DIY Coffins?

I think you should start with an acorn.

Mary

LOLALOT!

I couldn't agree more.

My family has full instructions on what's to happen to us when we pop off. No stranger must have anything to do with our bodies or the celebrations or burial. Money saved will be used for the Party of Parties.

Hurrah! Got rid of the old gits at last! I've begun a collection of champagne and have made a shroud. It will have to be re-used for the other.

Mary

Really?

Tell us more.

Mary

In message , Frank Erskine writes

well almost Ikea:

that's DIY innit?

We should send that to Kamprad's wife. Apparently, she comes up with all the names.

Is that meant to be a j-oak?

g-rowan

Who's Kamprad?

Mary

I love the reference to Acts of God though ...

That's more like it. Still prefer the acorn idea - it gives you time.

Mary

You deserve a tree-t.

Mary

Ingvar Kamprad, whose initials form the IK piece of the name, IKEA, with E and A coming from the initials of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the names of the farm and village in southern Sweden where he grew up.

He started IKEA's furniture business in 1947 and much of it is still run from Almhult, in the middle of nowhere in southern Sweden.

Nowadays, IKEA and its various holdings is owned by a Dutch trust which is controlled by Kamprad and he himself lives in Switzerland.

In terms of net worth, he is the world's 6th richest man among

Bill Gates (Microsoft) Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) Lakshmi Mittal (Mittal Steel) Carlos Slim Helu (Telecoms sector) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of Saudi king) Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA) Paul Allem (Microsoft) Karl Albrecht (Aldi) Larry Ellison (Oracle) S Robson Walton (Walmart) John Walton (Walmart) Alice Walton (Walmart) Helen Walton (Walmart) Kenneth Thomson (Thomson Corp) Lilian Bettencourt (L'Oreal) Bernard Arnault (LVMH) Michael Dell (Dell Computer) Sheldon Adelson (casinos) Theo Albrecht (Aldi)

All of which goes to show that with a few exceptions one can make a fortune out of selling lots of cheap tat and not giving a sh*t about your customers.

I am sure that they are appropriate for the customer base....

You wouldn't do that of course, given the brains ... :-)

Mary

Might have guessed you'd have come up with something like that!(:-)

It was a self assembly coffin, but as I'm sure you never watch Corrie you wouldn't have known!

I wonder if MFI stock them, or that dutch company?

I haven't seen them in B&Q yet, just a matter of time I suppose.

I'm thinking of getting one for myself!

your 'avin a larch...

Eccentric welsh landlady of my student lodgings spent a bit of a sum burying her mother and thought it prudent to buy her own coffin for when her own time comes. Placed it in the middle of the living room as a coffee table. A Japanese TV company thought this strange enough (as if there weren't enough strange things already in Japan) to send a TV film crew to capture this as a newsworthy article on how the Brits prepare for the inevitable. :-)

You can buy flatpack ones on eBay...