Over ten ways we really hygge here in Denmark! Grillhygge, tøsehygge, julehygge...
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- Ten ways we really hygge in Denmark! Grillhygge, tøsehygge, julehygge and many more!
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Happy to have been born in 1981 in The Netherlands. When technology was not important, we enjoy "niksen", "gezelligheid", "uitwaaien". It helps that you also do everything by bike or walking. Just think anything that needs a car is too far and we don't do that if it is unnecessary. Groceries you can do by bike. You don't need clothes every week. Just 2 times a year. You don't need to eat outside. Just visit your friend or grandma and drink a cup of tea with biscuit. Just think simple, cosy, and keep your days empty. A book is better than searching up the busy shops. Simply don't let yourself fall for consumerism. Want less, work less, have more empty minutes, relax, watch outside. You are missing nothing. The world is not going to give you happiness, only stress. It is up to you to choose for "niksen" over "busy".
The U.S. needs to learn this. Sadly, even at retirement people just don't seem to hygge nearly enough! And all those years before retirement were just so busy. Ironically, the memories I treasure most from those years are the hygge ones; not the career, etc.
@Mary Contrary You are so right! - The real bases for our hygge here in Denmark is our "safety net" created by our relatively high taxes, removing a lot of stress factors: parenting, children gardens, school, studying and of course health issues (free doctors and hospitals - even the in other countries very expenses health issues), aid if you lose your job a.o. Not stressed by all of these factors (which in many countries could ruin you): This makes it quite easy to "hygge" even more here :-) - no worries :-)
Mary Contrary I remember my childhood when aunts, uncles, and cousins used to have family meal nights throughout the week with cards and domino games for the adults and yard games for the kids, Sunday meals after church at homes or the park. We don’t need government care (interference and control) in our lives. We need our lives back, without 24/7 workdays, without bringing work home to the family, without working during family hours. We need family, not government.
I'm reading this more than a year later. I do need more hygge in my life & everyday. Yes, life is different here in the states yet I see the benefit of this to be a lifestyle in incorporating mindfulness & gratitude in everyday things. I'm dealing with life & health issues and see I have a choice everyday. Even Anne Frank reminded us to see the good in hope.
I think Diane though lives in a lovely home and a wonderful community & embraces the culture is encouraging us to find peace in tiny moments even.
I wish I had done this when I was much younger. Wellness in balance and taking time to not miss the moments even in work. Contentment in things and finding joy. Being good to ourselves & others.🌷
I started to light a candle when I work in my kitchen. Not only when it is dark - always. That is kind of selfhygge to me
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Tina Mar Me too! It makes the task of kitchen cleanup so much easier . I have also been lighting a candle each morning during my shower and makeup application . I now find myself "treating" myself whenever I find a beautiful candle and looking forward to me time.
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How interesting!Thanks Diane. This inspires me to search for the "special moments" in days which are currently challenging for my daughter and I. We painted each other's fingernails, and sang in the car today.
This was nice to hear about hygge from someone who actually lives and experiences it where it's from.
My kind of Hygge is a quiet moment after work watching one of your videos..... Like now! I love these videos Diane, thank you for taking the time and trouble to set aside some time and bring them to us. Greetings from Germany xx
Oh, I just loved this video!! My boys and I homeschool together, and we have homeschool hygge! When we are working together, we light candles, get comfy with blankets and pillows, sometimes add snacks, and just enjoy the time we share learning together.
I have adopted your hygge compliment of lighting candles... esp in winter, it makes me feel happy and content to see a candle burning.
So here in Canada my family started hygge from April to October , every Friday night after a long weeks work , we gather at my parents gazeebo with family and friends, neighbours and such for a Friday night gazzebo night. We all bring snacks and beverages of choice (wine 😉, beer or soda ) and enjoy chatting and catching up. It's been a tradition for 3 years now and we truly enjoy that down time with lots of laughs.
Diane Taylor Where in Canada? On my way 😉
Kool aide is that what you mix with water??
I wonder if there is doggie hygge. Many afternoons my newfie gets up on the bed and stretches out and waits for me to put my arm around her tummy and we sleep for 20 or 30 minutes. Very cozy. Thanks Diane. Love hearing about Denmark and help with flying.
Love that, doggie hygge ~ every time I look into a dog's eyes there is a hygge moment.
You can actually use the term "hundehygge"! 😃 Though usually I would think of it as dogs playing together, chasing each other along the beach, etc.
I am a US gal and I LOVE this way of living!!!!Your personality&style is so very warm and inviting!!
