I don’t know what real furniture is or where you’re supposed to find it
September 26, 2011
12:00 am
People tell me IKEA is the McDonalds of furniture stores and I should be ashamed of going there but I honestly don’t know where they expect me to buy my wares instead. Unless the furniture store down the road with the tiger stripe chair that looks like a giant shoe out on display is the classy establishment I should be shopping at.
That said, I am a milk crate-fu veteran, they’re pretty much the most perfect piece of office organization equipment. And the best part is, when you need to move you just turn the crates on their sides.
Well I don’t think you should be ashamed for buying IKEA stuff, but still they are right with the rest.
My office/studio/loungeroom is populated almost entirely by milk crates and IKEA furniture – except for the laptop and TV. So, yeah.
First
Nope.
BWA HA HA, your failed aspirations of being first nourish me!
okay so let me get this straight, you didn’t see that comment above you
It probably wasn’t there when he posted. People who are commenting for the first time need to have those comments approved to avoid spam.
so squid had approved this person’s “first” after she approved someone else to poke fun at the attempt and make him wrong.
nice
She does that a lot, I’ve noticed.
She’s doing a good thing. The ‘first’ thing is dumb and nothing to gain from it besides the person posted comment ‘first’ and having few newb internets impressed while rest of millions of users laugh at the person for it. :)
I like how much dialog we got out of that. Nothing to do with the funny strip. We just all have a lot to say about a failed “first” post.
Jo, you want to ride a car that is shaped like my face?
No. I do not. Another fail for you.
Well and i would like to fail in your pants
^I doubt anyone’s expecting anything more from you, Huntyr Chase.
Forget ye not the discarded cable spools from the utility companies, for they make handy tables.
The only real trick to the Ikea stuff is that it isn’t built to last. Then again, it’s cheap. When it breaks, just buy a new piece. “Real” furniture is expensive and gets just as ruined as the cheap stuff. Ask my dog about our 1200 dollar sofa that my wife just had to have.
Cable spool tables are so hipster.
Don’t diss the spool
I had the spool before it went mainstream…
Nice spool table, HIIIIPSTEEEEERR!
I wish I had a nice pool table.
Man. All that over a spool table. You trying to tell me my old stoner aunt was a hipster back in the 70’s?
Remember. When everyone is a Hipster, no one will be.
Pesonally i will always be a Hipster, no matter what.
That brings back memories of every lemonade stand I ever did as a kid. :3 They were the perfect size.
Yup, best stuff here in Alaska.
Something else that works wonderful, but is much harder to get and takes more prep work, decent tires from a race track. Those things are wonderful table bases for large tables that you can kick all day long without hurting your toes.
Spool tables have always held a certain sort of class in my eyes.
It’s industrial yet modernist yet at the same time a little bit rural. Excuse me I need to go run out and buy wood wax, dye, and go find a cable spool.
Whoa. You clean them up?! I just left them as-is after vacuuming out the spiders with the vague promise to myself that I would cover them in a table cloth or something.
Man, check it. Shag carpeting. Just staple it to the sides and such and chuck some old linoleum on the top.
IKEA, as someone who has bought from them, is absolutely shit for the price you end up paying haha. Its just like, the easiest place to get /decent/ furniture. Its better than the stuff you find at like, Wal-Mart or Target, but its definitely on the lower end of the price range for the kind of prices they push down your throat.
Lower end of the quality range***
Here’s some of the IKEA-Fu I’ve picked up over the years.
-If you’re moving house, disassemble your IKEA furniture. Moving it whole is the quickest way to ruin all its boltholes and joints. For 10mins of time you also save a shitload of space in the van/truck/car/trailer.
-TV units are EXPENSIVE there, but also good. Modular in an extremely clever way. Still better off buying from Harvey Norman or another furniture store if you want a bog-standard TV unit.
-IKEA are the undisputed king of bedside tables and small drawer chests. Every size shape and colour, and the things are extremely hardy. The drawer sliders and door hinges will out-live your children.
-I have to say that the average computer table I see at Target is the same piece of laminated crappy chipboard for about the same price, except it’s all stapled together so you can’t even TRY and repair it. Office supply stores are the same, except double the price. At least with the IKEA stuff when the screw holes are worn out you can hammer a masonry anchor in there and put it back together. Unless you want to fork out $1500+ at a ‘proper’ furniture store, your computer table will be laminated chipboard shit. IKEA have hotdogs. For a dollar. That alone justifies shopping there.
