The more I am in Hungary the more I realize that the ways they live differently than us are much more efficient.
These are to hold their toilet paper rolls. Can you believe how easy this is to change and access?
These are their light switches. So much easier to use and find than ours. How smart!
Since Hungarians rarely use dryers the Kántor family hangs their clothes...using a pulley system on the ceiling of their bathroom. Since their ceilings are tall enough that they can do this without hitting their heads on the hanging clothes. If I design my own home one day it will have tall enough ceilings for me to build one of these too.
Judit's mattress is so thin, made of foam and yet extremely comfortable. They do not use box springs or huge mattresses and yet I seem to sleep better here than at home...it might just be the jet lag...but it really is super soft.
Eggs come in packages of 10 instead of 12. One of the many reasons Americans are fatter than Europeans? I think maybe.
Puszi,
Emily
Your reflections on the differences crack me up. I remember some strange door handles, odd/shocking toilets, and high ceilings, You will have a hard time with the drying rack on pulleys in the US. To build a house with 12-14 foot ceilings would be quite expensive. I think that the sets of 10 eggs makes much more sense that 12. Somehow the US and Britain got base 12 in our heads. 12 inches in a foot, a dozen, cups, ounces, etc. 10 eggs goes right in step with the base 10 metric system. I think it is interesting that they write 10 darab FARM tojas. Farm in English.
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