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lol i was looking at desk lamps and forgot there's an ikea here and wouldn't you know the lamp type i want is there, $8 cheaper, and not sold by an aliexpress reseller
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Ikea has some pretty good veggie dogs.
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Jul 25, 2021 21:52
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I’ve gone there just for lunch or a fast dinner, you learn where the shortcuts are in the showroom hamster maze so you can get out quickly afterward without being tempted to buy more stuff
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Jul 25, 2021 22:14
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Agile Vector posted:lol i was looking at desk lamps and forgot there's an ikea here and wouldn't you know the lamp type i want is there, $8 cheaper, and not sold by an aliexpress reseller
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Jul 25, 2021 22:25
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also like they're are furniture, they're a tiny veneer of charity for architecture scholarships on top a byzantine multibillion family owned wealth extracting concern.
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Jul 25, 2021 22:27
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there are worse things you can be under capitalism than a furniture company. at least they actually manufacture tangible objects that you can get in exchange for money. that automatically puts them above the like 70% of the economy that is just middlemen taking a cut for doing nothing
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Jul 25, 2021 22:29
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it’s about as ethical as a company that does massive outsourced production using forestry timber can be, which is to say not very.
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Jul 25, 2021 23:08
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my first day in singapore the client i was working for got all excited about taking me to IKEA for my first meal in their country i’m still confused but man they were excited about it
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Jul 25, 2021 23:43
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were they locals?
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i remember when they had that big panic in europe a bunch of years ago because there was horse meat getting sold as beef and the ikea meatballs were one of the main places it was happening. almost makes you want to stop taking your family to dinner at a furniture store
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Jul 25, 2021 23:49
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Sagebrush posted:almost makes you want to stop taking your family to dinner at a furniture store
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The riverside was really nice today. There were some really loving ugly statues though that weren't there last time I took a stroll there. Which was like... 2018? e: Also EVERYTHING is a restaurant now. This puts all the whining about COVID-19 COUNTER-MEASURES ARE KILLING OUR BUISNESS! in a whole new perspective. Maybe don't open up a restaurant every 1½ metres in a city with what 160 000 inhabitants. e: Oh OK 185 000 like that makes a difference.
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Jul 25, 2021 23:57
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echinopsis posted:
IKEA does have some good stuff, some utter trash too but if you need some odd piece of home storage stuff they've probably got it. In my case recycling bins which they did have in stock. Also a wok inexplicably called "tolerant'. Echi's right though, some people are insane about it and it's weird. Also the meatballs a fine I guess but it's basically institutional food and the frozen Quorn ones you get are just as good if not better.
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Jul 26, 2021 00:01
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IKEA absolutely 100% has the cheapest functional furniture that you can get, unless you're getting it for free (which happens). Second-hand furniture costs more and is often worse.
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Jul 26, 2021 00:02
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it’s 27C and sprinkling, so I’m getting myself away from watching YouTube all day by drinking a beer. “Clever Hoppier Name”. A little disappointing, as it doesn’t quite gently caress up my palate as much as I’d expect from the name. gently caress, wrong thread
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Jul 26, 2021 00:03
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:ikeas entire supply chain has been hosed to hell since the pandemic began. they are constantly out of a ton of stuff at both the philly locations all sorts of supply chains are still hosed. like pickles. seriously. Claussen has been having issues getting glass jars and my supermarket hardly has them in stock anymore. have we just-in-timed ourselves into a hole we'll never escape from?
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Jul 26, 2021 01:06
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if you start to view past efforts to increase profits at any expense thru the lens of regret you run the risk of trying to add planning ahead into current efforts at increasing profits at any expense and that’s a cost we can’t afford to make
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Jul 26, 2021 01:13
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fuckin a.
