Buy quality IKEA, Shop till you Drop!
I am a regular visitor and I regularly purchase many items from IKEA. A day out with a difference and it can be stressful if you allow it to be. The First stress of the day is when you arrive at the Ikea store, parking your car is fine during week days, but at weekends the only park you will get is the Heli - pad, just wishful thinking.
Even so; it still remains exciting, because we are about to enter the world of flat pack.
Many of us do not like flat pack furniture and in some ways there is a stigma attached to buying and assembling our own furniture. If we go to a top store and purchase that solid wood dining table we are happy, because we know we have spent wisely, but at a huge cost.
So the difference, why do we have the urge to spend £2000 pounds on a dining room table, is it because it’s solid wood and from shops like DFS and maison du monde.
But Most of Ikea furniture is solid wood! The only difference is; we have to build it our selves.
We are so much tending to be perfectionists; we cannot tell our selves, that flat pack furniture is just as good if not better than the real mc-coy.
On entering the store it is a mad dash to get our bag and pencil, you may ask what’s the pencil for, why of course it’s our little life saver so you can make note and jot down everything you see and like.

We head north via the TYSOLAND sofa-suites, whilst screening the furnishings around us we are suddenly distracted by the numerous lin bins, full of goodies.
Those are lovely, my wife citrates, do we need one I ask; maybe so or maybe not. In the end we give in to the £1.99 high-tech close peg and into our bag the peg goes, our first item for the till.
Bill so far £1.99!
Heading east through the lighting department and into the array of bright lights and lanterns.
I need one of those energy bulbs for the landing, echoes my mother!
Meanwhile I was surreptitiously thinking to myself, these are cheaper at the Wilkinson’s D.i.y store, but maybe not as good.
Bill so far £5.00 and mounting.
We are nearing the end to the lighting section, regaining our vision we fall nicely into the Bed section, Bed not required.
Peering over the duvets, lunch awaits, Faggots and mash for £2.99 and boy I am ready for a feast.
Bill so far £15.00.
The restaurant seemed to be quite close and we did not realise, we had to travel through the kitchenware first prior to the restaurant.
This is where it got out of hand, our bag begins to fill by the minute; Gadgets galore.
My 15 year old daughter, excited she his.
Fancy kitchen gadgets and gadgets gallore, she calls me over, may I have one of those, Pops?
Into the bag it goes and the bag is getting very heavy at this point, but don’t worry the bag is plenty big enough.
Bill so far £ 35.
We Tried to thwart anyone stumbling over our huge bag that was stuck to the floor inside the restaurant, stuffing our mouths with Ikeas delicacy; Fagot’s, its time to move on and heading south we gently peruse through the cuddly toy section and then the neonate department, more gadgets in abundance. I have never heard so many arr.
Let’s go i said.
Perfect! We had arrived at the computer section, my favourite and look, blimey they even sell computers. No! They were imitations for there display. Not my day.
Continuing south via the bedroom furniture; whoops, I had been asked to get my solid wood pencil out of my pocket, my check list to, at first I thought my wife said check book? She did!
Bill so far £335. I told
I knew I should have stayed for some more fagots.
By this time I was feeling like Tarzan, Why didn’t you get a trolley my wife suggested?
Turning east and feeling like Tarzan we smoothly faded into a jungle of house plants. here you could even buy a bonsai tree from Sweden? That’s if you were fortunate enough to arrive by helicopter, wishful thinking again.
My daughter whispered can we buy one, I said no! I can not afford £250 for a 6ft tree; I have already spent £335 on gadgets.
I moderately replied I already have a tree; I did not tell her it was my family tree.
At last I have my trolley and its time to stack them high, but first we have to find our goods.
Isle 26; shelf 4; code. 2Dx543765F898765D423.
We were in deep trouble; I had all this weight training during my journey. Feeling like Tarzan; I could not lift the packs.
Do we get help? I ask my self. No let’s try and negotiate the trolley ourselves, minus the brakes.
Up to now; so good.
We were finally through the tills and overloaded to the hilt, the pain was easing and its time for refreshments once again, the wonderful hotdogs smothered with their Swedish mustard. Arr.
The dreaded task of loading up your car with all your purchases is probably the spanner in the works unless you have a 7.5 ton van.
Because I felt good with having the resemblance of Tarzan, I decided to load the first self pack myself.
Watch out bellowed my wife!
Crash, I had dropped the edge onto the concrete and sure enough our £200 wardrobe had come to an abrupt end.
Fortunately the Ikea staffs were fantastic and they replaced it immediately and even brought it to my car.
I asked the lady if I could help her load it, but she said no thank you I have some help. Just at that point a young lad came through the doors looking like he had been starved of fagots and hotdogs.
He made me feel like the monkey or even Jai in film Tarzan, I had to show him my muscles just to reassure myself and him I was not weedy.
Homeward bound, with our flat packs protruding from our hatchback car and negotiating the humps en- route.
We were soon in action and soon assembling our furniture, each and every panel is cut to precision and 5 hrs later after much studying of the plans we had our flat pack up and running.
My trip to Ikea was an achievement with its outstanding superior quality and solid wood Swedish self assembly furniture Self assembly craftsmanship, amazingly very strong to and enough room for any Giorgio Armani wardrobe.
The icing on the cake came when I finally had to fit the doors, the hinges were screwed to the doors by me and then I was faced with these horrid hinges but to my amazement the doors just clipped on. And we all know how hard these types of hinges can be.
The stigma attached to buying furniture from top named furniture shops e.g., DFS, is Brain washing and pompous in my opinion.
But this is not really true.
Ikea, Are a top supplier of furniture and accessories!
Let’s take my wife's business just for e.g. let’s say you buy carpet from allied carpets and for your carpet choice you decided to buy Ant- Ron stain Master carpet. A top quality; very expensive carpet to buy and a snip at £28 a sq metre from names like allied.
That’s blooming expensive in comparison.
Straight from the ship in Southampton we pick it up and sell it for £4 Pounds, Yes £4 pounds a Sq met re! So you can see the moral of this story is that you do not need to buy a dining room table for £2000 when you can get just has good at Ikea.
BASKA; JATTENE; JONAS; SKRUVSTA; HELMER; SKUBB; KORALL KRABBA, IKEA
Why are we drawn to an expensive world of materialism?
I asked the saleswoman in Ikea where the self helps section. She wouldn’t tell me.
She said it would defeat the whole purpose.
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