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Originally Posted by c vist
I acquired a Barcelona table for $0 because it has a small chip ... it sits next to my IKEA couch.
Hey if I were rich ... I'd still eat Kraft Dinner ... I'd just eat more of it (to quote a Coke-head).
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perhaps the food metaphor was a poor choice....if lada starting making really cheap cars again and they hired a swedish designer to make the outside look nice...if money were no object, would you still buy the lada just because the body was ok?...perhaps since MM has a kit car he would, as it seems that only the veneer is important.
dont get me wrong, i used to love ikea and i still like their design, but a few years ago i did a complete purge....
sometimes you reach a point in your life where you feel that you deserve something more...where you strive for individuality and reject the herd mentality...i got tired of having a chair that most people could recite the page of the catalogue it came from....i got tired of particleboard and my bag of 100 tea lights....like a man inspired by the words of god himself, i stood up off my beech veneer poang chair and cried out, 'no more!'....i deserve real wood dammit!....
when you get to be my age cvist...maybe when your kids are older....you will do the same