So hygge is really about slowing down and getting back to the real essence of LIFE and LIVING and enjoying everything it offers!
Something we really need in this fast paced, high-tech world!
Well....I certainly needed that reminder Diane!
Despite being in the midst of summer (some days!) with no school runs to do, and no teenage activities cramming up our evenings, we still continue to pack our days with meaningless tasks! I still haven't enjoyed some "alone, no-rush" time with my teenage DD's!!!
So... I'm making a promise to myself...As soon as the sun breaks through the summer storm clouds, I will get the picnic blanket out, toss it under the shade of the giant elm tree in the back garden, pack a lunch and do a "dattehygge" with the "girls"!! Maybe they'll let me in on some secrets! haha!
Loved this little surprise chat today Diane! Tak! Helen
heythere georgiegirl Picnic under your tree sounds wonderful! I've forgotten how I used to love going on picnics with my kids(who are adults now) But, it's -25°C here in Winnipeg, Canada at the moment. Later, I'll bundle up well, go for a walk, pick-up a coffee somewhere & sit in a park for my hygge moment.
That sounds so good!
Just today we had søndag/eftermiddag hygge. Only the tree with white lights was still up, plus an assortment of leftover candles aglow on the mantle and table. Very cozy. We had our coffee that way with some cream puffs to go along with it. I had intended for my husband, daughter and me to have coffee by ourselves wherever we were in the house, but my daughter said she wanted to be all together in the living room, so we did and I lit the candles. The dog even participated and was allowed on the love seat beside me, and even got a hygge hug :) It is hard to pull yourself away from it, so we lingered with wine until dinner.
On pleasant days (even in winter when it is warm enough!) we love to have eftermiddagsmad of french bread and spreads in the back yard, or on the patio, and often we eat our evening meals outdoors too. I often light candles outside when it is dark (lucky for us that is between 8:30- 9 pm here) and I'm sure our grandson will remember that kind of sommer aften hygge!
Finn living in Atlanta GA the warm sunny south and I still have hygge moments daily :-).
After work my hygge moment is getting into my cozy slipprts after routines of course with a hot cup of tea a small treat and catch up with friends for 15 minutes and the I curl up with my cat and read. Thank you for taking the time to mak this wonderful video on hygge. Love learning about other cultures and places and seeing the scenery. Love your channel.♥️☕☕☕
Jeanne Sabido I love curling up with a book & a couple of my cats, too!
I agree...curling up with a book and my two cats!
Gosh that was interesting Diane. So it isn’t just about keeping cosy but more about a feeling of wellbeing with friends and family? The dark comes here in Scotland about 4pm as you know so not too different from Denmark. Love these wee bits of information that you put in your videos. Thanks again. 😊😊
Lovely video Diane! I’ve found over the last months thanks to you that hygge is important at all times of the year. I feel it’s made a difference to me and to familytimes. I’m in the U.K. and feel we should adopt hygge to get us through the dark days too.
Wish I had friends and family to hygge with... For me a cup of tea, candles and a blanket will have to do...
I love this type of info. Thanks for sharing!
Like sabina birnie wrote - a quiet moment after work with a cup of coffee an rolling the sice with hubby. Or watching one of your videos, Diane. There are muchm ore things where I can hygge med - read, doing crafts, stitching and knitting and so on.
Greetings from Germany
XOX
Loved this. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Always appreciate your insights. Learning so much and loving it!
Thank you again, Diane. Live long and prosper!
Thanks so much for sharing. I think my interpretation of hygge is gratitude, presence, enlightenment, connection with life itself......
Thank you for your "enthousiasme" you give me energy!!!
Loved hearing about all the varieties of hygge! Happy Hygge to you, Diane! 😀💜
My Hygge time is relaxing by the window with a cup of hot chocolate and watching the beautiful snow today. Thanks for all you do Diane, you're the best!
This sounds wonderful! I'm going to purposefully look for ways to really enjoy the moment and make family time extra special! Thank you for your explanation of hygge!
LOVE THIS!!! It is always so nice to see you Diane!!! Even if I can't watch your videos everyday I always have your voice in my head and whenever I need some encouragement I ALWAYS come to your channel and can depend on for practical advice on how to take another step on this Flylady adventure. Sometimes just to see your outfits and hear your voice lifts me up and gives me a boost to take another step in my cleaning routines. xoxoxoxoxo
Aww, thank you, that's so sweet! I'm glad we can lift each other up!
excellente idée ce thème !!! J'adore
Thank you Diane for the hygge information! My family and I had been hygge even though we live in America and we didn't even know it especially grillhygge. I remember going to state parks and having a barbecue and enjoying the scenery of the sand and mountains and each other's company. I like to hygge by drinking a hot drink, lighting a candle, listening to music and curling up with a blanket. Or sometimes instead of music, I' ll read a book. Another is sitting in a bathtub with candles, music and just relaxing. I need to do that often and is part of my mental health tool kit. Thanks for showing us how to relax and destress!
