ikea is a cult
Posted by veganhippie on Jan 17, 2009 · Member since May 2008 · 5810 posts
i went to that place today for the first time with my mom... SCARY! from the second you walk in the door everyone is herded up the stairs into the first area and they built it so that you can only go one way to get out. it was so creepy. i was joking around saying the different ways they can trap you, like by not allowing your cell phone to have signal (which happened to me!) but i kind of believed it. haha. but we got out alive, so it's all good. hahaha
and plus, i went to whole foods today and got some AMAZING rice ice cream, mud pie flavor, so im on cloud 9 right now. :)>>>
What I wouldn't give for an IKEA near me to get sucked into---
Lubi's suggestion about the catalog is the way to go. (The website indicates what's in stock at your store too.) The other trick I found, if you go to IKEA enough (like I did) you get to know where things are in the warehouse-y pick-up room without having to go through all the set-up rooms. (For example, all coffee tables are together, all side tables are together, etc.). You can bypass the maze-y craziness that way.
Also, I LOOOOOOVE it for kitchen gadgets and fun glasses! They are SO cheap. We got nice beer glasses and cordial glasses there (though sadly most of the beer glasses have broke--but this was over years and years), plus all sorts of fun other kitchen things like cooking utensils, peelers, graters, etc. The "marketplace" area is much less zoo-y, though still a bit like a maze.
It also helps that I like the Scandanavian aesthetic, and that I strangely enjoy putting stuff together...
...yeah, I'm totally a cult member. :D
I believe Ikea sells a sheepskin rug which isn't so great. Aside from that their products are intriguing and it's easy to see how one could get swept up in the fashion of it all even though the store is a madhouse.
My city does not have an IKEA. I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm kinda indifferent about 'em. I enjoyed wandering about in the one in Sydney while we lived there (it usually wasn't crowded)... we got some good furniture/housewares, and some bad ones (the slat-bed my parents bought seemed to be made of thin, fragile balsa-wood ;D)... but on the other hand, I got a bit pissed after my last purchase (a cheap white-surfaced bookcase) because when I went along the road to the pick-up place, they had the seconds shop THERE, which had a nicer wood-veneered bookcase of the same size for the same price. Ugh. I was too annoyed to go back and return my kit. Whatevs. ::) >:( :P
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