6 Things My Mom Would Change About Canada After Living in Germany
Every year I typically convince my Canadian mom to come for a 3-month visit to Germany to spend some quality time with me and my kiddos 💛
This means she's actually spent more than 1 year in Germany and in all the different seasons (both the good and the bad).
It was my hope that one day she was going to want to move here permanently! 🤩
Unfortunately, while there are some amazing things she's decided she wants to bring to Canada with her, I think she's settled with the idea that she's never going to move here. 💔
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00:00 - Intro chats
00:53 - Bottle Returning
02:06 - Grocery concepts
03:45 - Her weird love for canvas bags 🤣
04:35 - Bakery overload
05:00 - Accessibility
05:42 - The forest kindergarden
I own a daycare in BC 🇨🇦 outside time is my priority, I stay outside until the little ones need a break due to outside conditions. Totally agree about the pfand would make it so much more convenient!!
Your mom is such a sweet person. 🎉
💛🥰💛 thank you!!!
Moin. Wie immer ein interessantes Video! Apropos Fund: bei uns steht vor dem Aldi schon seit langem der Mann mit der Hinz und Kunz Zeitung, der Obdachlosen Zeitung. Ich habe mir vor über zwei Jahren angewöhnt, meinen Pfandschein nicht drinnen an der Kasse einzulösen, sondern mit hinaus zu nehmen und ihm zu geben. Immerhin grüßt er alle Leute auch immer sehr freundlich und hilft mit den Einkaufswagen. Liebe Grüße, Ben
Awww eine super Idee und sehr Guter Tipp! Bei uns heißt es fiftyfifty (www.fiftyfifty-galerie.de/) und das Konzept finde ich super! 🥰
@@lifeingermany_ meine Frau sagt, immer wenn sie zu Aldi einkaufen geht, würde sie der Mann Fenster angucken. Bestimmt denkt er: das ist die Frau von dem Mann, der mir immer den Pfandschein gibt! Und sie gibt mir nie was! Lach!😣
@@tasminoben686 😂😂
Wieder ein interessantes Video mit Sachlichkeit und Witz gemacht 😂❤man muss euch beide lieb haben 😊
Have a safe trip back home!
every time i watch a video where your mother is includet i am always remindet about the fact that she has or want to go back. i feel it would be a loss having her not in the country. i believe somewhere very very deep in her is something that belongs to germany ..... have a great sunday
In San Diego, CA, there are recycling bins for bottles and cans at a supermarket nearby. You put them in the appropriate bins and receive tickets relative to what you put in which you can use to pay for groceries in the store.
Some people can write a novel about the family stress of getting a suitable daycare or kindergarten place. And depending on the federal state, the systems are now incredibly complicated. About thirty years ago we were lucky that one of our neighbors ran the "integrative neighborhood kindergarten" and told us when our first child was born that he had already been registered. Three years before reaching kindergarten age :)
I'm glad you had a good time with your mom.😊❤
In the USA, many people do bring re-usable bags to the grocery store. My favorite are a Chinese brand called Dalix, canvas ones that I buy on eBay. The stores themselves sell re-usable bags also.
Hey, here in Germany the supermarkets do facing as well (we call it "spiegeln"). Not all the time though, just a little bit each day. And of course not in discounters like Aldi or Lidl 😀
I have collapsable boxes in the trunk of my car for shopping. So i drive my cart to the car on the parking lot and place the shopping items in the boxes. At home i just have to empty the boxes and fold up them after usage. The boxes are of stabile plastic, and can take a lot of weight.
the thing with AlDI is that it's cheap and good quality. The have also relabeled popular brands. So persil is Tandil....
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Na dann wünsche ich Deiner Mutter eine gute Rückreise, freue mich auf ein neues Video mit Ihr in der Zukunft.
Vielen lieben Dank 🥰
Ihr seid einfach beide wunderbare Personen
Aww Dankeschön 🥰
Thanks, very nice video
Franzbrötchen kommen ursprünglich aus Hamburg.
Moin Jo! Und sind total lecker! Brauche ich regelmäßig für meine gute Laune!😊
@@tasminoben686 Und was für ein Gebäck ist das genau? Kenne es nur dem Namen nach von KZhead Videos.
