Finnish cabin experience

What you might expect if you are invited to a Finnish cabin.
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[@NoaBoe]

Can't forget that your Father will most likely let you drive the gravel road (aka mökkitie) to the cottage

[@P1katsu]

And your mother is too afraid to watch

[@iiroaro808]

This is super real tbf, the frost really fucks up the rural roads. The bumps will rock you in a way that will perforate the bottom of your almost new Sierra. Still, you do feel like Henri Toivonen when you finally clear the course

[@megamuumi7859]

@@iiroaro808you do need to remember to carry the water to the sauna afterwards tho

[@Mr.Falcon541]

And father is laughing@@P1katsu

[@mandelin0]

But you must know the rocks and tree stumps of that gravel road

[@epavakaa]

Mökki is nothing without a järvi

[@AnoAssassin]

Border-river mökki is good. Go across and you're in Sweden or Norway

[@underagebread]

and järvi is nothing without a sauna

[@Relandoxz]

meri>

[@toastslicer4885]

​@dbh_ you mean you get to see god?

[@varajalka]

Meri works just as well and has more boat accident possibilities

[@crossidy7223]

The most Mökkiest of Mökkis Ive ever visited is a friends familly cottage, you get to the mökki by either by leisurly rowing the lake (with everyones belongings, water and beers ofc) or surviving the "path" that requires jumping from huge rock to rock and then pushing yourself through the woods hoping you dont break a leg or get bitten by an adder. Just to get there and get out of there (or doing a beerrun to the closest store at like 20km away) is a journey and you will feel amazing! so refreshing! Theres outhouse, a tiny old dock for the rowboat, good ol fire heated sauna, one spot outside for dishes that has a small water pump from the lake, electricity is someones uncles cousins semi hazardous diy project done in the 90s, you can barely get an internet connection with mobile data. The kitchen doesnt have an oven, all food is cooked outside in the firepit. Its perfect.

[@mandelin0]

Sounds exotic!

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

Now that was almost exactly how it was in my childhood: easily by rowing a boat or with great difficulty by foot. Only back then the closest village shop was closer than 20 km, my childhood memory would say about 13-14km.

[@mgntstr]

an adder?... You mean The one and only the elusive and never seen Chop Snake?

[@ViliSirkia]

Our mökki is small mökki in small Island in the middle of lake my grandpa build it in the 70's he even made the kiuas of the proper puusauna by himself. Electrcity is just a primitive one small solar panel that's barely enough for Electric lights and charging Phone. There is gas stove and gas fridge there. Thats how mökki are supposed to be.

[@niki75]

Our "mökki" was an old farmsteaad from the 1940's. It wasnt near shoreline. Didnt have running water, entertainment for the longest time came from a black and white TV powered by a car battery and outdoor activities... And yet every year around midsummer our whole immediate family would go there and we all had a blast. Later on the place did have a small solar panel unit set up so we could have colour tv hahah.

[@Paltse]

You could have solar powered the black and white TV also. No need to add colours to your TV to have solar panels around.

[@niki75]

@@Paltse we could have but the black and white TV's we used couldnt connect to a digital reciever. So the change was made. Plus with the newer TV and a digital reciever hooked up it just ate up the car battery so fast the choice was made to get a simple 1 panel system for an inverter and some basic lighting. The only form of elecrtification the Cottage had

[@Vuosta]

I'm from Finnmark in Norway and there's also a lot of cabins here. In my opinion if your cabin has electricity, internet, plumbing and is accessible by car then it's not a cabin, just another house. And yeah splitting logs, fishing, foraging and in the winter shoveling snow are some of our favourite activities.

[@zoolkhan]

if the car is an offroad vehicle... will that work?

[@Vuosta]

@@zoolkhan if it can drive through marshland and shrubbery it'd work

[@nipaimmonen1244]

we salute you!

[@mursuhillo242]

​@@VuostaNi!

[@Ostsol]

Here in Canada, my parent's cabin does have electricity and running water, from a pump connected to 200L barrels, but heat is from a wood stove in the middle and the toilet is the outhouse. The lake is a short hike away. In the winter that running water isn't used, since we'd have to empty the barrels and flush the water lines when we left. We got water from 20L buckets we brought in and collected waste water in another bucket below the sink. Good times!

