Giulia IKEA nooo!
or a Sunday in the Paradise of Swedish mobile
"You, this afternoon, with the baby, me and the car go Ikea! "
" Noooooooooo! Ikea noooooooooooo "
Indeed, the representation tragi-comic Migone, parking impossible for the child lost in the colorful balls of Småland, is not so far from reality! Not to mention the great and absolute truth: If you arrive Ikea is aware of why is there only for the first five minutes ! If it were not explained by the fact that last Sunday I went to buy a bed and two bedside tables and I came out with a sofa and a chest of drawers!
Ikea is the Mecca of consumerism for any single / couple / family at home construction or renovation, although, in my opinion, many people do not consider with sufficient attention to the fact that, after buying them, so those boxes should be transported flat, opened and their contents must be carefully assembled. To see them in the catalog or along the well planned exhibitions, housing solutions Ikea seem absolutely unexceptionable and inevitably irresistible, but at home really makes it good or is the negative influence of my house to make everything so crooked and rough? On Sunday afternoon, Ikea has become an opportunity to socialize par excellence, in the three hours passed between the stands and shelves are able to reconnect with a college friend and former colleague. Ikea has perhaps supplanted, in the Sunday routine, the role of the legendary Sports Bar, though, I am inclined to think that a lot of Italian men that roamed with zombie faces the aisles of the giant Swedish , arm in arm with girlfriends / wives in a state of ecstasy from shopping, they would have much preferred the quiet of a game on TV.
Needless to say, Ikea, contrary to popular belief, is not for everyone, to address Sunday in Paradise interior do-it-yourself skills are required to say the least physical and moral mythological
- The patience of Job : take the long and tortuous exhibition at the speed of a sloth in digestive phase requires a good dose of self-control ... always seems to be queued before the windows of Burberry the first day of sales.
- The strength of Maciste : ever tried to load a Pax wardrobe frame up a bit?
- The computing power of Euclid : whatever you do you'll never be committed to taking all necessary steps to plan your purchases: If you marked height and length will certainly lacks the depth, and sheer luck if you have considered all three dimensions , then surely you do not remember how far they are taken, doors or windows.
- The cunning of Ulysses : required to hook up the last article in the promotion, noting all'apprensivo parent, struggling for the same occasion, the infant went into hiding to ' Procedure of mobile tambour ASPVIK.
- The patience of Job : take the long and tortuous exhibition at the speed of a sloth in digestive phase requires a good dose of self-control ... always seems to be queued before the windows of Burberry the first day of sales.
- The strength of Maciste : ever tried to load a Pax wardrobe frame up a bit?
- The computing power of Euclid : whatever you do you'll never be committed to taking all necessary steps to plan your purchases: If you marked height and length will certainly lacks the depth, and sheer luck if you have considered all three dimensions , then surely you do not remember how far they are taken, doors or windows.
- The cunning of Ulysses : required to hook up the last article in the promotion, noting all'apprensivo parent, struggling for the same occasion, the infant went into hiding to ' Procedure of mobile tambour ASPVIK.
If I am aware of all these horrible things, because Sunday I went to Ikea?
And who remembers the most ... I forgot after the first five minutes!
Cristina: Ikea: a blue and yellow playground
Have you ever noticed that Ikea will be the Sunday afternoon?
not on Saturdays or during the week, not just on Sunday afternoon, when you decide to make a Sunday stroll in the city center, only that you choose the playground for adults and not, blue and yellow.
The path is already obliged to leave the parking lot and exit through the warehouse, with all cleverly packaged products and a more or less to get all of the backs of the crates with the latest products temptation: you can exit dall'Ikea \u200b\u200bempty-handed? ... hard!
Who has not ever buy something at the last moment almost out? A pillow? A pair of terry slippers for the bathroom? A spray bottle for water?
In fact, though, let's face it, the quality of the furniture leaves much to be want - remember, in this regard, expression fun but very illuminating a friend of mine: "Ikea furniture is not even on the film timber, but only the photo of wood" (apart from a few articles to tell the truth) - is not to be despised throughout the household items from the fantastic, in my humble opinion, online "RATIONELL" to organize drawers and cabinets.
