Best Buy wedding registry?

Inkdancer

bethsmiles said:

MadHops21 said:

Inkdancer said:

For me, it really depends on price point. 

I have an extremely large television. It was purchased on Black Friday for about 10% of its usual cost. I love it. I would never in a million years register for one, because nobody should be expected to buy something that expensive for me. 

Heck, I agonized over registering for a KitchenAid mixer, and I'm a huge baker! It felt too expensive for me to feel totally comfortable asking my family to buy it. (Fortunately they went in as a group on it so I didn't feel so bad to actually get it.)

So, while I understand that things like fridges and computers are really important to have, I would definitely side-eye someone who registered for a new $900 dishwasher. 

See, this is why I wouldn't like a BB registry. My mom and dad tell me and my brothers what they want and knows that if it's a big purchase, multiple of us will chip in. If I'm looking at a registry for someone I barely talk to or know but somehow get invited anyway, and I see  a $900 dishwasher, I'm going to laugh. 

Yeah, except not everything at BB cost $900. A couple could have a registry with items at a completely reasonable price point at BB. So I just don't see how the one example of a $900 dishwasher is an argument against non-traditional registries as a whole.

ETA: A couple could also have a traditional registry full of insanely priced items that would make me laugh and say no. That doesn't mean I see all registries or traditional registries as a bad idea.

I'm not arguing against non-traditional registries. I'm arguing against registering for exceptionally expensive things. If you go to BB and register for a mid-range digital camera, a mid-range toaster, and a mid-range blender, I won't say a word. If you go to BB and register for all top-of-the-line stuff that costs a ton, I will judge the hell out of you. 

bethsmiles

Inkdancer said:

bethsmiles said:

MadHops21 said:

Inkdancer said:

For me, it really depends on price point. 

I have an extremely large television. It was purchased on Black Friday for about 10% of its usual cost. I love it. I would never in a million years register for one, because nobody should be expected to buy something that expensive for me. 

Heck, I agonized over registering for a KitchenAid mixer, and I'm a huge baker! It felt too expensive for me to feel totally comfortable asking my family to buy it. (Fortunately they went in as a group on it so I didn't feel so bad to actually get it.)

So, while I understand that things like fridges and computers are really important to have, I would definitely side-eye someone who registered for a new $900 dishwasher. 

See, this is why I wouldn't like a BB registry. My mom and dad tell me and my brothers what they want and knows that if it's a big purchase, multiple of us will chip in. If I'm looking at a registry for someone I barely talk to or know but somehow get invited anyway, and I see  a $900 dishwasher, I'm going to laugh. 

Yeah, except not everything at BB cost $900. A couple could have a registry with items at a completely reasonable price point at BB. So I just don't see how the one example of a $900 dishwasher is an argument against non-traditional registries as a whole.

ETA: A couple could also have a traditional registry full of insanely priced items that would make me laugh and say no. That doesn't mean I see all registries or traditional registries as a bad idea.

I'm not arguing against non-traditional registries. I'm arguing against registering for exceptionally expensive things. If you go to BB and register for a mid-range digital camera, a mid-range toaster, and a mid-range blender, I won't say a word. If you go to BB and register for all top-of-the-line stuff that costs a ton, I will judge the hell out of you. 

I was responding to Madhops response where she said that was why should wouldn't like a BB registry.

VulgarGirl

I have seen bedding sets for $900+ on wedding registries from BB&B.

Plus I know I've seen on here lots of suggestions for REI registries. No one needs camping gear. I mean you don't even need to go camp. I live a super productive life where I don't camp. At all. 

flutteringinfl

MagicInk said:

I have seen bedding sets for $900+ on wedding registries from BB&B.

Plus I know I've seen on here lots of suggestions for REI registries. No one needs camping gear. I mean you don't even need to go camp. I live a super productive life where I don't camp. At all. 

So the only reason you don't camp is because you're productive? I don't camp because it sounds horrible.

VulgarGirl

flutteringinfl said:

MagicInk said:

I have seen bedding sets for $900+ on wedding registries from BB&B.

Plus I know I've seen on here lots of suggestions for REI registries. No one needs camping gear. I mean you don't even need to go camp. I live a super productive life where I don't camp. At all. 

So the only reason you don't camp is because you're productive? I don't camp because it sounds horrible.

This is why I don't camp:

beachyone15

Inkdancer said:

So, while I understand that things like fridges and computers are really important to have, I would definitely side-eye someone who registered for a new $900 dishwasher. 