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

I was invited to a midsommer mökki once. They gave me the chainsaw, told me what lengths I was expected to cut, and where to neatly stack it all. But there was also muikkuja.

[@mandelin0]

Seems like a fair trade

[@jimihenrik11]

As someone whose parents refused to have any other kind of vacation than a finnish loma mökki for pretty much all my childhood, I can confirm most of this. But to be honest I never minded the work. Our favorite Mökki belonged to my uncle, who is a farmer and is located 5 km away from his house, but still on his lands. One year (I was 18) I asked him for work and he handed me a chainsaw, and told me to cut all pieces of wood I could find on the property, and throw them into a barn. I worked for over 10 hours until I couldn't find anymore wood. The barn was 50% full afterwards. My Mummo wasn't happy. She wanted me to do more vacation stuff. So naturally next day I drank a 24 pack of Karhu while going into sauna and swimming.

[@kcStranger]

As an American who took one trip to Finland, and visited my friend's mökki for midsummer...I love this video so much.

[@MrJerkkeri]

Sleeping in the mökki is usually pain in the ass since there are mosquitos everywhere and (especially if you are alone) you may hear some noises outside and become absolutely paranoid... Ofcourse you can get a dog, and if it doesn't bark you know it's nothing.

[@mandelin0]

Mosquitos sure make trying to sleep a living hell

[@Pikkabuu]

You forgot one thing about the mökkilife. The presence of mosquitos, flies and mäkäräiset...

[@mandelin0]

True

[@Kardinaalilintu]

Through out my childhood our mökki was a rustic experience: no running water, no electricity of anykind, very basic huussi at the edge of the small kuusikko and the food was stored in a barrel dig to the ground. The mökki itself is supposed to be just a saunamökki, so the sleeping arrangements in the attic space are definitely against the code. Now my dad has somewhat improved some aspects; he installed some solar panels for a bit of electricity and there's a small gasfridge for easily spoiling foods. He also got a waterpump, so you don't have to drag water from the lake by hand. My parents are also building a guest cabin for some proper sleeping accomodations. But yeah... anytime an invitation to the mökki is tossed around, everyone knows it's for work mainly. I don't mind, but it's a bit funny.

[@ardemn4847]

>be me >new GF >father in law is a nice guy >invites me over to mökki in the summer >hear its a beautiful place with plenty of fun and relaxing activities >go to mökki with father- and mother in law and GF

[@Alistajaupseeri]

Father in law is smart, he put you to a test.. work hard and earn the trust 😅

[@Paltse]

@@Alistajaupseeri Or the tush.

[@IlllIlIlIIlll]

Ah yes, what would a "mökkiilta" be without some "viina" and "sauna"

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Mökki-ilta. Sauna, viina ja vesi ovat aina täydellinen (helvetin vaarallinen) yhdistelmä.

[@Paltse]

The word you are looking for is "sad".

[@seriousspikesam7770]

@@Paltse Älä jätä aivoja narikkaan, sano.

[@idraote]

I like a sound middle ground. A simple looking mökki with running water, efficient heating, electricity, a large bathroom, reliable internet. The porch with an unimpeded sea/lakeview and not having a neighbour in at least a 200m radius is also very welcome. On the other hand, if my wealthy Finnish husband were to gift me with a mökki-in-name-only mansion with swimming pool and other amenities I wouldn't let it go to waste and refuse it.

[@LivelyLinnea]

Large bathroom and reliable internet already is crossing the line for if it is a mökki or not for me. Outdoor bathroom is the key

[@mt4592]

Lol electricity, large bathroom and internet. "mIDdlE GrOuNd"

[@aaturauhala3367]

What is this heresy you're spewing? I get electricity and running water for optimal sauna experience but why the bathroom? At that point might as well live in there. "A large bathroom" even my house doesn't have a "large" bathroom! Why would a mökki need one? For a shower? No. You go to sauna. For laundry? Well I guess that's a fair point but let's be honest, you either go to the mökki for the weekend or a maximum of a week. There's no reason for you too your Landry there just pack extra things. And what kind of a mökki has efficient heating? It's a wood stove and nothing else. (of course if it's in winter use the maybe a couple radiators)

[@hessuhopolainen]

I love spending time in forest cabin. Although I'm not a serial killer.

