Adventures in Registration
So, Gretch and I have started our gift registries. We decided to start at Wal-Mart, for no other reason than we happened to be nearby Wal-Mart one day and we decided to head over and start the registry fun.
We spent about an hour or so in the housewares department, and registered for 153 items. Then I had to go to work, so we had to call it quits for the day. Later, Gretch suggested we finish registering on Monday before FHE. So we went, and we registered for the rest of the housewares we wanted, and then we went into home furnishings and a few other random departments, such as hardware (for a plunger), and household cleaners (for a broom and a mop). We are now registered for a total of 350 items. Of course, a lot of these things are duplicates, just because we haven't actually decided on colour schemes and designs. Nor do we know which vacuum we'd actually like, so of course we've registered for six or seven.
Next week we are going to start registering at Target, I think. And it is quite likely that nearly everything we register for there will be duplicates of what we've registered for at Wal-Mart. So then we'll have even more duplication. Then it is off to Bed, Bath & Beyond for the final adventure in registration. I just hope that everyone who sees our massive catalogue of registered items realises that a) we have a lot of duplicates on purpose, b) we don't expect to get everything, and c) some of the things we've registered for were for our own checklist of things we'll need to get, such as the dining room table set, or the fireproof/waterproof document safe.
On the other hand, if you see a machete on the list, that really is a wedding gift I'd be thrilled to get.
We spent about an hour or so in the housewares department, and registered for 153 items. Then I had to go to work, so we had to call it quits for the day. Later, Gretch suggested we finish registering on Monday before FHE. So we went, and we registered for the rest of the housewares we wanted, and then we went into home furnishings and a few other random departments, such as hardware (for a plunger), and household cleaners (for a broom and a mop). We are now registered for a total of 350 items. Of course, a lot of these things are duplicates, just because we haven't actually decided on colour schemes and designs. Nor do we know which vacuum we'd actually like, so of course we've registered for six or seven.
Next week we are going to start registering at Target, I think. And it is quite likely that nearly everything we register for there will be duplicates of what we've registered for at Wal-Mart. So then we'll have even more duplication. Then it is off to Bed, Bath & Beyond for the final adventure in registration. I just hope that everyone who sees our massive catalogue of registered items realises that a) we have a lot of duplicates on purpose, b) we don't expect to get everything, and c) some of the things we've registered for were for our own checklist of things we'll need to get, such as the dining room table set, or the fireproof/waterproof document safe.
On the other hand, if you see a machete on the list, that really is a wedding gift I'd be thrilled to get.
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Now, to my original point-you totally should have let me know that you wanted a machete, like, a year ago. There was this kind of rusted, burned out machete in the last apartment I lived in while I was on my mission. Of course, our zone leader saw it and took it to the garbage, much to our dismay, but we still had some fun with it. And I know you would have, too. Alas, I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Anyway, good luck on your machete search, or any other search that has to do with hostile and dangerous weapons. :-)