New bed has arrived!
Well, mostly. Hopefully a headboard will arrive soon.
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@neil But it arrived a day late, so I spent my first night here sleeping directly on my bedroom floor. 😭
For context, I was 35 years old at the time. But because I'm an "elder millennial," I didn't have the finances to move into my own place without roommates until age 35. And I didn't even have the relative luxury of my own cheap and cheerful IKEA furniture until age 35. 😖
The boomers had all that stuff when they were 18. And they didn't have to pay for it, they were wedding gifts. 😭
We still have quite a lot of Ikea furniture, although this particular new bed is not from Ikea (but was in a sale, so let's see...).
In fact, I think nearly *all* our furniture is either Ikea or in a sale!
@neil Well! That's what middle age looks like on both sides of the Atlantic these days in 2026.
@neil “Eventual consistency” of a new bed, when rest of the parts arrive. 😅
@neil At least the headboard is just decorative, eh?
I bought a ton of IKEA furniture when I moved into my current apartment (flat in Britishese) seven years ago.
(Holy shit, it's been seven years. I moved in here on November 11th, 2019.)
I don't drive or have local friends who drive, so I physically visited the local Toronto IKEA megastore, ordered what I wanted from the showrooms, paid for it there, and arranged for delivery on the day I moved in...