{"id":675,"date":"2007-07-18T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/i-bought-a-house-and-all-i-got-were-these-lousy-towels"},"modified":"2007-10-20T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T19:23:06","slug":"i-bought-a-house-and-all-i-got-were-these-lousy-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/i-bought-a-house-and-all-i-got-were-these-lousy-towels","title":{"rendered":"I bought a house and all I got were these lousy towels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"image\" src='http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/070718_towels.jpg' alt='Orange towels' \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ve been doing business and she let me in before 10 (we&#8217;d agreed on this yesterday when I went to sign the loan documents). When I was leaving she handed me a house buyer&#8217;s gift &#8212; a paper bag with two small orange towels.<\/p>\n<p>A bit funny &#8212; I sign away my soul <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_mrgreen.gif\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> they give me towels. Still, I think it&#8217;s a really sweet gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday after I signed the loan papers I got three tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuntomessut.fi\/yleistieto\/en_GB\/general\">Housing Fair<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asuntomessuopas.fi\/\">H\u00c3\u00a4meenlinna<\/a>. Wonderful surprise! I&#8217;m going there with Grandma (I don&#8217;t know who else is coming) anyway so now I don&#8217;t need to buy tickets.<\/p>\n<p>This is it. I&#8217;m a home owner now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}