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now on the the review
this weekend we went to Ikea. My mother in law was in town and thought she would like it.
we ended up buying a new bathroom….
The cabinets were cool and cheap and well designed, they hold twice as much as our old cabinets and are flatter to the wall.
the sink was cool and made space in our super small bathroom 4 x 5?
the flooring sucked and wouldn’t go together. it was 35 bucks.
cheap for flooring but, it wouldn’t stay down on my uneven floor. so it was too cheap to be good.
so I pulled it and bought pergo that went down in a snap but it was an extra 100 bucks
the faucet had the opposite connectors as ever other sink I have ever bought so I had to make a special trip to buy adaptors at 9:30 before we could turn the water back on. it had female ends instead of male ends.
my house is old and it seems like there is no wood behind the walls in the bathroom. so every screw would just go into the drywall and spin because there is nothing for it to catch on.
Stopped in the the new Cincinnati Ikea, lots of cool Euro stuff. It was like going to another country. The store was a cool design, seeing items in an environment makes the “vision” of what your place could look like possible. great idea there. I had this idea a few years ago,
I wanted to open a Linens and things type store after I heard how much money my wife was taking in for the store every day selling bathroom crap. Basically set up bathrooms where everything is for sale. So you could stock the store with matching items, and save on crap nobody wants. But never acted on it. I guess they were doing it in Sweden all along.
Walmart has a bad wrap for being a global conglomerate, but Ikea is OK apparently. They can invade America, and sell cheap goods taking our money, but if Walmart does that they are bad. None of these stores solves the problem of endangered small businessman/shop keep.
As well as the energy sucking decentralization of everything. Ikea is about 40 min from my house. So how many carbon emissions did we create to get there? In my little neighborhood the local churches are closing, local hardware stores are going out of business, and there are lots of empty store fronts. and people are driving every where. Getting less exercise and polluting more in the process.
Does anyone care about this at all?
