Best Buy wedding registry?

dolewhipper · February 2015

I don't know how I feel about THIS.

Edited to fix hyperlink.

Liatris2010 · February 2015

I know exactly how I feel about it.

KatieinBkln · February 2015

I know how I feel about it.

(SPOILER: Not good! Buy your own fucking iPad. I'll buy you towels.)

NowIAmSyp · February 2015

[Deleted User] · February 2015

The ONLY reason I could see this as being acceptable is because Best Buy does have small kitchen appliances (fancy blenders and such). But so does Bed Bath and Beyond....

If someone is registering for anything other than said small kitchen appliances....

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

dolewhipper · February 2015

jenandtonic81515 said:

The ONLY reason I could see this as being acceptable is because Best Buy does have small kitchen appliances (fancy blenders and such). But so does Bed Bath and Beyond....

If someone is registering for anything other than said small kitchen appliances....

That's pretty much why I said I'm not sure how I feel about it. Fi would love it, that's for sure, but I would nip that idea in the bud so quick.

cupcait927 · February 2015

jenandtonic81515 said:

The ONLY reason I could see this as being acceptable is because Best Buy does have small kitchen appliances (fancy blenders and such). But so does Bed Bath and Beyond....

If someone is registering for anything other than said small kitchen appliances....

Yeah my first thought went to the kitchen appliances they have. But BB&B has 20% off coupons all the time so I'll just buy whatever's on your Best Buy registry from BB&B and save myself some money.

KatieinBkln · February 2015

cupcait927 said:

jenandtonic81515 said:

The ONLY reason I could see this as being acceptable is because Best Buy does have small kitchen appliances (fancy blenders and such). But so does Bed Bath and Beyond....

If someone is registering for anything other than said small kitchen appliances....

Yeah my first thought went to the kitchen appliances they have. But BB&B has 20% off coupons all the time so I'll just buy whatever's on your Best Buy registry from BB&B and save myself some money.

chibiyui · February 2015

Cookie Pusher · February 2015

The $5 BB&B coupons can be stacked, too.

VulgarGirl · February 2015

UO: Doesn't bug me at all.

Some couples cook together. Some couples camp together. Some couples watch DVDs together. Whatever.

Registering for cash is shitty. But for something just not typical, I'm cool with that.

levioosa · February 2015

Yeah....pretty much nothing at Best Buy is necessary to start a house hold. Buy your own freaking iPad.

jenna8984 · February 2015

People are soooooooo entitled though. I've literally argued with 2 friends about their Jack & Jill parties and they continue to justify it by saying "You'd spend the money on a shower gift, so what's the difference between just buying a ticket and giving it to me". So I can guarantee the same people would say "You were going to spend the money on towels, what's the difference if you just get me an ipod dock?"

KatieinBkln · February 2015

jenna8984 said:

People are soooooooo entitled though. I've literally argued with 2 friends about their Jack & Jill parties and they continue to justify it by saying "You'd spend the money on a shower gift, so what's the difference between just buying a ticket and giving it to me". So I can guarantee the same people would say "You were going to spend the money on towels, what's the difference if you just get me an ipod dock?"

I know. I just feel like that's a case where, if you really want electronics, just don't register and then go spend the cash at the electronics purveyor of your choice.

flutteringinfl · February 2015

Please don't tell my FI. He still doesn't understand why we can't put video games on our registry.

bethsmiles · February 2015

I'm with @MagicInk on this. It doesn't bother me. These days, hardly anyone is really starting a household when they get married. Nobody really needs any of the stuff they register for. So I'd rather get them something they want than something traditional just for the sake of being traditional.

flutteringinfl · February 2015

MagicInk said:

UO: Doesn't bug me at all.

Some couples cook together. Some couples camp together. Some couples watch DVDs together. Whatever.

Registering for cash is shitty. But for something just not typical, I'm cool with that.

VulgarGirl · February 2015

flutteringinfl said:

MagicInk said:

UO: Doesn't bug me at all.

Some couples cook together. Some couples camp together. Some couples watch DVDs together. Whatever.

Registering for cash is shitty. But for something just not typical, I'm cool with that.

I loved this because BLACK WIDOW.

Ok, continue on.

pinkcow13 · February 2015

Yea, unpopular opinion here too, but it also doesn't bother me. Best Buy has tons of stuff like games (lots of couples play games together), small electronics, chargers (FI and I go through Apple chargers like pizza pies thanks to the kitties), IDK, foot massagers. Personally, I think unique registries are pretty awesome. Except for any sort of Honey Fund crap. With that being said, we have a regular Bed Bath and Beyond one, but still lol.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

I guess I'd just rather see a few fun items stuck onto a Target registry than a whole Best Buy one. But I realize that's kind of hypocritical.

Couggal12 · February 2015

This doesn't bother me either. If someone registered for an iPad I wouldn't buy them that but, other electronics I'd probably consider it. Or I'd just give them cash.

KatieinBkln · February 2015

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.

mrsk616 · February 2015

i told my FI thinking he'd be like we can do that? welll i need a tv..... instead i got i dont need anything from that overpriced store. lmao guess i taught him right. lol

MadHops21 · February 2015

I go to BestBuy to play with electronics and test them out.

Then I go online and buy them so much cheaper.

arrippa · February 2015

I wonder if there is a completion discount.

Inkdancer · February 2015

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.

MadHops21 · February 2015

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.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

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.

Ditto this. BIL and SIL bought us a really nice patio set as a wedding gift, but we didn't register for it. I never would have registered for something that expensive.

bethsmiles · February 2015

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.

mrsk616 · February 2015

MadHops21 said:

I go to BestBuy to play with electronics and test them out.

Then I go online and buy them so much cheaper.

we do the same thing only we go to HH Greg because we have a card with them and they price match

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