Clutterbug - Real-Life Hacks and Tips to Declutter, Organize and Clean your Home Fast - Fun Facts about Being Canadian! | Clutterbug Podcast # 12

Episode Date: May 3, 2016

Here are a few fun facts about being Canadian, just in case you were wondering (or if Trump gets elected). Canada is a beautiful, friendly and uniquely weird place to live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey guys, welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast. It's going to be a really short one today, but I thought I would share with you guys some cool things about Canada. I am Canadian, obviously. I live in Ontario, Canada, and I know a lot of you guys. I know a lot of my subscribers through YouTube are from the U.S. and England and Australia all over the world. Those people who watch my videos. And they'll make little comments about things that are clearly Canadian, which for myself I never noticed. But I thought that they were unique and I would share them with you today. Obviously the first thing is the Canadian accent which I do not believe that I have. There's definitely like a Newfoundland accent which is associated with Canada but we don't all have that. We do of course say our use perhaps a little bit differently and we add you to a lot of different words that other countries do not. The U.S. in particular spell color without a U. Here in Canada we spell color, flavor. Basically, lots of words that have an O in it, we put a U right after it.

And so that's definitely a little different. And I suppose we pronounce those words a little bit differently as well. One of the things I get the most questions about is hilarious. It is our bagged milk. I don't know why we have bagged milk. We've just always had bagged milk. to be completely honest, I thought everyone in the whole world had their milk coming bags. So our milk comes in one liter bag and then three of those bags are put in another bag.

So we have three liters of milk that we buy at the store, each individual one bag. And we have like a milk carton, it's called, or a milk holder, a container that we put the bag in. We cut it and we pour it out that way. I have no idea why if this is cheaper or, I mean, obviously, I think, I think, think it's less waste. We don't have jugs. I think that's one of the people's milk comes in is jugs, but our milk comes in bags, which other people find really odd. For us, it just is like totally normal and an everyday thing. But yeah, I can see how if you're used to like containers, because we don't have juice and stuff that comes in bags, and that would probably seem a little

odd to me, but our milk, even we can buy chocolate milk in bags. So that's different. Also here in Canada, which I found is different. I just assumed to everyone in the entire world took their shoes off when they entered someone's home. So whether it's a guest, you're a guest or you live there, here in Canada, you take your shoes off at the door. It is considered extremely rude to go inside someone's house and not take your shoes off. Even if you go inside someone's house and it's like super scuzzy gross and you're like, oh my God, my socks are going to be so filthy. Doesn't matter, man. you have to take your shoes off. Everyone in Canada takes their shoes off, even like delivery people.

So if you're having furniture or appliances or something delivered, those people will stop at the door and either put like slippers over top of their shoes or they'll take their shoes off while carrying like a 500 pound thing. They will take the time to kick their shoes off before entering your home. If we have somebody like construction workers or something coming in where they're going in and out in and out, in and out all day long constantly, what they'll do is they'll lay blankets down on all the spots of the house that they're going to walk. Then they take those blankets with them when they leave. So they generally do leave their shoes on only because they're coming in and out so many times to

like cut wood or whatever it is that they're doing outside. They will leave their shoes on, but they will lay blankets everywhere that they're going to walk. It's just normal. And when I was talking to people that are like, oh, you know, my floors get so dirty. And I wish, I wish my guests would wipe their feet before they came in. I'm thinking, they wear their shoes in your house. I couldn't even imagine here. I couldn't imagine how filthy my house would be if we wore our shoes in the house. Maybe it's a Canadian thing because of our seasons.

We have four seasons here, obviously. And they're like dramatic seasons. Like summers here in southwestern Ontario are hot. And the winters are freezing with snow and ice. and then fall and spring is basically just a lot of mud. So we definitely, I mean, you can't wear your shoes inside. It would just be mud everywhere. Maybe if you lived in Florida or somewhere like California where it's really nice all the time.

But still you'd be bringing in dirt. I don't know. I don't know why you guys leave your shoes on. I think it's super odd. But that's a Canadian thing. We just absolutely 100% do not do that. The other thing Canadians do way more. than any other country is apologize. And I do this so much. I mean, if we're walking and someone

bumps into us, if someone bumps into me, I say I'm sorry. And it's not just me. The other person, if I bump into them, will say sorry. Or we say sorry if somebody hurt themselves. We say sorry, like, you know, if somebody passes away, we're like, oh, I'm so sorry. It's just sorry is used to so much in my vocabulary and in everyone's vocabulary. Even like just, I don't, I don't know. It's just, yeah, we apologize for everything. And are Canadians nicer? I don't know because I don't go to a lot of other countries.

And when I have, everyone there has been so super nice. But I do know that generally in Canada, people open the doors for each other all the time. We hold the doors open for each other all the time. were really just courteous and friendly. There's not a lot of road rage. There's not a lot of just things that I hear about in the news or I watch on other people's YouTube videos talk about that happens in their community. We definitely don't have gun violence at all because people just don't have guns here. You can't go to the store and buy a gun.

I mean, I literally, the only people we know who have guns are hunters and they have a permit and they're like long. you know, rifles or shotguns for hunting, nobody would have a handgun. I mean, it's just unheard of for somebody except the police to have a handgun. I don't even know if you're allowed to have a handgun. I doubt it. And I should have looked this up before I'm talking about it. But that's just something that's really different here in Canada. I hear about people, you know, I hear, I watch the news from the U.S. because we live so close to the border. We're only about five minutes from Detroit here. So we get a lot of Detroit news and a lot of the US stations just from our antenna. And it's like, you know, there was a home invasion, but the homeowner fought back with their

22 handgun. And I'm just like, that's just so, I don't know. It's just, it's just a whole other world. Nobody has guns here. And is it safer? I don't know. I think there's definitely less gun deaths? I don't know if it's necessarily safer or not, but anyways, I just wanted to share that out with you a little bit about Canada. Is it cold? I've actually had people email me and say, do you guys live in igloos up there? Like we're Inuit or something? No, it is colder because we're north, but here's a fun fact for you. I live in southwestern Ontario and we're actually more south than like a lot of northern California. I'm actually more south than, you know, New York and Buffalo and a ton of, there's actually a lot of U.S. states that are way more north than me here in

Canada. We kind of dip down here. So even though we have winters and they're cold, we still are, at least where I live in southwestern Ontario, we have really hot, hot, hot. summers and and we are more south than a lot of the U.S. states. So crazy fun fact for you. Check out a map sometime if you want to see that. And I just thought I'd share with you some weirdo things about Canada. So I think that's all. Oh, hockey. How could I live about hockey? I don't like hockey personally. But I'm pretty sure that 99.9% of the population of Canada loves hockey. watches hockey all the time and talks about hockey all the time and hockey's like a super big deal in Canada as is tim hortons tim hortons is our coffee shop our donut shops here they're literally like

on every corner there is so many we call them timies they have donut holes that are called timbits and um it's just everybody in the morning goes to the tim hortons drive-thru it's a drive-thru coffee shop and it's probably any time I go during the day, it's like 20 cars deep. It's just really popular. It's a Canadian thing. So if you're ever coming up to Canada, you have to go to Tim Hortons. Everyone agrees the coffee is absolutely the worst. It's terrible. But people go anyways. I have no idea why. But it's like a treat. It's like, I guess some people are really into Starbucks. Here in Canada, it's all about Tim Horton's super crappy coffee. So anyway, Thank you guys so much for listening and we'll see you next time.