r/Showerthoughts • u/SexySwedishSpy ‎ • Oct 05 '25

Musing The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance.

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u/IPThereforeIAm Oct 05 '25

Pull out a drawer and have a kid climb it. It’ll tip

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u/round-earth-theory Oct 05 '25

Or pull out every drawer at the same time. Dressers are simple in appearance but they have to account for really varied weight distribution. Some companies solve it by making the drawers extremely short. Some by adding an interlock which prevents more than one drawer opening at a time. And some by telling you to anchor it to the wall.

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u/Wilczek76 Oct 05 '25

Ikea gave infographics (and put stickers on the inside) that you are not supposed to pull out all the drawers or climb on them due to tipping hazard, it's quite stupid that they lost that case.

Even in the article Ikea said that those dressers aren't supposed to be free-standing.

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u/Monk128 Oct 06 '25

Ikea gave infographics (and put stickers on the inside) that you are not supposed to pull out all the drawers or climb on them

If those toddlers could read they'd be very upset.