So we all know all the tropes. You always end up spending more than you thought you would, you always buy things that you don’t need, it’s really boring. I’m here to tell you, all these things about Ikea are true.

Mrs Rad got up early for work this morning, so we met her in town after she finished, so we ended up on the 10am train to Ikea which is like an hour away from here. And we went round all the fake rooms and took photos of ourselves. There’s a photo of the Radlings pretending to work in a coffee shop, and another of them having a business meeting.

I always want all the things they don’t sell. I totally want a fake window for my kitchen and some fake stairs for the living room. And a fake garden area.

Anyway with all this excitement we decided to get lunch, and stand in a 20 minute queue for meatballs – I had the fish instead though, plus a salad to ‘make it healthy’.

The best way to do ikea is to make a list of what you want beforehand and stick to that. However, in the history of time, nobody has ever done that. Instead we turned up with a vague idea of the things that we wanted, and randomly collected them. And then you ge to the kitchen section, where suddenly the need to replace every kitchen item is overwhelming.

And then we wondered whether we could carry everything we had bought, but decided that we couldn’t, so we decided we would pay for a delivery. And then so we went back and got a load of heavy stuff that we had ‘missed’.

And that’s how you spend £800 on nothing that you need.

Well we have bought a load of storage for the kitchen and replaced the kids beds + the obligatory kitchen stuff.

So that was my day. Exhausting.