Anyone who has ever been to Ikea will understand these 18 moments

The exclamation «Oh dear!” has rarely been as justified as here: Ikea has been around for 80 years this year and the Swedish furniture giant has been in Switzerland for 50 years.

We all sat in one of these blue and yellow blocks and made the following discoveries and experiences. Thanks, Internetz, for these memes. Memories come back!

Everybody knows.

^{I went to Ikea to look at kitchen-dining room sets. Came home with a 1 meter long shark. I don’t regret anything.}

Or here:

^{My parents: We go in and out, 20 minutes.
3 hours later…}

But they always look good enough to eat.

^{Surprisingly many bite marks on these Ikea apples.}

It is indeed a maze.

^{I can’t believe people pay $50 for an escape room when you can just go to IKEA for free.}

Here as a map:

A piece of Ikea furniture looks like an architectural masterpiece.

^{If you pronounce something correctly in Ikea.}

Hot dog would be good too, right?

^{If you don’t eat this for dinner after spending the day at Ikea, you’ve essentially wasted your day.}

This old plush heart, pencils to wave and thousands of photos of product labels: the Ikea starter pack

Plus hot dog at the end. Important.

A nice idea for an activity on Saturday afternoon:

^{Drinking game: Take a shot every time someone says, “That’s nice.”}

Oh, a newbie!

An Ikea employee who saw this probably had a bit of a fit.

Oh.

^{Now I understand why couples break up over Ikea furniture… I’m single and have almost broken up with myself twice. #ikeaproblems}

On the other hand, you really can’t do it alone.

^{Ikea attacks me because I have no friends.}

That probably sums it up pretty well.
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^{What you spend your time on after you get home from Ikea:
assembling furniture
Taking apart furniture because you did it wrong
Make perverted jokes
Curse}

You are the best!
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^{If you manage to assemble an Ikea bookshelf yourself in 5 hours.}

And in the worst case…

If we were all bald, we would also:

And in case you missed it:

Dear Swedes. We’re tired of it too. But a better approach.

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