Clay and I recently "furnished" our home with lots of odds and ends, gifts from people, and then our massive trip to IKEA (which really became a trip to IKEA with a massive delivery order).
Delivered two days ago. Thanked the men for bring them in, and then turned to start putting things together. Have you ever tried to carry some of these boxes? Holy sweet baby Jesus! Both Clay and I were astonished at how heavy they were. He laughingly asked, "How on Earth did they manage to get these in there?" and I answered, "over their shoulder." Yes, that's right, these IKEA amazing delivery men carried half of these extremely heavy boxes over one shoulder. You Herculean deliver men, you.
If you have never put IKEA furniture together, a word of advice. Buy their (if they still have it) little tool kit where you can switch out the screwdriver heads because it's way more convenient than half of the little wrenches they give you! Also, find some really good music, and make sure any small children are far away. You will probably curse at least 12 times.
So far, we have 1 Lack shelf, 1 Besta desk, and 1 Besta wine rack / armoir (75%) put together. We have another desk, another Lack shelf, and the other 25% of the wine thing to go. So at least 30 more swear words, a big bottle of wine, and Clay and me arguing over which type of music best fits the mood. He likes Deadmau5, I like general top 40 pop and random iTunes selections.
But seriously. Get that toolkit.
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