Well we aren’t done setting up registries yet, but Heather and I did get started on that project last night.
Our plan was to start at Bed Bath and Beyond, register there, and then head to Target and be done registering in one night.
The lady who set us up at Bed Bath and Beyond had other ideas. I will admit some of the things she told us were really quite helpful, such as the list of things you might want, or her advice about how many things to have on our list vs. number of invited guests. I am pretty sure we did not need 10 minutes of explanation of how awesome the china was. After we finally got the scanner and got turned loose it quickly became clear that even without the fine-china pitch, we were never going to make it to Target. The sheer number of choices we had to make was painful. Even if it was only a few seconds for each item we walked past, it still required thinking “do we have one already, if so is the one we have a candidate for replacing” or “would we conceivably use that if somebody gave it to us” It just got harder if there were options within a class of item (how do you pick between 3 kinds of muffin tins?).
Two hours later, I think we have Bed Bath and Beyond completely covered.
Its kind of hard to know what to put on the list, Heather and I aren’t moving into a house, and storage is somewhat limited in the apartment we will be staying in. Cooking is at least something we have enjoyed doing together, and will definitely work well in an apartment. In the end I think we have a pretty good list of things that would be useful to have, and if I can stop feeling bad asking for half of it everything will be grand 🙂
-Jordan
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