My first IKEA experience

...was something I'm not easily going to forget for two very simple reasons.

Now those that know my mother will know that she is a very particular person and it's something we all love about her. Now IKEA would be my mom's paradise!

IKEA is a Swedish trademark known all over the world except in South Africa. You should have seen the looks I was given when I told people I'd never heard of it before, I thought I'd just spoken dirty or something! It is a massive shop that has only Swedish designed products for your home and they have just about everything!

When you arrive at the shop you have to go upstairs and walk through what seems like an unending maze of displays showing you how your home could look. It is at the beginning of this maze where my mother would be very happy! Everyone who visits IKEA can take a pencil, a piece of paper (for writing what you want to buy) and of course a TAPE MEASURE to make sure everything fits in the right place. When I saw that I could not stop myself from laughing when I though of my mom and her many tape measures!

The other thing that I really found amusing was at a DIY shopped called Biltemma. Now when I say DIY I really mean it. All you need is a chassis and you could build a car from scratch! It has everything from computer parts to car parts, tools, boat parts and of course car accessories. It was here that I again could not stop laughing at the shelf packed full of car dice that would make any true Boksburger proud.(See photo)Was thinking I need to buy a set for my bike, but have not decided yet. Scared someone might steal it.

In the end it was a very normal shopping experience and if it weren't for these two reasons I don't think I'd even be writing this post, but I just thought I'd share a little something I found amusing.

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