And then, to those who do not want to live in a studio of 35 square meters fully functioning as designed and furnished Ikea? When you come across along the way in this little corner of the exhibition-furniture, you seem almost to live in a place so life could be easier and more fun: bow down to the great power of marketing !
I saw the ideal studio apartment in Padua in 2008 and again in 2009, when I and my engineer we had to get some piece of furniture for the apartment in Redondo, I found identical to ' Ikea Carson : Who would have thought? Finding a piece of Italy on the other side of the planet!
no doubt about it, Ikea is loyal, does not betray the expectations and reserves surprises that disorient, is the same all over the world, find everything exactly in the place and stored on the shelf nell'Ikea \u200b\u200bBologna rather than that of Rome or Padua in fact.
recall that, for a brief moment, I felt even in Italy, but the English language made me instantly back to reality: I was un'Ikea \u200b\u200bparallel in California!
I'd like to know if the Ikea in China is equal to that of Padua, and then even that Carson: there were also selling the famous "wood chips"? (I have not even the copyright of this expression but I borrow it funny is significant about that ... they use the photo for the chips?) and the Swedish meatballs?
close with a curiosity that I learned during a job interview a few years ago at a company that was handling the 'opening plant of Padua: did you know that plants are always opened Ikea on Wednesday in the early morning (6:30 to 7:00 if I remember correctly) with vodka and herring ?
What flavors' sti Swedes!
Enza: between husband and wife do not put ... IKEA
Recently science has "rehabilitated" a popular saying, meaning that when a person goes the angry blood to the brain. A study at the University of Southern California and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center examined 58 volunteers between 19 and 60 years and subjected them to imaging with ultrasound. For each of them were then sent to the stimuli that leads to mental stress . In each of the participants there will always be the same reaction: the carotid arteries , those that carry blood to the head and neck, swells, increasing blood flow to those areas right there.
Far be it from me to compete with the studies conducted by a respected university, but I assure you that I need to mention the word "IKEA " to "blow up the carotid arteries " to my husband. I confess I do not understand this attitude of hostility to what I consider the " wellness resort " purchases, but after our "last" as he's wrong?
As always, a few days before the fateful Sunday, I started kissing, telling him that I was interested in a long catalog and I was absolutely certain that we are getting the chair for the room, the color we wanted and a great price, just Ikea.
Faced with her resistance I have some 'stepped up my "little kisses", and here we are then the following Sunday in the parking lot of the' Rome's largest Ikea (I wanted to avoid any items that escaped me again! !), and at the same time, the farthest from my house.
The beautiful leather chair, crafted for our bedroom, but was no longer available by paying a surcharge of € 50, I book it and receive it at home with a single contribution of € 25 for shipping .
By the way my husband bit her lips, I knew we had to move away quickly from the clerk, but above all I need to go to Plan B . The so-called Plan B is to make him believe that he saw the article above, I realized that was not exactly as I had seen in the catalog but, instead, the chair of modern design was just what I wanted.
Certainly, the fact that the price of the base of the chair with a seat cushion that I liked it deviates a bit 'up to the first base coating, I facilitated the purchase but in the end, before the My face among the injured el'arrabbiato, Ale sold!
After wandering among the shelves of the warehouse, rather than between AD01 DA10, with the slip of paper and pencils in hand to recover base and seat, you download from the car (not exactly a walk in health Rome where to find a parking space under the house is pure utopia!) and transported to the bulky packages on the 3rd floor walk because they are too bulky for our elevator, we are finally in front of this wonderful pile of lumber and materials to assemble.
euphoria attacked for my new and wonderful chair-chair I asked Alessandro, in all the languages \u200b\u200bI know, including Sicilian, to make him fit the same evening. You can imagine my disbelief el'incazzatura my husband when we realized that not only lacked a central screw to assemble the pieces, but also the hole where the screw was to come.
Fearing for the health of my husband and my physical safety, I packed it again all in a sacred silence! My husband was forced to take half a day's work to go to replace the item (the goods do not change over the weekend!) And I promise that we would return only when Ikea would have got my first gray hair!
I vistoooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!
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