text:  Most apartments have one, adding up to several million dotted across the country. And, as I read over the weekend, the request to cut back went down badly. Because these are more than just sweat cupboards. They're enmeshed in culture and folklore. For example, my favourite new fact is that, as a pre-wedding ritual, Finnish summer brides run naked around their outside saunas to banish the ghosts of boyfriends past.