I think "finishing the plate" is really deep in Finnish character. It is true that we will have long looks on those who leave food on their plates. It is good to hear that you've learnt something like this in Finland :)

"At the moment" 🤞😁

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

🤞🏼🤞🏼 I cannot wait to move back. No joke ❤️❤️

@jasonevans8403

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond I cannot wait when you do ✌ No joke 🤗

I really like your way of highlighting the impact of living in Finland on yourself. And your emotional state and thoughts are interesting. Please of course continue on the same path. Greetings from Finland, .... 👍 🇫🇮

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! I previously responded to your comment but now I don’t see it. Did you ever get a response? Just wondering what is happening to my comments because this has happened several times. Anyway, thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it! ❤️

As an industrial designer, I learned to really admire and respect Finnish minimal design principles when I got introduced to FInnish built large sailboats, where efficiency and design engineering really count. Cool video.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds so interesting!

You sure got tick bite in Finland - It's called "love your life as u live" tick... Greetings from Finland

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Suo Kuokka Haha 😂 greetings from Texas!

Kiitos 👍🏼

Kiitos videostasi! Thank You for your video!!

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Kiitos että katsoit! ❤️

Thank you for great video again. Stay safe! Have a great weekend!

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

TeeJii 79 Thank you! Have a great weekend!

@tjaamanen1979

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Let's hope that you can come soon to vitsit Finland.

Glad to hear from you again!. Subscribed!, so I don't miss any of your new videos. Terveiset Helsingistä!

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! 🥰 greetings from Texas!

I try to avoid buying food in cans and glass and rigid plastic containers when I can reasonably avoid it. It's so liberating ending a week having only produced about a coffee can of trash!

just coming back in sauna =)

This is a great video!!! 🔥❤️

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuuuu ☺️

like the music behind you, also you look beautiful. I love your camper.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Pricilla Sanders Thank you!!

Terveiset Suomesta. You have learn something very important here. Be happy.

Yey, good idea to make a serie about this! 😊 I agree with you with the things you mentioned. For me, the shock was opposite when I went to the US for the first time: everything was bigger, distances longer (and most people used own cars instead of public transportation), no recycling, not even bottles (😳) and the food portions in both fast food places and in stores were HUGE (no wonder there are so many overweight people). So Yes, it was a culture shock. On the other hand I saw beautiful nature and well taken care of parks, beautiful beaches and great old architecture there. I also ate some of the best foods there (homecooked by relatives not at McDonalds though😂). 🤗 But I’m with you, I prefer the silence and slow pace that we have here. Less work, more free time. 🙏🏻🤗🌳🍂🍄🌞

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Aino I can imagine visiting America for the first time, as a Finn, would be a little mind blowing. Finland has got it going on ☺️ much love to you and your family!

Mahtavaa että jaksat tuottaa sisältöä.. kiitos sinulle tästä.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

team almost Kiitos että katsoit ❤️ hyvää viikonloppua sinulle

"Aluminum snow shovel" to YOU!! :oD

Moi, we have just moved back to Hellsinki after being in New Zealand and Australia for 15 years (I'm New Zealander and my wife is Finnish). I've got to say it's awesome to be back here. Enjoying the culture, language, and of course the food. Looking forward to the snow coming as well. Hopefully you'll get back here soon mate, take care 😁

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Thrash Thrasherson Nice! I bet it’s great to be back. I can’t wait to move back! Take care!

Very good idea for a series

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

MrJanZko 🤗🥰

@MrJanZko

3 жыл бұрын

Wildwood Vagabond 😍

A lovely person and woman, love you ! !! Me living in southern archipelago on an island. No stores ore anything , still i love it ! All the best !

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a dream! I hope to live in the middle of nowhere someday ☺️ all the best to you Dennis!

@dennislindenpellinge

3 жыл бұрын

You will ! It is not the place, but the feeling... were you feel safe, and can just be you... HUGS !

Oh wow, losing your home must have been devastating >_< , but I am really glad to hear you have recovered and are both still enjoying life with true Finnish mentality of moderation and feeling content with what you have, and obsessing about what you don't have :)

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

It was difficult especially since it happens during the pandemic but it opened a way for us to downsize which we had been wanting to do for a while. Funny how things work out. I hope you’re doing well! Nice to hear from you. Take care ❤️

Haha, for a second I thought you were saying you wish you had more stuff... as it would have weighted your camper down and kept the wind from damaging it! :oD

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Nathan Haha 😄

Looking forward to next Friday... I am impatient... and feel bad conscience now... I DID NOT recycle my trashes today... and you are really really amazing... pysy terveenä, kaikkea hyvää ja toivon että pääset joskus takaisin tänne... Greetings from Helsinki

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Tapani Friman Lol well it happens. Greetings from Texas! Lots of love to you ❤️

@tapanifriman331

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond 🙋🏻‍♂️

Thank you again for a great video. How did you (or did not) adapt to Finnish winter, darkness and cold? How did that experience changed your mentality or adaptation skills? Would you like to make a video about this topic? :)

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions Satu! Thank you ❤️

@satuleppanen8759

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond I am happy to help. Looking forward for your Finnish Fridays :)

You was so adorable when you moved in Finland!! Just like you are now :)

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

sulosky Thank you ☺️ nice to hear from you! I hope you’re doing well and staying safe

@sulosky

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond I'm doing well thank you. All the best and stay safe!

Tuntuu hyvältä kun opit jotain tärkeätä.

@aahpuuh

3 жыл бұрын

*tärkeää*

Really looking forward to your suomalainen Fridays. It would be interesting to hear your views on 'Sisu' from an American point of view (if that's even possible). I am fascinated with this concept and in the two months that I lived in Helsinki I really don't feel I developed an understanding.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Architype0 That is an interesting topic. I would have to do some brainstorming but if I can’t come up with a whole video I could at least incorporate it into one. I find it to be interesting as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

Greetings from rainy and dark Finland. Summer is over ☹️

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Arska77 Ah bummer!! Sending you warm Texas sun ☀️ have a great weekend! Or the best you can lol

@arska77

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Thanks and great weekend you too 👍

Good luck to me moving to the US 🙈 Mielenkiintonen video! 😊🙌

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Yesss!! Good luck to you! When are you planning to move? 😃❤️

@dragonfairy22

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond I have no idea 😆 Don't even know when I will be able to travel there again. I was being sarcastic, because when Finland and the US are compared like this, moving to the US doesn't look so good 😂🙈 But I will surely keep you updated! 😘🤭💓

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

skye Aha, gotcha 😄

Greetings from Finland honey

🇫🇮 ❤ you

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Tapani Friman I ❤️ 🇫🇮

That was such a good analysis about Finland. I've never been a very good Finn because i don't meet most of the parameters: i throw food away, love to buy new stuff and never repair the broken ones (sometimes i secretrly hope they would break so i'll get an excuse to buy a new one) etc etc. Perhaps that's the reason i'm perpetually single and most Finns don't like me. You mentioned the slow pace, it sometimes so gets to my nerves 'cos it demonstrates itself as bad customer service. It's been a while since i visited america but one thing i miss & remember is efficient customer service. Man i loved it

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Tuomas Suikkanen Haha well everyone is different. Maybe you have that same problem I have where I don’t feel like I fit into that stereotypical realm of my birth countries’ characteristics. I don’t know if that even makes sense. Lol Anyway, take care! Thanks for sharing

@tuomassuikkanen3605

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond That's the way it goes for us non-belongers. I read Corey Taylor's book (slipknot fan from the start!!). Taylor wrote that he loves to be an American but he doesn't like other Americans very much. He's logic fits me so very much, i love being a Finn and i love my country, it's nature and history, but i don't like other Finns, usually i get along with foreigners much better. Preferably women...

Nice to reminisce about Finland. Was there 3 times. Ancestry and my family's exchange student made it a place I needed to visit. I love it. Thanks for your insight.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Texas!

@kristenaijala8925

3 жыл бұрын

I've been to Texas tons of times. My mom lived there from 1985 to 2007

Put this same video but without that spread organ music. Thankyou. (for those with bad hearing)

I've pretty much been a non-food-waster my whole life - especially after leaving the nest and having to buy food with MY (very limited) money! :oD

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah it makes a difference when you start paying for food yourself

I've long thought an ideal situation would be to buy a house with a smaller "mother-in-law" house in the back yard. Then, rent out the big house and live in the small one. Such would enable me to enjoy the security, investment, and tax advantage of owning my own home yet without being forced to waste money maintaining a larger home.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

That seems like a worthy idea!!

There is many kind of people in Finland, as it is in US too. Situations will vary greatly in different parts of country. In my chase like this: 44 year old engineer married to 40 year old nurse, 3 kids, little old house at outskirts of little south-east town. I have rebuilted our house. I like to fix our 30 year old daily driven Volvos and old Jeep too. I like to do metal works as a hobby, so I need to have some tools. I like country music. I ’m also a singer, that is a hobby too. I do recycle, it is smart thing to do. I like nature, sauna, hiking, lakes, driving a motorcycle, summer cottage. I believe in Jesus Christ. My commute to work is about 3 miles, and I will do it by car or motorcycle or bike. There is no bus going there. In the winter I like to do cross country skiing. We like to hike at national parks up north. So what do you think how close I am like average Finn?

We send you some snow Suomesta

I find it fascinating that the first thing you wanted to bring back to the US from Finland was a Finnish garbage can. As a matter of fact, I can clearly visualize the sequence of events. You had to act under the cover of darkness, that is to say at four p.m. Dressed in all black, you make your way to the nearest waste station that has those round Molok bins which are so prevalent in Finland - with only your dog as companion. You pick up a sturdy metal bar from the ground. With the help of the bar and Noel’s teeth you manage to yank out three cans. Next morning, when the devastation is revealed in its hideous entirety, the general public discover three big holes on the ground where there used to be trash cans. They simply cannot fathom who in their right mind is so hell-bent on recycling that they’re prepared to swipe the bins for their own personal use. Meanwhile, you’re already on the airport tarmac rolling your cans. Your can reads METALLI, while Ivy’s says PAPERI and even little Noel is in the thick of it with her can labelled LASI. However, she has recruited a Great Dane from the neighbourhood to do the dirty work for her. As you approach the plane, you meet the flight attendant and inquire whether it would be possible to treat the bins as hand luggage and store them above your head. You need to keep a watchful eye on them after all. You flash your eyelashes like only you can to the attendant, an officious little man - to no avail. The little twerp is adamant and refuses to take your bins onboard. Having exhausted all your feminine wiles and gotten nowhere, you concede and relinquish control of the bins to the attendant. They are put in a meticulous row at the side of the landing strip. The three of you get on the plane. The next day, the airport staff find a couple of new trash cans at the airport but don’t think twice about it. They start using them normally. When the trash collectors notice the new cans, they add them to their route. They have been emptying them diligently at regular intervals ever since. This has been going on for five years now. That’s how I believe the whole thing happened, anyway.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Waldorf73 Haha 😆 exactly!

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Waldorf73 Fantastic story by the way 🙃❤️

My experience with the Americans and the American culture is that there really isn't a concept of *enough* . You always have to have and pursue for *more* . Also, it doesn't help that accompanied with the want and need for more comes the entitlement: I have the *right* to exploit the rest of the world to have more, more and more. The Finnish dream, at least when I was growing up, was that you had paid for your house/apartment, had a new-ish car that works, had access to a cottage (doesn't necessarily have to be your own), enough money to pay your bills and for food monthly, and a little bit of extra on your account for a rainy day. If you had that, you were set, you were good to go! You didn't need a second home in the Canaries, a yacht, a million in stocks and a trust fund for your kids (you know, because higher education is free). All that was considered extra.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Afrohare Thanks for sharing! I agree with your experience with Americans. I can’t wait to move back to finland someday!

Oot ihana tyttö ja aito vilpitön suomalainen

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Jarmo Eklund Kiitoksia ☺️

@vesakela6270

3 жыл бұрын

Tyttö?

@jarmoeklund8553

3 жыл бұрын

@@vesakela6270 Bhuaa, jos sun mielestä poika, ni onneks olkoon vaan hyvästä arvauksesta.

Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech kzread.info/dash/bejne/gnqTy9GriMKzcdo.html

I did enjoy this video, not that I hate your other videos, but do especially enjoy your Finland themed videos. ( go figure ) But I do see the point about classes as I venture in the deep dark depths of the innerwebs where everyone earning below a certain point is stamped a loser while in my reality my friends are from unemployed alcoholics to doctors, and everything in between, myself being an installer, which I guess falls into worker class? No one is making fun of me for being less educated or less successful, they understand why I do what I do. Not sure if this was your point, but it is what I run into on forums. This one does make me feel bad for living in a 64m^2 flat all by myself though, but it was the first flat I could score when moving for work with an inbuilt sauna :)= I also placed my workplace happiness over what I could earned and nearly halved my pay 8 years ago when choosing this job over another one, because I preferred it, I have been called mad, but not by a finn. I think I lost the red thread somewhere along my ramblings but I do hope I am making some sense. I may have missed the point by a mile as well as tbh, as I am not entirely sober. Also I am sorry for the bad english.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

TheAzynder Haha your English is great 😄 thanks for sharing! Yep, sauna is very important. I would’ve chosen a bigger apartment if it had sauna too. Take care! ❤️✌🏼

@TheAzynder

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Thank you, I only mentioned my English due to something you mentioned on your previous video. I do hope things work out for you and your family after all this calamity.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

TheAzynder Haha I figured that’s why you said that. 😄 it’s so finnish lol Thank you btw!

Hello. Thank you for your videos. can I ask you why you leave America and moved to Finland 😊

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

محمد محمد صادق الصدر Hello! I moved to finland because I was married to a finnish man at the time. We aren’t together anymore but I do cherish my time in finland. Much love to you!

