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[sniper7]

Yeah...she's looking for a small storage cabinet thing for quilting fabric. It won't get anything close to heavy use.

Regardless...I don't have to go. I've heard their meatballs are good...but it won't break my heart if I don't get to eat meatballs from a furniture store.

You could toss out the "guilt card" and tell her you were looking forward to those meatballs and have her bring some home

[Skully]

Yeah...she's looking for a small storage cabinet thing for quilting fabric. It won't get anything close to heavy use.

Regardless...I don't have to go. I've heard their meatballs are good...but it won't break my heart if I don't get to eat meatballs from a furniture store.

They are a full service introduction to Swedish food, have her bring you back a pack of meatballs, my wife did along with some Swedish cookies, sesame bread etc.

[Irving]

've heard their meatballs are good...but it won't break my heart if I don't get to eat meatballs from a furniture store.

That's funny. When I used to work at Medved, I would go next door and eat at the antique store because they had good sandwiches.

[rondog]

but they sell food and drinks there, the Swedish meatballs is the bomb and there is a bar across the street.

Well now! I do need a new reading lamp and some bookshelves......do they offer golf carts to get around that giant friggin' place?

[Bailey Guns]

All this talk about Swedish stuff...

The first girl I ever asked to "go steady" was Swedish. We were in 5th grade at the American School of Algiers. Her name was Helena Ehrenstråhle. Her dad was the Swedish ambassador to Algiers.

I loved going to her house (the Swedish embassy) because they always had stuff there that we couldn't get on the local market...good ice cream, chewing gum, etc... This was probably in the 1968-1970 time-frame.

[Zundfolge]

OK...I'll probably get stuck putting whatever she buys into useable form. But that's better than having to actually go there. I'll take that tradeoff any day.

Dude, you do realize there's food at Ikea, and places to sit and eat food and drink ... if you got dragged there at least you could sit in the restaurant or bistro eating Swedish Meatballs while the Mrs schleps around the place ... hell the hot dog and a coke is like a buck and a half! (if only they also served Påsköl)

Now you're going to end up having to put together the furniture WITHOUT getting any of the spoils (not even a bag of Swedish Fish) So all the pain, none of the gain.

[Bailey Guns]

Dude, you do realize there's food at Ikea, and places to sit and eat food and drink ... if you got dragged there at least you could sit in the restaurant or bistro eating Swedish Meatballs while the Mrs schleps around the place ... hell the hot dog and a coke is like a buck and a half! (if only they also served Påsköl)

Now you're going to end up having to put together the furniture WITHOUT getting any of the spoils (not even a bag of Swedish Fish) So all the pain, none of the gain.

Sorry, Z... You don't know my wife. A) She'll bring me meatballs anyway...she's just like that. B) She's the best cook I've ever met and I have the physique to prove it. If the meatballs are that good she'll make it her life's work to make something even better.

Either way, I don't have to drive 120 miles round trip to fight traffic and crowds to go to a place I have zero interest in going to. No...putting together some piece of wooden furniture is a small price to pay for that victory.

[Troublco]

Fortunately for me (and my bank account), I managed to put about 400 miles between my wife and Ikea before it opened...

[WETWRKS]

Guys...we don't have it here in the US yet but ikea is planning on beer at their stores. Swedish meatballs, beer....don't have to shop, wife happy...talk our way into more firearms....might be worth it. Just saying.

[BigDee]

Ikea furniture is great if you are decorating a dorm room. Anything else no way. It's a bunch of particle board garbage.