Personnummers

Very excited today as our personnummers have finally arrived! For those who don't know, these are the identification numbers that everyone in Sweden has (sort of similar to National Insurance numbers in the UK). Basically there's not much you can do without one - you need them to get a job, open a bank account, for a store card, to get a contract mobile phone - pretty much everything. We've been quite lucky in being able to do some of these things without having them, but things should be easier now. It means we can also apply for our Swedish ID cards which will save us having to carry our passports round in case we need id for anything (like going to the bank or getting prescriptions from the chemist).
So a pretty pleasing day really :))