-Unless you spend a few grand on a furniture item, it’s gonna come flat-packed or in pieces regardless. IKEA bolts and screws are all standardized across their range. I think they’re even standard measurements too. So no keeping around fifty wonky-sized allen keys for your furniture. Or better yet losing fifty wonky-sized allen keys for your furniture, and destroying them when you try and shove them out the back door in one piece.
I’ve got a chest of drawers I bought with my bed from a ‘proper’ furniture store, along with a pair of bedside tables. The bedsides, individually, were double the price of an IKEA equivalent, the chest of drawers more than quadruple. They knocked maybe $200 off for buying it as a set, and it’s much nicer than IKEA’s stuff, but it was easily three times the price overall.
Well now….I have to say I am surprised to hear all this talk about IKEA being cheap. It must be the US ones. Because the IKEAs in Germany were damn good.
Yeah, here in Europe IKEA is considered the undisputed king of consumer-grade furniture. There’s no better option, unless you want to shell out a great amount of money for furniture made out of real wood by real carpenters.
I read a tidbit somewhere that said IKEA did reserch across different countries based on where residents were most likely to have sex. In countries where foolin’ aroundhappens strictly in the bedroom, IKEA sells chairs and tables that are sturdy as wax paper. In more Uh, ‘prohibitive’ countries, IKEA furniture is sturdy enough to support dynamic activity.
Man, I really wish I could remember where I read that…
I hear that they are cheap only here all the time. Here in Sweden, Ikea is as cheap as it gets pretty much. I joke with my friend that we just sell expensive to the rest of the world so we can have cheap stuff for ourselves.
Also, one thing that Ikea is great at is Kitchens. Half of Sweden has an ikea kitchen it seems sometimes. :P
Woah don’t go knocking all of Target’s computer tables, I’m writing this right now on a bitchin’ glass and metal computer table I bought from Target.
Fair point, you can get metal and glass tables for cheaper than you’d think. Personally I dislike using glass for surfaces you regularly use, too much potential for chipping and scratches. Plus they’re heavy as a bastard.
In Australia IKEA is a bit of a happy medium. There are some really tacky, low quality chipboard abominations that cost chickenfeed. The more expensive stuff is generally much better. The artsy items tend to take poorly to wear and tear considering their price. The aforementioned bedside tables are incredibly robust and are an absolute bargain if you get them on sale.
So some of their products will break the first time you try and move house, but by the same token you will NEVER buy something there and feel ripped off.
I’ve found IKEA stuff works just fine if you use it as a frame and reinforce all the stress points with sections of rebar
Otherwise yeah they don’t even last as long as just using cardboard boxes for furniture. I have emprically tested this, even.
It’s “Imperically”, but yeah, I see what you’re saying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical
And now it looks like I’m disagreeing with the guy linking to Wikipedia. Damn you, guy linking to Wikipedia.
Actually, it’s not.
Ikea is brilliant, but I always want something that is out of stock, and then have to ease the disappointment by bying something else. Usually I end up with something stupid that I don’t need and normally wouldn’t buy. This happens every time.
This reminded me of your comic for some reason. :)
Why did you link to TVTropes? Whyyyyyyyyy?
*Gets sucked into the site, never to be seen again*
Sorry, I should’ve added a warning. It is a dangerous place.
Has he come back?
It’s TVTropes, of course not. People never come back the same person, if at all, from that website (which is why it’s a punishable offense to link it in civilized places).
I once had over 300 tabs of TVTropes open.
*off-topic link to TVTropes*
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-Wait. I’ve already that whole page.
… oh no I’ve started reading it NOOOOOO
Sudden urge to go find a lot of milk crates.
Milk crates are, without doubt, the epitome of usefulness and versatility. With a good supply of zip ties, you can make anything.
The only problem is acquiring the crates!
I live down the street from a liquor store and they give me their wine crates whenever I ask for them. Not as small and versatile as milk crates, but they are easier to come by and look nice.
Zip ties? Bah! Havn’t you heard of Duct Tape? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQONAFOX5QE
I still use them for chairs. They’re useful during college.
