TIP - how to make the delivery go easier

Okay, my delivery was a nightmare. Yours could be much better.

First, do have a camera. It is actually an amazing amount of stuff that is going to arrive. Besides, taking a quick picture of anything that looks hammered before it gets buried in the pile is helpful. Snap the damage and the label.

Second, have space for it all. The cabinets come in very large and very heavy pizza boxes. Usually about 30 to 36 inches square and about 3" thick.

Third, have a marker - I used a pen - to check the boxes as you check them off your list. I didn't think of this at first. Mark each box on the box label as well as on your list. You might not recount as many boxes as I did. Watch out, though, some boxes have IKEA labels in two places.
I started with a red pen and did a green pen on the resorting. You can barely see my marks in that photo: get a marker you can see.

Fourth, have a list, and not the one from IKEA. The IKEA list is broken down by each cabinet followed by its componets. The frame first, then the doors, shelves, drawers if you have them, then hinges and feet. These will actually come as 5 seperate boxes.

When I was running around trying to stay ahead of the new boxes the delivery guys were bring in, I was struggling with a 5 page list of cabinets and stuff. Problems with this list are numerous. One, it is just too many pages to flip. Two, IKEA uses the same set of 3 digits repeatedly in different products: it is easy to mark off the wrong number. Three, you will have the same product number under 2 or more of your individual cabinet breakdowns: you will either think you have too many of something or you will mark them off on different pages.

Before your stuff arrives, rewrite or edit on you computer your IKEA itemized list. Sort out the numbers into order and get the like things together. This will probably reduce your order to one or two pages and you will have total numbers of 30" cabinet bases together instead of across 5 sheets like I did.

Fifth, read the numbers carefully, there is a lot of repetition.
30049383
50049344
80049347
40049349
40060331
00060329
60060331
70060335
You get the idea.