Ikea…..

[Fuckallthetories]

You go in for a rug and some cushions and come out with

a giant cuddly toy dog
all the food
a fake plant
tea lights
2 blankets
a mirror
two shelves
a cupcake tin
a toilet brush
hooks
plastic bags
glass mugs
and other associated gubbins

I can literally go to any other shop in the world and buy only what I need but ikea? I think they put magnets on your hands and on the products….

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I thought the rule was you had to buy a lamp.

Let’s compile a list that everyone needs to follow when they go to ikea:
tealights
ziploc bags
socktopus
kids cutlery even if you don’t have kids
kalllax
meatballs

what else?

FGS, @Fuckallthetories, we’ve allocated a day to this and come all this way, the parking was a nightmare and you forgot the Bïckërïng. You bloody go back for it, I’m staying here by the tills eating Daims.

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Please can someone let me know when they bring back the salmon meatballs. I now have too many pieces of furniture/various napkins and still no salmon meatballs. I just want to be able to bypass everything, stealthily pop into the food shop bit and jump back in my car quickly without giving in to the lure of yet another Malm item!

I was ridiculously proud of my self when I only brought what I went in for.

Should I ever get married, I'm planning to have my reception in the cafe. Everyone can have meatballs and chips and Diam bar pie. Job done.

Have you been to Flying Tiger? I find the same issue there. I wonder if there's some Swedish/Dutch/Northern Europe magic that they do on their stores.

Clas Ohlsen (sp?) was another similar store although they don't exist in my city anymore so I'm a bit safer.

Unpopular opinion perhaps but I can't really relate. I never really buy anything in there (the odd bit of storage furniture aside). I don't think it's as cheap as it perhaps used to be and also when I do visit it's the same stuff they've always sold, or a variation of it so nothing ever really tempts me as in impulse buy and the quality is pretty variable.

tealights, cheap candles and fake plants, storage boxes, photoframes, utensils teatowels etc can be bought anywhere. I don't see it as any different for those types of items than going to the likes of B&M.

I'm happy enough wandering around if someone wants to go but rarely leave with anything other than a drink if I'm thirsty, or the thing I went in for.

With a dozen bars of the hazelnut chocolate. Two of which don't make it out of the car park. 😇

Has nobody mentioned scissors? You MUST buy scissors.

The packs of white flannels, with the coloured tags, that are about 1000 for £3 and glasses. Glasses disappear into the ether in my house.

I love an IKEA trip but it's sooo far away. I have to mostly make do with Dunelm Mill, which is nowhere near as exciting.

I have never been to Ikea. I don’t drive and live miles from one. I persuaded DH that we needed to go when I was pregnant with dc4 because I wanted the Antilop high chair. I was looking forward to buying loads of stuff I didn’t know I wanted. And then I walked down a street in Hampstead and spotted an Antilop outside a house with a free to good home sign on it. The fates obviously don’t want me to go.

Thanks for the reminder, we are nearly out of Daim bars (youngest dc found the secret emergency stash over half-term!)

So that’ll be Daim bars, a shark, large dinosaur, multiple storage boxes, Christmas decorations, dining chair cushions (actually do need these) and something else that I didn’t know existed as yet but is essential to a happy life.

Thank you! Added to list, I’ve heard how good they are.

A Billy bookcase
Cinnamon rolls
Jars of horseradish sauce
At least 1 ice cream

Cork coasters and/or place mats
Orchids
Vanilla candles

Those clippy things to reseal bags 🙈

I used to live about a mile from the Bristol one. In 10 years I went into it twice, because I knew that would happen.

Heathen

Washing up brushes

Some sort of storage boxes

Daims

I won’t be Bïckërïng with my husband in IKEA because we have such a good marriage really it’s because he went to buy some kallax and couldn’t find the way out and he got scared and won’t go back.

The one nearest me involves Dartford, hugely complicated 18 lane roundabouts and people being very unkind when you pick the wrong one of those lanes to be in.

Pity. Won't try that one again.

Also why I will never experience the delights of Costco

Back in the day the restaurant used to sell miniature bottles of wine. That made it a bit more bearable (and meant even more random buys!)