My Grandma Is A SUPER GERMAN

Hey rabbits!
We all have weird family members, I guess. But my grandma is a very special case. She is really cool, but also pretty crazy and super GERMAN. Did I make you curious? Then have fun watching today's video! :)
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[@4berkut7]

The whole obsession with saving money is probably due to growing up during/after the war. My grandma (in Russia/Ukraine) is the same.

[@lifeofjoyandcreation]

History is always repeating itself.

[@TheMomanslm]

This was true of my grandparents too and they lived in the US. The old generation understood the need to live below their income in order to save money for later.

[@davidwise1302]

What we had to go through and endure leaves a mark. My Russian History prof had a meal in the Soviet Union with a survivor of the Leningrad siege. Without even thinking, that person had commandeered several slices of bread ringed around his plate without even realizing it. My own parents lived through the US Great Depression and their parents through general deprivation before that, so they tried to teach us, the baby-boomers. Eg, my grandmother saved every sliver of soap and amalgamated those slivers into a new bar.

[@jameshorn270]

@@davidwise1302 That may well have been rationing during WW II. Soap was rationed because fat was used in making it, and fats were also used in making explosives. In fact, you were encouraged to drain a frying pan into a jar or can and when you had a reasonable amount, you would turn it in. It was no longer collected from households, but growing up, mother always had a container into which she drained the fat from frying. I have no idea what she did with it.

[@jameshorn270]

@@TheMomanslm Bear in mind that they likely grew up in the Depression, and if they were not in the military, they faced rationing so some things were hard t get. I am not sure how much is that particular experience and how much is cultural. I grew up in a Pennsylvania Dutch area in which neatness and thriftiness were often obsessive. Until I was about 12, we did not spend much time in the living room. Mom was not as obsessive as some, but children cause disorder and the living room was where you entertained guests, and so must be neat and clean at all times.

[@danielacedeno3099]

Ecuadorian here. My grandma also makes us have our meals early. Not sharp, but early. Breakfast at 7am, lunch at mid-day (otherwise "oh, she will faint of hunger"), and dinner around 6pm. She sometimes calls me and asks me if I had dinner already, when I say no she asks why not if it's so late. And it's not even 8pm. Another thing abuelitas seem to do is to give us money behind our parents' backs as if they were drug dealers. They make you take their hand and super sneakily they pass you a bill as if it were coke or something haha, bless grandmas.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Daniela Cedeño Ha ha, I’m Irish and my grandmothers did the same thing when they were alive.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Her grandparents most likely lived during WW2 so that's why they are worried about being spied on.🙁

[@jameshorn270]

Besides, it also fits the behavior during the war of maintaining a black out.

[@knotenknutarella301]

My father is a very intelligent and caring man, but he completely fits the stereotype of a German tourist. On holidays there's always a shirt & shorts, combined with birkenstocks and white socks, he wears a wallet around his neck and on top of that - the super practical sunglasses that you can stick on top of your normal glasses and fold them up when there's no sun.

[@Albukhshi]

I actually met a tourist from Munich when I went to Longview, Washington a week ago, who was almost like that--but he was younger (I'd say late 20's or 30's). Quite a gentleman. EDIT: that German habit of relying on cash served him well: we were at a motel 6, and the electronics for the debit cards broke down. They were the only ones to be able to pay immediately (he came with his wife(?) and a friend or two).

[@alvarofavela2918]

My mother is an almost 70 year old Mexican woman and she's a clean FREAK! She would fit more in Germany than in Mexico. For many years, we had carpet in our living room and bedrooms but she put long "cactus mat carpet protector" all over the house in order to not dirty up her precious carpet. The whole house smelled of that awful plastic but she didn't care because her carpet was clean. She also complained of losing her eyesight and not being able to see clearly but if there was a small piece of lint on her carpet, she'd spot from 5 kilometers away and would pick it up immediately...but yeah, she was "losing" her eyesight lol

[@quixoticsonnet]

The part about the leaves was very funny. Especially considering that if she left them, they would just turn into mulch and be good for the grass. "Here! Take your leaves! Take them!"

[@doctorscoot]

Maybe this is just old people? Growing up in the depression and/or the war, forced a lot of that generation to learn how to scrimp and save.

[@reddragon430]

Except when carpets are involved :D

[@otterlygr8]

Yep, my parents too. I'm 56 but can relate to you, Trixi more than your mom or grandmother. I'd love to her your mom and grandmothers side of the story. I giggle thinking about that idea.

