ikea+marriedcouple=ROW

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see frennys thread
I tell you mroe harm is dont ot relationships buy ikea htan any other store
men want BIG and DARK

women wnat SMALL and LIGHT

We never row in Ikea, DH just has a horrendously pained expression the whole time. I can't believe how despite being resolved not buy anything extra than the wardrobe/ bed/ table we've gone for I just have to have this that the other as its such a bargain.

Our whole house is kitted out in Ikea as we both have tried to strreeetccchhhh the money when decorating so we can spend it on going out etc. But now at 35 have started to look at other friends houses that have bought themselves more expensive/ better quality furniture in the past a little enviously and started to wonder if I may have to cut the Ikea habit.......... but then I'm a tight wad when it comes to decorating!!!!!

NEVER go with dh. I do a rece trip (with one or all 3 children) and list all the big stuff we need and waste a fortune on all the little stuff we don't. He goes sometime the following week with a van from work. He hates Ikea (the store)with such a passion but always ends up admitting that there is some stuff thats pretty well made and does the job. He hates Habitat too, but at least they have windows.

I always find the Ikea experience to be fine for the first half - you reach the cafe and have a bit of lunch - you think its all going tickety-boo, you're fine! What was all the fuss and dread for? But then, post cafe, they take away all the windows and surround you with bargains you feel you should be buying and four hours later you're a couple of hundred quid down. Damn.

ikea is a militarily planned operation for us.

'come away from the chairs. we are not looking at the chairs. they are not on THE LIST'

if we don't have a measurement written down for it, we don't buy it

actually since mil lives right next to the leeds one, ikea is one of the only times we are alone together in the daytime

kabsy ditto the pained expression
yes dh look s liek a balck cloud

yesterday, igot caught in a 6 mile traffic jam of people cueing for IKEA. haven't been to one for 5 years, and can happily wait another 5. almost everything we got from there has broken/looked scruffy in just 2 or 3 years, so not really cheap at all, and they keep changing their fittings, so if you lose a peice whenyou move haouse, the entire bed/wardrobe etc is useless. Will NEVER go there again. it's a rip off.

It's a couple phenomenon....

I start to make noises about going about 2 months before hand. DP grumbles and groans then as we pull up he gets all excited and usually insists that we stop (before even starting) so he can eat those disgusting meatballs.

We both then enjoy phase 1, I get annoyed by phase 2 (market) because DP dawdles and starts looking at things we don't need. Then phase 3 (warehouse) the wheels come off for both of us and we unite again in a frenzy of 'why is this so painful' and 'why is there no logic about what's help yourself and what's not.' Then one of us usually has to U-turn back up to the marketplace to get something we forgot...we then try to communicate by mobile phone so we don't loose each other altogether. Finally, DP insists we stop at the food market bit to buy those thin biscuit things and we join an even bigger queue.
Return to car feeling violated and drive home in silence eating said biscuits. We agree 'never again' and then my mind starts to wonder about whether that sofabed I've just left behind would be good for the spare room and plotting the next visit.
Not sure how anyone has the strength to take children with them. We never will.

DH and I have never been to Ikea and by the look of this thread, we never will! We prefer MFI - no queues - I wonder why?

reindeer lips you know

pmsl at annie mac

there are no queues in MFI because it costs more, and there are more of them

and if you argue in Ikea it's not the store's fault; just that it's bigger so you have more time to row

I like ikea. I like the wooden toys and the storage jars and the little shelfy things and, and....

IKEA+GOING WITH ANYBODY=ROWS in my experience! That includes going with mother and sisters.

IKEA is good! IKEA is heaven, especially on a bank holiday Monday!

My DH is also of the 'pained expression' brigade.

My DH likes eating there so he can bitch about Swedish food being inferior to Icelandic food!!

It is the most stressful shop I know. I don't know of any other shop that leaves me quite so drained following a shopping trip. I always swear blind I won't go back and then my memory fades.

nqc - what is a vd gift?
i thought they were called sti s now

what I hate is that you go and buy a wardrobe and having found the one you want/can both tolerate you go to find it in the warehouse bit (point A) - but you get given a ticket instead cos its too big to go through tills so you queue for half your natural lifespan clutching "but its only a pound" bargains, pay off the national debt of bolivia and go to pick up said wardrobe from the despatchy place (point b). After three score and ten they bring you the wardrobe and you have to then negotiate said gigantic item out the doors and round the corner to where you order a delivery - where upon they take it straight back to point B. Why torture us like that?

I think IKEA is a day out for people with kids or people that have nothing better to do! I go once a mouth! and all I see is KIDS KIDS!!!
Good stuff in there!!