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...or to pick up furniture at an IKEA location, since they're usually way out in the suburbs and shipping prices are exorbitant.
by psychometry 9y ago
...or to pick up furniture at an IKEA location, since they're usually way out in the suburbs and shipping prices are exorbitant.
- meesles 9y ago...unless you just bought $3K of furniture after a move and it only cost $49 to deliver downtown!
- anoother 9y agoHow do you manage to spend 3k in IKEA?
- fiatjaf 9y agoFirst: have a lot of money.
- quickthrower2 9y agoNot necessary. They take VISA.
- kiernanmcgowan 9y agoI moved into a apartment in a new city with no furniture. It’s quite possible to rack up a bill like this.
- brians 9y ago50 Billys. Why, where do you keep the rest of your books?
- wst_ 9y agoOn my smartphone. :)
- betamonk 9y agoHAHAHA. But, the ebooks are just not the same experience of a physical book. But, I do use both the ebooks and books - depending on the book type.
- SnacksOnAPlane 9y agoI'm one of those possibly-rare people who considers the ebook experience superior to the physical book. No bookmarks necessary, can read on Kindle while home and continue reading on my phone while out, mega-cheap if you watch for deals, hundreds of books available to read at any time...what's not to love?
- anoother 9y agoEven 50 Billys comes to just £1750 here in the UK. (More if you want colour, of course...)
- xbzbanna 9y agoStart with $1000 for a couch, $500 for a mattress. You're already halfway there.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoA couch, a bedframe, a mattress, maybe a dresser, and end tables?
- stephenr 9y agoI wouldn't personally use IKEA in that case but an unfurnished house/apartment takes a lot of stuff to become usable.
- morgante 9y agoWhat would you use?
- stephenr 9y agoThere are a few things I like IKEA for (the aforementioned "Grundtal" kitchen racks work really well) but generally I prefer more individual furniture (watch Friends where Phoebe responds to Pottery Barn furniture if you want to understand better), and as I'm a little older, I prefer timber furniture (I had more steel/glass stuff when I was in my 20's), which is where IKEA fails hardest, because practically all their "wooden" furniture is just particle board/plywood. So, for furniture I try to use smaller local places that either sell direct or at least are selling locally built stuff (this works in my favour when you consider the above - shipping assembled solid-timber furniture isn't cheap). This obviously doesn't work everywhere, but I detest living in the city so it hasn't been a problem for me so far. For general housewares like kitchen utensils/etc I don't see a lot of difference between IKEA/<Name your local shop with homewares: Kmart, Target, etc> so it's just whoever has what I want, but IKEA's constant focus on low price also makes me a little wary of anything that isn't obviously just solid steel/wood (e.g. anything with a steel 'head' and wood/plastic/rubber handle, is basically guaranteed to fall apart) because in my experience these items embody 'you get what you pay for'.
- morgante 9y agoThanks for the detailed reply. Personally, IKEA fits my lifestyle pretty well as a young urban-dweller. I don't really anticipate having my furniture for more than 5-10 years and their aesthetic definitely matches my preferences. I've actually looked at some more "premium" stores and really disliked a lot of their merchandise unless it was obscenely expensive (ie. 10x the price of IKEA).
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoSwedish meatballs.
- bogomipz 9y agoI'm not an Ikea consumer but wasn't one of their big break throughs flat packing of furniture so that it was cheaper to ship?
- pselbert 9y agoPrecisely. While I happen to enjoy building IKEA furniture (in small doses), I would be pleased never to pick it up from a store ever again.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThe ikea in Beijing is just next to 4th ring, and delivery is only like 1 or 2 hundred rmb, assembly is just another hundred RMB. In the states, it is $49-$99, but don't even ask about assembly.