Its like Lego for adults but you pay hundreds of dollars to assembly stuff. Today I had the pleasure to assembly a bunch of bookcases, a corner desk and a kitchen table. Hip hip hurray.

It only cost me roughly a thousand bucks to do this. I felt like I was on Amazing Race doin' an event but was just in my living room.

First up, the easy "BILLY" bookcase, IKEA's standard product. If you can't assembly this, you need to go do a "Billy Madison" and go back to kindergarden. We got three BILLY's and the first time the instructions were missing (you don't need them anyways). Ease to assembly - 9 easies out of 10.

Time it takes - about 20 minutes for a large and 10 mins for a small. Large BILLYs are $69 Cdn (65 USD) for white or black ones but the same BILLY for a "wood" looking colour is $119 ! That's insane profit margins for the same product.

Lego project Two - the UTBY kitchen bar table - We assembled the legs first and for the price $195, the legs were a good quality stainless steel. This was relatively easy but then when we got to the top, I needed a screwdriver. uck me, so I started on the GALANT corner desk.

The GALANT corner desk is the desk you typically see when you go buy a VW automobile. Its a corner desk in an L shaped formation and comes in various configurations, hence its popularity. The GALANT is extremely expensive at a staggering $400 Cdn and upwards for a L shaped one.

So I start assemblying this stuff and then half way I realize I forget to buy the frame ! There is apparently a frame for the legs which you have to buy separately. I bought the legs separately but it still needed a "frame" in addition to the top. So I'm looking at the desk and think something is missing but there are no freakin instructions. Yes, the legs and the desktop just come sans instructions. I head directly to IKEA which luckily is easy only a block away. Yes, I live in the suburbs now and yes, it is only a block away.

So first thing I do, I go check out the GALANT desk in the showroom and look under it and voila, there is a steel frame underneath it. I missin that. Damit, I order it and then go home and install it. Ease to install 6.5 easies out of 10 but you need two people. The frame is very unIKEAlike.

IKEA breakfasts at $1 gets you scrambled eggs, 2 sausages, hashbrowns and a croissant (that's really just a piece of bread that look likes a croissant).

Next week is my first week of official suburban living. Wish me luck.