We drove 250+ miles to replace a ...

Lightbulb? Yes, I feel like a moron.

We bought new bedside lamps from IKEA several months ago, and recently mine stopped working. Initially it would flicker on and off or take several tries to get it to get it to turn on. Since it had a brand new compact fluorescent light bulb in it, we both assumed it was the lamp. As we were driving to Chicago this weekend to get a new lamp, we discussed that we should have probably checked the light bulb, but those lightbulbs are supposed to last forever, right?

Now we have 3 bedside lamps, all of which work.

We did, however, do some other shopping, so it wasn't a wasted trip and it was a great last get-away before school starts back next week.