IKEA

[Mrspopper]

When will I learn? Always think it's a good idea to go. It's always on a weekend. Heaving. Massive queues. Toddler refusing to sit in trolley. Argue with DH. Everyone is miserable. Don't buy much but still spend £100. WIBU to say NEVER again, then forget how awful it is in 6 months and go again.

I luffs it, my house is a testament, I don't own a piece of furniture that isn't IKEA however I pass it on the way home from work so can easily nip in and pick something up. Avoid at all costs on weekends and bank holidays [shudders] the faffers and ditherers go for a day out.

MissKataMari - you really cheered me up! Thanks Doll xXx

Life has changed since I discovered their picking service. You get the staff to print out the order of the items you want, and an invisible person picks the order and delivers it neatly to my front hallway a day later. Much more civilised.

Ikea as a family day out?!

Why?! People are so strange

I go alone, on my day off. Bliss

I only shop online now, it's just not worth the hassle.

I go alone, on my day off. Bliss me too!

I went Thursday - had a lovely relaxed shop - got some martini glasses, candles, a throw, some fake flowers for DD, lots of little bits and had a lovely coffee and a cake

Shut up you 'orrible vipers... you're making me want to go again! And I really and truly don't actually 'need' anything. 'Would like' is different!

I went purely for the glasses - £2 each - I'm having a cocktail party in a month!

I love a good amble round

We too today did the ikea visit. Much too everyone's dislike. My children had a time of screaming and trying to leg it out of the table section.

We don't live near enough to go very often.

But I am totally puzzled by their delivery costs. Due to not living near, we decided to order some furniture to be delivered. For one item it costs £7.50, but for two items it jumps up to a massive £35. So we ended up placing 2 separate orders and paying a total of £15 delivery. Bad enough, but better than £35.

But why? It just makes no sense to me. I can't work out the logic behind their policy.

I used to not mind it till the FIENDS changed their meatball recipe and stuck a load of gluten in em

we've had plenty of lolz in Ikea over the years but mostly gallows humour tbh

the model tiny flats, tho. 'It's my 25m square and I love it'

where is all your SHIT you fibber

I've spent most of today putting up IKEA wardrobes. Going and actually buying them was hellish - my partner and mum and dad all went off to get the bits in the warehouse while I stood near the checkouts with the baby and were gone so long I thought I'd been orphaned. But putting them together is SO satisfying!

I love IKEA. Best trip ever was with a friend and we both bought some mini bottles of wine (not sure if they still sell them?) from the cafe and went round half pissed.

I usually go with MIL. We have a fab time but only go evenings or if we both have time off in term time.

I love flat pack building - especially using my drill

I did some drilling! (fnaar). It still somehow amazes me, at the age of thirty, that I'm allowed to play with power tools.

haha I so get that!

3 hours and 350 quid later...I'm shattered now, yanbu. Got a lot of cheap shelving though.

Went yesterday straight from school run. DD2 and I were there by 9.30, pit stop for a breakfast and out with the antilop and some scissors by 10. Perfect.

EVERY. TIME.
We never normally argue, we're like best friends.. We walk into Ikea cheerily with a short list and high hopes. Walk out wanting to kill each other and set fire to the place! Until the next time...
I think it's because it's disorientating and makes you feel a bit ill and too hot. So much stuff to choose from and extras to go with things. So much you wanr but can't afford. Spending a fortune and not getting half of what you wanted!
I do love the stuff they sell though so have decided in future to go alone.

we used to go in the evening, have dinner do the round, market hall and out just before closing.

not going anymore since they stopped serving pop in the restaurant :(

Ikea - Swedish for lets have an argument

^^This just made me howl. Sums it up perfectly

no more POP???

my kids love mixing vile concoctions out of the pop

I love Ikea. I don't even mind doing the 2mph Ikea Shuffle™

We were once there and realised we needed to go back to reappraise something. My husband asked in all seriousness, whether we had to keep going to the end then re-enter the building and start again from the beginning. Like it was a law or something

I prefer to go on a weekday morning if at all possible, but hey- if it's later then at least they sell wine.

Love Ikea. Drop kids into (free) creche, have 45 luscious child free minutes to derink (free) tea/coffee. Pick kids up and walk around bedrooms pretending that we live there. Never buy anything so I walk smugly through the checkouts past the queue.

small we were horrified when they stopped doing proper lemonade. However yesterday they finally came to their senses and have reinstated the sugar free cola.