To be really looking forward to going to ikea? What should I buy?

[SpearmintTea]

I haven't been to ikea for a couple of years, and next week will be less than half an hour from one, so of course I'm going. I've been looking through the website to try to make a list, but it doesn't work so well for browsing when you don't know what you're looking for. What are your ikea must haves? And AIBU for looking forward to going?

Does anyone know whether they've got their Christmas decorations in yet?!

Hahaha at all the other South Yorkshire people. My husband is working extra Saturdays to fund my intended trips.

I always look at the rosti but dont buy them. Are they good?

I need to go for serviettes and to check out Christmas decs too....doubt they're in yet but must be soon.

That cheese grater has been given as presents to various people for their wedding present as its the most useful present ever. Mine is used daily several times in the day. Had one bride ask where from as she wanted another. She was last seen two years ago.....lost in ikea.. (joking but she blames me for introducing her to ikea as shes there regularly)

Their xmas wrapping paper best ever

I'm guessing that there are a few Sheffield posters on here. DD and I are planning a trip to the new Ikea when the fuss has died down. I am delighted to hear that they now do veggie meatballs.

Pay for childcare 2 hours will never be enough The queue for the creche is long and in ours you only get an hour.... and if you take a child into the children's shopping area you will never get them out of there, it's like wonderland for children, such good value too

Get a family card for free coffee mon - fri and other random offers.

You cant leave IKEA without tea lights, sandwich bags, big wine glasses, chocolate, cinnamon bun ... the list is endless, I have an octopus too ...

Frozen cinnamon rolls! Bake them and your house will smell like Christmas!

Also, loo brushes! I bulk buy the 69p ones and change them regularly!

I'm less than ten minutes away from the new Sheffield one. Went on the afternoon it opened and it wasn't busy surprisingly. It's mine and dd's new favourite place 😃

Good lord so many people have the Socktopus and don't know it's called a SOCKTOPUS not and underwear octopus or any variation of! My Socktopus was starting to cry!

Moving on... I 2nd and 3rd and 4th everyone else's list:
Socktopus
Towels
Drawer dividers
Picture frames
Bath mat
Cheese grater - it doesn't rust, it is excellent.
The nesting mixing bowls- a pair of pink bowls, non-slip bottoms, a lip for pouring, they are un constant use in the Conyo house.

You'll find it hard to leave without a new set of bedding or a couple of cushions. Or a small rug. Or a cake stand.

I never get tealights or plant paraphernalia. Their fabric is very good wuality, if you are a sewer. I did make DS some shorts out of the iconic hippo fabric a couple of years ago - countless parents asked me if Ikea had started doing children's clothes

Sandwich bags and napkins.

Their middle price frying pans (metal handle, non stick) are really good, and I love my (stand up fairly standard) metal cheese grater coz it has a full side of the narrow grater rather than the weird zesting side.

Batteries and tea lights, and storage boxes. Flannels if you use them.

I now really want a socktopus!

The big (I think brown & white) bags of little individually wrapped honeycomb chocolates 😍

Coffee beans.

Marabou chocolate.

Super cheap but super solid (and super sized) wine glasses.

LOVE their plants and pots and things. Get yourself a huge areca palm for 20 quid. Then some succulents and fill your house with terrariums.

I bought a cheapish kitchen knife in there 13 years ago and it's still my best knife for chopping veg. The cheap kitchen scissors are good too.

Meatballs on the way in and hot dogs on the way out. A few giant bags of Daim.

Meatballs.

Plants - they have some really good, weird ones, which are so cheap. There's one which looks like a hot pink large thick leaf, but when you get it home it sprouts little purple flowers along the edge of the "leaf".

Lingonberry jam. Straddles the jam/chutney divide perfectly.

This came up in my fb timeline last week and made me laugh:
www.facebook.com/cantsitstill17/posts/1256256391186160

The cheese grater tub thing is amazing and my son loves the blackboard easel.

@Grilledaubergines what's an underwear octopus???

Chocolate jammy dodgers.
Mini daim bars
My husband says the batteries are good value
Meatballs

They have some nice Christmas metal tins at the moment which I have bought as my dd likes to make biscuits for people

3 pack of scissors

I would buy spice racks if I was ever near an IKEA!

Lingonberry jam, biscuits, meatballs, and now Christmas stuff.
Drinking glasses which will never break no matter how many times they're dropped on a hard floor.

Went last weekend, but just outside Brussels, and spent loads. New centre island for kitchen, New chests of drawers, hanging rails, lightbulb and shades, cutlery racks, but we have just moved from a very swept up rental to one that doesn't have a fitted dressing room, so my clothes have to go somewhere! Having ditched the elderly DFS sofas we will be going back to IKEA for a couple of Ektorps and some shelving for towels.

I am lusting after those lightshades that look like the death star, and open and close to show different colour insides.

You are evil OP. I have an IKEA10 minutes away from me and have been trying to resist visiting for both my waistline and budget. Think I will be going this weekend now.

If you need storage solutions look at the Kallax and Trofast ranges. We've got 4 Kallax units in our house (3 2x2 and 1 4x4) and DH is planning on getting a Trofast for Lego storage once our study/playroom is sorted.

Their 100 pack of tealights. The best burning and cheapest around.

I shall be adding a lot of the things that have been mentioned to our next trip. Dh thinks we are just going to be buying 3 of their curtain rails which have the voile rail attached. Haha, little does he know