[@otterlygr8]

Whoops....."hear" not her

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

Even after 50 years in the United States my German Grandma STILL did Sunday afternoon dinner EXACTLY at 1:00 (sounds like lunch to me!). Once we went there for my Dad's birthday and arrived 10 minutes late. -They'd started without us! Given enough time they would have eaten his birthday cake for sure!

[@metalplane3]

I think I'm all caught up on your video. So glad to see a new one. Sounds like our grandmothers had a lit in common. Everything in it's place, and a place for everything! Thanks for your description of a German Grandmother.

[@timdavis7845]

I was blessed with TWO very German grandmothers. My mother's mom was a Volga-German woman, born in Tsaristyn (Volgograd) Russia and my father's mom was born in a German immigrant family (from Berlin) in Chicago. Both spoke fluent German and both were wise, intelligent, witty, caring, Christian and both were pretty good cooks. I loved them both very much and miss them both - very much. Folks, you won't always have your grandparents. Enjoy them while you can. Be patient with them, love them and learn from them. They are part of you. :-)

[@orange12v]

I am of your mothers generation and my mothers just like your grandmother she would say to me" you've got rheumatism" and would answer "no have osteo-arthritis", "who said" she would say, " the doctor" I said, to which she would reply "what does he know" but we love them funny ways and all

[@OutdoorEnthusist]

Sounds as though grandma has some residual characteristics from her childhood. Punctuality allows you to know who's missing (Even without a Cell Phone.). Cleanliness/ Hygiene used to be very difficult in a world having very little infrastructure. Drapes/ Curtains, in the 30s - 45 were life savors. Strafing, bombing raids, possible artillery and so on. Love your Grandma and remember the road she walked during her life. Hal, 57, Phd, Germany

[@stewiegriffin6503]

many people develop routines and obsessions as they get older

[@raosprid]

I come from a German family and my mother is like this, aside from the drapes (although I'm guilty of closing them for privacy) and flushing with rainwater. If she sees a coin on the ground she will always stop and pick it up -- even a dirty penny.

[@biancat.1873]

"Wer den Penny nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert." (old German saying) Who doesn't honor a penny isn't worth the dollar ... (I hope, I translated that properly)

[@1984sebb]

'Miserly' is pronounced 'My-zer-lee'.. I feel it is a little pedantic to point this out because your English is exceptional..

[@junkyardhack6292]

So True!! When I lived in Germany my girlfriend's mom was just like this! This was in the 80's and at the time she was in her 50s so she would possibly have been a bit older than your grandmother. I remember that her father used to get frustrated with me because as an American we thrive in chaos whereas Germans demand order. This was evident when I made a temporary repair on my car after a breakdown. I used Vicegrips. He saw the tool and shook his head asking me what they were for. He could not comprehend not making the repair properly after I had the car towed. He added that there was no such tool available (at that time) in Germany because Germans used the proper tools." Jerry rigging" or using what you have on hand to make crude sloppy but sometimes effective repairs is a very American trait that contradicts everything German. The cross culture thing was very amusing at the time! :-)

[@Schnucki200604]

Dazu fällt mir meine Tante ein. Spätestens um 12 Uhr muss es Mittagessen geben. Wenn wir mal eingeladen sind und nur 1 Minute zu spät da sind, gibt es Ärger. Weil wir uns sonst auch nicht an die 12-Uhr-Regel halten sind wir faul, liederlich, disziplinlos, verlottert usw.

[@Annie-jm6tq]

Bis auf die Klospülung und die Teppiche ist das wie bei meinen Großeltern... Vor allem, das mit dem: bevor irgendein Licht angeschalten wird, alles zu!! DIE NACHBARN.!!

[@LeicherHistory]

Bei uns auch... genau so.

[@meistermane]

Also bei mir nicht

[@TonnerreLombard]

Back in the 80s and 90s, people were actually told to collect rain water and flush the toilet with it, since there was a large push for saving water back then which they apparently took a bit too far, because now they have to regularly flush the canals with lots of water because people don't flush enough water down their drains anymore. Either way, that may be where this weird habit stems from.

[@FrancesSiple]

LOL! I Would love to see a video regarding your mom and/or grandmother's advice on raising your baby! That would be funny! Did they differ on opinion for feeding or sleeping routines?

