A Trip To IKEA Should Be On Your Bucket List, No Assembly Required
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A Trip To IKEA Should Be On Your Bucket List, No Assembly Required

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A Trip To IKEA Should Be On Your Bucket List, No Assembly Required
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If you have never been to the monstrosity that is IKEA I know what you’re probably thinking: Why tf would I want to? You don’t want to, you NEED to.

And yes, I am talking about the mass furniture store, but it is so much more than that.

I took my first trip to IKEA last week in desperate attempt to put literally any piece of livable furniture in my new apartment. Now let me preface this IKEA experience with this: I went mid-day on a Tuesday, key fact because Saturdays at IKEA are way more packed. Since that’s out of the way, let’s jump in.

It’s the biggest store I’ve ever seen.

I would consider myself well-traveled enough to have seen some pretty big stores. You know when you went to a big city for the first time and were dazzled by the fact there was a 4 story Macy’s? IKEA puts that to shame. One floor of an IKEA is like a whole Walmart. Seriously.

There’s a full restaurant in there.

The store has an all-out bistro, probably because you spend so much time in there you could starve to death. You can expect some seriously good food so when you look down and its been 2 hours since you walked in, you can take a snack break.

IKEA has your dream home.

The first zone you will enter is a floor dedicated to showing off the furniture in model rooms. You walk through room after gorgeous room of all of their furniture at work. I don’t know who IKEA’s interior design team is but they are not being paid enough. When you walk through the showroom section, all you can say is “Ooohhh.”

It takes a MAP to get through it.

I am not exaggerating at all. There is a literal map to navigate the corridors and cut-throughs with arrows on the ground to guide you. I legitimately think people have gotten lost in there…

$1 Cinnamon Rolls.

Freshly baked cinnamon rolls for a dollar. No tax. No questions asked. Delicious.

IKEA can refresh your Insta.

If you need a new way to make your followers think you live that glamorous, enviable lifestyle, why not take advantage of all of those model living spaces? You don’t even have to buy anything! No one would ever know.

Their prices are honestly really affordable.

You never thought you could get that “Better Homes and Gardens” room in your own house but I am telling you that it’s possible with IKEA. Sure, you have to assemble the furniture yourself but having already assembled a coffee table, couch, 2 lamps, and T.V. stand, I can confirm it’s too easy.

There’s also a mini grocery store.

It’s stocked with all swedish products which I am surprisingly not mad at.

If you aren’t completely convinced then you are lying to yourself. The cinnamon rolls alone are reason enough to run in. I would know, I have had a total of 5 trips to IKEA this week. I wish I was lying.

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