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The 25 stages you go through on a trip to IKEA

13. Debate buying 4 spatulas as they’re only 59p each.

14. Tealights! Is 50 enough?

15. Wonder how you’ve managed this long without a SKÅDIS, a 23cm FEJKA, or a SMASKA in your life. 

16. Realise you’ve still got to actually make it to the Self-Serve warehouse area and find all your furniture.

17. Get lost again and start losing the will to live.

18. Perk up at the thought of getting a bag of mini Daim Bars at the end of your trip.

19. Finally make it to the Self-Serve warehouse area.

20. Realise you’re not going to get a dining table, a double wardrobe and a sofa bed in the back of a Toyota Yaris.

21. Decide not to buy most of what you actually came for.

22. Go to pay for all the stuff you didn’t actually come for.

23. Have a small breakdown at the checkout when you discover that IKEA has stopped selling bags of mini Daim bars.

24. Console self with an 85p hot dog.

25. Try to find your way out.

And finally – get back to your car and drive home completely exhausted.

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