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[camwyn]

I'm feeling a great deal better today than I've done in a while. My side still hurts, but it's in okay condition overall.

Now.

Dear IKEA:

I love you and your furniture, and generally am okay with having to go through the whole damn store to get to the room where you keep all the stuff I actually want to buy. However, I ahve a request to make of you. Please, please, please put the 'here are the tools you need' hieroglyphs on the outside of the box from now on? I opened up the Kullen chest of drawers flatpak and only then found out I needed a hammer, rather than merely a screwdriver or three. Suffice it to say I have no clue where my hammer is.

Thank you.

Sincerely,


Camwyn.

Comments

[aisforamy]

That is why Ikea also sells a little tool kit in an orange box near the furniture stuff. It has everything you could possibly need to assemble any of their stuff - screwdriver thingy with interchangable heads, hammer, etc. It rocks.

[almightyhat.livejournal.com]

There is now a generation of young women in the world who know how to use tools, and own tools, and it is wonderful.

Now we just need to learn to use tool boxes.

*keeps her hammer, screwdriver, tape measure, and hacksaw in her desk drawer*

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

I've seen plenty of women in the cooking classes I took who used tool boxes to store and sort their gear. I should probably have taken a leaf from that book -- my knife roll is pitifully inadequate by comparison.

[caira.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's also why those little took kits sell . . .

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

But what do you need it for? I've noticed that those wooden plugs they often have in furniture can be put in place with the back of a screwdriwer pretty well too.

If it's realy nails, well, the 'wood' they use is pretty soft...

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Ah, IKEA. Wonderful place.

I only say that because when I have to put something up, my Dad furnishes me with power tools.

:D!

[camwyn]

Yeah, but there's twenty-nine of them. Actual little nails. I'm putting the back on a chest of drawers.

[camwyn]

I have one of those kits. I just can't find the hammer. I'd have gone looking for it before opening this thing up if I'd known I needed it.