IKEA tomorrow - what do I 'need'?

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Just that really - I always walk away with great things and wish every time I'd asked on here!

I only go once per year so I'm quite excited

Good luck with IKEA one Sunday!! 🤪

Get two ( voice of experience)

freezer bags
freazer bag clips

Noooo the socktopus is crap, so fiddly and annoying! I hate mine, I’ve had much better ones from other places.

Once you have one Socktopus you realise you need more so get at least two.

A couple of packs of coloured children's hangers, each of my children has a colour or you could colour code different types of clothing.

Their really cheap fleeces are great as blankets/throws/making dens.

Go early and have breakfast (and lunch!)

This will give you the best mash ever!!

IDEALISK
Potato press, stainless steel
£10

Hot dogs, ice cream, 200 candles a wardrobe that doesn't fit in your house, cushions you don't need and a kilo of mini daim bars

Same here - been once, hated it and all cheaply made rubbish

A bottle of water with you.

And buy batteries.

The stretchy silicone lids that replace clingfilm are great.
Seconding (or more) scissors, bag clips, napkins, and sandwich bags. The latter are really thick, so you can wash and reuse them loads of times.

Sandwich bags

Dish brushes with suction ends so they can stand upright

Microwave plate cover thing (presuming you have a microwave and don't have one of the covers) - stops stuff splattering everywhere

Paper napkins - you can never have too many

Trolleys (Raskog or nissafors) are quite useful for kids stuff.

Boxes for organising any drawers in your pax wardrobes

Actual yellow octopus soft toy to keep the giant whale company

Whenever I go I always buy lots of candles, stock up on food bags and also get meatballs, salmon, and pickled herrings. Their cheap fleece blankets are excellent.

Love pax drawers & trays. Skubb boxes are a perfect fit too

Ughhh please don’t eat the hotdogs from ikea - they are foul!

Snub boxes to put in drawers to help you organise stuff.

Those stretchy plastic things that you can use instead of cling film for cucumbers/ Tins of beans /melons cut in half/ etc.

Circular silver coloured tray, if they still do them.

I've never had one but my partner, who treats his body like a temple foodwise and who is an excellent cook, absolutely loves them.

I refer to them as his 'dirty little secret' .... 😛

Oh and definitely the lemon and dill sauce

And they also do vegetable medallions (in the freezer), really nice served with some salmon and they lemon and the lemon and dill sauce.

Also they had the mini daim bars in the big bars, but they were discounted and they were orange flavour. Very tasty!

You’ll need more money because the prices have rocketed in Ikea of late.

2 socktopi is a must. Though until this moment, I'd forgotten I had two

Another vote for the giant whale

Cork trivets
Picture shelves
A wool rug
Bath mat
Plants
Plants
More plants
Gooseberry jam

USB chargers and electrical extension sockets, if you don't have enough of those already. KOPPLA I think is the product name. Much better than stuff you can buy elsewhere for similar prices.

Forgot to update - not that anyone really cares but I appreciated all the effort and it was lovely going in with a decent list!

It was SO busy but we did get there early, had a coffee and a snack and then did lunch after the rush.

Bought storage for toys, a new mirror for the living room (the Lindbyk or something like that, looks like it's from Made or JL for £60), storage boxes for the toys that have now been labelled by eldest DS, a new plant, some lights and things for eldest DS's room, and found all the little bits you all suggested like the dill sauce, coke trivets etc. A good trip and now won't need to go for at least another year 🙌

But did you get a blue whale?

Exactly. Come on Op, don't let us down.

Im interested in hearing about what storage cupboard you bought for playmobil and lego…

I was going to suggest adding big cuddly tiger to the whale and yellow octopus as he really is lovely but I was too late.