[@sushinut]

OMG. I ABSOLUTELY agree. Example: all of the women on my German wife's side of the family have a thing about bundling their babies from head to toe no matter what time of year it is. I have photos of my wife when she was 6 mos old in the middle of summer wrapped in what looks like winter clothes (incl.a knit cap). Her face is clearly bright red from being too hot. But her crazy mom didn't want her lil baby to catch a cold/get sick (apparently that was the reason!). Her mom had some "interesting" things to say about proper child care.

[@Harleylovinchelley1]

I have never met here but I love, love, your grandmother. She has a stable and orderly life. She reminds me of my mother, and her mother and my aunts!

[@marss.1846]

My gramps is so cool, once she caught a fly with a single try - with her hand, of course. I was pretty amazed o.o

[@ceydazoe444]

My dad always does that lol

[@misterm7225]

+Ceyda Zoe me too.So what?

[@robertmcqueen289]

Queen Rabbit. I like your German grandparents, not just because they're set in their ways, but because they remind me of my late grandparents who had their routines, but we loved them dearly. The toilet one l can explain. I am guessing at some point your grandparents either lived in the countryside, or, had an outside toilet, because the bucket thing is one of the practices in the old days. My late grandparents in Northern Ireland for instance when they moved into their married home in 1940 had an outside toilet in their back yard, and no bath. Their bath was an iron tub which hung on the outside wall in the back yard, where they bathed in front of a coal fire in their living room, and was used right up to 1998. I kid you not. Your grandparents sound wonderfully traditional to me, and God bless them. Wonderful video. Danke schon.

[@blueskysea450]

My grandparents also close all blinds in windows after it's starting to get dark. I think it's because of them remembering war times. I don't know about Germany, but in Poland there was a lot of 'agents' telling stuff on their neighbours and someone from 'security of country' could be spying. Decades after - she still closes blinds to feel safer. She did before she passed away. My mother inherited that and she is still closing all blinds in the evenings.

[@tkone00]

almost perfect description of my grandparents except lunch is served at 11:30

[@christopherdibartolomeo3789]

My grandma was Italian and loved to clean.She would drive out of the way to save a little money also.Thanks for the video.

[@KaotikBOOO]

The whole thing about the neighbours peeking by the windows probably comes from WWII. My grand parents had the same (I live in Elsass) and they grew up with the fear of having the police coming for an obscure reason because of the neighbours. Even after the war the habbit didn't change.

[@susanpohlers2638]

Picking up the leaves and throwing them back in the neighbor's yard is hysterical!

[@erictaylor5462]

I knew a guy who lived on my block who sounds like your Grandmother. He was a very nice guy, and very friendly. He grew up in Germany in the 1940's which if you remember history wasn't exactly a great place to be. When he was 10 or 11 he made some sort of academic achievement (this was around 1942, (just before Germany invaded the USSR) and he was invited to meet Adolf Hitler with several other kids his age. He was excited but felt the meeting itself was very disappointing. You seem young enough that you would be in the generation after mine, which would put your grandmother in my parent's generation (both born in 1944). I can understand your grandmother's miserliness if she grew up in post war time Germany. If she grew up DURING the war it would be even more understandable.

[@bsansovich]

The situation with the blinds is funny because my mother and grandmother also insist that all windows must be closed once the sun goes down and they are mostly from American culture .

[@AndreaKidman]

It was very important for my parents to sit down for lunch exactly at 12, otherwise there would have been a clash with dinner time at 6.

[@toraxmalu]

+ DontTrustTheRabbit - wait, you'll become at one time an old lady with strange behaviours, too >;>

[@Filtertuetchen]

If we drive 50 kilometers to the other supermarket the lemonade is 5 Cents cheaper. And the petrol only costs 5 Euros more.

[@richardzierer9118]

Haha I’m an American but you literally described my grandmother - she came from Germany when she was in her twenties so apparently she left after she had formed similar habits. She passed earlier this year and I was looking for a vid like this. Thank you!

[@user-fb5lj9cz5l]

Die Mutter einer Freundin hat mit einem Kamm die Teppichfransen vom Perser im Wohnzimmer gerade gerichtet, wenn man unvorsichtigerweise draufgetreten ist.