Hi Diane! Reading a hygge book inspired my daughter and me to visit Copenhagen last autumn. We rented an Airbnb for a week and fell in love with your beautiful city. Our first glimpse...the wind farms hugging the Copenhagen shore. We both admire the Danes' respect for ecology. I even drank your tap water after reading how pure it is. I NEVER drink tap water at home. To us, Copenhagen felt like a big, cozy village. I love your hygge videos and also when you show us the Danish foods you eat and the meals you make for your family. I'm American but my mother was Canadian French. She made her own liver pate. She also sauteed calves liver and onions and served it with mashed potatoes, gravy and beet salad. It was my absolute favorite. My first meal in Denmark was...liver and onions on mashed potatoes with pickled beets. Yum! Speaking of hygge, I am enjoying a mug of cocoa while snuggling with my 2 kitties, who are both EXPERTS at hygge. Do you have any pets? 😘 🇩🇰☕🍰🐱🐱
I need more hygge in my life...!! Too much running around getting nowhere.. work, life balance is a little off at the moment- home today - off to light candles and have a hygge nap.
Love your videos xx
I love that you say ‘besties’
Thanks for such a great video! I had no idea we've been doing Hygge all along! We don't have be grandest house or the most fancy, but everyone who visits loves the welcoming, cozy energy in our home. My husband and I always strive to create an environment at home in which at the end of a long day we can always come back and relax and be at peace. It really is such a wonderful feeling!
Wonderful...a little fun and celebration in every day....watching you and missing my sister in Horsholm...wish I could hygge with her often...but instead I shall keep lighting my candle at mealtimes (think my DD10 and DH think I'm bonkers...but secretly like it!) Thanks for posting such a lovely video...well, all your videos! Happy summer hygge on these long light days...if only it wasn't wet and windy! Thanks Diane x
That was very interesting. Thanks very much for the run down on hugge. Some of what you talked about is what we tend to do in Canada.
Oh, I enjoyed this! Thank you! Cheers from Croatia!
I enjoy 😊 learning about the Danish traditions and some of the language. Our hygge is very similar in our home 🏠 including the candles! I also like to burn incense which creates an automatic sense of hygge for me. I meditate for a few minutes each day which keeps my busy mind from going into overdrive! Anyway, enjoy your weekend and your moments of hygge!
Well, without knowing it, I had a MacDonalds Hygge with a Mum friend from my kiddie’s school. We catch up with a coffee whilst the kids play. Decompression on a Friday evening - we see quite a few kids from school there so it seems to be a bit of a (modern) tradition.
Hygge!! I fell in love with this word when I discovered it last year. Then I found your channel and now I love it too. Thank you for another wonderful chat, Diane.
Thank you so much, Marcela - plenty of hygge here!
Hi Diane, I'm a fairly new subscriber and I have to say that I love how you dress. You look beautiful in every video!! I have to say this one is so far my favorite! I have seen it hanging on your door in previous video's I've watched . I still have a lot of your video's to watch yet, I'm kinda bouncing from one to another lol so I know there will be more outfits I'll love. Thanks for doing these videos . I learn something new in every one.
I just adore your sweater!
Love the Dalek mug XD
Aiiiiiiih! HYGGE video wohoo! THX
This seems to be very genuine family and friend times. I can see the benefits of Hygge.
Hope you'll get some hygge in your day, Ally Cat!
My hygge is with my husband and daughters,fishing at a pond with lots of trees,plants,pine cones etc...or streams in the mountains,taking a nature walk with the whole family&our dog ,rainy days inspire me to bake cookies&breads and can jams&jellies,preparing and eating meals from family recipes&traditions with my family from my husband's childhood&mine,fireplace,soft lighting,scentsy&candles,soft clothing,blankets coffee&cream while,1920's,30's&40's&multicultrual instrumental soothing music, snuggling our daughters,antique shopping with my husband,oldest daughter or my mother,farmers market shopping with my whole family,apple&berry picking,brushing our horses,reading books to our daughters...I suppose the only self hygge that i can think of enjoying alone is nice warm salt soak with essential oils,reading or watching a show about nutition,other cultures&my bible while drinking coffee&cream or warm spice tea is about the only thing that is really nice alone to me.Oh dear that is long...i could keep going
Ooh, a bonus video!!
