Dealing with flatpacks

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MyLotter, Marie Coyle, wrote about assembling flatpack products and how difficult it is for some people. I was reminded of the time my siblings and I purchased an outdoor setting for my parents 60th wedding anniversary. The four chairs and table came in flatpacks. We started on a chair and had a great deal of trouble assembling it. In the end we put it aside and started on another which went together very easily, as did the next two. Eventually we worked out that the first chair had two left arms instead of a left and a right. As it was the first one we started on, we thought we were at fault but it wasn’t us at all. The photo shows our bedroom wardrobes half-completed. They came as Ikea flatpacks.