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I personally enjoy putting together IKEA furniture. It's like a mildly easy puzzle with an end result that you'll use every day. It's very satisfying for me. A
by kevindong 9y ago
I personally enjoy putting together IKEA furniture. It's like a mildly easy puzzle with an end result that you'll use every day. It's very satisfying for me.
Admittedly, it's really easy for me to read/interpret the instructions. I could see how assembling furniture would be a challenge if you're not an engineer or something like that.
- tlarkworthy 9y agoTry with two curious toddlers running around throwing the bits everywhere.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoI got two words for you: ziplock bags.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoPutting toddlers in ziplock bags would cause a pretty serious asphyxiation risk.
- bazooka_penguin 9y agoYou cant just Ziploc babies like that!
- kazinator 9y agoHow is it a puzzle if you read the instructions?
- abawany 9y agoIME, there isn't much reading - one follows sometimes sub-optimal pictures to determine the initial state for a step and the final outcome/exit criterion for the same.
- kazinator 9y agoAnyway; it's more fun to just look at the picture of what the final thing looks like and then deduce how the pieces go together. Next step: don't even do that. Forget you ever saw the thing in the showroom. Just take the pieces and and figure out what they make. Then afterward, compare what you built to photos in the catalog.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoAlways felt like following LEGO instructions.
- ivanhoe 9y agoIt's much more enjoyable (and faster) when you use the proper power tools, instead of those dreaded Allen keys that come with the package...
- ghgfhgfhn 9y agoSecond that, without an electric screwdriver with alan key attachments. Without it packed furniture is a serious pita. With it you feel like an unstoppable cyborg.
- msumpter 9y agoWe furnished our small satellite office in Seattle from IKEA, and putting the supplied alan keys into a drill chuck saved our wrists from hours of torture.