I expound upon the evils of shag rugs in my weekly class. Unless you have a maid 5 days/week, no one should own a shag rug. However, I could not resist and bought one the other day for my nursery. Big mistake! It shed, it smelled, it was returned. The reason I was lured? It was cheap. However, even on sale ($1,499, was $2,999), Anthropologie's Ikat Shag Rug isn't anywhere close to cheap enough for me to deviate from my tenets.