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Millions of Euros are wasted every New Year’s Eve (the previous year, 2018, Germans spent €133 million on fireworks).
Ever so efficient, all public spaces have the waste removed before the following work day, 2 January.
These photos were taken at the EDEKA supermarket parking lot on the former military post Camp King in Oberursel.
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Ives Cousteau
Last year, the firework industry took in euro 133 million in sales in Germany alone. Personally, I could do without this air – and noise pollution. On the other hand, I understand that some people (mostly men, I’d suppose) see this as a bit of Wild West fun.
Revenues from firework sales reached their peak in both 2016 and 2017 with € 137 million in sales. In 2018, the New Year’s celebrations brought in € 133 million, as did 2019. Let’s hope for a continuous drop in sales.
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” , said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I’ll be laughing a lot on New Year’s Eve, when I watch Dinner For One. I’m the only one in our family from a 100% German gene pool, and have been told only a German could find this show funny. True. Nobody else in my family laughs with me. One of them might laugh about me, while I’m doubling over in laughter. 🙂
Back to the fireworks – in spite of them being produced mostly in China, I still want to wish your people 祝 你 们!
fireworks – das Feuerwerk (German)
New Year’s Eve – Silvester (German)
The German supermarkets have been swamped since yesterday. The madness will continue until tomorrow afternoon, 31 Dec, when the shops close at 2pm. Here are a few items Germans like to buy around this time of year.
Clover, pigs, and chimney sweeps are good luck charms and make a nice thank-you present for co-workers, neighbors, etc.
Fireworks sell out quickly. Our children got their own share of firecrackers and bottle rockets.
Germans spent 113 million euro on fireworks last year. If I had any say in this, I would stop this waste.
Then, some of us tend to give our friends drinks with interesting labels, such as ‘Kalte Muschi’, which is a coke and red wine mix, or plain red wine with an alluring name.
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
(Little Gidding)
― T.S. Eliot
My name is Maria Shipley. I live in Oberursel, Germany, with my husband, son and daughter. The … Read more
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