[@homelessdude5705]

As an international student suffering in Joroinen, I see this channel as a very great resource of knowledge

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

How do you suffer in Joroinen?How did you end up there? Did the Langoliers force your place down there or what? It´s like a place in Stephen King -novel, you´ll see the signs about Joroinen about 2km before you´re supposed to reach it, and then suddenly it´s behind you. But if someone accidentally turn there, and finds a way in, they´ll never be heard of again. I know this, as I´ve driven past Joroinen, hundreds of times, but I´ve never seen the place anywhere... And I also lost one friend there, once I dropped him to a bus stop there, and God´s honest truth, never seen him before. So, if you see Jamppa there, say hi from me, and ask if he needs help to escape from there. (Probably in his view, only one hour has passed, whereas here it´s been 16 years.)

[@homelessdude5705]

@@ivrishcon-abarth38 I haven't got a clue on who Jamppa is, but I had a scholarship to study in Joroisten lukio and it's rather difficult to understand what the teachers are saying.

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

@@homelessdude5705 I did my lukio in Juvan Lukio, very long time ago, and Juva isn´t much bigger than Joroinen, something like 30km or 20 miles south from Joroinen. Might be the eastern Finnish dialect, Savon murre, which gives trouble to non-locals...

[@tonikansanoja1202]

@@homelessdude5705 Scholarship for a high school, what the fuck?

[@homelessdude5705]

@@tonikansanoja1202 Look up "Finest future programme"

[@seriousspikesam7770]

We have one mökki in Nilsiä. It has electricity and running water, but we still use the outhouse and carry sauna water from the lake. A little farming/gathering/fishing is always welcome as well. Our other mökki in the outbacks of Kuusamo has enough solar power to watch the evening news and enough signal to play the radio, but you need to climb on top of a hill to make a phone call. Other than that it's powered by wood or a gas stove. There are many reindeer in the area and they are often seen in a sand pit (sometimes near our porch too.) Supposedly there was also a bear who killed a couple of them, but hopefully it was either driven off or killed off by the mökki hunters.

[@mandelin0]

If you encounter the bear at your mökki, just remember to shout PERKELE at the top of your lungs and you should be good to go.

[@phuocvuhoang3606]

this guys deserve more view, I think he's funny and knowledgable

[@TheAlternativoAccount]

Im literally chilling in my mökki right now, after splitting wood for the sauna😂

[@kimreinikainen]

Somebody mentioned while back that you should make video about Uuno Turhapuro. Me agrees👍

[@aWildHiker6444]

My husky would love the Mökki life! And I think I would too. The proximity to a lake = perfect

[@JohnDoe-ro4nf]

Sitting in front of a kiuas, firing it up with firewood you made, while slowly taking drags from your sätkä... Sublime.

[@djkhaledaltaccount6500]

I love Finland! Well not really but I still do

[@kupariusa4202]

I've been invited to to stay at several mökki when I visit next summer. Am I just going to become a victim of the Finnish illegal labor market?

[@romaliop]

First visit is free. First they get you hooked to the mökki experience without work and only start the exploiting when you come second time.

[@mandelin0]

perhaps

[@jarskil8862]

"Work sets you free" 💀

[@Alex-ff1mk]

Yup thats a wild one for sure xd

[@alksi1]

Mökkilife to me, is about maximization of misery and the only counter to it is alcohol. You get hammered the previous day only to go logging the next day on one of your worst hangovers ever.

[@weird_electronics107]

Always a good day when you upload! Cheers from sweden

[@kald.sno.dod....]

Seriously, I love your videos. Greetings from Spain.

[@mandelin0]

Glad you like them!

