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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If he was, the routine would also involve an ice cold lake and vodka...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Nah, not really. Beer is more of a drink after sauna, because it hydrates as well. (Yes the overall alcohol is a diuretic but beer as opposed to vodka.)

    After sauna you can maybe have a shot or two but that's just for a weekend sauna or something.

    Going to the sauna is hardly anymore special than taking a bath. In fact I'd argue that more Finnish households have saunas than bathtubs, although that is a guess. We have more saunas than registered cars.

    Pretty much every apartment, even studios, built after like 1990 has a sauna. Perhaps of the tiniest ones don't, but a small one small two-room apartment built after -95 definitely would. Mine does. And these are cheap government rentbuildings.

    There's no lake at my apartment building, so I just have to settle for a cool shower and/or sometimes standing on the balcony in the winter.

    And if you live in an apartment building that you don't have a personal sauna in, there's definitely one in your building still which you're allowed to reserve as a tenant, for like an hour or two a week, some for free some for like 2e/h.

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