9 Japanese Hygiene Rules Americans Break Daily — That Make Your Home Smell (You Can't Tell)
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
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Every house has a smell except yours — that's the rule you can't test: https://twohousesbook.com
The bath-and-body part covers the rest of it — the towel, the nightly bath, the corridor that smells of nothing, and why.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you Japanese homes run on discipline, or restraint, or some standard being passed down by character. That isn't it. My mother wasn't serene about any of it, she was busy, and she did these things because the alternative created a problem she'd have to deal with by dinner. Small rooms, thin walls, a wet summer, no central heating and no dryer. The building made the decisions.
I walk through nine of them, and most of them you can test in your own house tonight without buying anything. Then I tell you what all nine are actually doing, which comes down to something about the house I grew up in that I didn't understand until I'd been gone from it for twenty years.
I'm not saying one country got this right. I own a dryer, I use it every day, and I'm not giving it up.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me which of the nine was already true in your house before you watched this, without anybody in your family ever deciding it.
Chapters
0:00 you are probably cleaner than i am
1:42 nobody in that house was holding a standard
2:54 the tub is not where you get clean
4:30 how many days has that towel been there
5:51 the hose from the bath to the washing machine
7:09 where america is simply right
8:24 the step you can feel through your foot
9:46 are those the same shoes as yesterday
10:50 the corridor that smells of nothing
12:07 an american closet has a back
13:18 the quiet one nobody will mention
14:35 where all nine actually come from
17:04 pick the towel
#JapaneseHome #CleaningHabits #JapaneseCulture #LivingInJapan #JapanVsAmerica
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Ive noted that they look so clean .
The narrator is being humble but its true that their cultural habits create better hygiene.
Its true, so own it.
9 Japanese Hygiene Rules Americans Break Daily — That Make Your Home Smell (You Can't Tell)
Two Houses by Ken Tsukamoto
59,923 views
Every house has a smell except yours — that's the rule you can't test: https://twohousesbook.com
The bath-and-body part covers the rest of it — the towel, the nightly bath, the corridor that smells of nothing, and why.
543 pages, 96 chapters. $47 early-bird, 30-day refund.
I grew up in a Japanese house. I've now lived in America longer than I lived in Japan.
Everyone tells you Japanese homes run on discipline, or restraint, or some standard being passed down by character. That isn't it. My mother wasn't serene about any of it, she was busy, and she did these things because the alternative created a problem she'd have to deal with by dinner. Small rooms, thin walls, a wet summer, no central heating and no dryer. The building made the decisions.
I walk through nine of them, and most of them you can test in your own house tonight without buying anything. Then I tell you what all nine are actually doing, which comes down to something about the house I grew up in that I didn't understand until I'd been gone from it for twenty years.
I'm not saying one country got this right. I own a dryer, I use it every day, and I'm not giving it up.
If you make it to the end, leave one word in the comments: done. And tell me which of the nine was already true in your house before you watched this, without anybody in your family ever deciding it.
Chapters
0:00 you are probably cleaner than i am
1:42 nobody in that house was holding a standard
2:54 the tub is not where you get clean
4:30 how many days has that towel been there
5:51 the hose from the bath to the washing machine
7:09 where america is simply right
8:24 the step you can feel through your foot
9:46 are those the same shoes as yesterday
10:50 the corridor that smells of nothing
12:07 an american closet has a back
13:18 the quiet one nobody will mention
14:35 where all nine actually come from
17:04 pick the towel
#JapaneseHome #CleaningHabits #JapaneseCulture #LivingInJapan #JapanVsAmerica