16 Personalities Building IKEA Furniture 

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Jarvfjallet!

Well I probably wouldn’t reply cuz I also hate talking to people ehe

Thanks for the info :) Just wondering how are you able to tell which personality you are?

Sir! Yes Sir!

I love it too ommmgggg ENFP

I am an ISTJ -- but apparently an ISTP when it comes to putting together furniture. My husband has also wisely decided to stand aside while I am working.

@@queenofprops same here lol

This is great! When an ISTP friend helped me i was like "you saved my life" 😂 just the idea of these things stresses me out .. So how do you guys view the INFJs asking for a friend 👉🏻👈🏻

@@Me-meow77 I'd do it. I enjoy it.

Mine are the same way

Yess! But then my self-doubt makes me procrastinate forever.

Lucky. Mine mock me in the voice of my sister. I have to power through out of spite.

i need to get new imaginary friends, all mine left me

we really start to wonder...

Yes! Even if I have another person to help me I sideline them and let them do other things.. Such as getting me some food Edit: Swede too

Is your government paying you 🤣

INFP here and I also love to assemble Ikea furniture, too!

INFJ from Finland and loving Ikea! It's like legos but for grown ups! And budget friendly as a bonus (totally not the reason I chose Ikea in the first place...)! #notsponsoredbytheswedishgovernment

​@@erikavaleries You only get paid by the goverment if you buy a framed painting of Ingvar Kamprad and keep it on your living room wall for 35 years straight

Thanks for putting together our furniture as well ISTP! 😅😅

Thank you ISTP!

Lolz thanx (infj)

TY ISTP!- INFJ

thanks! -INFP

You ISTP's keep the world running for the rest of use!

Lol. I'm also an ISTP. I did about the same for my father with a coffee table

yeah im an INTJ and i could easily go all day just building furniture its fun :)

Giant legos is accurate, I love it. Now if only I could actually afford this IKEA-assembly addiction...

maybe you are an ISTJ

I'm sure ENTJ is willing to pay you a dollar. Better than his nephew.

If you do a good job and are polite and respectful towards the adults you'd get hired easily. Most adults would rather pay than deal with this type of stuff. Same goes for house maintenance, yard maintenance etc., all the jobs that require a bunch of strength, stamina and patience, traits that seem to decrease with age.

My dad is very elderly now, and is most likely an ENFP. However, even in his younger days, he was the worse person to call for this sort of thing. My mother, however, (who we suspect was an ISTJ) was actually able to assemble flat pack furniture.

Same Lol. I was waiting with bated breath fkr ISTP the whole time and was not disappointed

I waited for ISTP the whole time because it's my type, but I wasn't disappointed!

I know a bit of Swedish and the feeling of superiority when I can pronounce the names correctly and understand them is enough to keep me cackling for a day

As a Swedish person I never really got why people apparently like furniture better if they're named in my language. ...Though I guess it's harder to actively make fun of IKEA's weird-ass naming sense if you can't understand the words. Who the frak names an office chair "Wolverine Mountain"?

Jajamensan!

As a Dane I found this funny too, although Swedish and Danish have very different pronunciations despite being related languages. But we’re brought up learning a bit of Swedish and Norwegian at school, so it’s easier for us to pronounce compared to, say, Americans (Americans in particular though!🤣).

Back in the '60s, Sweden switched the entire country from driving on the left like the UK to driving on the right like most of continental Europe -- in one weekend! The logistics behind this are astounding. A country with that level of organization and initiative should be able to clean up the language so it doesn't need all those extra weird symbols. Just saying.

same

I'm INFJ who broke a bookshelf. I have no idea what all those little *things* are. I cannot tell you how much your skills are appreciated!

Same. I'm also an ISTP. I built a whole coffee table for my father in two days without him telling me to do so.

@odingallow3083 I built a coffee table for my mum years ago, and it's still standing. My mum and sister tried to put together a dining table at the same time and completely ignored my advice. The table became loose and woberly in months, whilst my coffee table is still strong enough to stand on.

@@aleishamclean that's the power of being an ISTP.

If I was him (I'm also an ISTP) I would be proud too lol

I wonder if INFJ is my type too because I always wait till I am alone to put things together. Otherwise people will try to do it for me and I don't always want that.

I figure it took special circumstances for the INTJ to decide on shopping furniture in the first place. My INTJ brother moved into an empty new apartment and was like, "Eh, I'm only going to live here a year or two, tops. I'll put a sleeping bag on the floor and call it done, it'll save me so much hassle when I move out."

right?? ;-;

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As an intj, it triggers me that you said the same thing three times in one comment. No, I won't apologize for being offensive, or having you scroll down here. You're already 6 inches deep.

This resonates with me so much as a fellow INTJ haha

There's that introverted intuition and awful introverted sensing haha -infj

It's so nice of them to always include extra screws.

It's so nice that they include some highly interpretable guidelines to MAYBE keep in mind for the less intuitive among us.

At this point, I just know they're including extra screws in case I lose one. They're so thoughtful. But I'm clean and organized and never lose them. That's why I put the extra screws in an unlabeled box with a ton of other extra parts from various different things!