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Jul 26, 2021 06:32
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I got a couple tables at ikea to build a desk from and they're decent. good solid 5'x2.5' MDF tabletops with four adjustable metal legs. the fake painted wood grain finish on them isn't anything to write home about but for like sixty bucks per tabletop you can't really go wrong. they survived a hectic last-minute move and will probably make it through the inevitable next one
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Jul 26, 2021 07:37
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ikea stuff is fine except that it kind of makes every place with it same-y i will buy nicer, more carefully tastefully chosen stuff if/when i actually own a place, but ikea is really good at the cost/value trade off on furniture
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Jul 26, 2021 21:00
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every piece of furniture in my apt minus bed and couches is 17-28 year old ikea, so are all of my plates/flatware e: i bought the last of the 5x1 expedits and those are 5ish years old
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Jul 26, 2021 21:05
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Share Bear posted:ikea stuff is fine except that it kind of makes every place with it same-y plus it is genuinely *quite* expensive to improve on what you can get from ikea. spending just a bit more you will find yourself buying so much absolute trash (mostly in that it will be built of the same cheap materials but way less battle-tested). spending a lot more you can get some good stuff, but there is a bit of a chasm to leap.
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Jul 26, 2021 21:08
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yeah a good bookshelf not made of MDF will be five hundo easy, up into the thousands if you want good hardwood I have a mix of ikea and "real" furniture and the bookshelves and dressers will probably be the last thing I upgrade because getting good stuff is ruinously expensive
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Jul 26, 2021 21:39
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i have real wood furniture from ikea but it's pine so it dents if i breath on it too hard
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Jul 26, 2021 21:41
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hell, you’re looking at thousands in materials alone if you were going to build a lovely bookshelf
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Jul 26, 2021 21:43
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just building a box cost me more than $300
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Jul 26, 2021 21:43
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i made an apothecary cabinet out of walnut & maple because literally no one sells nice apothecary cabinets.
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hasn't wood like quadrupled in price the last few years?
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Cold on a Cob posted:i have real wood furniture from ikea but it's pine so it dents if i breath on it too hard i know two households who chose pine flooring and had it painted and I was like "why the gently caress lol?" and then after about two weeks they didn't want to talk about their flooring at all.
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Jul 26, 2021 21:45
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qirex posted:hasn't wood like quadrupled in price the last few years? it's the korean war all over again
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rotor posted:i made an apothecary cabinet out of walnut & maple because literally no one sells nice apothecary cabinets. its about 12"x18" and it took me like 4 months of weekends and its still kinda clumsily executed but whatcha gonna do
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Jul 26, 2021 21:45
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qirex posted:hasn't wood like quadrupled in price the last few years? when I built the box for my truck the plywood was $80 a sheet
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3D Megadoodoo posted:i know two households who chose pine flooring and had it painted and I was like "why the gently caress lol?" and then after about two weeks they didn't want to talk about their flooring at all. pine flooring eventually looks good after all of it is evenly dented and hosed up but I sure hope they didn't want to keep the look that it started with.
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Jul 26, 2021 21:47
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rotor posted:its about 12"x18" and it took me like 4 months of weekends and its still kinda clumsily executed but whatcha gonna do mlyp
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Jul 26, 2021 21:47
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rotor posted:pine flooring eventually looks good after all of it is evenly dented and hosed up not if it's painted. at least not white or off-white, because it'll just look like a loving mess. e: like this is fine: 
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Jul 26, 2021 21:48
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qirex posted:hasn't wood like quadrupled in price the last few years? idk about quadrupled but it's gotten a fair bit more expensive, yeah. high-quality plywood in particular has gone up because the birch they use comes from finland and russia, and the trucks can only use the roads up there in the winter when the mud is frozen, and for some reason the winters are getting shorter and shorter.
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Jul 26, 2021 21:48
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:-O
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3D Megadoodoo posted:not if it's painted. at least not white or off-white, because it'll just look like a loving mess. painted floors?!? wtf
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the pine furniture we have is a bed frame, nightstands, and a small dresser. we didn't really care how it looked as long as it wasn't ugly as heck; our goal was to buy something that would disassemble/reassemble without falling apart and we succeeded on that front.
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The Fool posted:when I built the box for my truck the plywood was $80 a sheet what kind of plywood? that's a very reasonable price for good stuff and a lol price for the sort of thing you get at home depot.
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