Just sent the link to my friend who lived in Denmark as a child. She and her mom used to take the ferry to Sweden together and have lunch on the boat and ride back home to Denmark. Before the bridge was there. Sure she'll appreciate the hyggelig memories. She saw the little book of hygge on her last vacation with the family, loved it, but I gave it to her before she had a chance to buy it, loving reading it. Thanks to you sharing with all of us. Rah, rah!!!🎉
-Reggie
I used to take that boat too (it was actually a hovercraft). Memories!
Diane in Denmark 👯
I love this video❤
Thanks, Debby! Here's today's video, hot off the press! th-cam.com/video/eZV0fXsFrL0/w-d-xo.html
Loved this! I HAVE to ask about winterbathing, I've watched your video on it more than once but still can't understand how it's possible. I'm really intrigued by the extreme mindfullness part of it. live in Maine on the coast and run throughout most of the winter, but some days the windchill is too much, even just to run. I can't imagine stepping into the water, or more than that stepping OUT of the water even if I could find someone willing to go with me! Is the ocean different off of Denmark? I know the Atlantic here is chilled by a current from the north.
I think it's a question of mind over matter 😀 Today the sea temp was 1c/33f and the air was minus 1 c/30f but the windchiil was minus 10c/14f
My friend and I take the children to the river with our kayaks. Strandhygge inland.
I started knitting Jul stockings for my 7 granchildren‼️❤️❤️❤️
Is it squash that you were thinking of for the drink?
Thank you Diane. Are you able to link to your sweater and blouse, they are so elegant.
Hi Sonja! This is a very old video but I still have the blouse (Gina Tricot). The poncho (can't remember the brand) came from one of our famous Swap parties, and I wore it a few times then passed it on to one of the other ladies 🖐😊
I burn candles year round even on long summer days
I really wish I could join a hygge group in my home town. I have only one close friend in the same city and it's just me and my husband. I wish there could be be a way of having hygge chapters by regions for those who don't have family or close friends in the same city. Of course, for safety it would be best to begin at a public place for those interested in hygge.
I watched this whilst having kattenhygge (cuddles with my cats - I just made that up! 😂). I think the word you were looking for was cordial or squash. Diane, I'd love to know how you came to live in Denmark, how you met your husband? Xx
Hi Carol! I mention it in this video! 🖖th-cam.com/video/WniXToVSo64/w-d-xo.html
Only 10 secs in... where or where did you get that Dalek mug? I'm sure I will comment again. Cheers (from another Diahann) Di
It was a present from my big brother in Scotland 😀
Fascinating! Do you recommend "The Little Book of Hygge"? I live in South Africa so I've always felt it's harder to relate to the concept in a warm climate, but this makes SO much more sense 😊
Cindy Radue I
It's a great book...definitely the best of all the hygge books out there.
Thank you! I'll definitely pick it up then! :)
Squash Diane 😆
magsadams20 that’s the word I was looking for but I’ve also been away from the UK and could only remember Ribena. Cheers
Also cordial!
Oh, yes - cordial and squash! Though for some reason, I only associate squash as being orange/lemon. We never had a red one! LOL
I live at 48 degrees North, here in Montana
This is the episode I discovered dianeindenmark, however it was in June.😍
Omg where is your neckless from please?
Thrift store, many years ago!
Saftevand is cordial I think. My thought about råhygge is not like yours. For me råhygge is when you REALLY hygger and makes an effort to do it. Like when it’s Friday and you are home alone and take your duvet into the sofa, finds a good movie on Netflix and a pint of ice cream and just enjoy it fully
Was the drink you were thinking of Kool-Aid?
Squash!
I should have spelled that differently, hygge .
Minimalism seems like opposite of hygge. Furniture and lamps by Danish designers like Poul Henningson, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Louis Poulsen, Hans Wegner looks sterile, minimalist, modern, sleek, plain. It looks the opposite of hygge/cosy. I think that more ornate furnitre is cosier, like Tiffany lamps, stained glass, overstuffed recliners, Himalayan pink salt lamps. I don't get how Weiking can say Danes use a lot of driftwood, birchwood, stone, etc., because the furniture I looked at didn't seem to incorporate that. Weiking says most Danes have at least one lamp by a certain famous Danish designer! That would make their homes LESS cosy, not more! It would be like making your home look more like a hospital or medical esthetics clinic, or like something from the Jetsons cartoon. I don't understand this.