to know I you drive here.

Speeding cameras in the back of cars are definitely a thing in Germany. But the cameras will only be used when the car is parked exactly parallel to the road that is monitored. The vehicles are normally owned by the city or the circle authorities responsible for the place where the monitoring is done. I think Düsseldorf was the first city in Germany that had them, as augmentation to the fixed Blitzer‘s permanently installed at fixed and well known locations. I remember that Düsseldorf originally had five of them, they were all Opel Astra‘s and the did.‘t have the D for Düsseldorf on their license plate, although they were owned by the city, but where registered in other cities of the region. This was done to make them look less suspicious. Of course this was very successful and nowadays you find the Blitzer cars all over Germany, and all brands of cars.

The "Zollstock" is not just used for measuring, you can also open a beer with it - so it's quite useful

Actualy the medications or pills last longer in the blíster packs, the pasito bottles are mainly for the US and Canada Health System

The reason why medications come in blisters rather than bulk bottles is pretty simple: stability. Both contamination and decomposition are reduced a lot if every single unit is blistered separately. So this is the gold standard for primary packaging. Acetaminophen is actually called Paracetamol in Europe, btw.

To answer your questions: A Zollstock is more practical than a Maßband (the rolled up ones) in many ways: 1st it fits better into (working-)trousers, 2nd it stays stif, even if you push it, 3rd you can use it as a ruler (to draw a line) and 4th & last (and not to forget): You can use it as a Flaschenöffner (beerbottleopener.. is that a word?..)! 😂 Zollstöcke mostly are used by handymen, like carpenters, bricklayers etc., who need kind of stiff measuretools. The rolled Maßbänder usually only are used by tailors and so on, who need flexible measuring. ..Totally makes sense for me, sorry. Second one, the medication: It is much (!) saver to sell/give pills in those sealed blisters (that's how they are called in germany), than to offer/provide them in open bottles! You can easily switch them that way and poison sb.! In the Packungsbeilage (description) often even is described, how the real and original pills (have to) look like, to prevent dangerous mixing up! And also in blisters they are protected from humidity, which keeps them from spoiling.. Next one: Every tv-channel has it's own news (ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT1 and so on)! The Tagesschau, which is the one from ARD (so called "first german tv"), just is the most neutral and reliable one. That's why it's the most popular one (at least for educated and politically interested people). Last one: The cars with a camera in the back, catching you while driving to fast, are not driving, they are standing on the Seitenstreifen (side lane) or sth. Nowadays this is getting more rare and many permanent/fixed Radarfallen (speed traps) get installed by the roads/streets.

Hallo jenna nowadays the averige german craftsman use a tapemeasure as well as the digetal measurement,and some have to use inch based tools too.

Speedtraps can be literally everywhere, fixed ones or mobile ones. I lost my license for a months a few years ago when the police, in a civil car equipped with a high tech camera system, was following me while I was speeding. You got to be VERY careful on german roads because of this.

Omg the cellar thing is sooo classy german hahahah, often when other houses of families don’t have a cellar, all the other people are like „nice house but argh, they don’t have a cellar“ hahah, like not having a cellar is a huuuuge minus in a house hahhaha 😂😂😂😂 and my grandma has a cellar as old as yours and as a kid it always freaked me out when I had to bring something out of it hahaha😂😂

@matzek.3220

3 жыл бұрын

@Linda Yes not having a cellar is a big minus to a house, because it is a much needed storage space. To quote my wife: "If I have to buy a house without cellar, I don't need to buy a house at all."

@jennyh4025

3 жыл бұрын

It really depends on where you live. If you have enough space storage without a cellar, then it’s okay, but when you live in a (bigger) city, the land is too expensive to build over ground storage space.

@sonjagatto9981

2 жыл бұрын

@@matzek.3220 If I have to live in the cellar/basement...I don't need a house at all. LOL🤣 I am German living in Toronto. 🤍🌼🍁

Zollstock=Gliedermaßstab; if made of wood=Holzgliedermaßstab. Welcome to Germany😉

@Llortnerof

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck finding anybody who actually calls them that outside of a civil servant on duty, though. Beamtendeutsch is a seperate language.

Der Zollstock hat ein Geheimnis: Auch als Flascheöffner nutzbar.🇩🇪 The "Zollstock" has a secret: You can open Glasbottles with it, too.