Das ist so eine Art Zimtschnecke, nur besser. Am besten mal einen Besuch in Hamburg planen und selber testen. ;-)@@magmalin
@@herbertgonswa3503 moin! Zuerst ein Fischbrötchen an den Landungsbrücken, dann ein Franzbrötchen in der Innenstadt! Besser geht’s nicht! Grüße aus Ahrensburg, Ben🤤
@@herbertgonswa3503 Danke. Eine Städtereise in den Norden steht schon lange auf meiner Wunschliste :).
Daumen sind gedrückt ✊✊
I love your mum so much !!!! Sie muss nach Deutschland kommen !! Ein toller Mensch mehr in Deutschland .liebe Grüße ❤❤
💛🥰😭 Ich hoffe, sie wird eines Tages ihre Meinung ändern und hierher ziehen.
@@lifeingermany_ ich drücke dir/euch ganz ganz fest die Daumen !!!! Sag ihr von uns allen das sie muss !!!😂.
@@lifeingermany_ auch so super wie dein deutsch geworden ist einfach Hammer ganz ganz großen Respekt .kenne deinen Kanal eigentlich 1,5 Jahr , hab dir nur mit nen anderen Account gefolgt .bleib so wie du bist !!! Dir alles liebe und deiner Familie auch !! Hoffe du hast weiterhin eine tolle Zeit in Deutschland !!
Aldi is very slick now, compared to when I was young- it used to be really rough, ripped open cardboard boxes everywhere, and a very limited selection of basic groceries. I actually felt this much less stressful (and economical)-I just hate having to decide between 20 types of joghurt and buying several, because the variety is tempting 😅
Oh yes, I remember. In the past, coffee,milk, flour, sugar, etc. were simply left along with the pallets and the carton. (Today this probably only applies to beverage bottles) The box with the children's jeans etc. was also left on the pallets. No extra rows of shelves or metal baskets
Beautiful mom like her daughter ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
You are so kind 🥰
@@lifeingermany_ always good to see u and ur reply as well
Aldi and Lidl are definitely leading the shopping world. Wal Mart had at one time 83 stores in Germany or for 1 Million people one store. When their losses accumulated 500 Million, they closed them all at once. . Contrary to them, Aldi and Lidl are in most, maybe even in every European country and are also expanding rapidly in G|B and USA. All this is the German Puenktlichkeit, Gruenddlichkeit, Organsationsfaehigkeit and Fuehrungspersoenlichkeit.
The can machine exists all over Quebec (in grocery stores).
super cool! In Ontario, for example, we have to deposit bottles and cans back at The Beer Store
@@lifeingermany_ that is really not a bad way, since you have to go there anyway to buy your beverages.
@@uliwehner yup! Would just be nice to do this with ALL cans and not only alcoholic cans and all plastic bottles too! 🙃
@@lifeingermany_ does canada have the same silly liquor store, beer store, thing going on as the US? Here in georgia we can buy beer and wine at the grocery store, everything else is liquor store.
@@uliwehner haha yep exactly the same for the most part!
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Fastes growing chain in america,btw. (Aldi)
If you want to show your mom, what a decent recycling system can do, take her to the stairs on Burgplatz in the summer. People hang out there, drinking beer from bottles and enjoy the sunset. Lots of people with lots of beer. Meanwhile, some homeless/no-income people will ask you to give them the empty bottles, so they can return them for the cash. I think, it is a great "system" - the bottles get returned and do not litter the place and the people returning them are making some money on it for themselves.
MOST GROCERY stores NOW ARE, " BRING YOUR OWN BAGS". NO frills & Food Basics Have folding Clothe bags. maybe some Wal-Mart stores will give you bags.I live in Kitchener Ontario, we HAVE GREAT Public Transportation.