[@wordlessi]

Babe a new mandelin video just dropped

[@iiroaro808]

Ah yes, the great amenities debate. While our family mökki used to be the hardcore experience, lacking even running water (we used a well), I have to say it's nice to have some minimal comforts. These days there's running water, solar electricity for a coffeemaker, a fridge, an indoor toilet and lighting. I draw the line at having a television or other electronics - you're there to waste your life suffering the depredations of the work camp life, enjoy / hate nature, play cards and learn to hate the others you're there with, and get shitfaced, not to waste your life doomscrolling social media or youtube. The toilet in particular is great for folks who don't happen to have a dick. While for some the forest is a natural toilet when you have to take a piss, when you do the traditional mökki kaljan juonti activities that make you need to take a leak every 30 minutes the huussi is a bit of a walk away and naturally infested with the itikkas.

[@zoolkhan]

if you built the amenities yourself, i think its fair to enjoy it. The mökki my grandfather carved out near a lake in pusula had a spring in the forest ...gravity would bring that water into the kitchen. at some point a waterump in the sauna would get wasching water from the lake .... the fridge was a hole in the ground... then powerlines and even telephone lines came there - and it turned from a weekend place to a entire summer place for my retired grandparents. Some of my best childhood memories come from there, until my "step-grandma" selling the place to random people after vaaris death... not even asking the people who sweat blood and tears to improve it (my dad and myself i.e.) - whether they want to bid on it too. there goes the mökki. Now i live in a "serial killers home" (old farmhouse in the middle of a forest) which is almost as good as a mökki, but has no lake. I am sure at some point i will just serialkill. I am training it since 30 years on my PC, i am an expert. (according to christian media)

[@sfjuhispst8144]

​@@zoolkhanPusula mentioned, my day just got a lot better. (I live there)

[@LevitatingCups]

Mökkiest place i've been to is a friends cabin, it has no electricity, no running water, it does have access to water but you better wade in deep to not get all of the reeds, and the cabins are made out of old soviet missile carriers, and of course one of them is a sauna. Damn nice time there, at night if you put in ear plugs you can hear your own heart beat.

[@esaedvik]

Mökki with electricity, plumbing, toilets, internet etc. is the same thing as "Glamping", ie. camping with extended necessities. I love that most of the ones in the video cost as much or more than an apartment in a large city :D Absurdly expensive for any average wage person. Most of them were bought when they were ridiculously cheap or built by the family and passed on etc.

[@FJAZ]

At our mökki, the only amenities are electricity (lamps, sockets etc). We still have the traditional huussi and puusauna. And our mökki is located next to a lake. Every year there are things that needs to be done to maintain the area but that is part of the mökki life.

[@meowiguess903]

I found summer house concept is very interesting since it doesn't exist in my country (1. Because we have summer all year long 2. expensive 3. don't have vocation that long). But eh, we do have fruit season where usually people from the countryside will come back to their village (their parent house, usually traditional house) to... eat fruits and do stuff I guess.. meanwhile urbanites like me, well, we choose holidays in the country. But we don't have a house like your mökki so yeah.. Great video btw. 👍

[@finnicvoice4974]

You forgot to mention barbecuing. Grilled sausages taste better on a warm summernight slightly intoxicated after being in a hot sauna 😊

[@BlueMedJ]

Damn, mökki is a luxus camping place to us...our "mökki" is a fireplace and a roof on a private ground...nothing else. But at least we have järvi/lake. It's kinda funny how ya posted this on the exact time that I we were at our mökki

[@maxgronros6728]

Im from sweden and my parents invited me to our cabin this weekend Let the work begin 🥲

[@mladenmatosevic4591]

Real mokki must have sauna as second building. Sauna floorplan size should be at lezast 50% of mokki floorplan size.

[@realhawaii5o]

3:21 it coild honestly be a Saku or an Alexander considering discount Finland (Estonia) has cheaper alcohol that all the Finns sweap up.

[@thespaceman4808]

0:38 i been in that exact cabin before it near the start of both small bear's trail and bear's trail in kuusamo!

[@snibelsnaps2302]

There is allways running water if you run while getting it.

