Which usually means lots of work for mom.

We gotta empty out some drawers

Now we gotta figure out where to put these things.

[Life in Japan theme song.]

Ok, what happened in here? Wait. Wait.

So we are going to move our 2 desks in there - Anna and mine. Sarah's desk is going to go right there... By my futon.

Oh, your desk is going to go back there? Because it won't open because of this.

Oh yeah. Then gonna push the bed a little bit more that way. Oh ok.

And then if we have enough space right there, we're gonna get another bunk bed. Yay, yay.

Oh another bunk bed will go here?! Whoa!

Oh my goodness! And come look at mommy's office. It's really empty.

Oh, is it coming along well? Yeah, look at that!

Oh my goodness! Where did everything go? It's in the hallway - for now.

[Sarah] Camera!

We're being called back over here.

This is where all the stuff was. 3, 2, 1...

Whoa! All organized and nice, huh? These are all the toys.

Very good!

And look! I can jump on the bed! Oh, we know that.

Ok, but I don't want it right now, honey.

I've just been offered all my son's money to buy him more Mario Lego pieces.

You're going to give mommy all your money, why?

Because so we can buy a lego Mario. So more lego Mario pieces, huh?

Are we done organizing our room tonight? Yep, yep.

What did we... what happened? We moved my bed.

You moved your bed? Um hum.

Whoa ho. Whoa!

Whoa! Where did everything go?

So, we are going to move these. And then, right there is Sarah's desk.

Then if you look in there, it's changed.

It's still a little bit of a mess but mommy got tired. Well, you still have more days to organize.

Wow! Oh that works out perfect, doesn't it? Right?

Living in a small space means you're always looking for ways to improve its use.

And if you're looking to do that, then you're bound to end up at ikea, or as you say in Japanese, IKEA.

We reorganized the kids' room, again, and now we need another bunk bed

because we're gonna take the kids off the floor, put them in bunk beds so that we have a little more space. So let's go shop!

Cause I think this $70 one's just a little too... Expensive.

Expensive, is that what you think?

What do you think? A good night? Well...

So we're gonna go with this one.

The HAFSLO. Single.

What is going on down here?

We got... Bunk beds, bunk beds.

We got this bunk bed, but this is the one we want, but with the bottom bunk.

Ohhh, yeah.

So, I came to pick up the mattress, and it looks like it...

It really is Nate!

That is crazy! The whole mattress is coiled up like that.

That's insane!

It's cool!

Well, the good news is we can take the mattress home today, huh?

That's insane!

What's insane? That's the whole mattress right there.

It came in.

It came in.

This is the joy of IKEA furniture.

The students studies.

I want this mesh thing to be right over there instead of over... yeah.

Page 13. Page 13 to start.

Even though over half of our house is furniture from Ikea that we put together, nothing had prepared us for the bunk bed we were about to construct.

 It will forever be etched in our minds as the “The Ikea BunkBed Nightmare.”

This has the worst design ever! Everything's unboxed. Holy cow!

We got this on sale but now we see why.

It is going to take some work to set up.

Anybody else out there ever bought IKEA furniture and put it together?

Lesson number one: never buy an Ikea bed that involves mesh.  It will only complicate every single screw you have to install.  

This is where Nitori is a million times better.

Cause, they put it together.

This is the worst instructions ever to mankind.

Lesson number two: never assume that an Ikea assembly will go smoothly just because you've done a bunch of them.

 Plan at least twice as much time as you think it should take, then double it.  

Well, how about the numbering system on this one? This one sucks, let me tell you what.

Whoever designed this bed at Ikea should be fired.

Lesson number three:  Keep calm and move forward.  Pain is temporary, but the gain is long term.  Don't say anything you'll regret later.

Let me tell you what, my sanity... I'm a little less sane right now.

I'm loosing brain power trying to do this thing.

So, we were trying to get this all screwed in and look, it doesn't line up! It doesn't line up!

Oh my goodness!

Holy...

So, wouldn't you know, we got it all set up, ready, and two of the boards on the bottom were switched around! We had to

We had to completely take it apart, put it back together again. My goodness.

