I love ikea. It’s fun to walk around in, the furniture is fine, the food is decent, and building that shit is like solving puzzles. My mom invited me over last week just to put together two wardrobes for her. It was great.

You’re right that it’s similar to Crate & Barrel stylistically, but it’s also substantially cheaper, which is why it’s extremely popular for young people starting out with their first few apartments. For instance:

I just love that the ‘no woman’ aspect is repeated for multiple communities. It’s a nice reminder that, worldwide, overt misogyny is alive and well!

If IKEA replaced all of the models in its catalog with cats, I think I’d maybe actually pick the thing up and peruse it.

“Well, maybe I will never kiss my granddaughter again, how do you like that?!”

Your phone also listens to you (if you use Siri or anything similar). I was in an Uber with my friend talking about how I was going to look into flights to LA this fall and when I got home I kept getting Kayak ads for flights from ATL > LA for the next week.

10+ years ago I was engaged and signed up for The Knot. We had planned to marry in 2 years (because s/o was still in grad school), but we broke up after a year. I’d done almost nothing on The Knot except sign up, and I deleted the account after the breakup. But wouldn’t you know, when our wedding date rolled around I…

I swear they throw anyone who has had a baby on a timer. As soon as my kids reached toddlerhood, I had a huge uptick in pregnancy/baby ads. They just assume everyone who has spawned might do so again.

You regularly slap children on the ass in your life?

Wow.

My SIL publicly yelled at my FIL to stop demanding hugs and kisses from her daughter and FIL nearly collapsed in shock. (He doesn’t touch my kid that way because my kid is a boy and male bodies are respected but female bodies are public property.)

FIL just sputtered, “oh? OH? THAT’S BAD? Well, maybe I will never kiss…

It is so, so hard to have a family member that does this.... thing. Its hard to name it. You don’t think its sexual and making a big deal out of it makes other people realize that its a big deal TO YOU. You wanna just laugh it all off and be cool and you’re stuck in this no man’s land between trying to be a strong…

I had the same thing happen to me, the best I could figure out was I purchased a book on Jewish genealogy (a gift for someone else) and no one but an old crone would be interested in such things.

I just got one of those Similac boxes addressed to my maiden name at my parent’s house. My kid is 4 and I’m planning on having any more, I have no idea from where they’re pulling their data.

This may be a bit off topic, but for some reason I’m on a mailing list for the elderly. I keep getting information from the AARP, packages about Medicare, information on reverse mortgages. Guys I’m 27.

So, I’ll never be downloading The Bump app. I downloaded The Knot because I recently got engaged and was suddenly bombarded with all kinds of emails. I bet I could even tell you the day they sold my information, because I got a handful of “thanks for signing up” emails.

I speak Spanish. I am an immigrant. When I updated my Facebook status to married I instantly saw an add for “battered spouse visa”. I no longer use Facebook for that and other similar reasons.

I have friends who have children, and I *used* to purchase/look at baby gifts - clothes, diapers, strollers, etc. on line. I was flooded with advertising for all things baby-related, even though I was looking at items for other people. I can’t deal with the onslaught, so I started to shop in stores, or send my…

That’s very interesting about the similac package, I am actively trying not to get pregnant (IUD ftw!) I have no idea how they got my address or thought I was pregnant, but I got one of those packages in the mail. The really weird thing is, they sent it to my mom’s house. Now the whole grandchildren discussion keeps…