[@annapplepie8458]

Das hat meine Oma auch immer gemacht :)

[@biancat.1873]

Soll ja schließlich auch hübsch aussehen ...! ;D

[@aminlakzian]

I wish the German youth preserve the love for carpets. Here in Iran we have lots of carpets in our homes and the curtains are almost always shut at nights. So your grandmother seems like contemporary Iranians in those cases from my point of view. My grandmother also had a cleaning obsession and sometimes did mean things which were not that better from picking the leaves and throwing them back at neighbours. But she was very kind too. Send my regards to your grandmother and tell her lots of carpets are waiting for her here. She may even find flying carpets which might be very useful in her super grandma missions. Hahaha

[@segueoyuri]

I can't say about other countries, but at least here in Brazil Persian carpets (as we call it) are super valuable

[@aminlakzian]

+Yuri Teixeira Mendes Even here in Iran they're very expensive, it takes lots of time, months or years for skilled weavers to finish a carpet. And the material and colors are expensive too.

[@aminlakzian]

+sploofmonkey yes, they are pieces of art, the effort and dedication which is put to one single carpet is unbelievable. I understand your respect for them. In Iran we traditionally take off our shoes at our homes so we walk bare foot on carpets. In English you say "they're like wine" for things which become better as they get older. In Persian we say "they're like Carpets". Since Persian carpets especially ones from Kashan start to look better and better when you walk on them.

[@segueoyuri]

I mean, here it's pricier because it's imported. The price can comes to a few grand, even a used one, depending on the size. But it's cool to know that it really takes a lot of work to make one and even a Persian saying! Hahahaha awesome!

[@aminlakzian]

+Yuri Teixeira Mendes hahaha, I'm glad it got your attention, yes, when they're expensive here, it's obvious they'll be even more expensive in other countries.

[@nebucamv5524]

At my granny's flat all curtains are very long, so the neighbours really cannot spy her. And even the glass of the balcony has curtains. She drives me crazy, but makes me laugh at the same time. 😂 And she stopped flushing the toilet too, instead she takes used shower water. And she doesn't use her washing machine, but washes her clothes with her hands. She is 91 now.

[@coreyjenkins5589]

Even before you said she was gentell she still sounded like it. lol. Love the video!!

[@deepdarkmidnight]

Some people in my country collect water while they shower to then use it in the toilet, which I think it's great idea to save water, but I never heard someone doing the thing with rain water.

[@Tete-lh5ij]

That thing were rainwater is collected to flush the toilet to save money is exactly what my grandfather does!!! ^^ :D ^^😂

[@hornkraft9438]

My irish-american grandmother would get up at 5:30am and begin sweeping the stoop outside with a broom. As we awoke to this scraping sound, we realized that the alarm clock had not even gone off yet. The interesting thing was that she was very impressed by the Dutch women we saw when were there because die alte damen (or whatever it is in dutch) were on their hands and knees scrubbing their concrete stoops with brush and bucket.

[@jacobbeately8129]

What drives me crazy is that all some of the older members of my family think that they have to talk about somebody that has just died and why they died. They go into detail about the cause of one's death. This is especially true when I try to eat.

[@andi_b_73]

Hi Trixi, of course I know such strange people or rather family members, as I'm a german. My father collects rainwater in buckets and my wife's granny uses the soap water from washing herself in the morning to flush the toilet. Her garden used to be very neat and accurate. It only changed because of health issues due to her age of more than 90 years. I think many of those weird people are mainly affected by experiences they made during the war. But supposedly its not only a typical german behaviour.

[@fishbone9199]

so much honesty, i appreciate that.

[@ricardofilipe7701]

Hi, I come from Portugal and older people here, except for the rugs, do most things you mentioned and they are proud about it. I my opinion it is a behavior related with past generations and not a specific German stereotype.

[@paulcassidy623]

Oma Hase should make a cameo. I know my friends grandparents were like this as well. That whole generation from the reconstruction Era seems to know how to stretch a Pfennig.

[@EricB256]

My German grandparents really did have neighbours who liked to spy through their lit windows in the evenings. I once saw the neighbors watching and smiled and waved at them. They were terrified by having been caught and quickly went into hiding. My grandparents also served lunch at exactly 12 pm but when I was not hungry, I was less lucky than you are: no smaller portions but instead, they were upset when I wasn't hungry yet and couldn't eat it all. However, they were not really religious people and thus, no missionaries either.

