IKEA: classic or dud?

O_O ikea redeemed.

seriously though, i don't understand the love for that place. it's fucking insane in there. the cafeteria is not good either. always makes me gassy.

just full of screaming people and it's a goddamn maze i tell you

how do you not take a video of this monkey?

and yeah the cafeteria is awful. it can be a savior if you're hung over, though.

I <3 the IKEA monkey.

what a stylish fellow

I don't hate IKEA, I like the caf and the walk-through part! I just hate getting your pieces together and standing in line at the end, and then having to get them HOME. It's all a lead-up to the horrible part, which is carrying way too much home on multiple subways and/or buses.

PS the next thing I want from there is a dining table so I guess I should start being nice to someone with a car.

btw i broke at least one wine glass on the way home because it was stupidly packed in the bottom of a huge back.

also i have about a million christmas sausages

http://distilleryimage9.instagram.com/58ccedb6423811e2979622000a1fb04f_6.jpg

i thought i was a basically heartless person but goddamn if this isnt the saddest photo ever taken :(

ikea is just about the lease stressful furniture buying experience out there. unless you're loaded then buying forniture is all pretty stressful and at least in ikea you can have fun if you just decide to go with it.

fun in ikea looks like a photogenic couple spinning their goods trolley around & hugging in front of the wine glasses, a montage set to sugar pie honey bunch, like there's always this homemaking scene going on somewhere around you while you're glibly deciding whether you need a weirdly dimensioned bowl that you don't need but which is basically too cheap to not buy

I don't hate ikea at all but yeah it sucks if you go there w/o a car because it's like idk going to a p good restaurant and being allowed to taste and chew the food presented to you but there is a maitre'd who physically prevents you from swallowing it and makes you spit it out into a bin

and you never ever feel like paying for car service or delivery service because then it doesn't feel cheap anymore and what's the point of going if it's not cheap!

PS the next thing I want from there is a dining table so I guess I should start being nice to someone with a car.

it's just not worth it

man i really hate going to ikea.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 9 December 2012 23:02 (Yesterday) Permalink

NEVER AGAIN

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Me too man. And I think it actually has been at least a year and a half since I've gone, because of this hatred. Although we've had our eye on a bed from there for a while, and I guess eventually when we have the extra money we'll go get it.

ikea is awesome for some things (beds and mattresses, lamps, things with shelves) and really awful for other things (housewares, anything that you sit on).

i don't plan to go there again unless i need another thing with shelves, and we already have too many of those.

I got rid of the crappy Ikea bookshelves the last time I moved
felt good

i do maintain that my ikea bed consisting of a $100 foam mattress and $70 frame and $20 slats is the most comfortable bed i've ever had.

more comfortable than the disheveled pile of old winter jackets that you previously slept on?

but I suppose it could be true. I just hated the last ikea bed with slats that I owned

believe me i was as shocked as you that it was any good

That's good to hear. My spring mattress is a pile of crap and I'd wondered if the IKEA foam mattress was any good.

Haha, I just saw someone on facebook call the monkey "Jörj".

Oh no, now CTV is saying the monkey won't be returned to his people because of his prohibited pet status. He's still in Animal Control custody. ;_;

CTV now reporting the monkey is a sex addict ;_;

CTV now reporting the monkey's favorite metallica album is St. Anger ;_;

but seriously that is too bad. I hope the monkey finds a good home. I love the little guy.

Poor little monkey. Am sad that I cannot plan to have a pet monkey in the future as I temporarily dreamed.

ikea is classic. ikea platform beds with slats are even more classic (xpost). i think it's more comfortable than a traditional box spring, but more importantly it looks kewl and sophisticated in my opinion.

http://i.imgur.com/w2g6c.jpg

i have been to ikea twice in the past two weeks. i have assembled five bookshelves, a couch, an ottoman, two metal shelving units, a tv stand, a nightstand, and a dresser. i hate ikea.

I feel your pain, I am old so I dread 'hex wrench finger' and sore back. My mind was utterly blown when I found out their catalog is all CG and not photos

that makes perfect sense as i suspect all their in-store employees are holograms as they are utterly unwilling to lift a finger to assist you.

I feel your pain, I am old so I dread 'hex wrench finger' and sore back.

Use a hex bit in any cheap power screwdriver or cordless drill. Not sure what Ikea was thinking expecting normal people to assemble 4x4 Expedit shelf cubes with a tiny hex wrench that needs to be turned about 400 times.

Today, around 75% of all IKEA’s product images are CG

http://youtu.be/vDNzTasuYEw