My First big splurge

I never realized that a washing machine could make me happy :)
At the guest house, I did not have access to one. Mrs Fug insisted that I give her my clothes - she would wash and iron them for me. While its very nice of her, it made me extremely uncomfortable to hand my clothes to her, request her to wash them for me. This discomfort made me 'plan' how to wear my clothes, so I could easily seperate out the colored clothes from the white/lighter shades bla bla
I dont particularly like lugging my clothes to a publich laundermat :(; waiting for the clothes to get done...
When I went to Palo Alto, I felt so happy to have a coin operated washer and dryer on the same floor as my room :)

So as soon as I moved into my apartments, my first big splurge had to be getting myself a Washing Machine. I did some online research and discussions with colleagues, friends about them...finally bought an Electrolux EWF 12240 W. from Mediamarkt. They promised delivery and installation too.
The installation however didnt go too smoothly. Not their fault. The input and output points werent quite working in the bathroom. The delivery guys wrote down the valves I need to buy and left!!! Ofcourse they wouldnt come back to fit them for me!!! phew!! uuggh!! They told me I could get them at the Toom Markt. So I went down there with their list...and as suspected, nothing is sans choice here. Even the simple valve had some variations and my german was put to test there...
I had to explain to the guys the entire story - mediamarkt delivery guys finding a problem with the valves bla bla...finally, an (broken) english speaking boy came to my rescue. Infact more than rescue because he volunteered to stop by my apartments on his way home just to see what was the problem - what would be required. I was very impressed. After his inspection, he said he would return the next day with the required equipments to fix it. He especially came home the next day just to tell me he didnt have time to do this work for me...that he would come the following day!! Again, I was impressed...
Finally after 3 days of owning a washing machine, thanks to this boy from Toom Markt, it worked!!!


I could wash my clothes MYSELF!!! yay!!
It is unbelievably liberating :D :P