[@MeritSeto]

Mein Opa war auch Superdeutsch :) Hab ihn mal in der Speisekammer auf der Leiter an der Lampe rumschrauben sehen. Die Glühbirne an der Lampe war durch und anstatt eine neue Glühbirne zu kaufen hat er eine andere Lampe angeschraubt, für die er noch eine Glühbirne da hatte :D Statt der Bibelstunde haben meine Großeltern JEDEN Abend Rommee gespielt. Und der Garten war auch ähnlich. Alles an seinem angestammten Platz und hübsch zurecht geharkt :) Ach ich vermisse meine Großeltern... Jetzt heul ich. Schönen Dank auch.

[@seamushowling572]

The furniture coverings and rain buckets is a common behavior among depression era Americans. Don't be surprised if they try to save wrapping paper from Christmas presents. That said, I'll see you at 11:53 while wearing a purple hat and holding a yellow bag. From there we will walk to the backerei and eat bread at 12:00. Soup will be served at 12:02.

[@zameize]

Hey Trixi.. I like your videos very much. As a foreigner that just studied here in Germany, your videos really help me to understand what I should do and behave with my german friends especially and german people generally. It would be good if you could upload more german language video with daily content so that I can understand german language better. Thanks.. Can not wait for your next video :)

[@MsHaidiHo]

Hahaha, thanks for bringing back a few memories :) Sound pretty much as if you were describing my (austrian) grandma. We used to live in the same house and i totally forgot that she always made sure that all the blinds were closed before we turned on the lights. If we forgot to do so she would come down to our our flat and tell us that everbody would spy on us :D

[@rivonnewarwickshire1607]

Yes... We're Venezuelan, and my grandmother is the materialisation of Venezuelan stereotypes. She's a Hyper Catholic, entering her house is like entering a church. She's got a candle lit for almost every single Saint and virgin there is, and she's got paintings and little statues of them all over the house. Like, ALL OVER THE HOUSE. And I'm not even going to talk about food... Love your videos!! Greetings from Venezuela!

[@fredbosick6569]

My grandmother kept a home that could be visited at any time by housekeeping magazines. *Anytime* of day or year. Every room smelled different and good. And she kept up the garden and landscaping. And the cooking was beyond compare. Note, this was a US grandmother.

[@Chimpur]

I have some sort of ceramic tiles in my basement; so I have area rugs and small carpets everywhere too.. but not overlapping! At least you won't have someone flush the toilet whilst having a shower at your Grandmas... that really sucks when the water either turns ice cold or boiling hot!

[@shahlabadel1479]

one of your funniest videos ever.i really enjoyed it.thanks.

[@peterschulze4975]

If you've got so many carpets overlapping, it must be quite difficult to clean. You've got to move the upper layers around to properly vacuum clean below them.

[@macanacaz]

My parents used to collect the water coming out of the washing machine in buckets that were then placed all around the toilet for flushing. Saving water for environment has led to the streets of Berlin stinking horribly, because there's too little water flushing the sewer system.

[@zyriacus8360]

Just to tell you that not all elderly Germans are like your granny - I'm 78 and have none of these obsessions. Windows are open even at night, the garden is in most parts untidy much to the delight of our hedgehog, the birds and the squirrel. Rainwater is conserved only to water the greenhouse. Our floors are only off and on vacuumed (we have the habit of eating on the table, not from the floor). So your grandma seems to be on of a kind.

[@MelRTY]

I really like your videos and sometimes I get sad when people criticize your accent. When I was in high school I had an incredible German teacher that spoke perfect Spanish....(I'm a native Spanish speaker) but in one occasion she mispronounced a word and one of my classmates corrected her. Then she turned around with a very serious look in her face and said "the day you speak German the way I speak Spanish is going to be the day that you are going to be allowed to correct me" And I think she was right!!! Most of the people criticizing your accent may not even speak a little bit of German! So the day that they speak German the way you do English is going to be the day they are going to be able to say something! Keep going! 💪🏻💕

[@pauliez95]

Both my grandparents are German. My grandfather is more stereotypical. He can be a little cheap at times and he even used to have a thing about how much toilet paper should be used. If the roll was gone too quickly, he'd start to yell. That being said, he's probably the most kind and caring person I've ever met. But he keeps it under wraps in that old school, stoic German kind of way.

[@elizabeths50]

I would love to meet your Grandma. She sounds awesome.

[@numbr6]

MY-zerr-ly, synonym: frugal. I expected to see four fingers chopped off your hand and fall on the floor. My neighbor's oak tree drops BIG ASS leaves, usually on my side of the yard. I use my lawn mower to suck them up and chop them up, then run again through the leaf/wood chipper. Free mulch for dear wife's garden. Well, as free as much work you put in to gathering and mulching the leaves. My wife quilts, a lot. A dozen in 5 months. in 20 years, we will have overlapping quilted walls, like your grandma's over-over carpeted house. Very humorous video. Thanks!

[@j.b.1676]

My grandpa(I am german) makes jokes about religion, uses smartphones, doesn't like carpets anyway but he is also afraid that the neighbours spy😂😂😂

[@MarcioFaustinoSantos]

I thought the carpets were to avoid people steps sounds, because I notice germans tend to be noise with their steps, specially when climbing stairs. I also thought it could be because the floor between houses levels are thin. Houses I have lived the walls and floor were all very thin, so I used carpet to not annoy people downstairs with my steps.

[@MufuLP]

a funny thing my grandma used to do was that she got upset if you call her polish (shes from a village near lyck/elk in north poland) despite her speaking fluent polish. She always says she is east prussian even though prussia wasnt a thing anymore since 1918 and shes born in the late 1930s

[@RanDieBam]

Almost cute :D

[@Brizzber]

She's actually most likely correct. Prussia formaly existed until 1945 and because the germans were a minority compared to the polish in the former german parts of poland it was useful to speak polish. And it's more a cultural thing than a political one. If she was part of the german people living there she was culturly east prussian because it was a mixture of german an polish culture (probably more german influenced)

[@nakulgote]

well, if she is from that geographical area, had parents (or near ancestors) who were identified with that adjective and feels culturally close to east Prussia, then I find her claim legit.

[@loopshackr]

I recently watched the 2015 BBC documentary "The Savage Peace," describing the fate of ethnic Germans who wound up outside the redrawn boundaries of Germany after WWII, even if their families had lived there for hundreds of years. If your grandma was one of those, she endured some unspeakably grim times, and no wonder she doesn't like being identified as Polish.

[@MufuLP]

@loopshackr my grandma and a part of her family fled to germany when she was a kid in WWII

[@jdreyesf]

I think that the water buckets is environmentally friendly ;). Nice videos, congrats!

[@Dudap45]

Favorite video so far, hilarious.

[@xman870096]

Your Grandmother sounds like a lovely person, truly. Yes she does have a few harmless 'obsessions' but hey who doesn't?! As you've described her, I'd much rather have her as a neighbor than my current neighbors and several other people in our neighborhood...Spend time with your Grandmother, talk to her; I'm sure she has many interesting stories to tell you that would perhaps go a long way to understanding the way she is... ;)

[@Andraika90]

My grandma also hat carpets on top of carpets. Problem: they were all very old and we decided to have a new floor. Of corse carpets are more comfy than every other floor but also harder to keep clean. that was the main reason for me to go with "vinyl -Laminat"

[@dzasta97]

My grandma drives me nuts, when she says at first "I'm not interested in other people's lives" and then "oooh, where did he go? And whose this car is? I didn't see when he came back" and so on... -.-

[@Finnishwhiteboy]

3:00 "there is no weed" what a buzzkill

[@carol00210]

The part of the bucket is the best hahaha

[@barvdw]

My grandparents are from Belgium, and catholic, not protestant, but there are quite some things a like. The blinds will go down every night, and up in the morning. The bedroom window must be open, but not too much, and the blinds are almost always down. No carpets, though. And although wasteful behaviour is not tolerated, the toilet gets flushed at least sometimes in the day. However, the fruits of the allotment have to be eaten at any cost, the damaged ones first. So in the end, they have to throw out some of the veggies that had been good, but are no longer, because first all the fruits and vegetables that were only partly bad had to be eaten... That's the war, I guess, my grandparents are from the first half of the 1930's.