Unless it's a chair and looks comfortable, in which case I'll assemble it immediately. -INTP

I see my ability of being able to assemble my own furniture as a strength that should improve my status in the eyes of a potential mate….😇🤓

​@@raddaks2039I have found my people

I can do it but I have to get to it alone…when someone tries to help I just can’t, everything becomes chaotic mess and humanoid being “helping me” isn’t listening to reason (usually at least)

You need to wait for the right moment in time to do this

​@@AdorableOracle That's a challenging type of friend to make... good luck :D

@@WritingsOfQuill I did win the heart of an ESTJ once! I'm up to the task. :)

Unless you’re an ISTP apparently.

Sorcery.... How'd you comment this 16 hours ago?-

You commented 16 hours ago? Are you from the future!?!?

Or camping furniture that unfolds easily. Cots, chairs. Kitchens, tables.

@Warrior Girl i think it's members early access

And pop it 😂

My mom had gotten me a filing drawer thing to build to organize my ostomy supplies in one Christmas. It took me about a year shortly before next Christmas to finally get around to building the thing. Now after a month or so later I have still yet to organize the rest of my supplies in it as it sits awkwardly positioned off the side of the foot of my bed being used as extra table space.

Yes, bless you! 😊

We're just here to help!

And the ISTP didn't care! (As an ISTP myself I know that I wouldn't care because I do this thing all the time).

Same here /INTJ

Same, I’m an ENTJ

My dad also criticizes the quality of IKEA products, I don't know his type, but I'm the ISTP of the house.

I’m an ENTJ and a busy college student and when I don’t have time to do something I call my mom to do it for me, who is also an ENTJ. My mom is a pre-k teacher and keeps a very busy life aside from that helping all 4 of us kids all the time, lol. If I see I can help her in some way when she’s busy and I’m not then I do and when she really needs help she makes the whole family help and tells us what specific task she wants each person to do and how she wants them to do it. She does things with us because she is afraid we’ll mess things up without her, but she calls in everyone so that we get it done much faster with more people. As an ENTJ though I do enjoy putting furniture together like a puzzle if I have the time to do it!

I was gonna say, how did you comment an hour ago lol. The P.S. comment explanation helped 👍

"1 hour ago"

Time to experience IKEA 😍 Get ready to want to move into a furniture store. And eat endless meatballs.

@@erikavaleries 😂 Oh yeah? That would be ideal! I'd never have to build another thing!

Okay same I love going through furniture stores (I don’t think I’ve been in an ikea ever… but it’s probably the same feeling I would get in a forever 21 unless it’s organized like a charming Charlie’s lol) because I get stuck in my imagination of decor and story lines and everything in between … I also like the forced concentration that putting together furniture can cause and I usually like to do it by myself because it’s my time to think but I like for people to do the bigger stuff for me because it can take so much energy but so rewarding, also side note if I could I’d buy every house fully furnished/assembled and I’ll do like book shelves and maybe a dresser or two

@@just.callmemack Haha same here!! We have furniture stores close by. I’d go there with my cousin or alone as a teen just to admire the furniture for daydreaming purposes😂🥲 And I enjoy assembling them too - preferably on my own.

@@Seca95 yeah I can only build things with certain people that have patience and won’t get in my way hahaha but that are also good with putting stuff together if I can’t figure something out

@@just.callmemack True that, it’s OK as long as the other person is calm and patient - the only person whose company I appreciate when assembling furniture is my mom (ISFJ)

Lmaooo you guys are crazy 😭 I came into the comment section to check ENTPs responses and you guys are for real 😂 this is something I wish I could see with my own eyes, the process and how does your brain works. Truly entertaining.

This reminds me of my best friend who is an ESFP. I’m an ENTJ and once we built furniture together and decided to split up the work since we had to put the tiny things together before we needed to move big things together one at a time. She is extremely extroverted, overconfident, and assertive. She said in the beginning, “I’ve got this just by looking at the pictures, I’ve worked around my dad’s job my whole life”. Her dad is a car mechanic. I told her I think you should really read it but she didn’t. Next thing I know, my part is done and me and our other friend are putting it together while she and another friend run to get food, and realizing we don’t have the screws we need because she used the wrong ones in earlier steps and that she also put screws and other things holding it together in the wrong places. So then we had to undo and redo nearly everything she did while she was out

I guess people can behave as their polar opposite if needed... I read all the instructions about a new item and then assemble the thing. (INFJ)

@@grababundoberni I know right? I found out that under extreme stress, I go into "ISTP mode" for "self-preservation". And it works wonders!

😄

Magic, you know. Never believe it's not so.

INTP and ISFJ did it too :D Pretty sure ISTJ could do it too, they just complained ^^ and from the comments here, INTJs apparently too :D ...but as an ENFP, I am so damn sure that they called a friend in the end...

Nah, so many others could too. But most won’t enjoy it as much as an ISTP.

Yea. We're kinda the only one who actually *enjoy* making IKEA furniture.

