00:00How do Germans live at home? Who does the chores? Why are there so many cleaning
00:04products? And what's up with those square pillows? We're following Michelle Muller,
00:09an average German, to find out.
00:18Good morning, Michelle and Yulia.
00:27It's 9am on a Saturday, and the average Germans have just woken up. Michelle and Yulia went to bed
00:33at the scandalous hour of 11.30 last night, after one of Michelle's now infamous dinner parties.
00:41Last of the summer wine and all that. Michelle and Yulia's friend Stefan is visiting today,
00:48so they need to clean the apartment, and it looks like Yulia's getting up first.
00:59First, Lüften. Ventilating one's home is as much of a core pillar of the German identity
01:05as direct communication. And, despite more than half of Germans sleeping with the windows open,
01:11Yulia's cranking them wide open to get full ventilation.
01:16And, the Germans love it so much that it's often made obligatory in rental contracts.
01:40Yulia is up earlier than her average German partner. Women in Germany perform, on average,
01:45an extra one hour and 17 minutes per day of unpaid labour, like cooking and cleaning.
01:59Unlike in some countries, where there's a sort of master cleaning product,
02:03in Germany, there's a product for every occasion.
02:13Still in bed. Must be nice.
02:19Michelle is putting on his house shoes.
02:27House shoes, or hausschuhe, are commonly worn in German homes.
02:30And, I kind of like that.
02:33One in two Germans admit to taking their phone with them to the toilet.
02:37Although, who knows what that number is in reality.
02:4195% of Germans use toilet paper.
02:43I wonder what the other 5% use.
02:46Oh no, surely not that.
02:50Michelle's finally made it to the living room.
02:58Even though German women spend more time per week cleaning, by a very small percentage,
03:03German men actually value a clean home more.
03:14Like 63% of Germans, Michelle likes to listen to music while he cleans.
03:20Which helps with the pain of their least favourite duty, cleaning the windows.
03:32That looks complicated.
03:43In Germany, like much of Europe, it's commonplace to use a drying rack to hang laundry.
03:47Which can be surprising if you're used to a washer dryer.
03:59It's normal for couples to sleep with two single duvets instead of one big one.
04:04As I'm told, it's much more practical.
04:07And honestly, given the conversation around blanket hogging, maybe it makes sense.
04:17It makes sense.
04:18These large square pillows are also a common feature in German bedrooms.
04:23And personally, I find them quite uncomfortable on the neck.
04:27But hey, at least chiropractors will have a lot of work in the future.
04:33More than two thirds of German men believe that both partners are jointly responsible for the chores,
04:38and the workers split equally.
04:40Women see things differently.
04:42Only 44% of them say that the chores are actually equally distributed.
04:50So how does your household compare to the average German's?
04:54Can you get behind the double duvets, the square pillows, and the cornucopia of cleaning products?
04:59Can you just reply to different pièces?
05:01Like in videomove дом with people HMPS and using technicians.
05:02Be careful.
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