Draft orders. Hind sight is 20/20, but I sure wish I'd seen one of these before ordering. I "proofed" my order at the store not really realizing what I was looking at or what I should have been looking for. Ignorance is not bliss.

For example, as it turned out there was no drawer front spec'd for the shallow drawer at the bottom of my oven cabinet. I was just happy to see "HDO3088". Made a big checkmark on the spread sheet I'd taken with me. What my spreadsheet should have shown was a listing of all eight part numbers that make up an HDO3088 so I could check off each part if I really wanted to be sure all was right with the world.

My spreadsheet that showed 31 cabinets to be ordered morphed into a parts list of more than 300 items. I assumed, wrongly, that the various parts breakdowns for each cabinet were generated by Ikea's computer system. Not so. There's room for error there.