@user-hi5pb8jo3z

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Thank you so much for answered me 😊💖

What's the difference between the Finnish type of humor and the American? And what is your sense of humor? Has it changed since you lived in Finland? Like this idea of your new series 👍

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Ph thanks for the suggestions!

@valo2872

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond 😁 Looking forward to maybe an answer..

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Ph I have a video idea in mind for this. 👌🏼

@valo2872

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond 🙂 jännittävä

Sauna culture of Finland.

What you think flag of Finland? Blue and white "nordic cross" front on sky, is it maybe cosmically beautiful🤔🇫🇮

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Vesa Konkelo I really like the Finnish flag! 🇫🇮❤️

@mikaelpeltonen96

3 жыл бұрын

Between 1905-1917 the unofficial Finnish flag actually reminded of US flag: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_of_Finland

(FINLAND) HEI. WILDWOOD. AMERICA IS BEST. 😊

Single person in Finland below 18 000 € annual income (gross) / ~1200 € monthly net is calculated to be poor so I would say person needs that much to have a nice life. Although 13,7% of Finns live below that and they’re hanging in there. Averige Joe makes 30 000 gross but it takes 50-60 000 to really start planning the future, much due to progressive taxation. 100 000+ will get your name on papers at Halloween when tax office publishes its annual income info. Not that anyone needs it but it shows big incomes aren’t common, especially outside greater Helsinki area. 1% of Finns are millionaires but only 0,1% multimillionaires. Currently there are 6 billionaires in the country.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Mikael Peltonen This is so interesting! Thank you for sharing

@mikaelpeltonen96

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊 Check out also the link to Finnish flags I just posted below

You said pointedly, that you do not live in Finland " at the moment". So is it possible you will come back? Wellcome!

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

subrosa Yes!! I definitely plan to move back at some point in the future. It feels more like home to me there.

@Idefixu

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Please do. You are so wellcome!

Before seeing. We did well. We fought HARD but we are able to free!

@pexster1988

3 жыл бұрын

I've said before. I love you! I am afraid. I am afraid within our mökki. There should not be mice but there is. Hate Mickey Mouses!!!!!!

Haha, that's so funny your using an old-fashioned cash register bell as a money sound effect... as if you even EXISTED when businesses used those! :oD

@TheAzynder

3 жыл бұрын

Not really relevant, but there is a clay smith in the very very small village I hail from that still uses one of those. I say very very, because small means different thing here compared to some places, I am talking a few hundreds people small, no shops small, village. I mean he still accepts modern cards but he still uses it as a gimmick :)=

Moi pitkästä aikaa

Lumilapio😄

@tjaamanen1979

3 жыл бұрын

Double or nothing Lumilapio*2

Pliis kerro jo ensi perjantain aihe 😉

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Tapani Friman Ensi perjantain aihe on ”10 Must See/Do Things In Finland” jos kaikki menee niin kuin minä aion. Did that make sense?

@tapanifriman331

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Kyllä selvisi. Kiitos. Veikkaan että sauna kuuluu must do juttuihin ja revontulet/Aurora Borealis must see kategoriaan. Niinkuin Lappi muutenkin. Mutta odotan innolla. Hyvää viikkoa sinulle. Täällä Helsingissä syksyn sateet alkoivat😠

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Tapani Friman Hyviä ideoita, kiitos! Oho, ei ole kiva kun syksyn sateen alkoivat. That was my LEAST favorite part

@tapanifriman331

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Syyskuun sateet kuuluvat luontoon anyway, mutta corona helvetti saisi huuhtoutua samalla viemäriin. Tämä vuosi = horror year of depression...

seuraava looginen aihe olisi www.martat.fi/ marttakerhot ja eritoten se mihin tarpeeseen marttaliitto perustettiin ja miten se pitää suomalaista minimalismia elossa

Tuutko sinä takaisin tänne?

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Joo, toivottavasti jossa vaiheessa

@UliMuliko

3 жыл бұрын

@@WildwoodVagabond Ei muuta kuin tänne vaan!

Can a woman have short hair in Finland

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! In Finland it is very free. Women and men are equal and a woman has the right to decide what she wears and how she wants to wear her hair. Sending love from Texas ❤️

???

In Finnish friday you should be drunk as fuck.

Viisas nainen. Olisi kiva joskus kohdata kasvotusten. Kirjoitan tarkoituksella suomeksi, jotta edes jokin muistikuva sinulla säilyisi.

@WildwoodVagabond

3 жыл бұрын

Joo, olisi kiva. Kiitos kun sinä kirjoitat suomeksi. Se auttaa minua muistamaan suomea. Urrghh my finnish skills are suffering lol

wannabe fin and ac :)