I like IKEA because it’s cheap and can look pretty decent. I have a tendency to move around a lot and therefor have no expensive furniture, because I leave it behind whenever I move again,
And meatballs. And lingonberry jam.
i really love the idea of many vikings coming along in their longboats raping, pillaging and stopping off to set up a dining set for old Mrs Greer
Or the first ten off the boat rape and pillage and the eleventh rebuilds the village using sub-par materials for a large profit..
Yeah, that’s the racket. One team goes in to smash up the place, and then the rest swoop in like vultures to “help rebuild.”
Stop making fun of the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, leave your dirty politics off this comic about manliness.
You know, we used to get our sit-holders from stores, but lately we’ve been getting them from craigslist and such. Stores have those impish little salesmen who convince you to buy the giant sectional that won’t fit in your house because it’s comfy and has a bunch of hidden pockets.
I must admit I tend to build the unconventional furniture more than going to IKEA, I don’t even remember the last time I went to one.
I have the sudden urge to go collect end tables and milk crates…
Has no one noticed that this is actually perfectly reasonable in pokemon where you can buy this stuff in wholesale?
Oh gosh, that’s brilliant! :)
Ikea: Just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norsemen.
That almost sounds dirty if you think about it too much.
And I did.
What’s so dirty about a bunch of Norsemen with wood?
Dunno, sounds a little knotty if you think about it ;)
Brain bleach, if you please >.<
We win!
I think it’s the “handful” of Norsemen, but that is a valid point
I take it you too are a fan of Jonathan Coulton.
Selling furniture for college kids and divorced men.
Suddenly, I want to get divorced to I can drive ten hours to the nearest IKEA and buy all new furniture. My wife’s style and my own don’t really mix.
Everyone has a home. If you don’t have a home, you can buy one there.
I was waiting for someone to say that.
Sometimes the comic gets spooky, like someone commissioned it based on my life to screw with me…
What I think you might be referring to is the epitome of value: the Lack endtable; a tiny solid table that costs $8. EIGHT friggin dollars. For the cost of lunch, you have a furniture. My ex and I bought 4 of the things and a slew of other IKEA stuff. I love that store so much and miss it now that I’m stuck in Nova Scotia without any IKEAS…
Realisation: My bedside table is the cardboard box my old hifi came in.
Jared buys better furniture than I.
You could try Leons. Indeed, IKEA is probably the first thing one thinks of when they need new furniture, but i doubt they have a monopoly on it.
IKEA is like ten times better than some of the cheap furniture that’s being sold where I’m from (they also cost more and look absolutely HORRID). I’d kill to actually have an actual IKEA store here, instead of some tiny office space in some obscure part of the city and just so happens to carry some a few dozen IKEA products.
The one other thing that makes me upset that there isn’t an IKEA here is that, if the furniture is cheap, I can actually learn to hack at it and create my own customized furniture. I’m a wannabe artist and I am absolutely terrified of experimenting on my “real furniture”.
sigh vikings they knew how to make good furnature
need a bed? tie 3 logs together
need a chair cop a log til a nice sitting height
need a boat? F*CK BOATS WE SWIM!
Actually, vikings were famed for their longboats. You know they sailed from Norway to the USA, right?
ofcourse but axe swinging giants from the frozen norths swimming just makes em sound more badass, dont you agree?:p
I’d agree if it weren’t so far off the mark, as most vikings couldn’t swim. The ocean was too badass for them.
Correction: They were too badass for the ocean.
We’re talking ocean water that gets cold enough to freeze over. That’s too badass for any mammal, even badass Vikings.
So Vikings swam in snow instead.
how do you know they couldnt swim? ever seen o mob of vikings at a swimming pool? …wel me neither, if you do see them there some day TAKE PICTURES!
When their awesome abilities to build boats, sail across the world, loot and plunder everything in their way were granted to them by the gods being unable to swim was bestowed upon them, since the water there was cold they agreed to this. When a bunch of them retired to Italy and started swimming in the awesomely warm waters there it broke the pact and that’s why you don’t see them anymore. @_@
I have secret inside knowledge! rly. that’s totally it, I’m not making it up to hide a big flaw in our plans for world domination, of course not. >_>
because most of them were, by trade, farmers? And because it’s only very recently that it became practice for sailors to know how to swim? (It’s not like they could have caught up to the ship if they fell overboard anyway)
if a viking fell overboard he’d just punch the water till it carried him back onto his ship!
