You know you have just the right fabric to make a lovely retro bag, but you can't remember which box it's in, and you have to go digging or turn it upside down to find what you want. Finally you come to the realisation, that despite your up-bringing that taught you to be frugal, you're going to have to spend your Christmas money and a bit more on some proper storage.
Well-thank goodness for Ikea online. No more traipsing miles around the warehouse filling up your yellow bag with Tillstellning cheap napkins (and you can't make up your mind whether to go for practical white or that lovely green, so you get both and they last you the next ten years!) and kitchen utensils Gnarp and Trojka that you don't need and can't pronounce! Instead you sit in the comfort of your own home and happily spend umpteen £££ on some shiny new cupboards, a new table and a little table top shelf unit. It felt so decadent but oh so good!
Well-thank goodness for Ikea online. No more traipsing miles around the warehouse filling up your yellow bag with Tillstellning cheap napkins (and you can't make up your mind whether to go for practical white or that lovely green, so you get both and they last you the next ten years!) and kitchen utensils Gnarp and Trojka that you don't need and can't pronounce! Instead you sit in the comfort of your own home and happily spend umpteen £££ on some shiny new cupboards, a new table and a little table top shelf unit. It felt so decadent but oh so good!
 Not pretty  Might as well show it as it is!  Great fun sorting! |  Functional but too small!  I'm not swapping this tho!  Rediscovered a few I'd forgotten! |
Seven brown boxes were efficiently delivered by an affable top-knotted lad and his grinning brawny mate. We had to get it all upstairs (no - keep it at this angle and bump it up!) and putting them together was problem free-we're dab hands with a powered screwdriver! Well the other half is - I'm good at deciphering instructions! Then came the fabric sorting and re-organising, which took a couple of evenings.
I am somewhat smug at the result. Red retro fabric? Right hand cupboard, third shelf down on the left. (By the way I'm running out of napkins...)
I am somewhat smug at the result. Red retro fabric? Right hand cupboard, third shelf down on the left. (By the way I'm running out of napkins...)
 Neat and tidy!  Colour sorted! |  More work space.  Pretty tins at the top! |
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