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Default Ikea Effect: The Science of Cheap, Crappy Furniture

On 1/13/2017 7:43 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
DerbyDad03 writes:

My daughter bought one of those flat-pack WallyWorld book cases for her dorm
room. I assembled it and stood it against wall when she first moved in.

2 years later she got an off-campus apartment. Now, I'm pretty good at
packing my trailer to keep the contents safe. God knows I've done it
enough times. We loaded everything in, strapped it all down and off we
went.

I drove 3 miles to her apartment, opened the trailer, took out the
pieces of the busted up book case and put them by the dumpster. It sure
doesn't take stress much to blow those fasteners right out of the
fiber board. A few bumps and it was toast.


I would have disassembled it for transport, myself.



Good thought but at least a few of those fancy fasteners would not go
back together as well the second time as the first.