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Registering Experience - Macy's Advice: Organize your list

ElisabethJoanneElisabethJoanne member
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We registered at Macy's and Sur la Table, in store, over the weekend. Before we went in, we had a theoretically short list of things we needed. I say theoretically short because it included "everyday plates, etc." Just service for 8 worked out to 32 open-stock gifts (dinner plate, luncheon plate, salad plate, bowl for each place setting). And likewise for "towels" and "bed linens."

I wish I had organized our list, or marked it, by department before we went in. Macy's is 6 storeys at this flag-ship store, and we both got physically tired walking back and forth and up and down doing pillows, then luggage, then cookware, then other bedding. Though I do NOT appreciate how department stores organize so much by brand instead of item. I should not have to walk across an entire floor to compare a KitchenAid blender to a Cuisinart.

We had the same problem at Sur la Table, but it was so much smaller, and is to us a more fun place, it wasn't as big of a deal. Besides, while of course pillows are next to blankets, why should cherry pitters be on the other side of the store from garlic peelers?

[I double-checked both registries online Sunday evening. Added a few things, removed a few things, so guests using that option will be just fine, too.]

The other random thing: Both our "registry consultants" said our wedding date was near their birthday. Do they ALL say that?
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  • rlavachrlavach member
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    I see where you're coming from. Not all stores are laid out well & even if they're small, they may be overcrowded with items. I made a small list also, but I just checked them off as I passed them. I didn't try to go down my whole list in the order I wrote it because I, like you, didn't know where those items would be in the store. 

    My consultant did NOT say her birthday was near my wedding date. What an interesting coincidence. 

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  • ElisabethJoanneElisabethJoanne member
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    Another bit of advice: We let the sales people know we had a short list we were working off of. If they glanced at it, they'd see it was written with 4 different pens - obviously built up over time. I think this kept them from too much "did you think of...?" "It's not just for your lives now, it's for your future..."

    One sales lady did get pushy about our declining the $30 garlic press. She said "it makes the perfect shower gift." I said, "No. I already own 2 garlic presses, and everything we receive will have to be immediately moved from California to Boston. I do not want a third garlic press. For us, it is not the perfect gift." Sometimes I wish I weren't so honest. "We're both allergic to garlic" would have been so much easier.
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