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September 18, 2015

5 stages of putting together IKEA furniture

September 18, 2015

I have spent the better part of the summer putting together IKEA furniture and the process is the same no matter what. It’s long and painful and never really gets any easier the more you do it.  It’s almost like the Five Stages of Grief, but with more crying and throwing things.

Putting together IKEA furniture sucks! Five stages everyone goes through when they're putting together IKEA furniture | Gardening In High Heels

Excitement

Yeah, alright, I have new furniture! I’ll refresh my look and it’ll be so affordable. I may even do one of those Apartment Therapy IKEA hacks. And I got this fun organizer, and these plates, and a funky Euro print, too, and it was all in one place. One-stop home furnishings shopping. I love this place and I’m never leaving. I’m so urban and hip, I can’t stand myself.

Disbelief

Wait a minute, that cost how much?? But I just got some dog-butt hooks and a night stand! Also how do these Swedish people transport this stuff? Are they ridiculously strong and carry it home on their backs? Because this defintely isn’t fitting in my car and aren’t European cars even smaller?

Frustration

Why do I have 50 little screws and only 10 holes? Do I have to make my own? Am I being punked? This can’t be right, can it??

And what’s this diagram showing me? Not to climb on the bookshelf? No kidding! How about I also don’t take my new desk lamp into the bath with me.

I give up. I’m going to lay here like Sadness until Joy drags my away by my foot because I am done and this is stupid and I’m stupid because I can’t figure out why this little line drawing looks so happy and I just want to jump into a bath with my desk lamp plugged in.

Acceptance

Fine. I’ll keep building because it’s better than figuring out how to get it back to the store half-built. Also, I don’t want to go to the 7th circle of hell ever again. So I’ll just stay right here. Pouting.

Begrudging Relief

It is done. Someone get me a coffee the size of my head and follow it up with a stiff drink. I need to forget that experience ever happened. I am never doing that again. Oooh mail’s here, look at the new catalog! I want this..and this..

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I swear, if you want to get married to someone, put together IKEA furniture first. If you successfully build it will all the parts and don’t want to rip each others’ head off, congrats. You should get married. You could also probably raise kids together as well or at least care for a very large dog.

I think I’m going to lay off the IKEA furniture for a while.

What’s your IKEA experience been like recently? Any fun stories?

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8 Comments · Labels: Five Things Tagged: five things, furniture, home, humor, ikea, sarcasm

  • Laura @ Life with Lolo

    Hahahahaha this was too funny! We don’t have IKEA here so when I do get to go to an IKEA my excitement is ten-fold. All the pretty things! I did get a bookshelf last time though and putting it together was soooooo fun let me tell you. If I hadn’t had two friends with me I would have given up on step two.

    • Angelica @GardeningInHighHeels

      Bahaha IKEA is like one of those places that you’re so excited to go to and then when you get there, it’s like ‘OMG why did I want to go here???’

      Your friends are troopers. I would be sitting on the floor crying for days just giving up on ever housing my books in a pretty shelf.

  • Alexis @ Chemistry Cachet

    LOL so true…I usually just roll with, even if it is totally wrong. Then, I get so pissed off by the end I just let me husband figure it out. I always start out with good intentions of doing it on my own, but each time he ends of finishing!

    • Angelica @GardeningInHighHeels

      I start out thinking it’ll be perfect and then halfway through I’m like, “To hell with it!!!” and just start whacking things with a hammer. Kudos to your husband for figuring it out!

  • Katy McKinley

    Oh my gosh Ikea furniture is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me.

    • Angelica @GardeningInHighHeels

      It’s an addictive environment. You forget how bad the trip was and want to do it again. Love/hate for sure.

  • Ashley Kress

    The real grief is taking it apart to move and then putting it back together…

    • Angelica @GardeningInHighHeels

      You know, I’ve always wondered about that..I think if I ever move, I’m just going to leave it for the new owners!

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