Nice a new video! The "Zollstock" I always knew it as "Meterstahp" (Bavarians) When on montage, I'll ask for a meterstahp from my colleagues and they didnt know what I was talking about haha. I also have the retractable tape measure. I told my buddy I could measure up our work area faster than him, and I was right hahaha tape measure vs zollstock. Also the speeding thing, I haven't had experience with speed cameras in DE, from what I've also heard its not that expensive, but I have had just recently had experience with French speed cameras, DO NOT SPEED IN FRANKREICH hahaha or at least get caught by the cameras cos' the fines are huge.

Mein Trockner ist im Keller. My ex used to live in an apartment building for a few years that was just newly converted from an office building into an apartment building. During that conversion, they placed the cellar units wherever they would fit. Most of the cellar units were in the basement of that building but some were placed in a separate hallway further upstairs on the floors where there are also apartments. Her cellar was located in a hallway right across the floor from her apartment, which we found very practical because of it being very near by,

You can find the speed traps a lot when you look for them. They’re usually hidden in the trunk of grey Volkswagen Passats or VW Caddys

@Joy-zp5lv

3 жыл бұрын

Bei uns ist es ein anthrazitfarbener VW Bus. ^^

Me neither, I would say it is not okay to have it in any other room, because the humidity will change the climat in this room dramastically and these rooms are not prepeard for it.

That the cellars in Germany look like this, especially in old buildings, is often due to the fact that they were often used to store coal or potatoes. Also to store canned food in a cool and dry place.

The Zollstock is easier to use, when you need to mark something or draw a line, kind of using them like a ruler, but for longer lines. The other one is more useful for checking lengths

Living in an apartment building in Germany leaves you with very little storage space since they don't have build in closets. In the Keller you would usually get your own little lockable space where you can store items you don't use all that often, also that's where we would store our bicycles. I used to live on the 3rd floor in a building that had no elevator so it was easier to just bring it down to the Keller instead of lugging it up 3 floors and taking up space in the apartment.

@lifeingermany_

2 жыл бұрын

So true! I’ve had the same issue. In my new place that’s currently under renovation, I’ve insisted on built in closets 🤣 everyone thinks I’m crazy and has no idea what I’m talking about! I’m actually going to post a video on this topic in a few weeks and show you around the Baustelle! 🤭

@mamabear3428

2 жыл бұрын

@@lifeingermany_ yep, build im closets is definitely something I would miss in Germany if I ever go back. Having a kleiderschrank taking up the little space you have in a german apartment is definitely a con. After 21 years of living in the US I still find myself looking at furniture that offers hidden storage space even when I don't have to 🤣

The Zollstock you use because it can't hurt you. The roll can cut in you finger, when you pull it up 🙂

2:39 how is a huge "ass" plastic bottle more sustainable than a german flimsy plastic cover and a recyclable cardboard box? do you get refills and have to bring your empty plastic bottles to the canadian doctor? or are they re-used like in the german Pfand system?

@roserxss5039

3 жыл бұрын

Idk about the blister packages but we have childproof bottles here in Canada that you can refill with your doctor/pharmacy

@melindar.fischer5106

3 жыл бұрын

Here in the USA, I recycle my plastic bottles for over-the-counter drugs like acetaminophen and ibuprofen. I also recycle my plastic bottles for prescription medications from the pharmacy OR I take them to the pharmacy and the pharmacist recycles them.😃

Your first item is called a 'carpenters rule' in Canada . And is quite commonly used by all woodworkers there.

For the medication how do you know what the right dosage is for each medication if you get rid of the boxes aren't the directions on the boxes? 💁🏾‍♀️

I like the Zollstock at work, it can do a lot of tricks :) length, angle, radius opening a bottle of beer and a lot of other measurements if you know how to use it

The speet traps are often in the back of cars, but they are not driving while they are avtive. It's more like the police uses a normal looking car, to "cover" at a place where there are often people driving to fast, so the trap is not directly visible.

In Germany the housenumber identifies the building, and mostly individual apartment do not have a number, so you need the name to identify the apartment. Also mail is not delivered if there is no name at the mailbox, the reasoning behind is that the mail is directed at a person, and not at an address, so if there is no name, it cannot be certain that the mail reaches the correct person. Foldable rulers and tape measures both have their own function, and a lot of people own both.