[@evs251]

Mökki without lake is like car without engine. Resembles the actual thing but doesn't really work

[@terry2295]

1:57 That says a lot about me then, cuz I wouldn't mind such a cabin.

[@pupper5580]

free workforce. One time I was invited to visit a (female) friend's mökki. She told us that there would be sauna and some refreshments. But we would be doing some work first. So me being me - I thought - why not get all the work done very quickly and efficiently - so we can get to relaxing. So after I'm done with the work and I'm literally covered in sweat (while other people are doing pretty much nothing, finding excuses not to do anything basically) - the friend whose mökki it is declares that sauna is canceled, refreshments are canceled - get the f out of here, bye!

[@mandelin0]

Well that's just evil

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

Haha, so true! 🏡 My mökki is on an island. So no road, no running water, no electricity (solar system). Nice red outhouse like all the 5 little buildings. And of course, a lake and river. For me it's perfect, and l do all the 'talkoot' by myself and drink all the beer and booze available as well. 😎👍

[@saygo-png]

Where do you get water from then?

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

@@saygo-png Sauna water from lake, and drinking water l carry from home.

[@saygo-png]

@@pekkakarppinen1608 Makes sense thanks. Though i'd be paranoid about all the contamination in lake water even for a sauna

[@Deseko]

Well.. my desire for a cabin in the woods has taken a dark turn 🪓

[@Gregregge]

Im actually in a car right now going to my mökki.

[@benitocamelo1488]

Te quiero mucho Mandelin ❤

[@RockismyAir]

Every mökki has outdoors with loads of hyttysiä and every Finn complains about them. Mosquitos are present in MSC too.

[@ymotechnopopfan]

I would live in the mökki for rest of life.

[@rebatsu]

Man, this is so accurate.

[@allu4494]

Good video!

[@m4rt_]

Kinda reminds me of the Norwegian hytte (cabin/cottage)

[@DaEpikMan]

Nice video

[@Hnkka]

My second Cabin is in the middle of forest near russian border, only water is random hole where fresh water rises from the ground

[@demonslayer9979]

funny my grandfather calls his cabin only "labour camp"

[@DissedRedEngie]

"and drowning i midsummer" Yeah, unironically the amount of people drown during that, is something people bet on. Idk, people just decide to go drunk swimming and drown.

[@Arquinas]

I may be biased, but theres a fine line between "Mökki" and "Second house". Running water and electricity is fine, but once you start getting into amenities like water closets and overall bringing your "home" with you (Like excessive electronics and entertainment) then it turns from a mökki into a house. The whole point of Mökki is to dial down the hecticness of modern life to live just a bit simpler and closer to nature. You don't need to remove all amenities, all power and respect to those that want to, but having a second house does not qualify as a mökki experience. Might as well move to the countryside full time, then. If you would summarize a finnish mökki experience, it's essentially a month-long larp to live a bit the same way as your ancestors have done for thousands of years, away from urbanism. In exchange for the constant labor you have to do, you can also fulfill whatever creative minecraft fantasies you can think of as long as they are done in accordance with the obscenely byzantine finnish bureaucracy regarding safety and building standards.

[@P.r.i.m.o]

No need to cut firewood if the closest naapuri (1.5km away) next door has big bags of klapi for sale

[@rapsut]

finally

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Finland's alcohol consumption has gone drastically down in 20 years. Watch the statistics in the video " Country alcohol consumption comparison." Finland's alcohol consumption is in the middle in Europe.

[@saygo-png]

yes i hate this stereotype because Finns themselves propagate it

[@jalkor87]

Saunaklonkku is the best mökki game

[@texdillinger6173]

also its unwritten rule that if you are tricked to go to mökki as work force, you have to accept it and just work since you only have urself to blame for your mistake.

[@Nakkisampyla]

Hieno video, ei vaikuttajaskeidaa tai muuta väkisin väännettyä kakkaa.

[@hi-sq2hq]

Bro I'm just at a labour camp ( cottage)

[@ryvn_ryvn_18]

video about finnish stereotypes among finns (like savolaiset)?

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Honestly, at this point anything is a "mökki" if it doesn't have WIFI. Yes, even if "mäkki" doesn't have a working Wifi, it's a "mökki" now.