[@Qexilber]

Meine Mutter hat auch Deckchen üüüberall drauf: Tische, Schränke, Nähkasten, Kommode, Plattenspieler, Kühlschrank, Klavier, Klavierhocker. Ja sogar auf dem Fernseher und auf ihrem Medizinköfferchen, dass sie in der Küche stehen hat und alle Nase lang auf und zu macht!!! DAS MACHT MICH TOTAL WAHNSINNIG! Ich bin so Deckchenübersättigt, ich HASSE die Dinger mittlerweile sogar. 😵

[@eisenjeisen6262]

I have gotten back to loving you and Dona so much because the way you make the expressions to make me understand and laugh, and Donas German i understand pretty good and her writing, Danke Veil Mal

[@ffKingcreole]

Actualy i think the thing with the Toilet is just a tiny bit ridiculous, there's a word for that, it's a greywatersystem :D grey because it's not completely disgusting water but you wouldn't drink it, i think more houses should have a greywatersystem, storing for example the water from the shower for flushing the toilet or watering the plants :) the bucket however is just soo improvised :D

[@IzaBelotti]

Geography may change a bit, but the truth is the day I questioned God's existence with my Italian grandma... I was lucky enough to be talking to her on the telephone or else I am 100% sure she'd gave me a powerful slap. And I am really sorry but the leaves story was funny.

[@LL-lj1kq]

I think the drapes concern is about the air raids that could see lights in houses and target them. Poor people

[@felipemendoza5988]

your German grandma and my Mexican grandma maybe sisters... i think it's a trait of older generations, doesn"t matter the culture or the nationality. what is true is that, unlike my grandma or my dad, i'm a steriotypical latin american mess :D I discovered your channel recently and i have to say, i really like it! i'm a Mexican living in France who visited Germany and fell in love with the culture there (i'm actually studying german now) ;) cheers for your videos keep em' comming.

[@reddragon430]

My grandma also does some of these things. The mealtimes are important to her because she has diabetes and has to get her insulin very regularly.

[@Dutchfruitjar]

My grandma will defiantly will spend more in gas driving to a bargain. We tell her this. She doesn't listen.

[@coltongonz5646]

That's hilarious my exs grandma was the exact same way, they are both from just out side of leipzig and have lived in the same village for generations

[@snijder96]

It's like you described my grandparents. The only thing is, my family is not German. I'm from the Netherlands, and i can tell you that many of the elderly people in the Netherlands, have the same strange habits your grandmother has. So it's not just a German thing, the older Dutch people are practically the same. :)

[@kencoleman5007]

My mom is the same way about the window shade. Personally, I grew up become very orderly, reserved, more polite than many of my peers, a lover of complexity and puzzles. I thought that it was entirely because I'm an Aspie, but apparently brother shares some of those traits. LOL, One day a visiting customer asked me where I was from, saying that I can't be from Boston. I took it as a compliment, and couldn't entirely disagree with my being an atypical Bostonian. I do have some German heritage (a little more than 1/16), but those ancestors had left Pfalz all the way back in the 1700's. Some of the stricter and more punctual parenting was ironically from my father (from the 100% Irish American side of my family tree). I've sometimes wondered if it's because of those traits that I can more easily relate with friends from Europe.

[@yogsagot]

Trixxy went full Boxxy in this one!

[@alexia2189]

It is so funny with windows cover,because one of the first things I have noticed in Germany is that people don't care about privacy...Even my boyfriend,he is german,he barely had some very transparent covers.We still don't have covers on the bathroom window...creepy

[@birdofpassage9875]

Interesting, Personally I generally don't like carpets because I find that they are just dirt sponges and become impossible to clean and vacuum, maybe a rubber or plastic doormat that I can wash, now we are talking. Also one thing you have to consider is that by driving to that other grocery store that is a couple hundred kilometres further is how many litres of petrol you are burning, specifically how much it would cost to recuperate that much petrol, and subtract that from what you would otherwise be saving.

[@melige691]

haha, my German grandmother is nothing like that. She lives in a flat in a big city with modern scandinavian furniture. She has never been married and she doesn't live with her partner. She loves to travel and used to go hiking in Nothern Europe, but also in Tibet and in Georgia :)). Today she is a little too old for that, but she and her partner still travel a lot. When I was a child I thought that all grandmas were like that and I was always very confused when other children told something about their grandparents.

[@kamin570]

Classic German Grandmother : "Was sollen die Nachbarn(oder beliebige andere Leute wie Postboten etc) von uns denken?" = "What would our neighbors(or any other people like Mailman etc) think about us?" Well, grandma...I don't think that the 16 years old daughter of your neighbors next door will think bad of you, if you take your trash out and don't put make up on... And she always glares at my little unwashed-clothes-pile at every visit or shouts at my grandfahter if he doesn't clean up his ONE GLASS right away. Very german :D

[@stephenford7262]

My grandmother was British (English/Scottish mix) and shared many of the quirks described plus some stereotypical British ones too so perhaps it is more a question of that generation than nationality.