Fun fact: The name for these folding rulers Zollstock means Inch Stick in English, even though Germans don't use Imperial measurements and inches are usually not even on the stick.

@chrisrudolf9839

2 жыл бұрын

In times before the EU-Regulations, inch measurements were still very common also in German craftsman jargon, even though the metric system was long since established. E.g. screw sizes and tube diameters were usually talked about in inch even back in the 1980ties. The Zollstock back then often was printed with meter / cm on one side and inch on the other

@GothamClive

2 жыл бұрын

@LUNARIS "veralted"

Oh sweetheart, not only do we have both of the measuring devices you mentioned, we even have the digital distance measuring device in Germany. I just recently had the bathroom at my fathers house renovated, and lo and behold, they used a digital "device to measure! Also, you are probably the only person I have ever heard of who has their dryer in the bedroom, it actually makes me cringe a bit, as there are definitely washer/dryers with different measurements, or you could have just gotten a washer/dryer combo machine, or do as most germans: air-dry! What a novel concept, to use sun and air to dry your clothes, only works of course if you have more than one outfit, else you are screwed and need it instantly instead of walking around naked. (Later on in the video I heard you have a backyard, so I really don't get the dryer!) And not to burst your bubble, of course people furnish their basements, even in Germany, But you will need your own house for that - drumroll. et voilá, you can do whatever you please with your basement! In an apartment building of course that makes no sense at all. And I admit your basement/cellar really looks a bit creepy. I myself have never seen one like that. What a rare find! But: in no way can this be generalized. Whereas while living in the US I had no basement/cellar at all! So that was a bit weird. How weird that in Canada you don't have names on your door, just apartment numbers. While living in the US, we had our names at the door, not an apartment number, so I guess it is different everywhere. I am sure you are smart enough to figure out the different system of where to put the housenumber in Germany or Canada, so I don't think this is really a problem, right? On the topic of the sandwich; a german sandwich will typically also be "closed", what you are referring to is a "(Butter)Brot / Abendbrot" which we typically eat at home and that can be open faced of course. You sit down at a table and have a plate. If you go to a bakery you don't get them open-faced, they will always be closed. Speedtraps in the back of a car? Are we talking police cars? I have personally in over 40 years of driving never seen one, so I don't think it is common, BUT: living in the US I have seen them! Up to now I thought this was a US thing. Learned something new. Maybe I'll see one before I die. Guessing this is how common they are :-)

Regarding the cellars. They might look pretty horrible but it comes from the old days where you would store food in the cellar. Most of the time the floor was just plain without any tiles. My grandmother would store her harvested potatoes and carrots inside the cellar in a pile of soil. So this made the harvest last longer. Also, you could buy the freshly harvested food and store them in your own house. So you would not depend so much on other people. Houses in Germany are normally pretty old so the cellar was build for storing food and needed to be pretty cold, dark, and more humid. Most owners simply don't renovate the cellars completely because we are so used to them, that we will use them to store things that are dirty like a bicycle or not as fragile. So nowadays we have a mix of these old semi-renovated cellars.

We used to have the news at a single time on a single channel in Canada. The CBC used to report the news on tv at 6:00 pm. Then, they added another time of 11:00 pm. Then, in the 70s we started to see other broadcasters added like CTV. Around the 80s, more diversion started with other Toronto channels bought by the same owner of MuchMusic (I can’t remember his name). Then in the 90s the cable industry went berserk with all of the news channels all of the time to mimic what was happening south of the border. Don’t get me started on what the internet did to news.... I liked the single channel approach with the whole family watching the news knowing that our Grandparents, and our friends were doing the same thing and getting the same info. But, I’m a bit nostalgic that way. If only I could live in Germany....hmm.

@sk.43821

3 жыл бұрын

Well, of course more main news broadcasts are available in Germany. But there exist only about 10 significant television networks with news broadcasts. I am very happy that Jenna watches the news program of public-service television network in Germany, since they are highly reliable and not influenced by private ownership. The "Tagesschau" main edition at 8:00 pm reaches approximately 8 -10 million viewers daily on the primary channel (~ 30% audience share) plus more viewers by simulcast in regional affiliated networks. I recommend the Wikipedia (engl.) articles "Tagesschau" and "ARD".

