So, I’m on a redecorating binge lately. I have all this hand me down furniture from when I first left home and I think it’s time to upgrade to a better and newer kind of particleboard. This means I’m gutting my house of all the stuff I don’t want, going through old papers and crap and tossing everything. Including my furniture.
To replace the old stuff, I had to survive my first trip to Ikea in Utah…and it was worse than I imagined. I know how insane Ikea can be in California on a Saturday, but nothing prepared me for the enthusiasm Utahians (is that even a word?) have for the great Scandinavian discount furniture-landia. The biggest issue wasn’t that it was packed with people–and, oh, it was packed with people–but that I’ve never seen so many screaming unattended children in my life. What’s up with that? I thought Ikeas had a babysitter thingie you could drop the munchkins off at. In-frickin-sane, I’m telling ya!
But I am now the proud owner of a new bed frame, attached side table, two living room side tables, a cute lamp, and two new succulent plants. The plants were the only unexpected buy and at $4 total for both, I think that’s pretty good at sticking to budget and not grabbing all the cool things they have there.
I’d never heard of Ikea until I attended Lori Foster’s Reader’s and Writers’ event in Cincinnati a couple weeks so. They actually had a field trip planned to Ikea. I didn’t go to that but stopped in later. The prices looked pretty decent. I haven’t heard of any in South Florida, but I’ll have to look it up on the Internet.
by Ashley Ladd June 25th, 2008 at 6:18 pmSadly, the shipping prices for Ikea are often more than the purchase, so it’s best to go to a real store. The prices ARE pretty made of awesome though!
by Crystal Jordan June 25th, 2008 at 6:20 pm