I spent the past 4-day long weekend moving and building our new home. I didn’t move any furniture from my parents’ place so I just had to move my (packed) belongings. That also meant I didn’t need movers, so I assembled a couple car loads of stuff and drove it over to the new place.
This also meant that I had no where to put my belongings. Even though I said that I didn’t want Ikea furniture, I still don’t have any non-Ikea furniture in our home! We first went to Ikea on Sunday to buy a couple of bookcases and desks. But they didn’t have all the items we wanted (so we had to come back on Monday), and there was a huge line for delivery. We tried to load some of our purchases in the car to build that night (and then deliver the rest) and it was at this point that we realized that the desks we bought were the wrong color! Apparently they put the wrong color in the bin (although we should have been more careful in checking the SKU). Anyways, we ended up returning everything.
We went back on Monday morning, and it was a much more pleasant experience. We were able to grab (all) our items from the self-serve, pay and setup delivery in 20 minutes. So the moral of the story is to avoid Ikea on weekends.
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