If Ikea ever created a worst product, it doesn't exist.

My fingers are so freakin sore, nothing fits.

Now I have to put 50 million little screws in and screw it all into that!

With it together like this? Uh, yeah.

It took me 30 minutes to put this together.

Oh man!

We had to call in the reserves. Yes.

Well, put the mattresses on it and.. Yeah, but that is an interesting thing!

Here's the mattress! We couldn't believe this is the mattress.

Is it too wide? No, it is made for this.

Are you sure?

Here it goes! Wait Joshua, wait.

Joshua, let's watch this one.

Oh, because it's still in the plastic maybe? Oh yeah.

You have to cut the sections. I wonder if we wanted to have cut it first, huh? Watch out.

Let's watch! It's going to be awesome! Hi Luiza.

Our supervisors!

It's like opening champagne

They really don't want it to come undone, let me tell you what.

I don't know how to do this. So its not accidentally.

Yeah, this is definitely gonna be on purpose if it gets open.

Layers. Ohh its stretching. I think that might be the one.

Look, Joey, look!

Is this like what its like having a caesarean? Oh, it makes noise!

Oh my goodness. The springs are opening up!

It's kinda scary. Ahh.

Popcorn, popcorn!

Oh my goodness. We should have done it from the other side. Whoa!!

I hope its right side up.

I think ... it's upside down. I think it's the other way, isn't it? It's upside down.

Oh my goodness, well, that's about right. No matter what, it's going to do it always upside down.

And this is my bed.

It's a little nerve-wracking

AHHH!

You really do feel like you are getting shot!

It scared the poop out of me!

Hey, can you put it back in there. I want to do it again in slow motion. Yeah, right.

Oh man!

Ahhhh!

There's only 2 steps

Anna. You don't have to go very far at all, do you?

Huh? If there was a trundle bed, I could make it all the way up here.

You could almost just jump up there onto your new one, huh? Can you? No, I can jump to here.

Ohhhh, hows it feel? Is it comfy?

It's just so fun already. Oh, nice.

Look behind you! Oh my goodness!

Sarah, bara! What's going on Sarah?

Oh, are you just in heaven? You're not on the floor anymore, are you? Ohhh. Um Hum. Yeah, I'm in heaven.

Wow, Sarah. How nice! Finally.

Joshua. Is this where you sleep now? Yeah.

Oh my goodness!

And we can put our water and stuff right here. You have a place for your water?

That's good. But I'm going to go fill it up right now.

Good morning everybody! Good morning!

It's not my turn yet...

Oh my goodness, a little bit of Rummicube!

So, how were the new beds last night?

Really good. Wonderful!

Wonderful? I didn't even wake up.

I only "waked" up at five. Oh wow.

You didn't want to wake up?

She didn't wake up during the night.

I didn't woke up too. I didn't "wake" up.

Say "I didn't wake up too." I didn't wake up too.

This is my first time ever.

Sarah, yeah, you were on a new bed too. How was it?

Goo... Good? You're still waking up!

LATER THAT DAY...

I've just received word that the girlfriend has received more IKEA purchases

And they're coming this way now for me to unload. Let's go see what it is.

I'm kind of surprised you ordered something more from Ikea.

Well, they get ya! They have their showrooms.

What did you get?

A table and chairs for my little patio.

Nice!

You have pants on? Yeah.

On the hottest day of the year?!

I know!

So, should we put it right here like this?

No, it's too hard to see it

It can also be right here I think.

Yea, it could be right there actually.

Try to make it work.

It's the end of a saga, which is the assembly of this bed.

Had to go back to IKEA to get the piece that was no more.

There it is. Momentous occasion.

Nice!

The top goes on!

My goodness, that went in a long ways!

Oh, well now that's more like it, huh?

Yes, my secret haven.

How was this for construction?

For this one, I just had my brother come over and put it together for me.

I didn't touch it!

So that was our epic experience,

But obviously we really do like IKEA because we keep buying their products.

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