Besides, the real fun of IKEA is not to dash in and buy ANYTHING as-displayed. The fun is in taking the component parts and hacking your own custom stuff together! I have all kinds of custom stuff I’ve made.
And the other things are:
Metal. Nobody does metals, especially steel and aluminum, better or more economically than the Swedes. That stuff will probably outlast everybody here.
And, nobody collects practical, ingenious basic designs for useful household stuff better than IKEA. You can keep shopping the As-Seen-On-TV crap in your local discount big box, or you can get stuff that actually works.
Like…4 pairs of good scissors for $1.99. Or, a magnetic knife rack for I think $12? The things each have a dozen strong neodymium mags in them - you can hardly buy those alone for that price!
If you don’t dig this kind of stuff, then it’s just not the store or you. But, don’t EVEN be trash-talking the toy store like that. I. Am. Not. Havin’. It. JUST. NOT.
