Also, there are some types of electronic devices (eg, computers and some models of tv) where the cable is separate anyway, and you can just buy a Swiss power cable to plug in - they even work for Mac power cords ...
If you have a lot of appliances in one or two places in the apartment, another option is to bring a couple of EU powerboards and change the plug on the end of that into a Swiss plug (see other posts for cheap/easy sources for those). I did that on first arriving, and it meant by changing two plugs I could use twelve different appliances (two 6-socket powerboards). I had one in the kitchen and one in the lounge room.
When I was young plugs hadn't even been invented yet.
I wired plugs from the age of 6, my mother was happy to show me the proper way rather than have me putting scissors or knitting needles in the holes in the wall
I was taking the piss, but on second thought my post may be true in the sense that they weren't much in use back then. I remember the above-surface tubes containing the wires from when I was fairly young, ten perhaps, leading to lamps mostly, but I don't remember wall plugs at all. Given the sparsity of electric appliances at that time still, that's probably little surprise. The on/off switch would also be set on the surface, resembling a large knob, in most cases with just one pair of wires out.
Based on a sample of one, I don't remember these details from anywhere but our home.
I learnt about fuses when I decided to plug the plug with a power cord with bare wire ends into the wall rather than into my test device at age four.
I knew how (and why) to use an oscilloscope at 9, very useful when getting my multiple train transformers to all be phase aligned.
Tom
And then a German guy simply solved the problem . (German)
And is now making good money with it. (Fr. 14.95/pc. )
Ahhhh, if all immigrants were like him. So much less moaning to bear.
We have no such problem, as we have no triple sockets!
Tom