We Purchased Furniture at Ikea

Today, my husband and I woke up earlier than usual because we needed to be at our new apartment at 8 a.m. because we had an appointment to get the Internet connection with Cox. That's why as soon as we woke up, we loaded our belongings onto our cars and moved into our new apartment by 8 a.m. After that, we went to Ikea to purchase some furniture. Recently, we have been going to Ikea often to check for furniture. In addition, we have also been checking Ikea online. It was not easy to choose the right furniture for us since it is pretty costly and we want to use it for many years. We have compared with various furniture and have discussed a lot so far. We ended up buying a sofa and a TV board today. These were unbelievably heavy and wouldn't fit in my car as we expected, so we requested Ikea to deliver these to our home tonight. Regardless of the weight or size of your purchase, Ikea provides delivery service for $59. Moreover, they will deliver between 5 - 9 p.m. on the same day of your purchase when you finish purchasing and take it to a delivery service center before 3 p.m. Considering the heavy work, we thought it was very reasonable. While waiting at my new apartment for the furniture, I suddenly realized that I may need to tip the delivery men. Because I haven't had to tip in Japan, I sometimes don't know whether or not I should tip in new situations. I quickly googled about that. Some people say that we should tip for $5 to $20 each delivery man, and the price you should tip depends on how heavy your furniture is and how hard it is to carry it into your home. In contrast, some people say that we don't have to tip since they charged delivery fee and don't expect it. We thought we should tip them since our new apartment is located on the third floor and our furniture is very heavy. The delivery men nicely carried them into our home. When they finished it, they were sweating a lot. We thought they worked really hard, and we appreciated them. After that, we packed up rest of our belongings in our current apartment. We got really tired, but we were not able to finish our moving. :P We will continue it tomorrow, but we have a very important appointment with a seller early morning tomorrow. We will rent a U-haul van early morning and pick up our bed and mattress at seller's home at 9:30. Tomorrow will be very busy too.