Where We Live: Ikea
From meatballs to sofas to lightbulbs, the immersive Ikea experience
You can find a blog called “Colorado Ikea Fans” - where you’ll see a real-time countdown to the store’s opening in Denver on July 27th at 9 AM.
Now, anxious shoppers - we’ve learned - will be lining up 48 hours before opening day.
The Ikea craze is widespread – indoctrinating us with their “Life Improvement Plan” mentality.
Its inexpensive products that you largely build yourself, home organizers for your stuff, art for your walls, everything you could need, right?
But not everyone is so enamored of IKEA. A recent article in Fast Company magazine wondered whether the world’s largest furniture retailer - can really claim to be “sustainable” while making all of these nearly “disposable” products.
Today we discuss the IKEA phenomenon. Do you shop there? Do you love it? Do you hate it...and shop there anyway? Can you resist the lure of the Swedish Meatballs?
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The Obligatory Ikea Trip
I'm buying my first house and I've been scouring Craigslist, estate sales, and the side of the road for the various things I need to furnish the new place. But I also headed over to IKEA. I made a few purchases, but I stuck with things that I don't have to put together and that aren't quite as "disposable." In my case, that meant dishes. Sure they were inexpensive but they were exactly what I was looking for, and rather than dump my old mismatched sets into the garbage, I tried to sell them at a tag sale (and then took them to Goodwill).
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