Pages Tagged “IKEA”
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- Shaggy Flashback
IKEA is selling avocado green shag carpet. In 2015. Now *that’s* a flashback!
- Home WHAT!?
Sign: IKEA Home F—ings. I guess they’re branching out?
- Crossover Names
Have you ever run into a name that you can’t help associating with a completely different context? Like when people realize that one guy in Office Space is named Michael Bolton? Or when you look at “AD&D,” and instead of “Accidental Death and Dismemberment” your first thought is “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?” Yeah. Especially in […]
- Nostalgia not included
My dresser is an IKEA kit and was something of a bear to assemble. The second drawer down has recently developed the annoying habit of not closing on the first go, and I feel a strange obligation to fix it but I’m not sure how. It’d be nice if the stuff would come with more […]
- Pitchers of Choo-Choo
On the trip to Ikea to get the patio furniture, we had a Choo-Choo Bear sighting in the parking lot–an auspicious beginning to any shopping spree, if you ask me.
- Silver lining
Sometimes you just get lucky. On Saturday, I took the car in for maintenance. There was a snafu involving a mislabeled box from a parts supplier that closed earlier than the shop, and I was left with a complimentary rental car for the weekend. On Sunday, an Ikea catalog arrived with the paper, and Katie […]