I am in need of new clothes hangers. The wire ones annoy me so I had a look in the supermarket and a pack of three wooden ones, which are probably just plastic which looks like wood, was over €4.
For me that does not represent good value. I asked myself what my upper limit would be for a single hanger and I decided that 79c was as much as I would be prepared to pay. Anything above that is just scandalous and deliberately ostentatious. I do not want to be known as a flamboyant hanger purchaser. Not at this stage of my life.
So I still need hangers. I see that Ikea are doing 8 packs for €4.99, this is much better value and would be entirely agreeable to me if I hadn’t sworn a sacred oath never to set foot in Ikea. Can I bend my principles for the sake of neatly hung shirts and pants at a price that most likely can’t be beat?
I’m not sure. This is not going to be an easy decision to make. No it’s not.
and I thought I had problems…
twenty, just whack ‘em all in a drawer and put a jumper over the top when you need to wear a shirt and get on with your life….
When visiting IKEA, it’s best to take a lesson from Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Divine Comedy or the fullum The Company of Wolves – you may enter, but do not stray from the path lest you be lost forever.
This should do.
http://www.hangersfactory.com/wooden_hanger_factory_tour.html
Just because you swore never to set……. doesn’t mean you can’t get one of your pals fron Rons to do the deed for you. What are friends for if not to abuse and take advantage of?
You put your pants on clothes hangers?!
I have quite a few left after my mother died – your if you want!
When I was a lowly student in Galway (read: having the fucking time of my life before I joined the rat race and died inside… but not bitter) you could get a bunch of about 8 plastic ones for €2 in the pound shop (or, Euro Shop). This is presuming that was the first place you looked.
As a kid I remember my mum more or less demanding them in Dunnes.
Dunnes Stores often do blue & white plastic hangers in a “value” bundle for a few euro, they might make your 79c per hanger price
Don’t go to Ikea. Don’t. You’ll think that you’ve left but once you’ve gone you never, never leave.
Never.
Ikea always reminds me of inside set on Phantasm when that metal ball whacks people.
Put your balaclava on.
Go down to your local dry cleaning agent.
Tell the assistant you have a gun in your pocket.
Give them an IKEA size bag to fill.
Shirts or hangers. You can’t lose.
You’re missing out Twenty. Ikea is savage for all sorts of stuff. Highly recommended.
”Go down to your local dry cleaning agent”
I doubt any dry-cleaners has anything but cheap wire hangers.
Patrick Bateman will get you a few coat hangers.
Wash them first tho’.
You could always break off a few car aerials. I hear they make quite satisfactory coat hangers when bent into shape. And if you choose to walk down the road to Rialto, you won’t even have to do any bending. The aerials there already come in handy coat hanger shapes.
Don’t go to Ikea. Don’t. You’ll think that you’ve left but once you’ve gone you never, never leave.
Never.
This is what I’m afraid of. This and coming home with a bunch of salad bowls and kitchen utenstils I just don’t need.
The pound shop idea sounds good.
Crank, could do without those kind, in fairness.
Lung, heh. It’s been years since I’ve seen a coat hanger aerial.
I think you SHOULD go to Ikea. Never know what you might find of interest.
If you do go to Ikea (as I have done, once, against my will), make sure to go to the cafe and get a plateload of the meatballs and mash and gravy and red stuff. Nice. Cheap too.
Also, soft drinks and tea and coffee are a quid with free refills. It compensates a little for having to look at bright green plastic colanders.
Have a look here, this’ll put it in perspective:
http://www.hanger-warehouse.com/wooden-hangers/index.htm
A trip to ikea will save you about 70c a hanger. I’d take the hit myself rather than pop my ikea cherry.
Off to Moore St with yeh!They might throw in a few apples and oranges while there at it.
1. pound shop will sort you out.
2. ikea is deadly.
Heatons, if the ‘pound’ shop doesn’t pan out.
fucking weirdo; is this why you need the hangers too?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/26/john-paul-ii-self-flagellation
Ikea’s not bad when you skip getting a shopping trolley. Then you can whiz around the aisles.
Just don’t go at the weekend.
I fucking hate wrinkles
I always thought IKEA was some kind of death cult (a bit like catholicism).
Most of the lads I see who say they are having to go there look a bit desperate.
Remember, the cheaper the product, the younger the child is who makes it.
Book a night in a five star hotel, they always have hangers you can stroke.
You’re a writer aren’t you?
Every writer I meet looks like he sleeps, eats, shits and fornicates (all at once) with his clothes on.
Be proud of your profession, being a wrinkley, scruffy, dirty bastard is not only expected but recommended.
Ikea- is it linked to the Scientologists ?
Remember, the cheaper the product, the younger the child is who makes it.
HM has convinced me. Ikea it is.
ha ha
the ikea shuffle-stages 1-4
1.’wow, thats really clever..the way thats all fitted together and lego like..’
2.’wait, so you mean that these shelves arent the same as the ones over there..’
3.’…so many options..im really confused..and those meatballs have given me the shits..’
4.’daylight….DAYLIGHT….DAAAAYLIGHT!!’
what’s wrong with wire hangers? cheap, functional, and perfectly designed. also good for opening cars, poking people in the eye etc etc.
When i read the title of this post i thought it was going to be about how much it cost to execute chemical Ali. I wouldn’t say it was that expensive, a few metres of rope and a bit of scaffolding.
Ikea is great. Meatballs and coffee and a wealth of people watching opportunities. I’ll bet you get a month of blogs from observing the punters. I regularly visit my local one here in dubai. Priceless.
IKEA in Dubai. Now that’s something I’d to see.
Women’s IKEA: Same as any other IKEA.
Men’s IKEA: Just the canteen.
I like Ikea (on the weekdays). But you already knew I was a cunt.
Lovely white walls, things neat and tidy, comfortable, basic furniture, a cafeteria with the basics… it’s like the mental institution I should have been in, could my parents only have afforded it.
I think it’s a psychological experiment set up by the Swedes, though. They have hidden cameras to time you to see how long it takes you to get through the maze, and if you get through in a certain amount of time, while looking at everything but without spending too much time or money, you win. I’m not sure what you win; I’ve never won. Maybe it’s in fine print at the back of the catalog.
Peadar:You can read? I though the helper monkey was just taking the piss by typing a load of shite in your name.. oh jesus..
No need to visit Ikea, 20, Dunnes have an 8-pack of real wooden hangers for a fiver (or was it €4?).
No Wire Hangers! No Wire Hangers!! – Mommy Dearest.
Dunnes hangers are grand.
But Ikea is worth it for the Daim cake alone.
Meatballs made Mr Jo incredibly happy too.
As to the rest.. well. I like furnishings. And impulse purchasing. So, it’s a marriage made in heaven, really, or it would be if I wasn’t in so much debt.
Sigh.
Maybe I should sell you some of my hangers, Twenty.
Wire hangers are useless, I’m with Joan Crawford on that one, and plastic hangers are bendy and crap, and can’t take the weight of six or seven items piled on them.
So the wooden hangers are your only man, and Ikea are brilliant for all things housey, especially hangers!
This, I swear, has been my experience!