I bought a house and all I got were these lousy towels
This morning at 8:15 I went to the seller to sign the contract of sale and I got a wonderful binder full of interesting information about my apartment: the balcony will have window glasses (hurraah!!), the TV system is cable, I will have a dishwasher (yay!), etc. etc. After I got the important documents, I headed for the bank. It opens at 10 am but I called the clerk with whom I’ve been doing business and she let me in before 10 (we’d agreed on this yesterday when I went to sign the loan documents). When I was leaving she handed me a house buyer’s gift — a paper bag with two small orange towels.
A bit funny — I sign away my soul 
they give me towels. Still, I think it’s a really sweet gesture.
Yesterday after I signed the loan papers I got three tickets to the Housing Fair in Hämeenlinna. Wonderful surprise! I’m going there with Grandma (I don’t know who else is coming) anyway so now I don’t need to buy tickets.
This is it. I’m a home owner now.
Congratulations! Finally finished all the paperwork and stuff :)..
that’s nice of that lady! I don’t think we even have gifts.. lucky you haha
Well, congratulations home owner! When is the housewarming party? You, of course, will have to cough up the money to fly us all over there (since you’re rich enough to buy the home).
I guess it was nice to get the (ugly *shhh*) towels. Oh, I suppose they’re not ugly if they actually match anything in the home. I don’t think we get anything over here other than the mortgage and a smile. Well, the smile depends on who you’re banking with.
Once again, congrats. I’m very happy for you.
The house-warming party is/parties are most likely in May. Welcome!
The colour of the towel isn’t perfectly shown in the photo even though I auto-corrected the camera phone’s colour. I should probably take a picture with the “vivid colours” setting. It’s bright orange — I don’t know how well it’ll match my grey bathroom but if nothing else, I can use them in the sauna
to sit on…
Umm, out of sight, out of mind??