Actually knowing how to swim was not uncommon. One popular sport (read contest where you aren’t trying TOO hard to kill each other) was a swimming race, sometimes in full armor sometimes it was just treading water, who could do it the longest, other times it was all the way across the bay. Supposedly Beowulf only lost a swimming race because he had to fight off sea monsters the whole way.
sea monsters and their cheating ways D:<
I build my own furniture.
They’re trying to imply you should be shopping at Ethan Allan, Thomasville, or somewhere else that you’ll end up spending $3000+ for a couch and a pair of end tables. It’s a snobbery thing.
My living room is almost entirely from Ikea right now. It may not be “real furniture”, but it looks quite lovely and when people come over they say “Your living room looks so nice!”, and not “Well, this is pretty…wait, did it come from Ikea? Nevermind.”
Though if I could actually get Vikings to sack the lawn and build furniture from the trees, I think I would be compelled to go with that option on principle.
There’s Ikea, and there’s going to the hardware store. Oh, and there’s real furniture, whatever that is.
Personally, I vote for milk crates. They rock!
But on a somewhat disjointed note- is there any chance of a teamup of the Commander with Hoss Delgado and Brock Samson? They would so kick ass!
I think the universe would implode jsut out of principle if that ever happened.
True, that much awesomeness in one spot would simply be too much.
Only if Snake Plissken gets to lead the team.
I love my IKEA desk and modular drawer unit… it was the only place I could find a good-looking computer desk WITH A HUTCH for under $200, with other options being overpriced desks on the internet, Walmart, and Fry’s. Only issue I’ve had (and I’ve had the desk for over a year) is the surface has been scratched by various means and the cable hole was too far away for my cables to fit through. Ended up cutting through the whiteboard to make a cable hole. Haters can hate, but this stuff is solid.
We *just* got an IKEA in Colorado. I didn’t make it to it before I moved out to Boston, but my grandma did and I was the -lucky- person who got to assemble her chairs for her. I noticed that the wood was sort of split on the legs where the seat goes, and the holes for the screws weren’t straight.
Also, she kept insisting that I use an electric screwdriver when I didn’t need one and she finally came out with one while holding a long, pointy serrated knife. She tried to use it on a screw that was already completely screwed in while holding the knife in the other hand and it got about 6 inches away from me. I told her to put down the damned knife and she indignantly said she wouldn’t have cut me. Well not intentionally, no…. Incidentally, the screw she was trying to use it on needed an Allen wrench. -_-
Cheap=good. There is literally no other quality I look for in furniture, liquor or food. If it is expensive, it’s only good if someone is giving it to me as a gift.
Just a point … expensive liquor doesn’t hurt near so bad the next day. Then again, if you’re just pouring it down the old chute, won’t much matter if it’s rotgut or not.
I had never even heard of IKEA until the beginning of this ark. I still have no idea if there is even an IKEA near me. (I’m afraid to check)
Hours after reading this I still have the urge to go get milk crates and wire spools though.
I don’t get similes or alegories anymore… I used to be good at creating them but now I hear something like “Ikea is the McDonald’s of furniture” and my brain starts spouting reason why that sentence makes no sense.
I think I came with Vista.
Nooooooo. GET SERVICE PACK 3!!!
I’m actually a big fan of those TV tray tables. They’re like $5, they’re a good height, they’re easy to move around. Never been to Ikea, though.
Don’t forget the glories of cable spool coffee tables (manly AND rugged) and the wonder of bean bags.
I’m pretty sure IKEA is actually pretty cool. I bought a “real” piece of furniture once, but now i just worry about someone scratching it or breathing on it or what the government did to it when their movers put it in storage in California.
I’ve never lived conveniently near an IKEA and I’m a big fan of Having Things Delivered To My House, so I’ve never bought furniture from there. West Elm and CB2 and Chiasso are where it’s at for reasonably-priced modern-ish stuff (that’s also quite nice!) Also The Sofa Company in Santa Monica. Also holy crap overstock.com has some FANTASTIC rugs (of wool and natural fibers! for cheap!).
I thought the Miccy D’s of furniture was Big Lots.
