IKEA, the great challenge.
Yesterday I spent the morning at IKEA comparing items to my measurements so that I could get a big gigantic bookcase and some filing/shelving for the kitchen nook.
I got out of the store without getting to the point where I want to stab myself with one of their stylized plastic forks.
I came home exhausted from walking around their circus circuit for two hours, then piling extremely heavy boxes on a flatbed that wound up weighing about 450 lbs (no kidding, that’s what the home delivery slip calculated it as!) and wheeling it around to the checkout and then to the home delivery booth.
All the components of my items were delivered safe and sound last night, and I spent two hours assembling the bookcase. I then spent another 45 minutes attempting to drive the last screw into the frame, and have thus far been unsuccessful. It is now sprawled expansively on most of the existing floor space in our home office.
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I’m giving up for the day, completely exhausted, and hope to make that last step tomorrow. Then I can start moving things to that shelf in an effort at organizing/clearing out the whatnot that is cluttering my kitchen nook area, which will make it easier to then install the filing and shelving stuff.
Oh yes, thrilling times in the Katz household.
I have to hand it to IKEA. Even though it’s a pain and a half to navigate their warehouse store, and it’s a lot of work to lug things to checkout, I am impressed with how little waste is generated by the purchase of their furniture. In the entirety of the 3-box bookcase, I only got about 12 cubic inches of styrofoam. The boards were all packed flat, lined with very thin paper (which will become Sami-tracing paper) and wrapped in one sheet of cardboard. Except for that very small amount of styrofoam, all packing materials are reusable/recyclable. I’m trying to think of things to make out of the rest of the cardboard boxes, but I am lacking creativity since I spent a lot of my day screwing furniture together, and I am now drained.
In other news, it sounds like both Ben and Sami may be home from work/school tomorrow thanks to a fun bug that sounds like it’s going around. That means I’ll be home too, not getting any more furniture assembly or organization done for the time being. Oh well, I think by tomorrow morning I will come to appreciate that even I have earned a rest.
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We spent part of last Saturday at Ikea, doing much the same – we now have a list of things we are going to buy immediately after we close on the house on Monday (yay for closing Monday!). Since we already did the circus bit (complete with cheap yummy dinner!), this time I think we’ll simply head right to the flat-boxes-full-of-disassembled-furniture section and head on out.