So back in June 2007, I bought a set of drawers from Ikea but lost one of those lil metal thingie that would’ve held a drawer together. Luckily, reader Don let me know that I can get another one free at Ikea.

Yesterday — aka 14 months later — I finally made the trip to get the damn thing. As of today, the drawer actually works like a drawer’s supposed to.

In celebration, some fun Ikea stuff, both green and not:

>> Ikea instructions for Dick in a Box, which was nominated for an Emmy.

>> Ikea Hacks! A blog devoted to creative adaptation of Ikea products.

>> Once upon a time I took the bus from Santa Monica to the Ikea in Burbank. It was stressful. Afterwards I drank wine in a hard-earned Ikea glass.

>> Not too long after that trip, I found out that Ikea lamps work best with Ikea CFL bulbs.

>> 2 months from now, IKEA will nix all disposable plastic bags. In a show of how cheap Americans really can be when something shows up as a line item on their receipts, IKEA reports that, since it started charging customers 5 cents per bag, disposable plastic bag use has gone down more than 92 percent in U.S. stores. So in Oct. 2008 IKEA’s gonna force that last 8 percent to reduce and reuse.

Second image from top via kottke

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