[@mateok24]

jee aikasessa

[@Pehmokettu]

My family has a mökki and when I finally become owner of it I will sell it immediately. It is not near water and is in fact a tiny hut located at suburbia. The mökki itself is worthless piece of sh*t but the land where it stands is worth a nice amount if money. My other relatives are just too sentimental to demolish that mökki and sell that plot of land.

[@pekka20v59]

you go to mökki to escape the city. so no tv and phones

[@aatosohikaura1596]

At mökki right now

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

Someone might have said this or not, but here is the truth: mökki to second power (with electricity and other luxus) is called "huvila". To me, lake is a must. If uninvited guest(s) happened to find my summerplace and then do somehow NOT understand they´re not welcome, I shoot once in the air as warning shot, and next shot goes straight to (at least I aim at the head) the head.

[@XGD5layer]

Careful, you could be sued for laiton uhkaus. It's also very close to committing hätävarjelun liioittelu.

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

@@XGD5layer So totta! However, I´d shoot päähän only to varoittaakseni, not to vahingoittaakseni, naturally.

[@Vincent-bt1qy]

You need to do a ranking of finish beer. But karhu is best obviously

[@jarskil8862]

Karhu is horrible imo. You can drink like 1-2 when its ice cold.

[@Vincent-bt1qy]

@@jarskil8862 really? What's your favorite? I like the normal 4.6 karhu. But I don't like their new Kupari. I really hate Keijo, that's the worst for me personally

[@riippumatonlinja]

Easy, Sandels is number one when speaking about big breweries. Olvi is another good one. Karhu is too tart to my taste. Easily drinkable is main priorities of mökkiolut.

[@Vincent-bt1qy]

@@riippumatonlinja for me Sandels is number two. Karhu had great Juuso olut in 2022 with special can. Also their sauna olut was great

[@underagebread]

Mökki on mökki

[@presbricks762]

Me watching this at the mökki

[@blacksmith88]

We would like to eat fish. ..so.. we have to dig some baits and then go fishing. Must not fail.

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Worms are enough to bait some perch, roach or whitefish. One can bring their tackle box and try luring some pike, salmon or zander. If everything else fails (or your fishing lines get tangled in tree branches/other fishermen), throw in a fish cage and hope it catches something.

[@Kaarne]

Miun isovanhempien mökki oli keskellä mehttää. Rakas paikka.

[@BoloH.]

Mökki is a place where you spend a week or two and a few weekends hating and making sure that the mökki neighbours (who are also there for a week or two and a few weekends) mind their own fucking business. The neighbours will do the same.

[@thenoose7638]

I disagree about the lake. We have a kaivo that does everything a lake does, and more.

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Does it have fish as well? If so, you should probably not drink from it.

[@Paltse]

Well, it suffices for avanto in the winter. It is a hole, it has hopefully water.

[@no_one01-5]

I guess Unabomber had some Finnish in him. May he Rest in Piaces.

[@philippe1384]

👍

[@mikitz]

You know, there weren't toilets in the Versailles.

[@mistercreeper3029]

420 likes, last one by me! 😉

[@Sntzr123]

Ai että ku on hauskoja meemejä joita vai suomea osaavat ymmärtää

[@Kalzu85]

Faktaa

[@Alistajaupseeri]

3:14 kesäkuu 1986

[@Jkiv1]

Ok

[@everfrost6668]

2:10 vain kuolemaa spotted

[@mandelin0]

yliluonnollinen kyky kestää kiisseliä

[@rasseboy3356]

Tee video suomalaista mummoloista

[@maivaiva1412]

The sheer Järvi-Suomi Privilege on display here is astonishing! The AUDACITY!!! This is Southern propaganda! */vitsi vitsi*

[@skeptiwolf5654]

Huvila

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Purists don't accept a garden around mökki either.

[@seriousspikesam7770]

Planting a few carrots/potatoes/berry bushes sure beats scavenging for something edible in the woods.

[@Paltse]

@@seriousspikesam7770 Hence the purest of the purists live the mökki-life of the og hunter-gatherers.