http://consumerist.com/2010/07/do-not-rely-on-target-to-keep-track-of-your-wedding-gift-thank-you-note-to-do-list.htmlCliff's Notes: A couple gets married in August 2009. This July - as in right now, 2010 - she decides to get around to writing thank you notes. Logs in to her Target registry and finds that it's gone, since it had been inactive since November. She is, of course, shocked. Calls Target - she says I don't want the registry back, just the names and addresses of the gift senders! They can't help. She's outraged, obviously!
My thoughts - okay, maybe Target should have a warning somewhere about registries being deleted after a certain amount of time. But come ON. What the eff happened to personal responsibility? She doesn't send thank you notes for nearly a YEAR and acts like it's no big deal, didn't keep any personal record of the gifts she received, and now wants to throw responsibility off on Target?
The article doesn't state her age but I would bet that she's of the heavy on entitlement/light on personal responsibility generation. Come on. Ridiculous.
And can we PLEASE disabuse brides of the "you have a year to send a thank you note" myth? You do not. Send notes for early gifts as soon as you get them, send notes for everything else as soon as you possibly can after the wedding/honeymoon.
Nearly a year! No excuse.