Do they always wait?

Re: Do they always wait?

• emmyg65 member

  

  November 2013

  I don't know if they ALWAYS do, but it's pretty common. Up until two weeks before the wedding, I was convinced that our registry was a waste of time. And then, right before the wedding, most of it was bought out! So try to be patient. 

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• Liatris2010 mod

  

  November 2013

  My MOH freaked out the day before the shower because no one bought off the registry yet. We got a ton of gifts at the shower, mostly from the registry. Stop stalking your registry.
  

  

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• mysticl member

  

  November 2013

  It's possible that I've been known to shop on the way to the shower and wrap the gift in the car.  When I was working I either purchased the gift the weekend of the event or the weekend prior if I was feeling super efficient.  Now that I'm a SAHM I'll go shopping sometime during the week leading up to it. 

  

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• AprilH81 member

  

  November 2013

  My shower is on Saturday and two people have purchased from one of our registries.  People are last minute shoppers...  (At least I hope so.)

  

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• hoffse member

  

  November 2013

  Keep in mind a few things:

  
  

  1) Your shower is a week away.  I stalked my registry a ton and noticed a bunch of stuff get taken off like 8:30 pm the night before (Shower was in a small town, it's hard to shop "on the way" because stores are 20 or 30 minutes away).  People really do wait until the last possible minute.

  
  

  2) A lot of people buy things from other places.  Or don't have things marked off.  My MIL is bad about this - she never marks anything off a registry because it "ruins the surprise."  That's great, except for when you get duplicates, KWIM?

  
  

  3) A lot of people use the registry as a guide instead of an invoice.  We got an iron - not going to lie, it was probably the #1 thing I wanted because ours was from circa 1981.  I registered for as high-end as I could bring myself to register for, but I secretly lusted after an iron that was one model higher.  My parents' neighbors bought us that higher end model.  Same brand, same basic item, but better.  It was fabulous.  People typically don't do that with things like your dinnerware of course - but if you registered for a blender, and people know it's a crappy blender, they will buy you one that they know works.  This also happened with us regarding our waffle iron and our garment steamer.  People bought us higher end versions.  They all work like a dream, so we were very satisfied with that.

  
  

  4) Even if you don't get everything (or anything) from your registry, use your registry as a list of things you and your H need.  I spent a long time searching for stuff we wanted because we live in a relatively small apartment, and I didn't want to be buying stuff randomly.  We have limited space, and we took the time to make sure everything coordinated and wasn't particularly extraneous in our lives.  In other words, use your registry as your own shopping list.  Then, even if you and your H don't get everything you want, you didn't waste your time because you really thought through the things you need for your home. 

  

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• mysticl member

  

  November 2013

  hoffse said:

  Keep in mind a few things:

  
  

  1) Your shower is a week away.  I stalked my registry a ton and noticed a bunch of stuff get taken off like 8:30 pm the night before (Shower was in a small town, it's hard to shop "on the way" because stores are 20 or 30 minutes away).  People really do wait until the last possible minute.

  
  

  2) A lot of people buy things from other places.  Or don't have things marked off.  My MIL is bad about this - she never marks anything off a registry because it "ruins the surprise."  That's great, except for when you get duplicates, KWIM?

  
  

  3) A lot of people use the registry as a guide instead of an invoice.  We got an iron - not going to lie, it was probably the #1 thing I wanted because ours was from circa 1981.  I registered for as high-end as I could bring myself to register for, but I secretly lusted after an iron that was one model higher.  My parents' neighbors bought us that higher end model.  Same brand, same basic item, but better.  It was fabulous.  People typically don't do that with things like your dinnerware of course - but if you registered for a blender, and people know it's a crappy blender, they will buy you one that they know works.  This also happened with us regarding our waffle iron and our garment steamer.  People bought us higher end versions.  They all work like a dream, so we were very satisfied with that.

  
  

  4) Even if you don't get everything (or anything) from your registry, use your registry as a list of things you and your H need.  I spent a long time searching for stuff we wanted because we live in a relatively small apartment, and I didn't want to be buying stuff randomly.  We have limited space, and we took the time to make sure everything coordinated and wasn't particularly extraneous in our lives.  In other words, use your registry as your own shopping list.  Then, even if you and your H don't get everything you want, you didn't waste your time because you really thought through the things you need for your home. 

  This.  We registered for a George Forman Grill and an angel food cake pan.  MIL got us both.  From Kohl's. We weren't registered at Kohl's but she shops at Kohl's and apparently all gifts come from Kohl's.  My cousin also bought us the same George Forman Grill from somewhere.  One of DH's co-workers got us the angel food cake pan off of our registry (btw they are not all created equal).  Finally my brother and SIL bought us the Grill off of our registry.  We kept both cake pans and returned the 2 Grills the we knew where they were purchased.  

  

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