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Old 06-26-2009, 04:57 AM   #16
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With glass doors? I have two of those.
Yes, me too. Although I don't have space for any more of them, which is partly why I've moved to ebooks
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Old 06-26-2009, 05:39 AM   #17
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Old 06-26-2009, 06:32 AM   #18
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The thing I don't like about the stores is the lack of natural light. I start to feel slightly disorientated if I'm there too long.
It doesn't help that in my local one the artificial light is not that good. It lends an air of shappy cheapness to everything.

And whilst there are shortcuts, it's still housed in a sodding great warehouse, so they aren't that short!
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Old 06-26-2009, 06:35 AM   #19
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I'm a horrible customer.

When I know what I want I look up its location online then go in through the checkouts (aka the exit), straight to the warehouse shelves, collect what I want, back to the checkouts and home. I also know how to avoid the whole showroom when going in through the entrance
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Old 06-26-2009, 07:12 AM   #20
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Old 06-26-2009, 07:58 AM   #21
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Am I the only one that found the dungeon crawl bit to be the part that I can relate too? Yeah so what, I was a teenager!

On a different tangent. I have to set a time limit when I take my wife there. If I didn't the kids might starve to death or pass out from walking every isle 25 times to see if maybe that thing she wants is over there but she missed it the first 24 times down the isle.

On yet another tangent. The last two times I have gone to Ikea, I left injured. Let me explain. My sister in law was with us both times and when the two of us are together we bring out each others inner child. She, like me, doesn't like spending hours shopping. So we end up daring each other to do dumb stuff.

Like the 2nd to last time I was there. We were going through the kids area and there was this 12' x 12' bin of stuffed animals and my sis'n'law says "dare you to jump in!" Well naturally being that I was acting the part of a 13 year old, I jumped in. Whole hog! Took a couple running steps and launched my self in. Turns out that the 12' x 12' bin was actually a bunch of 4' bins pushed together. Various body parts colliding with various metal structures ensued. OUCH!!!

As for the last time I will only say it involved boredom due to massive storm outside and us waiting it out and a wheel chair and a security guard.

The good news is my wife no longer allows me in the store so I get to hang out next door at the sporting/hunting store.
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Old 06-26-2009, 08:18 AM   #22
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To set the record straight with all of you Ikea-lovers (the thread's title is Ikea-haters, after all ), I don't know much about their furniture. I have a more traditional style of decorating. My daughter Shannon, on the other hand, is 22 and into more modern/asian styles of furniture. She and her friends like to walk around the Ikea store in Woodbridge and dream of their future apartments, much as I probably did at Ethan Allen type of furniture stores when I was her age.
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I also know how to avoid the whole showroom when going in through the entrance
Ours has jobsworth security guards that stop us doing that, even though the signs say you can!

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Am I the only one that found the dungeon crawl bit to be the part that I can relate too? Yeah so what, I was a teenager!
I related to both parts

(you have to be a teenager to play roleplaying games? )
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Old 06-26-2009, 08:50 AM   #24
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Ours has jobsworth security guards that stop us doing that, even though the signs say you can!
I think ours does some of the time, but I usually get there about half an hour before it closes when the staff are trying to clear up and are hurrying everyone through.

The system failed once when I needed a part for a drawer which was only available in the showroom. Going the wrong way through the system is one of the most annoying things I've ever tried!
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Old 06-26-2009, 10:44 AM   #25
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Ours has jobsworth security guards that stop us doing that, even though the signs say you can!
Actually ours has an official shortcut to the warehouse thingie... But I read they used a new concept when they opened it in 2005. (The first was opened in 1997, the second in 2005 and it's again too small...)

Fun part, where once there was 1 IKEA, there is now, a Saturn, a huge bicycle shop (with an indoor track for trying out bikes), a no-idea-what-to-call-it-kind-of-furniture shop (budget stuff, also has lamps, carpets, curtains, etc) and a KFC...
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Kaz: I still do exactly like Shannon and plan decors with Ikea furniture over and over again! When they publish the catalog each year, around the end of July (it's coming!!) I go through it at least once everyday for a month, mark my favorite pages, evaluate the new design fabrics for Ektorp couches ( I want one badly, but I'm in no position to invest in anything worth more than 20 bucks ), make a wish list once I figured out in my head the new decor I want, then only I feel comfortable enough to put it away in a corner of my (not yet Billy) bookcase. It's manic. I think that if you get the Ikea bug, you are bound to have it badly, so there is no hope for Shannon if she's bitten!

Mike: I want to go shopping with you!

Krisk: !!! What???? Go, go now! At least you'll know if you like or you hate it! You needed furniture, didn't you? You are bound to find affordable and good looking pieces there. And they have plenty of baskets...I know you love baskets!
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Old 06-26-2009, 05:39 PM   #30
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I don't like IKEA. I love the food they sell though The Swedish cookies, the Starksweinglögg in winter etc. But IKEA itself is a terrible experience: too many people, you have to go through the whole store even if the item you want to buy can only be found next to the exit. Plus: You end up buying thousands of things you definitely do not need. Then you have to use this little thing below to spend the next 10 weeks putting up all those shelves and furniture you actually never wanted to buy...... No, thanks!
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