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on 23 April 2002 (#537710)
Updated:
on 14 February 2011
Name:
You Don't Have to Be Rich, Just Smart
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This community is for all people who have become "a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct".
IKEA Nesting Instinct (Fight Club)
Narration: Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.
Narrator: Uh, yeah, I'd like to order the Erica Pekkary dust ruffles.
Operator: Please hold.
Narration: If I saw something clever like a little coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it.
[pan over Narrator's apartment]
Narration: The Klipske personal office unit, the Hovertrekke home exer-bike, or the Johannshamn sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern. Even the Rizlampa wire lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper. I'd flip through catalogs and wonder: what kind of dining set defines me as a person?
I had it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections. Proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indiginous peoples of--
Operator: Please hold.
Narration: Wherever.
Narrator: I was holding.
Operator: ~~your call is important to us~~
Narration: We used to read pornography. Now it was the Horchow collection.
A couple ideas for entries include:
-IKEA events happening in your area (sales, jazz nights, etc.).
-Cool ideas and furniture that you have seen at IKEA.
-Pictures of IKEA furniture in your home.
-Picture of you shopping at IKEA.
-Places where you have seen IKEA furniture (movies, stores, etc.)
-Shopping experiences at IKEA.
-How IKEA had impacted your life.
Those are just a few ideas, feel free to come up with your own ideas.
IKEA Nesting Instinct (Fight Club)
Narration: Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.
Narrator: Uh, yeah, I'd like to order the Erica Pekkary dust ruffles.
Operator: Please hold.
Narration: If I saw something clever like a little coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it.
[pan over Narrator's apartment]
Narration: The Klipske personal office unit, the Hovertrekke home exer-bike, or the Johannshamn sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern. Even the Rizlampa wire lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper. I'd flip through catalogs and wonder: what kind of dining set defines me as a person?
I had it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections. Proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indiginous peoples of--
Operator: Please hold.
Narration: Wherever.
Narrator: I was holding.
Operator: ~~your call is important to us~~
Narration: We used to read pornography. Now it was the Horchow collection.
A couple ideas for entries include:
-IKEA events happening in your area (sales, jazz nights, etc.).
-Cool ideas and furniture that you have seen at IKEA.
-Pictures of IKEA furniture in your home.
-Picture of you shopping at IKEA.
-Places where you have seen IKEA furniture (movies, stores, etc.)
-Shopping experiences at IKEA.
-How IKEA had impacted your life.
Those are just a few ideas, feel free to come up with your own ideas.
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