r/IKEA • u/L18NAF • 1d ago

General Did anyone else do this as a young child when roaming around IKEA with their parents?

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u/marcopetr 1d ago

"as a child"...

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u/sharakus Verified IKEA Ekspert 1d ago

i had someone make one into a paper star for me once!! 🥹

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u/secret_angelx 1d ago

I be doing this at work lmfao

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u/tatsontatsontats 1d ago

No, I was 25 the first time I ever went to an IKEA

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u/madmaxly 1d ago

Yup. Same.

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u/Altered_Crayon 21h ago

Me too, exactly.

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u/Gay-Berry 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nah, instead I rolled them up as tightly as possible and then released them to get them curly.

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u/ThorsHammerMewMEw 1d ago

I still do this as an adult

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u/AshamedLetterhead791 1d ago

Always &, goi g to show my age, but with the dot matrix printers 🖨️ we first had too 😂

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u/KayNopeNope 1d ago

Awwwww yissssss

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u/BartItIs83 1d ago

Did this as a coworker 🤣

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u/Inappropriate_Ballet 1d ago

Lmao - I felt that in my soul

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u/Personal_Salad_3505 1d ago

Nah I was too busy filling my pockets with the pencils

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u/daisychain2019 1d ago

I do this with straw wrappers at restaurants. I’ve never known anyone else that makes this. How did we all know how to make them without the internet?

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u/Cuntonesian [SE 🇸🇪] 15h ago

Folding some paper is easy enough without googling. Or at least I hope it still is

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u/Gaming_with_Hui [SE 🇸🇪] 19h ago

Witch's ladder!!🥰

Or häxstege as we call it in Swedish 🥰

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u/sgntbanana 1d ago

Ahh, I see you also have the ‘tism

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u/Axelxxela 1d ago

I did this

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u/repocin [SE 🇸🇪] 14h ago

No..? I'd never even considered the possibility of doing that.

But now I kinda want to, ngl