RE: Gift Registry
August 11, 2017 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2017 at 10:28 am by mlmooney89.)
Ohhhhhh don't get me started on registries!!! I am 100% against them and find them extremely tacky. My family HATES when they are brought up around me because the first thing out of my mouth (and they mock me for this) is "Miss Manners says..."
Ok nvm it's too late. I'm started. Lol
First off a wedding present should be a pleasant surprise- NOT expected. By signing up for a registry you are essentially saying "When you get us a present, and we expect it, buy it here for this price and mark it off our list." Second you are also saying hey I'm inviting you to this special day and the price of coming is to buy all my new stuff that I want. Decorate my house... but with only the stuff I pick out.
Oh two people got you the same thing? You POOR newly wed couple with all your other new stuff. I'm sure it is SO difficult to write a lovely thank you note to each person that gave it to you and pretend that it was the only one and the best gift ever. I'm sure it is so hard to donate one of the two things to someone else or to a thrift store. What but then you would be down the money they spent on it? IT WAS A FUCKING GIFT you didn't lose shit on it and you still have one in your house so that if either person comes over you can still show it off. If you are to be so cheap and return it neither person should ever get wind of it, because remember they should never know there were duplicate gifts, then hey you get free money out of it. The price of taking it all the way back to the store is worth free fucking money.
And this isn't a registry gripe but just greedy people in general irritating me. On the other hand of people who register are those that specifically ask for only cash. What is this a pay at the door event? You are making a cover charge for the wedding just like everyone else but congrats you are being more blunt about it.
I do know people EXPECT registries now a days so when I got married last September and just about everyone was harassing us on what we wanted gift wise we finally relented and said we would like a family recipe so we can create a personal cookbook. We provided the recipe cards there at the wedding and the guests felt like they were giving us something worth giving. The notes on the recipes was doubly special over the real gifts we got. There was one recipe from my boss that said it was the first thing she ever made her husband after they were married 45 years ago! Another from my god mother was a recipe for a good marriage based on her own 35 year marriage. Stuff like that is so much better, why would you ask for things off a list? Oh yeah, people are greedy >.>
Ok nvm it's too late. I'm started. Lol
First off a wedding present should be a pleasant surprise- NOT expected. By signing up for a registry you are essentially saying "When you get us a present, and we expect it, buy it here for this price and mark it off our list." Second you are also saying hey I'm inviting you to this special day and the price of coming is to buy all my new stuff that I want. Decorate my house... but with only the stuff I pick out.
Oh two people got you the same thing? You POOR newly wed couple with all your other new stuff. I'm sure it is SO difficult to write a lovely thank you note to each person that gave it to you and pretend that it was the only one and the best gift ever. I'm sure it is so hard to donate one of the two things to someone else or to a thrift store. What but then you would be down the money they spent on it? IT WAS A FUCKING GIFT you didn't lose shit on it and you still have one in your house so that if either person comes over you can still show it off. If you are to be so cheap and return it neither person should ever get wind of it, because remember they should never know there were duplicate gifts, then hey you get free money out of it. The price of taking it all the way back to the store is worth free fucking money.
And this isn't a registry gripe but just greedy people in general irritating me. On the other hand of people who register are those that specifically ask for only cash. What is this a pay at the door event? You are making a cover charge for the wedding just like everyone else but congrats you are being more blunt about it.
I do know people EXPECT registries now a days so when I got married last September and just about everyone was harassing us on what we wanted gift wise we finally relented and said we would like a family recipe so we can create a personal cookbook. We provided the recipe cards there at the wedding and the guests felt like they were giving us something worth giving. The notes on the recipes was doubly special over the real gifts we got. There was one recipe from my boss that said it was the first thing she ever made her husband after they were married 45 years ago! Another from my god mother was a recipe for a good marriage based on her own 35 year marriage. Stuff like that is so much better, why would you ask for things off a list? Oh yeah, people are greedy >.>
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