to HATE HATE HATE ikea with a passion

[MistyMountainHop]

i LOVE their stuff (which on mn probably makes me a chav )

but i HATE going there and avoid where possible

we have been today (to the notts one) and it was Hell On Earth. Rammed with people aimlessly wondering about, as if they have just gone for a day out. we wanted to go for lunch in the cafe but all the sad cunts people were queuing out of the cafe door and there was no where to sit, in fact people were even Standing Up eating :/

DH and I had several pointless arguments and i noticed loads of couples around doing the same and at that point i started to get a horrible fear that we were Exactly The Same As Other People :( walking sheep-like round ikea on a sunday coz we have got fuck all better to do

in actual fact my parents gave us a £200 gift card for christmas and thats why we were there. (but thats probably just me trying to justify why were were Allowed to be there and everyone else was a boring twat with nowt better to do.)

also, it might be my imagination but i always get perved at by men when i go to ikea not saying i'm owt great far from it but i can only deduce that they are probably just bored, have been dragged there by their Ohs and simply looking at random women to pass the time.

aaargh i hate people

and to top it off we bought matching bedside cabinets that look shite now they are assembled. and we can't return them. because they are assembled. :(

While I can't help with the ikea drudgery, I perked up some crappy old pine bedside drawer unit things with car spray paint and new handles. £20 and a sunny day (2 tins Grey primer, 2 tins paint)

YANBU, but Ikea is great on a Monday morning when it's quiet. They're food is nice too Virtually everything we have in our house is from Ikea

Not just you.
We spent 3 hours on their website this week tring to buy a wardrobe.
It is the shitest website I have ever seen.
I thought dh was going to have a stroke.

It all arrives on May 3rd, so then we have the fun of putting it together

I love going there for a day out. Lunch at the cafe and a stop at the new Krispy Kreme drive thru on the way back. Perfect.

yabu to go to IKEA on a soggy sunday and expect it to be anything other than hellish . 8pm mon - sat is the time to go

I can walk around ikea all day and get
Unreasonably excited when I get to go! Lol

YABU, and also sound like a PITA to be honest.

I personally love Ikea and although other people on the whole can be some what annoying its part and part of the fabulous Ikea experience.

Can't people go to browse any more then?

And yes, you were also one of the sad cunts who wanted to eat at the same time. Baa! Baa! You're just a load of sheep tempted by meatballs for 10p. Shame on you for moaning, you know EXACTLY what's it's going to be like before you set foot in the door.

Hopefully you bought lots of packets of mini Daim bars to make it worthwhile!

I have never been to ikea! (am I the only one?)

Everything I've heard about it puts me right off to be honest...

"Rammed with people aimlessly wondering about, as if they have just gone for a day out."....well...they get it, you don't then! I used to work for IKEA. The whole concept of IKEA is to provide a 'day out for the family' :)

Appreciate that there's loads of things about IKEA that annoy people, but honestly, some of them (like for eg, being forced a certain way round!) are done deliberately - it's called the 'long natural way' ...and the stuff that's immediately there as you enter is called 'Open the Wallet' - i.e. deliberately full of crap with high margins that no home can possibly be without, to make you OPEN YOUR WALLET! Don't go to IKEA if you want a quick whip round - the one in Warrington for eg is 1mile around from entrance to exit. Shopping is designed in IKEA to take you 2 - 3 hours minimum!!!!

Oh. and as for 'my cabinets look shite now I've built them' why the hell didn't you check out how they looked BEFORE you went to the warehouse and picked up the boxes?!!!

ha. Honestly. Customers are crazy! ;)

Its especially satisfying going the opposite way to the arrows or finding all the secret cut throughs to avoid taking the route they try to force you along.

Sad? Moi?

I go to Ikea straight from school drop off in the morning:

Great parking space
Free coffee
Out by 10:30am

We went on Easter Monday with all 4 dcs, it was still rammed at 3.30pm when we arrived, no spaces in the creche until 6.45pm. We went around, selected the furniture we went for, had paid and back in the car for 5.20pm.

Not a disagreement, or misbehaviour from anyone

I love going to ikea and am planning a trip to get an Antilop even though dd2 is merely 3 months old and nowhere near needing a high chair

Shame I'm on a diet otherwise their 99p breakfast would be on the menu :)

Agree with smalltown - timing is everything. I never go to Ikea on the weekend. Ever. I get in early in the week for the 99p breakfasts or late at night. I plan exactly what I want to buy before I go. I don't take DH with me unless absolutely necessary, or if I have to take him I accept I can't do mooching through looking at things idly kind of shopping. (I show him the options and make a quick decision and get him to do the heavy lifting). I only take children if they're young enough to snooze all the way round or old enough to go in the play area or old enough to be useful carrying things bribed by the promise of meatballs).

Finally, I accept that the reason their prices are so low is that I have to do lots of the work.

If it's difficult to find a parking space then you know that it's crowded and no chance of getting a meal or getting through checkout quickly. If you decide to go in knowing this there's a good chance it's going to be hell.

Agree, you need to go between 7 and 10 on a week night and that
YABU as you had the same idea as everyone else.
You're just annoyed because they got there first ! :o
I bet they were thinking the same about you!

itdoesnthurt OMG Just How did you manage to work there must have been horrendous. (in fact i thought that when i was in there, felt sorry for the staff, they all looked as depressed as i felt :o esp the poor bastards serving the hot dogs. cripes. )

and i DID know what the cabinets looked like, they looked nice in the shop but they just don't look right in my tiny bedroom that looks nothing like IKEA's beautiful little roomsets

oh yeah and thats another thing, their lovely little roomsets and gorgeous kitchens and stuff just make me feel like a Massive Failure as i have no hope of ever ever having such a nice house. unless i win the lottery, buy a decent house and hire an interior designer :(

yeah i agree we should have gone late at night on a week night or something, but it was DH's idea damn him ;)

Agree with timing. We never go to the nearest Ikea because even at 10pm on a Tuesday it is still carnage, but make a day out and go to a quieter one on the coast. Get there early, coffee and breakfast first. I never attempt Ikea with low blood sugar levels as I may murder someone whilst being temporarily of unsound mind if I did

1. Go on a weekday. Take time off work if you have to, it's worth it.

1. Go with somebody who is not your partner. A male friend is ideal (but mine was perving, so that probably explains it)- no arguments.

1. Take the time before you go to go through the website and make a list of everything you need with numbers.

1. Pick up and eat a packet of IKEA biscuits as you go round. Almost definitely pay for them at the other end.

I love ikea, even the kids loved it in the crèche
But you can order most stuff online now
The delivery men were the most helpful guys they took everything upstairs for me.
Just wish they'd put the small stuf online, I need more sharp knifves!

I bet they were thinking the same about you

i KNOW kitty :( thats the worst part about it! that the other people probably are hating me as much as i hate them.

apart from when i visit hell ikea, i don't think i have ever given or received so many evil looks in such a short space of time.

Every few years I get kea fever and just have to go. Dp loathes it and we get there look at everything and hate it buy a duvet cover and stuff our faces and then drive home! Always saying we will never go back!

OP - maybe you should try smiling at people, you tend to get mostly smiles back instead of a glare, and if you get a glare at least you can walk around smugly thinking your the better person which i think you maybe doing already