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| - I must confess, I am baffled by the fact that there is no IKEA in Columbus, Ohio. You would think that proximity to Ohio State, a student population of over fifty thousand, the majority of which live packed into in super-cheap, overpopulated old houses, would be ideal for IKEA, which thrives on peddling inexpensive furniture and decor to twenty-somethings. There's even plenty of land out near Polaris or Easton which would be perfect for a site. Hello? Anyone in IKEA management listening?
Anyway.
The boy and I made a preemptive visit to IKEA the weekend before I moved into the new place, which also happened to be Black Friday! He was rather reluctant to go anywhere on Black Friday, but I prevailed, and we pulled up to IKEA around eleven AM (disclaimer: we were already in Pittsburgh visiting his family -- I did not make him drive all the way from Columbus just to go shopping). We were pleasantly surprised to see that there was hardly anyone there, even less people than a typical weekend at IKEA, probably due to the fact that everyone else was at Black Friday sales or back in bed after being up at ridiculous hours of the morning. As usual, I was overwhelmed with the urgent desire to have a cute little kitchen, a sleek home office, and fluffy pillows. I ended up getting a pile of vanilla tealights, curtain rods, two nice curtains from the AS-IS section, a baking pan to replace the three-year-old IKEA pan which needed to be retired, a dishrack, a ladle, and a set of wooden cars for the boy's nephew. I was hoping to buy a set of Grono lamps, but was sad to see that they no longer sold the two-lamp set which took regular fluorescent bulbs, only the single lamp with the specially sized bulb.
Oh IKEA, why won't you come to Columbus? I can guarantee a steady stream of undergraduate students!
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