Yes of course

Same. When my husband (istp) and I (intp) bild IKEA-furniture he dives right in while I read the manual first (he goes by "when everything else fails: read the manual"). We ended up with the perfect teamwork: I read the manual and tell him what, where and when, plus hand him the correct screws etc. Once I assembled a big cupboard with the help of my youngest daughter (5-6 yo) and she took care of all the screws and small stuff. Only problem was that I had to use the correct "name" of each screw to get it from "her store"... So we still use some of those terms! A round sort of anchor for a screw is still "a sumo wrestler"... 😂😂😂

I'm also an INTP and actually wanted to make a comment, writing pretty much exactly what you wrote. IKEA is really great compared to others. The building techniques are so very efficient, they achieve a high grade of stability with the least amount of extra materials used.

There are great art supply RU-vidrs!

Like an ENFP would EVER read instructions 😂😂😂 except searching thru the trash 🤣🤣🤣

@@erikavaleries 😂😂😂🤣🤣 true true very true

​@@annelisewilliams03 guilty as charged 🤣 why I don't bake

Names should always reflect what things are and things should not be named after people

Haha! Now that I’m older I actually read the instructions after having ruined too many projects when I was younger by just “figuring it out” myself 🙃 I’ve wondered why it’s called an Allen key or an Allen wrench. A key and a wrench are two very different things! Pick one, Allen! 🤪

same I love IKEA! I always want to go there and browse forgetting how overwhelming it is with the crowds/stimulation, but always love putting together the furniture :) it's like a puzzle :) And feels nice when it's done. I think its a very introvert mindful moment too, be in our own bubble. 95% of my furniture is Ikea ^-^' I love feeling connected to Scandinavia too (miss Denmark - a wonderful place for INFPs, as is Sweden) x

It seems like you guys have the patience to just do it slowly like a puzzle ^^ IKEA really seems to be an introvert's thing though. Have not found an extrovert in the comments who likes it...

haha thanks i was proud of it

Your government or Ikea should pay you for the endorsement! And Frank 🤣

I move often enough that IKEA or knock offs are my favorite brands

Same here, you decsribed my experience as well. INFJ and I love putting stuff together, and I'm good at following maps etc. It's just stereotypes what Frank puts on the videos, so I expected INFJ to be confused and overthinking one. It bores me sometimes but it's supposed to be a funny video, so. But when it comes to reality - I think skills like orientation and perception are barely influenced by personality. It just depends if you had an opportunity to develop those skills in your life or not. Some personalities are just driven to develop them, and some aren't. I always liked "real life puzzle" like fixing stuff and doing manual things like art.

I'm good at building ikea furniture and directions, but I agree with Frank in the sense that 1) ikea is a sensory overload and 2) I can put together furniture, but often someone else appears and does it for me, e.g., like a sibling. It's just a strategy. - INFJ

I agree. I too enjoy assembling furniture and I am very good with maps and directions too, so much so that people call me a walking GPS, and I’m the one who holds the map on vacations etc. Sometimes it makes me doubt my MBTI and consider if I’m actually ISFJ. But I don’t feel like an Si dominant. Ni dom + Se inf define me better. But perhaps this thing with directions and assembling furniture can be explained with one’s enneagram too? -INFJ 6w5

@@Seca95 It has almost nothing to do with personality, man. Niether MBTI, nor Ennagram. The skills you have are based on what you have learnt and what you've been taught, and your environment that shaped you and gave you opportunities. Also, if your parents were good at something you probably inhereted those skills, such as good perception skills or good math skills. Personality and cognitive skills (like IQ, perception, memory, attention) run in genes, but there're two totally different things. Personality can drive some people to explore and develop some skills, or make people like certain activities more than others, but it's not limiting anyone from what they can do. Personality is more about how you make decisions, not what skills you are good at. For your own good and peace of mind - there's no point searching for a personality explaination why you're good with certain skills. And there's no point doubting your personality if you don't fit a very simplified stereotype of it.

Because infjs are Se inferior meaning Infj and intjs involving themselves in the external world comes less naturally to them and can sometimes overwhelm them

This INFP heartily agrees! 😁

ENFP yes indeed

I don’t, but my teenage ENFP son loves it and does it with so much ease. While following instructions! 🤯 He also loves puzzles and complicated LEGO projects. -ENFP

My ENFP best friend would definitely excel at this as long as it holds her interest. She will quickly become an expert at something until she gets bored with it. But while she is in that zone, she is the go to person!

WHOA 🤣 Where do they think of this stuff 😂

I HAVE THAT CHAIR 🤣 It's kind of uncomfortable but looks expensive and ergonomic.

Funny because I've noticed how complicated Frank's wardrobe is

Thanks so much!!

no, you have just one type, but all types have overlap with each other so it is common to relate to more than one!

@@FrankJames alright, thanks!

Sweden is my personality country at the moment

Loove Ikea and assembling the furniture :) And love feeling connected to Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden feel like home to me) - INFP from Australia

I am perfectly capable and able to do things myself but he is such a craftsman. The end result is always so much better when he does it even though it takes twice as long. He never lets me help either 😂

If you call an ISTP to assemble furniture, they *WILL* get the job done and more.