Naw, Big Lots is the poor man’s K-Mart.
My god, that’s recursive! K-Mart was the poor man’s Wal-Mart. How poor can we get before we say fuggit and shop at the Sally Army?
interesting….theres no ikea here, and real furniture? depends on point of view
keep shopping at ikea! i work there and need the paycheck, and without that i cant pay for internet and you get less traffic at your site! scratch my back and i will scratch yours.
i looove ikea, i go there often enough. however, once it’s assembled, you can’t really move it…and it’s a pain to take apart.
that being said, tiny apartment + small budget = IKEA-FU!
also, their cafeteria… oh man. the cafeteria.
and i laughed, because i have one of those end tables in my living room. CAN’T BE BEAT! http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/80104268/
They sell things for apartments smaller than mine! (as if there were apartments smaller than mine)
Had to continue it :)
Interestingly enough, right after these comics about Ikea were made, an Ikea in Sydney opened their first Mänland, which is pretty much a playhouse for men to be at while their women do the shopping.
Mänland? This intrigues and confuses me, for while I must investigate this Mänland, IKEA itself is my playground. I like it more than my wife does!
There’s boxing gloves and a bar and you can drive a miniature monster truck over tiny station wagons.
We got an IKEA ad recently in the mail. This was about when I was getting ready to move into an unfurnished apartment, so I immediately started going through it, thinking “yes IKEA is decent and CHEAP!”
… it was all WAY out of my budget. I have “real” furniture in the apartment now, and the total cost was about $30. Hooray for thrift stores and relatives with stuff in storage!
Speaking as a large man, I have never found anything in an Ikea that I thought sturdy enough to hold myself of any of my possessions. Seems like the Commander would have the same problem as myself.
Cinder blocks and logs. WAY more manly.
You can also paint the cinder blocks so they match your home decor. We used red cinder blocks with black boards. Only problem is those cinder blocks absorb a lot of paint.
Just do what I do and punch trees until furniture pops out.
Like like like like like.
I like to use the right tool for the job.
Didn’t you say to fight fire with punching? Is this your solution to everything!
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
If it doesn’t bleed, we can kill it anyway.
Is Jared making an awesome face in panel 4?
And here I thought the Commander made real furniture. I am somewhat disappointed that he only buys it.
Now Canadian Guy, he seems more like the type to do wood working. Hand carved burl wood bowls on a rustic butcher-block table…
Want real furniture? Build it yourself or ask the Amish.
Oh my God everyone sold by the Amish is great, especially the quillows. Blankets that you fold up into a pocket sewn into it and in the end you have a functional pillow.
I didn’t know the Amish engage in human trafficking. I hope this “quillow” person doesn’t mind being folded and sewn alive. :B
BigLord likes this.
IKEA in Australia is brilliant. It’s the cheaper, but decent quality furniture. All the crappy stuff, you can buy at the dollar stores. :) That said I love buying two different sets and combining them and building furniture, like some horrible swedish table monster. I’d prefer to build my own stuff, but I don’t have the space/tools to do it. :/
I love stackable stuff. NNNGHH urge to go and buy some stuff now, thanks to this comic.
“Horrible Swedish Table Monster”… Resulting image caused a mouthful of rice to jam itself up into my nasal cavity. I will be sending you the hospital bill.
I would send you a bill for the results of my amusement at the image of someone getting rice up their nose, but actually I rather like this–I can smell cake ALL THE TIME now.
And verily, after many long years of scorning and scoffing them, we didst go onto an Ikea.
And yea, it was like onto a maze of Stuff, a Labyrinth of Things.
And on our first visit, we did not buy any Things.
But we did indeed return, and upon our Return Visit we didst buy things; indeed, we didst buy a pair of loveseats with absurd names that didst suit our purposes perfectly.
And indeed, we may return later.
I have two words for you: Swedish Meatballs.
LINGONBERRIES!
I never understand IKEA haters. IKEA supplies furniture made out of ACTUAL WOOD as opposed to vinyl coated cardboard, it’s all nearly indestructible compared to any other item of furniture I’ve ever met, with the added bonus that it can generally be lifted with less than a forklift. When people complain about IKEA being low quality I wonder what weird parallel universe they hail from.
