Do you end up buying loads of crap from Ikea as it's so cheap when you've only gone for one item?

Question

I went to buy a replacement lampshade last weekend and came out with about £100 worth of kitchen utinsels, spotlights, soft furnishings and various other rubbish I don't need. all because they were £3 or £2 or whatever. Do they lure you in like that, or am I just a mug?

And aren't their receipts the longest in the World?
I had one about 3 feet long once!

I hadn't seen that Lizzie, and it's very tenuous anyway.
Besides, I nick loads of ideas from everyone here. I admit it. It's what makes the funny stuff here tick.

Answer 1

I had a lost week in Ikea once. It was OK though, it was like staying at different people's houses every night.
During the second day, sometime in the late afternoon I found the cafeteria bit and filled up on tiny hotdogs and meatballs. I made sure I didn't stray too far and later that night went back and stocked up on moose jerky and Swedish crisps (cheese balls if I remember rightly).
About four nights in I couldn't even find the beds and sofas and slept in big unit designed to house a home cinema entertainment system.
By the time I found the exit a week later I felt relaxed and refreshed and had managed to secure at least two dozen tiny stubby pencils and four disposable tape measures.
Overall I would give it 8 1/2 out of 10 and have no real complaints apart the fact that the toilets didn't appear to be plumbed in, although there were enough of them for me to be able to take a dump in a different one each day.

Answer 2

No. I've never done that. You're a mug.

I want to know what happened to the lampshade you had to replace. Not the kind of thing that breaks often, or did you suddenly decide the colour wasn't right? Was it stolen? Maybe you wore it as a hat and left it in the pub? Gave it to the man collecting door to door for Scope? Did you swop it for a deck of cards?

Most people replace bulbs. There's a story behind this.

Answer 3

Yes, I do it every time I go to Ikea, love that store because of the £2 and £3 items, I have bought tons of stuff I don't need at all, bought a baby walker set last year and I have no kids, how stupid is that, still sure someone will want it eventually, its worse when you get near the tills and they have all those extra bargains in baskets, last year I had to have a funnel and its still in the cupboard like the baby walker set, useless I am but love bargains.

Answer 4

YES! Ikea is worse than Costco... okay not really, Truthfully i love them both. But yes, I go in for a small item and return home with a new poster, lampshade, new cups..... maybe even a rug.

Answer 5

My taste in furniture is too expensive, so I never go to Ikea.

But the same thing happens to me in deli shops. Never go shopping when you're feeling peckish is a good advice. But you get peckish just by looking at all the delicious things lying there. Begging you: buy me buy me buy me!

Answer 6

I love my day trip to "I que here " , I go with the wife just to get the hot dogs at the end of the stroll around the shop.

Answer 7

In the States, the 99cent Only Store catches me like that.

Everything is 99 cents or less.

Answer 8

He comprado muchas cosas en los sitios web y en busca de otra cosa he encontrado un sillón que me ha encantada y le he comprado enseguida, el sillón estaba exactamente como en las fotos y encaja perfectamente en mi salón, es confortable y un precio sin igual, seguramente voy a comprar otro.

Answer 9

My days of going beyond the beyonds is long gone, beyond retrieval even. However, 'twas not that long ago I would go beyond even the beyonds to the furthest gone. It is a wonder I returned to the anon.

Answer 10

i haven't had the ikea shopping experience but i'm in Belfast a store is coming soon and i suppose i'll be the same i love bargains and you don't realise they do add up .