Did I mention I was in the market for a new dishwasher?!

bethsmiles

MagicInk said:

I have seen bedding sets for $900+ on wedding registries from BB&B.

Plus I know I've seen on here lots of suggestions for REI registries. No one needs camping gear. I mean you don't even need to go camp. I live a super productive life where I don't camp. At all. 

What? It's possible to be productive without camping in your life?

An REI registry is super tempting to me. SO and I go camping all the time and LOVE it. We'd probably have a lot more appreciation for and get a lot more use out of camping gear over a lot of the stuff people put on traditional registries. Still not sure I'd do it though given a lot of the reactions here, I would want anyone to be put-off by it.

[Deleted User]

This makes me laugh so hard. The last wedding I went to had a totally insane registry. It was one of those compilations where the site listed things from multiple places (not complaining about that part), and they registered for things they wanted. Sure, sure, that isn't bad either.

Except here are some of the things from their registry:

Eyeglasses (no, not sunglasses, a gift card to a place that sells prescription eyeglasses)

Watercolor set (neither of them are artists, so this was just something for funsies?)

Cat tree (they have two cats...this seemed kinda okay, but still odd to me)

A gift card to a clothing store (like is it also your birthday? what???)

The list goes on. There were 2-3 things that one sees on traditional registries...towels, sheets, and wine glasses. I bought the wine glasses because I was like "OH HELL NO!" to everything else. 

photokitty

If you only register at Best Buy, I'll be slighted annoyed, bc I like to buy things like china or crystal - things that I think will last, assuming you don't drop them. 

I prefer not to buy electronics - kitchen or otherwise - but I'm not going to side eye it.

I hate going in on group gifts, so while I don't care if you register for a big screen TV - i'm not buying it for you.

KatieinBkln

abcdevonn said:

This makes me laugh so hard. The last wedding I went to had a totally insane registry. It was one of those compilations where the site listed things from multiple places (not complaining about that part), and they registered for things they wanted. Sure, sure, that isn't bad either.

Except here are some of the things from their registry:

Eyeglasses (no, not sunglasses, a gift card to a place that sells prescription eyeglasses)

Watercolor set (neither of them are artists, so this was just something for funsies?)

Cat tree (they have two cats...this seemed kinda okay, but still odd to me)

A gift card to a clothing store (like is it also your birthday? what???)

The list goes on. There were 2-3 things that one sees on traditional registries...towels, sheets, and wine glasses. I bought the wine glasses because I was like "OH HELL NO!" to everything else. 

The bolded is basically how I feel about non-household registries. I will not side-eye board games as part of a larger household registry, but that is as frivolous as I can stomach, and even then I probably won't buy them.

fwtx5815

Conversations like these ALWAYS make me wonder (yet again) whether the concept of the registry has run its course. If the original point was to help a couple set up their home (and not buy them clashing towels or china), then it does seem kind of moot for the couple who already has a life together. 

On the other hand, I am deeply uncomfortable with the idea of registering for things that aren't strictly necessary (or at least in the realm of "necessary") for the couple's life together--like, some people will never afford an iPad or cooking lessons or Google Glass (or whatever nontraditional stuff is available to register for nowadays), so isn't it a little icky to register for those things? No one should begrudge a person for wanting towels or even a nice bar set, since those fall more or less on the side of "necessary." But truly frivolous (and I don't mean that as an insult; I am very frivolous, myself) things seem like they should not be on a registry, to me. 

I guess I figure a person buying a wedding gift probably already has certain Bed Bath & Beyond-ish things in mind, so registering for the exact version/color of what they already had a mind to give? Cool. But registering for something totally nontraditional doesn't function the same way--instead of guiding a potential gift-giver to a specific version of something they already had in mind, it's actually putting that idea to them, which feels awfully close to "asking for gifts" to me. 

I am probably splitting hairs, and no doubt not very articulately. But that's my thought process.

#PREACH Yes all of this. This pretty much sums up what I haven't been able to articulate re: non-traditional registry items.

Except I'm a grouchy bitch and I don't even like the idea of registering for games, camping gear, DVDs, etc. as part of a traditional registry.

IMO, if it's not on the "starting a home" side of the spectrum, I'm not only going to not buy it for the couple, I'll side eye them for registering for it. Because it does, to me at least, come off as actually asking for stuff.

firebabe6519

I don't really side eye a Best Buy registry. To each their own. Although I would hope they also had a registry elsewhere for more traditional gifts as well.