In Canada, Ikea doesn’t sell furniture made of real wood any more, only “wood” – mostly glue, with some sawdust in it. If you’re really lucky, it’s made of glue and flakes/chips of wood AND sawdust. I don’t think I’ve even seen anything as “good” as plywood at Ikea in the past decade and a half, for their “ostensibly made of wood” products.
They used to sell solid pine furniture, which was very nice looking but very easily damaged by children and house pets.
No complaints about their steel items though, they’re nice.
That’s the reason I live next to a carpenter artisan – he crafts everything, even kitchens! He’s the best guy I have seen doing his trade, and the price is worth the quality of his work. I said bye bye to IKEA’s and El Corte Inglés S.A.’s furnitures ever since.
Wish carpentry was more popular outside my country though. Recycling crates and discarded pallets is nice too as DIY is very rewarding as well.
“Ikea isn’t REAL FURNITURE” sounds like a dumb thing to say but I guess by real furniture, they mean one made of sold wood insteada particle board with a preference for ones held together by joinery over fasteners like the knockdown screws. Which is certainly nicer and sturdier but less practical for folks like students who need to move around and probably don’t have a clear idea of what kinda design they’ll want in their home for the rest of their lifetime. Hell, I wanna be a joiner and cabinetmaker one day but I hold no illusions my first apartment is mostly gonna be Ikea.
Eh? What’s wrong with Ikea? Everything breaks down so its easier to move, the designs are sleek and modern and blend with a number of different styled furniture and OMG their cafe is awesome! XD
Besides, “real” furniture is just bulky and expensive and doesn’t fit easily into a tiny little apartment.
Furniture is for you to sit on and keep your stuff on. Anything beyond that is excessive.
The only problem with IKEA is that I don’t go to IKEA to buy furniture. I usually end up there buying something like kitchen or closet FIXTURES. Living, bed or dining room ACCENTS. But never the furniture.
I buy my furniture from Nebraska Furniture Mart. As fast as furniture moves in and out of fashion, by the time I hit the NFM, the furniture I want is considered “out” and I can get it basically at consignment prices (like 1/3 the price). So instead of buying modular particle board stuff from IKEA for $, I can buy $$$ furniture for $ amount.
But IKEA owns the fixture/accent market for sure. Their way of hanging/presenting something is ingenious.
Am I the only one who has no idea what the inside of an Ikea looks like?
I spent most of my childhood at yard sales or sanding things down so they could be repainted, man.
Cheap furniture is never new furniture, but at leas with old furniture you know it’s not gonna fall apart on account of it hasn’t yet.
THAT’S LOGIC.
I always buy my mine second-hand, if I buy it at all. Amazing how many people will just give you furniture if you mention you want it. No idea where any of it came from, but some of it is damn nice.
I’ve never actually been in one, either. I think I’ve *seen* one, but I have no idea where. Probably within a one-county radius of my primary location? I know people who swear by Ikea, and others who swear at it.
I’m in my first “unfurnished” apartment (recently graduated), and I’m absolutely loving the “real” furniture that I got from relatives and thrift stores. Sure, I had to do a little up-front restoration, but it’s actually designed to be USED, has storage space, and takes up the same amount of space as the crappy dorm furniture I’m used to.
Nah, I’d never even hard of Ikea until this comic. Got to looking into it and first off there’s not one near me, second I don’t care for what they carry for the most part as far as what they have on the website
I’ve never really been exposed to IKEA.
When I hear IKEA, I think Mirror’s Edge. That game had such a goddamned beautiful setting.
:(
Cinder blocks and 2-by–4s.
I think I can one-up milk crates. At one point I was going through so many books that I’d run out of any place to put them. Eventually I just had piles of books stacked on the floor. I was going cold turkey from internet withdrawls due to my apartment not letting me get hooked up… But that hole is a different story for another time. At $0.10 a book, I could afford to go through them by the metric ton.
Fast forward to one night when my insomnia started getting really bad. Two hours of sleep in three days does funny things to a person, and one of those things is to build furniture out of books. Carefully judging which books were the right size, which books had the right traction, and which books would provide the best result for my goal. It started with a serving tray on a stack of books as a coffee table while I read. As the night wore on, though, I became more… creative.
How creative? With three sheets, two pillows, two tube pillows, and a stack of books, I created the most comfortable and aptly named reading chair in the world. It couldn’t recline, but that son of a gun was a chair, alright, complete with armrests.
