11 Old German Housekeeping Habits That Make Guests Think You’re Wealthy

I grew up in a German household where a guest could ring the bell without warning and nobody panicked. Not because the house was spotless, and not because there was money. There never was. It was habits: small, plain things done at the right moment, before anyone needed them doing. In this video I’ll walk you through eleven of them. There’s the thing on your sofa that your guest judges before they have said a word, and the sweeping rota that decided how whole apartment buildings in the south of Germany kept their entrances. There’s the room my grandmother would only let us into on Sundays, and the reason the scent a guest notices in a German home is almost never a candle. Most of them take a few minutes and almost none of them cost anything. Tell me in the comments which one you noticed first in your own home, and subscribe if you’d like more of the old German ways a house was kept.