[@keithponchillia421]

Your grandma doesn't seem that unusual, except for the carpets.

[@candiduscorvus]

I am Texan, and my grandparents have all been from Texas. My maternal grandfather used to make poetry he thought was fun like made-up nursery rhymes about roadkilled animals. One went, "There's my friend the toad and he's flat on the road / There's my friend the crow and he's by the toad who's flat on the road..." It would stretch on with him adding more and more animals to be there by the flat toad on the road. He also used to recite old commercial songs from long dead commercials. He made up this the RC Cola song. "RC Cola makes you fat / Kinda like a big ole rat / But it's the drink for a mousey too / RC Cola is the drink for you!" He delighted in singing these sorts of things and making up rhymes. He was a very cheerful man, everyone's friend and very polite. My maternal grandmother grew up in the Ozarks in Arkansas and used to tell me stories about that. How when she was a little girl a bear wandered into her mom's kitchen and her mom (my great grandmother) took a pot of boiling water and dumped it in the bear's face before running it out of the house. When I was a teenager I found a dangerous water moccasin (they're poisonous snakes) and killed it. My grandmother was the only family member who told me she was proud of me. She always had this quiet gentle strength that was content to nurture and feed and care for others, but she would be swift to pick up a sharp weapon and go outside and start chopping the heads off of snakes and other animals that offended her. They stayed away or else. She also taught me a wonderful secret on how to cook turkey that to my knowledge nobody else uses. My paternal grandmother knew everyone and had political connections with people I didn't even know exist. She also talked on a CB radio most nights to friends of hers from all over the place, chief among them I remember being named Yellow Snapdragon. Her house was kept in the condition it was when my father came back from the Vietnam War, which was in the early 70's, so her house was like a time capsule to me through which I learned all sorts of things about my father's past which he would never have told me. This is the grandmother who told me stories about the former Vice President we were related to (she was his niece, which made me like a grand-nephew I think), and she warned me about what a mean man he was in life. My paternal grandfather died when I was very young, like two years old. My only memory of him is of sitting at a bar in his kitchen while he fed me spoon after spoon full of ice cream. My teeth were chattering from being cold and brain freezing, but I didn't have a word for brain freeze, so he kept feeding me ice cream. Everyone said he was a wonderful, kind hearted man. He died before I understood what death meant and before I knew to even miss him.

[@mikegillihan4546]

My grandmother was the same in America. She grew up in the Depression. I believe it's the same all over the world.

[@JuliaRichterUSW]

Carpets... I can relate to that. I'm Russian, and literally every relative of mine has carpets on the floor. But not just on the floor, they have carpets on the walls, too. That's a USSR thing, carpets on the walls were like a trend back then. And also those carpets provide some isolation, because lots of people in ex-USSR countries live in apartment buildings with very thin walls, so they put carpets on the walls in order to prevent them and their neighbours hear each other's conversations and stuff.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

My grandmother bore six pairs of twins, my grandfather worked four jobs to keep it all going. I simply don’t know how they managed it all.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

My German grandparents, when they were still around, were very technologically advanced! Meaning that, more than 20 years ago, they built a water tank into the back room of their garage, which was fed by the eaves trough, and they used *that* water to flush the toilet! So you could finally flush without having to worry about how much water that uses! ;-)

[@CocoLicious]

My parents got this as well and I know many other german households (if you have own property) who have :)

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

***** It was just beginning to boom when my grandparents equipped their house with it. My parents still don't have anything alike, they can use the rain water to water their garden or fill up their pond, but that's about it.

[@michaelbradley7447]

My mothers mother is turning 91 tomarrow I've always called her nanny Daris Cook great person

[@malataur]

I think I would like your grandmother if I met her. I don't care for gardening, myself, but I do applaud her meticulous attention to detail. 😊 On a side note, "miserly" is pronounced with a long "i" sound, like "my zer lee". You probably know that by now, but maybe it will help someone else...

[@berkleypearl2363]

Your grandma and my grandma would get along famously.

[@nadyarek]

well i suppose not a lot of people have a hobby of evening spying for their neighbours but hey are you really comfortable when you have the lights on and no curtains on your windows? maybe no one will look inside on purpose but that’s still disturbing. i prefer having my curtains down immediately when i turn on the lights. like closer to bedtime people also tend to put on night clothes that aren’t really appropriate to look at, so... yeah, i have that grandma habit also, and i bet at least half of other russians too