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I think this every time I built something ikea, then I build something from another brand and I discover a new abyss, then I go back to ikea. It's a cycle.
by illiac786 3y ago
I think this every time I built something ikea, then I build something from another brand and I discover a new abyss, then I go back to ikea. It's a cycle.
- nytesky 3y agoAgreed, self assembly is terrible but IKEA is generally the least terrible.
- vundercind 3y agoYeah I don’t get the complaints about IKEA instructions. They have the best furniture-assembly directions I’ve seen. They have a lot in common with old LEGO set instructions. Maybe people who hate them didn’t do a bunch of that as a child?
- KerrAvon 3y agoI'm with you -- I've assembled a lot of random stuff recently and I wish everyone had instructions half as good as IKEA's.
- rsynnott 3y agoYeah, I’m not particularly handy (I break out in a cold sweat whenever anything requires more than trivial assembly), but I’ve never had any issue with assembling Ikea stuff.
- Aeolun 3y agoI have a really hard time understanding people that don’t get how to assemble furniture of that kind in general. Instructions or no instructions, there’s only so many ways you can put a bunch of planks together.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoI know these people. They aren’t stupid. Many of them just aren’t good at visualizing things they haven’t done or been shown before. They may know X should go into Y but the task is so unfamiliar or counter to how they think that they hit their working memory limit before it makes sense to them. Impatience just makes that worse. IKEA’s instructions are extremely helpful in this case.
- Gigachad 3y agoProbably poor spacial reasoning skills. Didn’t spend enough time playing with Lego or sticking wood blocks through shaped holes.