Yeah, I have a dog hair scale that I rate furniture and clothing on before purchase. Thankfully we're past the stage of needing the dog teeth scale as well.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Apr 07, 2006 6:33:58 am PDT #9418 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sarameg - Apr 07, 2006 6:36:25 am PDT #9419 of 10001
My mental calculus is will cathair show and do I care if it does?
xpost: hah!
Mine aren't that destructive, limiting themselves to killing rugs and one back corner of the loveseat that I didn't know about for ages. Oh and Mister Kitty has a thing about pulling strings, so he can't be in my closet.
Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2006 6:40:20 am PDT #9420 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Why no more IKEA, Tom?
All my IKEA furniture is falling apart, or permanently scarred by minor bumps. I just want something a little more solid.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2006 6:43:52 am PDT #9421 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm tired of furniture I have to put together myself. Most of the IKEA stuff I've bought seemed like a good idea at the time, but less with the love as time goes by.
My current apartment has one IKEA piece, a few Target pieces (but one broke so annoyingly that I'm not bothering to go back) and stuff from Cost Plus World Market. I like the World Market stuff. It's nice and heavy, and really really simple to put together. Though I still don't like doing that.
sarameg - Apr 07, 2006 6:47:43 am PDT #9422 of 10001
I only have 4 actual pieces of furniture from IKEA (wall shelf, shelf unit, tv stand and my dining room table.) I usually go there for odds and ends like rugs, a teapot, frames or whatever. I got a set of blue glass dishes and bowls there that I like.
bon bon - Apr 07, 2006 6:48:36 am PDT #9423 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The World Market stuff looks nice. Hasn't made it to this part of the world yet, unfortunately.
Jessica - Apr 07, 2006 6:49:51 am PDT #9424 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I've never had a piece of IKEA furniture last more than a year. I've had enough people tell me "But my IKEA couch has lasted 15 years!" to suspect that 15 years ago, they were making much sturdier furniture.
Plush Passover plagues! Too cute.
Scrappy - Apr 07, 2006 6:50:37 am PDT #9425 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have a World Market ottoman which is fabulous. Also in a zeitgeisty kind of way, we are going to IKEA tonight....for dinner. Hey, it's close and I love them crazy meatballs.
Amy - Apr 07, 2006 6:52:35 am PDT #9426 of 10001
Because books.
We have the old white Billy bookcases that are about fourteen years old (a bit discolored, but still standing) and a small white dresser we got for Jake's nursery that has survived all three kids. One of the coffee tables was destroyed early on -- it had to be the softest pine ever, because Jake running his Matchbox cars on top of it made dents.
I like the odds and ends at IKEA best, though. Oh, and we got a duvet cover there that rocks.
Jesse - Apr 07, 2006 6:52:40 am PDT #9427 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I adore my IKEA shelves. It's all about "you get what you pay for" there. They have some stuff that's really cheap and relatively crappy, and some stuff that's less cheap and much less crappy.