Shopping at Ikea: My Survival Guide

10 bookcases, 2 dressers, 1 sleeper-sofa, 1 mattress for bed, feather bed for mattress, feather blanket, duvet cover, dog bed, and a kitchen table that seats 10. We broke our all time record for money spent shopping at Ikea in one trip.  We needed most of this stuff, the feather bed to put on top of the mattress was a nicety, as was the duvet cover, but everything else was needed. Yes, even the dog bed. Everyone had a bed in the house but the dog and he was feeling left out. Yes, we really needed 10 bookcases and my husband and I are taking bets on if we have to go back to get more. Yes, we really have that many books. My dad gets on to me about every other month for hording books. I keep telling him that books are my friends and I can't part with them but he doesn't listen. It's funny because he spends just as much every month at Barnes and Noble as I do. He just sends his paperbacks over seas to the military men and women to read when he is done with them. It saves him space, and needing to go to Ikea (or anywhere else) for 10 bookcases.