TheBanyanTree: Those Bleedin' Swedes!

[Pam Lawley]

wow.  this almost makes me want to find one again... wonder how close one
is....

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, now I have to respond.  I do understand how some people might be
> intimidated by Ikea, but really?  Am I the only person here who loves that
> store?  Here's the right way to approach Ikea:
>
> 1.  Don't go on a weekend when everyone else in the world goes.  Too many
> people.  Go just when it opens or late, an hour before closing.  That way
> you get to stroll instead of feeling pushed.
>
> 2.  Don't approach Ikea as a whole.  It's too big.  Embrace the meander and
> concentrated on the room at hand.  Kitchen - neat cabinets with easy-slide
> drawers; nifty gadgets at really good prices; great lighting ideas
> Bedrooms - squish the pillows and finger the bedding.  Living rooms - sit
> on the couches and chairs and picture them replacing the ones in your house
> that have lived through decades of sitting.  Take it all a theme at a time,
> just as if each you were in a mall and going from store to store.
>
> 3.  If you don't want to meander, there's a map at the front of the store
> when you come in.  Get your bearings and memorize the shortcuts (but you'll
> miss something if you do this.)
>
> .  If you only want the meatballs, usually you can get directly to the
> cafeteria by taking the first elevator at the front. (I checked the web site
> and sadly, didn't see meatballs as a purchase item.  There were other tasty
> things though.)  And the broom closet?  You needed to look in the bedroom
> storage department.  They sell very nice cabinets that would do for brooms,
> but I suspect by the time you got there, Woof, you were looking for the door
> and not the cabinet.
>
> Theta
> Specialist in Ikea shopping
>
>
>
> On 3/27/2011 6:24 AM, Pam Lawley wrote:
>
>> ha!  I've only had one experience in an IKEA store, and it was JUST LIKE
>> this!!!  ME - who LOVES to shop  for hours! - was totally overwhelmed and
>> frustrated in that place!  One path, one way, keep moving....  And I never
>> even knew about any meatballs!!!!!!!!
>>
>>