That’s why she loves the canvas bags from germany so much! They come in super handy for grocery shopping in Canada too! 🙂 That’s true! Kitchener is great comparatively speaking (although, still nothing compared to similar sized cities in Germany) .. I spent many weekends in Kitchener as a university student 🥰
@@lifeingermany_ Thanks for Your reply, My parents emigrated to Canada from The Netherlands in 1952.My Father was Hoping to get a farm in Canada but just became a farm worker. I have a fairly good under standing of Life in Europe. As a retired longhaul truck driver I've seen lots of Dumb stuff from the States, I'd Never live There.
i played in my youth all day outside, so its not so importent to play in the kindergarten outside too... but if i see the parents today, they went crazy, if the kids are playing in the mud or dirt... because they can get ill or something like that... i played in my youth all day outside, if it rains, snows or in the sun and i never was ill... and so i dont understand the parents nowadays, because they are my age and all i know, they played like me, so why they dont wanna that fun for their kids too...?
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Hi. Wie immer. Ein top Video. Zwei ziemlich beste Freundinnen ❤️❤️. Danke fürs teilen. Liebe Grüße aus dem schönen Sauerland Home of 1000 ⛰️& 🌲🌲🌲😉
Vielen lieben Dank 🥰💛 Sauerland ist traumhaft schön! Wir wollen nochmal im Sommer da hin fahren! Hast du ein paar “Insider Tipps” für mich? 😉🥰
Lol! We grew up in Düsseldorf and live in Canada now. But don't think immigrating to Canada as a German is all roses and rainbows. Lol!😊
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you get 8 eurocents back for a beer bottle
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lol.. thumbs down isnt how you do "Drück die Daumen" ;) You make a fist and push your thumb against the side of it for good luck. (hold the fist so the thumb is on the top, too) Or, you put your thumb inside your fist and squeeze for bad luck.
Hahah cool! Never seen it done this way before!
@@lifeingermany_I just checked wikipedia ...and it only shows the version that I consider as "bad luck" for it. Weird.
@@theskilllessgamer5795 no way!! Interesting too!
@@lifeingermany_So.... I put this up as a question in a local facebook group. (Bielefeld) This is totally non representative of course and so far only 10 people answered, but 75% of those are pushing the thumb at the top of the fist and not inside the fist.
@@theskilllessgamer5795 haha this is awesome! Thanks so much for looking into this! This is why I love our KZhead community so much! I learn SOooooO much here!
ID ??? (Groceries concepts) Maybe i don't hear it right, the sound is bad
What?! Really?! I use the same camera for filming every time .. will look into this. Maybe it was just WHERE we were filming in the house
2:20 And the Competition Bureau isn't doing something about that?
Nooothing!
ALDI (or LIDL) our cultural export to the world ...
the orginal meaning of the deposit for the plasic bottles is to reduce plasic and use more glas bottles, bud instead germany produce more and more plasic waste and ship it to asia and africa were everthing gets polluted by german waste. it would be better if germany must handel its own waste and not ship it in 3rd world countries for "recycleing". this would reduce the usage of plasic bottles very fast.
As far as I know the plastic waste is burnt locally in Germany to produce energy.
Your comments about the plastic waste are waste by itself . Where is your proof of that ?
@@andreasmack694regular waste is used for power plants
@@arndbaggen3011just type german plastic waste export in google
@@arndbaggen3011Deutschland exportiert immer weniger Plastikmüll ins Ausland, in 2022 745.100 Tonnen. Die meiste Plastikmüll wurde im Jahr 2022 in die Niederlande ausgeführt. An zweiter und dritte Stelle folgen die Türkei und Polen. Im EU-Vergleich exportierte Deutschland im Jahr 2022 nach wie die größte Menge an Kunststoffabfällen. Quellenangabe: D Statis, Statistisches Bundesamt.
Poor Customer Service is one of the worst aspects of living in Germany (not from everybody). I was once accused of shoplifting in a German Store. I was so angry, the shopkeeper, who had accused me, and the security guard were just laughing at me, they kept asking me why I hadn't kept my receipt, although it's common practice in German stores not to keep your receipts. I wrote two emails, one to head office, one to the store itself, plus a letter of complaint to the store. I never received a reply. I still feel angry thinking about it.
😭😖 this would drive me nuts! I don’t blame you for still being bothered by it!
@@lifeingermany_ 👍
Only one little comment: Your mother is comparing yesteryears Canadian prices to todays prices in Germany. Happily forgetting the about 6 percent rise worldwide.
3 months is not quite yesteryear.....
Yes bring Germany to Canada. We will take over the world but in a smart way 😂😂😂
We have 85 Million people in Germany, please stay away!!!
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