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Image from IKEA PH website I was not supposed to book a reservation but when i received the email, I'm glad I did. It's a bit worrying though because we were exposed to so many people at once! I'm just hoping we didn't get a Covid Freebie. Reservations are a must for going to IKEA. We've booked on the 3rd day of it's opening 11/28/2021 at 10 AM. We arrived there with no fuss, there was no line yet. We parked on the ground floor (it's paid parking! we've parked there around 8AM and left at 2PM = 90 PHP) and we've tried to park very near the entrance.  We have not eaten yet so decided to find somewhere to eat. There's a stairs that leads to the ground floor (but we're already on the ground?) which upon getting to the guards a group of older people were complaining on where they're supposed to queue because no one seemed to have a clue. It was funny that they got there earlier than us and was already expecting to be in line even though their...

As of this writing we have been staying in our new house for 2 weeks now and you could say that it is a bit of an adjustment especially for a house that lacks a lot of the stuff I am used to having back in my condo (heater, ac) plus the things we only found out that are kind of wrong with it. For example I never noticed there wasn't a faucet in the tiny sink in the bath. Or how the stupid seat and cover of the toilet kept on closing even while you're seating. Or how, despite of paying for it, we're stuck with useless kitchen cabinets without partitions. Again, valuable lessons I wouldn't forget if we ever get the chance to get a new house. Aside from those, obviously we don't have much stuff yet. We bought foldable beds from SnR so we have somewhere to sleep on; a plastic table, my ottomans and two office chairs as temporary office stations which also serve as our dining area. I was joking that this is what we're going to tell our kids someday, the hardships we...

 DISCLAIMER: Your experience maybe different than ours so do not take this post as your gospel. If anything, be more diligent in looking for houses, and this post is no way discouraging you to purchase DIRECT from seller nor encourage you to do the same route.  I don’t want to show the facade for privacy, but  this should do! Okay, so since the wedding, Reagan and I have been living in my condo for the past few months. Suffice to say that living with someone has it's pitfalls and wins, like I share calories with someone now, I couldn't be too lazy for menial chores because sometimes it gets too much, someone picking up the grocery tab, higher electric bill, etc. But staying here in my place was never a long term solution. In fact, we should have left months ago if it weren't for extremely bad timing.  That Friday of the week of our wedding should have been the day Reagan had to sign for our bank loan papers but had to wait for almost a month just for the bank to get ...