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To get so excited about a trip to IKEA?

51 replies

sugarmatches · 20/08/2007 19:10

DH thinks I am a complete saddo.
I love IKEA. The meatballs, the creche, the stuff...everything.
I get excited getting out of the car and feel like a 12 year old at Alton Towers.
Obviously we don't go very often
Am I the only person that gets so excited about looking at all the bargain items?

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 20/08/2007 19:42

Yeah and it works! We did the loveliest ever roast lamb with it.

FioFio · 20/08/2007 19:43

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Peachy · 20/08/2007 19:45

Ah at least ours (cardiff) is only half an hour or so away

unless Dh is driving, last time he got lost and it took more than double that....

katybump · 20/08/2007 19:49

i bought dd's cot at ikea last week tis a great place and the loo's are always clean.

iwantsleep · 20/08/2007 19:49

I always think I'm going to like it more than I do. I fill my bag very quickly but as I walk round I end up emptying it again as I convince myself I don't need things after all.

Kathyis6incheshigh · 20/08/2007 19:50

Does anyone else find they buy stuff so randomly that they completely forget what they have got, and when they get home and unpack it they only vaguely remember picking half the stuff?

Doodledootoo · 20/08/2007 19:51

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onlyWotz · 20/08/2007 19:58

thanks

katybump · 20/08/2007 20:00

the ashton one is fab . it's 10 mins from my house at the end of motorway . i like treating my mum to coffee with my family card lol

satine · 20/08/2007 20:03

God, no, a trip to Ikea is a major treat!
They're all hours away from where we live
They keep promising to open one in Southampton, but no sign yet. Thank goodness, I spend so much there....

winemakesmummyclever · 20/08/2007 20:26

Yes, the Ashton one is dangerously handy for me too. It was shut for a day or so after it first opened because of high winds. Now my mum refuses to let me park in the multi-storey bit just in case a twister hits as we're wandering round buying yet more tealights. She is a bit barking tbh .

lucyellensmum · 20/08/2007 21:27

YABU - i HATE ikea, hate it, no, really!

REIDmylips · 20/08/2007 21:30

i'm with you on that one lucy, hate the place and dh hates it even more!!!

RedFraggle · 20/08/2007 21:34

I have a love/hate relationship about ikea. I get really excited about going, dance around the store all excited, writing numbers down and popping stuff into a trolley and then....

I go downstairs to look for the numbers and find sod all in stock! Or worse, a chest of drawer frame, but no drawers etc. Grrrr! Then I come out saying to DH that I despise the place and why do we bother.

Until 6 months have passed and I have forgotten the trauma!

REIDmylips · 20/08/2007 21:36

suppose living only 15 mins away form one means you could take it for granted. Maybe i'd get more excited if it was further away and i 'couldnt't' go to it?

peachygirl · 20/08/2007 21:40

I tolerate IKEA. We live near a really busy one now doodledootoo is right ... John Lewis...mmmmm

Mistymoo · 20/08/2007 21:42

We have to travel 4 hrs to our nearest one. We only go when dh has to go to Glasgow for work.

Isababel · 20/08/2007 21:47

I used to get very exited (I loved IKEA to the point that I considered the idea of using it as a case studio for my PhD), but now taht we hardly have space to bring more things from IKEA home, it has lost a lot of its appeal.

But I can still feel the strenght of the bonding between DS and me when I ask him where does he wants to go and he spontaneously volunteer "to IKEA!"

Actually, it melted me down when he demanded for the first time to go to IKEA when he was barely 2 yrs old

MuffinMclay · 20/08/2007 21:56

I would rather poke my own eyes out.

Whenever I go (about once every 2/3 years) I swear that I will never return.

JennsterBubsLayer · 20/08/2007 22:05

Love Ikea, hate the journey down M6, parking and queues.

LazyLineLegilimens · 21/08/2007 07:50

I live 20 mins from one IKEA and they are about to open another 20 mins in another direction. It's almost as if they are personally trying to destroy any chance I have of ever saving any money!

IntergalacticWalrus · 21/08/2007 08:23

I love Ikea too, but hate the drive there as I always get lost

the parking at the Bristol one is shit too, so you have to get there at 6 am to get a space.

shouldbe · 21/08/2007 08:33

I love a trip to Ikea too.
We go to the Milton Keynes branch (about an hour from us)and have always found it a pretty easy journey, parking etc. My dd also loves a trip there (it's a day out for us, as much fun as any other day trip) We love looking in all the little rooms - it's like being in a giant dolls house for dd!
Always end up buying lots of lovely storage jars etc

lizziemun · 21/08/2007 08:48

YABU

I have only ever been to ikea once in my life.

Now DH refuses to take me back again, on the grounds i find too annoying, i expect to find things in that space they say, and as for customer care i expect staff to be able to help.

Mind you DH refuses to take me to most shops as i hate shopping at the best of times.

sockmonkey · 21/08/2007 09:00

We love Ikea, it a nice trip out. We like to go for the £1 breakfast, or the meatballs if we go at dinner time. The kids love it there...and they have never been to the creche.
I did have a bit of a pregnancy craving for the crunchy hodogs with DS2 (why are they so wierd, but nice).