I usually only use double bread on a sandwich when I intend to pack it to eat later, since it is easier to carry it in a bag or box without smearing everything when there is another bread on top.

Hi Jenna, - The Zollstock is apparently officially called a "Gliedermaßstab" and has been around since the Romans, it exists for a very, very long time. - In order to prevent self-medication from being cumbersome, drugs are not given out in very large packaging units in Germany. The aim is to prevent unsuitable medication that is more harmful than good from being taken without consulting a doctor. Since practically everyone is insured, a visit to the doctor is not a problem either. - I know from films that there are no names next to the doorbell in Paris either, but this has a long tradition in Germany. - As a driver, I've inevitably been flashed before. In my opinion, things are increasing more and more, as this is an additional source of income for administrative areas.

The next curious thing concerning the "Zollstock" is, that we call it "Inch"-stick and have the metic system... As far as I remember in the past there was a cm-scaling on one side an a inch(Zoll) scaling on the other....

@regineb.4756

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, mein Mann korrigiert mich immer mit ‚Meterstab!‘, wenn ich nach meinem Zollstock verlange 😁

@nikomangelmann6054

3 жыл бұрын

@@regineb.4756 meterstab ist in süddeutschland üblich, find ich aber auch den besseren begriff. gliedermaßstab wäre der korrekt begriff glaub ich.

@ninan9650

3 жыл бұрын

@@nikomangelmann6054 Ja, Gliedermassstab ist der korrekte Begriff. Genauso wie man korrekterweise Schraubendreher statt Schraubenzieher sagt ;)

@Llortnerof

2 жыл бұрын

@@ninan9650 Und jeder der es tut kommt sich dabei affig vor... Ausserdem, gebt einem Mann einen Gliedermaßstab und der ist den ganzen Tag mit Größenvergleichen beschäftigt **hust**

We have had a car with a speeding camera parked in front of our house several times.... and in a village not far from here that car caught me speeding...

Very good video. I like your content. Keep on going!

@lifeingermany_

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🥰

Let me make a few comments: I have never met anyone who had their dryer in the bedroom. It doesn’t seem „normal“ to me. Yes, cellars seem to be more common than basements in Germany (though I find the idea of having a basement very attractive). And yes, unfortunately I have been caught speeding from a car, but not one driving in front of me but one that was stationary at the side of the street.

Intuitively and without having any clue of that, I think that a sandwich always has two layers of bread. Otherwise it is not a sandwich. Isn't it how the story was with Earl Sandwich some centuries ago? 🤷‍♂️

My parents have a basement and every few years they have problems with humidity. Their house is build in a former moorland.

Excuse me, I've never seen a washing-dryer in a sleeping-room in Germany before. Did you put it there for your video in order to have an example?

Having a dryer in Germany is not very common I think. Usually clothes are just hung on a wäscheständer to save energy. My mom wanted some luxury after her divorce from my dad and bought a dryer. Unfortunately we had no space for it in the kitchen ir bathroom so it ended up in my spacious bedroom. It had a wanter tank you had to empty once it was done. I grew up in Berlin and yes there are speed traps in the back of cars to conceal them but they are usually being parked on the side of streets and moved around so you never know where they get you next.

A Zollstock is usually used by crafts which have to be precise up to centimeter..the other thing you are used to.. Is meant for workers, who have to be precise up to millimeters...

So the Zollstock, although it uses the metric system is more often used than retractable because they are more rigid so you can draw more accuracte line in walls and so one.

For those looking at apartments or visiting friends also have to be aware that what is called a first floor/erster Stock is actually not the first floor. In Germany that's called paterre oder hochpaterre if you have to go up a few stairs. When someone tells you I live on the 1st floor/Stock they actually live on the 2nd floor according to american expectations.

Du bist toll, es ist so lustig zu hören was du erzählst. Mein Freund kommt aus Texas und ich bin aus Aachen in NRW😘

The "Zollstock" is actually called "Meterstab". 😉 I never saw a dryer in the bedroom, it seems this is unique in your apartement. The cellar looks quite raw, like it is not quite finished yet. So when you have 10 apartements in one house, that of course only has one number, so how to know who lives in there? Postman would be quite confused. 😉