AIBU to think IKEA should be shut down

[Catmum26]

every single time we walk into that shop we argue so bad i think a divorce is on the cards. Then when we get home and have to build the crappy furniture with their sub standard instructions we have yet another row. currently sulking whilst my husband is swearing and crashing about. please tell me it’s not just us!

Ikea in OZ now have home delivery so pick from the catalogue then hire someone to put it all together.

I work near Ikea so I usually go mid-week. The restaurant is always full of mums with babies or toddlers though. I often walk round backwards just for kicks.

A friend of mine had her first Ikea experience on a bank holiday weekend with not just her husband and toddler in tow, but her inlaws too. I was They did not have fun.

I like Ikea. This thread prompted me to go this evening. I had my tea there - fish and chips, and got some plant pots, picture shelves and shoe horns as I discovered how wonderful they were when I was on holiday in Iceland in the summer and they had them at all the swimming pools!

It was quiet though, and I'm single so no-one to squabble with me.

I often walk round backwards just for kicks.

Like actually walking backwards?! Or against the direction of the arrows - rebellious but not as much fun as actually walking walking backwards!

""What's wrong with good quality secondhand collectable furniture?""

It isn't available everywhere, when you want it. It isn't what you want for toy etc storage. Modern houses/flats need flat-pack to fit in them.

Ikea sells lots of things, not just furniture.

Like actually walking backwards?! Or against the direction of the arrows - rebellious but not as much fun as actually walking walking backwards!

😂

Just against the arrows, but I must try that next time.

Come the zombie apocalypse I'm hiding out in Ikea.
That's my plan too! Good one @N0, see you there!

My marital home was pretty much decked out in IKEA. No arguments there though he did get most of the furniture on our divorce. I now live in an IKEA free zone and feel very grown up.

I once slept on a bed there, for 2 hours. No one woke me

i just realized something really embarrassing. In the summer holidays, I was out with my kids and saw a woman I recognized, so I waved and said hi. I just realized where I knew her from. She works the till at IKEA. Oh, dear. She’s going to think I’m some kind of crazy stalker or something. 🤦‍♀️

^Why do you all like Ikea?
What's wrong with good quality secondhand collectable furniture?^

Why do I want second hand collectible furniture?

My home is a fairly modern style with a mix of high quality expensive furniture and some less expensive options including Ikea.

The study storage is primarily Ikea as their storage fits the space far better and is the correct size for files etc. Dd likes to change her bedroom every so often as she's grown up - she doesn't want old fashioned or traditional furniture. Neither do I.

And you can't but meatballs and gravy from a second hand furniture store!

Surely you understand that people have a whole range of tastes?

The second hand furniture available around here is shit... it's usually old MFI stuff (like Ikea but with added wobbles and the finest of the 1980s decade that taste forgot). I've not found anything that works for our storage needs like Ikea's Kallax... fits the spaces we need it to fit in our house, fits our budgets, fits our needs - what's wrong with that?!

We love Ikea although I do get annoyed at having to walk through the whole shop looking for what we went. Also we don't go there on a Bank holiday much to busy.

I've just got back from Ikea with ds (18). We didn't argue, although we didn't buy much either, he just wanted some boxes to organise his stuff.

The shop was virtually empty. I did hear one man trying to persuade his dd that she should go in the crèche, whilst she seemed determined that the shopping would be more fun.

We have vegan meatballs and no furniture to put together 😢

I've not been in an Ikea for about 30 years, but I have had stuff from them delivered. I found it pretty easy to put together. DD did some too, when she was only 13. DH had to keep out the way as he's crap at it, but being a man thinks he isn't. He was banned from the room while we were doing it

I was putting some together while our builder neighbour was busy putting some finishing parts on some work he was doing on our house - you could see him itching for the chance to be all chivalrous and help the poor little lady out but it was 2x2 Kallaxes which I'm distinctly experienced building very very quickly and just put together in a few minutes.

He's stood there in total bewilderment and comments "I've never seen a woman do that before!" Lovely bloke but can be more than a bit sexist in his world view at times.

Sounds like us at any self checkout ever

DS is a teen and now firmly in the "doing things with my parents is crap" camp.
The high point of his summer holiday has been a trip through the hallowed doors of IKEA, a day out that he has to undertake with at least one of us for,
a) driving
and
b) paying
purposes.
He's currently sat in his newly done up bedroom looking like a model in an IKEA catalogue

Just don't go !

I like Ikea - my oh finds putting together flat packed furniture a breeze. We don't argue.

We love IKEA and rarely argue except the time he thought I had messed up and that they didn't have live Christmas trees only to find them outside.

Bloody awful if you are a singleton with a child in a pushchair. Get help even when you ask? No.

I've not been since 2004 and I refuse to because of the above. Maybe things have changed? Who cares?

And come the zombie apocalypse it's a shite place to hole up cos there's no food and it bloody shouts 'come here zombies and Negan'

I almost killed my OH on our first time there to deck out our first place. I realised he wanted to deck it out in exactly the same style as his 60+ parents and said "bollocks" to everything I said I liked.

After a final melt down in the lighting department he realised he gave not two shits how I did the house up as long as he had somewhere to sit and watch Netflix and we never argued in ikea again!

I also enjoy putting the stuff up although he did our two massive wardrobes (and nearly chucked himself out of the bedroom window 6 hours in)

Coming back to this thread to share this evening's Ikea joy.

New baby due in 6 weeks. Still needed rug, changing table, bath. Minor panic as friend went into premature labour at 34 weeks yesterday.

Local Ikea closes at 9pm. We arrived there after work at 8.15pm.

Went directly up to children's dept (going backwards, skipping rest of showroom as kids bit is at the end!), located changing table and noted it's warehouse place and picked up bath.

Then directly to marketplace rug section using shortcuts. Selected rug.
More shortcuts down the back of the warehouse to pick up changing table.

Self service checkout.

Out by 20.15 complete with an ice cream and a cinnamon bun each.

We also got a plush hedgehog inexplicably holding a strawberry "for the baby"

20.45. We're not time travellers!

30 minutes and you only bought one hedgehog you didn't actually need. Wow. Please don't tell my husband this is actually possible, he WILL divorce me .

Me and the kids love a trip to ikea we spend all day there. Throw in dh who hates it and it’s row central. Me and the kids like to look at everything, we pick out the kitchen we would have if we didn’t rent, we try the sofas etc etc. Dh hates all that, he likes to get in and out- which I do for most shops except ikea.