It was my moment of glory, the coolest thing I’d ever done. Even after I got some sleep and reflected on it, it was still awesome to my 21-year-old mind. …and then my mother came to visit me, accidentally knocking over an armrest. That was the end of the chair. It never felt quite right no matter how I restacked the books.
SIT? ON BOOKS? HEATHEN!
WIN. But I think if I did that, it would be inevitable that the one book I Really Want To Read would be in the center of the chair somewhere.
I can one up that…or rather a friend of mine can. His grandfather passed away and left him everything…the old man was the king of perversion though and had a room full of porn vhs tapes. it took 3 trips to get all the porn out of that trailer. my buddy made a throne out of it
I know this is sudden, but..
Why do I get the feeling that Jared is a Brony?
His passion for stuffed animals? Or was that rhetorical?
But yeah, he probably is.
Ya’know why IKEA is bad? Cause it’s run by Nazi’s. If you shop there you’re automatically a Nazi. They copy your name when you sign for your credit card to sign you onto Nazi support petitions. Unless you pay cash. Then they send out their secret IKEA Nazi Espionage Unit to break into your house and find a copy of your signature so they can use it to put you on their Nazi support lists.
I have proof! Look! Look at this proof!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44261453/ns/world_news-europe/t/author-ikea-founder-didnt-come-clean-nazi-links/#.ToSxSs0eXb8
wat
If it wasn’t for ikea, it would be milk crates for me, too.
Though I have enough woodworking experience to make a bookshelf, but no car to get lumber.
I’d love a furniture-building show in the vein of Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time.
I can’t get enough of this comic. It’s my favorite webcomic.. words cannot describe how I feel about it.
…Enough of that drivel, it’s not very manly.
P.S. Ugly Americans is absolute awesomeness. :)
¿Do you miss sturdiness at IKEA? Check the “Galant” drawer. I bought one 2 years ago; It comes with a lock and it’s really hard, so you can use it as a safety box (that’s what i do) It can resist a hard beating, so an hypothetical thief would need a crowbar to open it.
And no, i’m not being paid for saying this.
It’s Monday and there’s been no new update. I want burly, Greek men now. NOW I SAY! >:|
It is like everything else really: if you want clothes you go to a tailor/seamstress and get tailored clothing meant to fit you over the big box store one size fits all. Same thing with ladies ware, you can buy a size which works, or you can go for a fitting at a shop and get something that works just for you.
Furniture is the same: you can buy from the big box stores which are serviceable which last a year to five or you can spend the money and purchase made to order furniture of high quality woods and materials that will last 50-100 years. Comes down to preference really, if you like and enjoy the style and material I would say go for what you like over what other people say. In the end you are not trying to make them happy or purchase it for them.
My house is full of furniture and I’ve never shopped at IKEA. Up in New England, there’s like two IKEAs and they far away from Rhode Island.
I don’t even know what furniture stores are like.
The closest I’ve ever come to a furniture store is dumpster diving after college graduation.
If it’s any consolation I have absolutely no idea what real furniture is either. I’ve gotten most of my best furniture by looking on Amazon, then checking local random retailers who carry the corresponding furniture. My computer desk is from Fry’s Electronics but I found it on Amazon.
I go there for 50¢ hotdogs. Oh yes.
the only piece of furniture in my entire appartment that isn’t from ikea is the couch, but I guess thats what happens when you live 2 km away from ikea. It’s easy, it’s cheap, it’s functionable and it’s easy to replace if needed.
IKEA is the best. It’s not real furniture unless it has to be put together with an Allen wrench and has a name with too many consonants.
My bed is held up by milk crates.
Used to be when I imagined Jared’s voice while reading his lines, it was generic Xbox live voice. Lately though, I’m imagining he has Dean venture’s voice.
Most of my “furniture” is just reinforced plastic boxes full of stuff I unpack as I need it… repurposed.
Back when I was in Wales, when I wanted furniture, I just got wood and nails and made it myself. Trufax.
Think all the haters have to try to be anonymous and rant on a guy that ony helped people despite their own personal issues im sure none of you would say half that shit to his face cuz you dont stand a chabce against a Champ
wtf are you even talking about?
you should read more maybe get a talent or piss off i would imagine is what he would say