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We had such a fun trip to Ikea this past Saturday! Maybe it’s because we go less than once a year, maybe it’s because we better understand the mind games that their marketing team plays on you (by making you walk through a maze of merchandise and then spit you out at the insanely cheap throw-in-your-cart type items…think walmart for the self-acclaimed affluent liberal folks…), or maybe it’s because we walked against the flow this time = we ate first, looked over our lists again, then avoided the entire upstairs display area and went to just what we needed. Maybe it’s also because we have gotten so much furniture for free (thanks craigslist!) that now we can just focus on the little details like picture frames and bright curtains, or maybe it’s because we went to Ikea later in the day, after completing an astonishingly long to-do list Saturday morning (got an oil change, ran the dog, 4 loads of laundry, did recycling, went to work, and cranked out 4 pounds of our famous granola...you get the idea). Or the fact that we haven't been on any outings lately and I was working in Boulder for a week this past month. Whatever the reason, as we were leaving the store Z exclaimed, “no wonder we had so much fun!” and pointed to this: