I'll admit it, I'm guilty of registry-stalking. My shower is April 20th and I can't help myself from looking at our BB&B registry from time to time because it's so fun to see what we're getting!
While doing this, I happened to notice items on our registry that I didn't remember registering for (and FI said he hadn't touched the registry) and that I really don't even like (specifically kitchen towels in a pattern I don't care for), but it said people had purchased them for us.
Thinking it was a computer glitch, I talked to someone from customer service and they said guests can purchase something off-registry and basically have it added to your registry. That explains the kitchen towels and just today, I noticed the same thing happened with a picture frame we never registered for.
So apparently, people are going to BB&B, buying things not on the registry and adding them to the registry. Is this a common thing?
Now, I know that on the day of the shower, I will graciously accept any gift I'm given and I will express nothing but gratitude to the giver, but to be honest, I'm finding myself baffled and a little annoyed. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but we have a whole registry full of stuff (over 100 items) in every price point ranging from $4 to $100 and every price point in between of stuff we actually want and need that we picked out. I just can't understand why people would go to the store we're registered at and then pick something not on the registry.
For example, there are at least 4 different picture frames on the registry that we actually liked and took the time to pick out. But someone picked one not on the registry and then had it added onto the registry. I really don't want to seem ungrateful, and I promise I will be gracious and not show any dissatisfaction to any of the givers of these gifts. I'm just trying to understand the logic behind it, because if someone had a registry, I couldn't see myself buying them something that was not on it.
