How Nordic people do the laundry

Soon it will be snowing AGAIN... well living in the North has always been a struggle against the powers of the Nature but nowadays less so.
I remember my mother wanted to dry clothes outside in winter time specially when it was -10 degrees of Celsius, colder the better !
In the countryside my grandmothers just before christmas activities included taking all carpets on the snow and give good beating to those and the scent was fresh like just washed ones. Once when i was younger i decided to take a shortcut to main road through small treeless area in winter thinking snow will hold my weight as it was - degrees, after few steps i was in the snow up to my shoulders and it was very difficult to climb back where i came from.

a reply to: dollukka

Read the title and thought 'beating it with a frozen fish'. Wasn't totally wrong...
lol

lol, over 4M subscribers. what's the secret??

a reply to: juulzverne

Nordic stubborness most likely.

a reply to: dollukka

Just try that. Your clothes will sink in the lake.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

It takes time before they sink.. try it

I need to move to Sweden ASAP

Laundry aside, a woman working that hard in that environment;

Peak Wife material

a reply to: dollukka

How on earth do cloths dry outside with minus 10C?
I can't even get mine to dry with +10c... unless I leave them outside for 3 days and it doesn't rain

nice vid though,
but nope for me

a reply to: KindraLabelle2

Dry frosty air evaporates moisture from laundry, and icy laundry is almost dry when brought inside.

a reply to: dollukka

Don’t forget to bathe.

a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman

That is actually quite great experience and common in Scandinavia. As a child i think i was about 3 or 4 years old when i had my first dip in such a icy water, my father often made such a hole in ice and just dip me and my brother shortly and after that we ran fast back barefoot inside sauna. My father said we were never sick as a child due that lol. Ice swimming really boost your Blood circulation, in some spas you can get the same experience.

I can defend the honor of a fit woman, working hard at womens' work.

so silly
a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman

originally posted by: juulzverne
lol, over 4M subscribers. what's the secret??

If you have to ask...

You wouldn't understand...

originally posted by: MrKuntis
I need to move to Sweden ASAP

I was thinking the same thing, and I hate snow!

We watch all of Jonna Jinton's videos. My wife subscribes to her channel or whatever it is. Her voice is soothing. It is relaxing.

Here is one we watched not long ago. video.search.yahoo.com...=2&vid=c6df495235e00d73a0fcfff8fefc1022&action=click

It was about the nordic vampires but the link just brings you to her videos for some reason.

It reminds me of living here in the U.P of Michigan.

originally posted by: KindraLabelle2
a reply to: dollukka

How on earth do cloths dry outside with minus 10C?
I can't even get mine to dry with +10c... unless I leave them outside for 3 days and it doesn't rain

nice vid though,
but nope for me

We have done that at hunting camp, they actually dry kind of fast in the winter hanging outside for some strange reason. I think it has something to do with the sun and the dry air.

a reply to: rickymouse

Actually it has to do with cold.. water vaporizes as the climate is dry.