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Anonymous wrote:I shall start. Saw one today where the people stated: brand name items have been picked for a reason. No substitutes, please.

LOL! I would never write that on a registry, but I UNDERSTAND!

Well, the point of a registry is that you buy what they have picked out. Who on earth would pick something different? It doesn't get noted on the registry as a substitute. You have to select the items there, from that store for the system to work...

My MIL! And of course we ended up with duplicate items because people actually bought the stuff from the registry!

+1 Yesss. And it's so embarrassing for the bride opening presents and for the person who actually checked it correctly off the registry. I first opened one blender that wasn't the one I wanted. I smiled, thanked them and went one. Then I got 2 more exactly like I wanted. I'm not sure who needs 3 blenders. And then I had to return 2 of them.

Lol. I'm the PP who wondered this. Wow. So now this has turned into things we judge about people buying off (or off off) the registry! So hilariously horrible!!

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Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing the big Kitchen Aid mixer. I know that it looks cool, but there are so many things you'll need more than a pretty, expensive, space sucker.

I've used my kitchenaid mixer far more than most other wedding gifts I received. It actually just broke -- ten years later. Need to see if I can repair it myself. I love that thing.

We use ours at least once a week. Going on ten years next month!

There were a few gifts that we got 3 or 4 times, because the givers could not be bothered to let the registry know they'd bought it and we got a few off-brand versions. We ended up taking back all the extra ones, and the off-brand items with receipts, but there were a few we didn't even know where it came from.

But the thing I really hated was the trashy "God Bless This House" bible verse from Walmart and the "Bless this Mess" plastic thing from likely the same place. Those went right in the trash. We didn't ask for these items and the people who gave them to us know we are not religious.

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Anonymous wrote:I shall start. Saw one today where the people stated: brand name items have been picked for a reason. No substitutes, please.

LOL! I would never write that on a registry, but I UNDERSTAND!

Well, the point of a registry is that you buy what they have picked out. Who on earth would pick something different? It doesn't get noted on the registry as a substitute. You have to select the items there, from that store for the system to work...

My MIL! And of course we ended up with duplicate items because people actually bought the stuff from the registry!

+1 Yesss. And it's so embarrassing for the bride opening presents and for the person who actually checked it correctly off the registry. I first opened one blender that wasn't the one I wanted. I smiled, thanked them and went one. Then I got 2 more exactly like I wanted. I'm not sure who needs 3 blenders. And then I had to return 2 of them.

A friend had a $956.00 Hermes butter dish on hers. It provided my spouse and I hours of entertainment.

I would buy them board games and hope I'd be invited for game night.

Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing the big Kitchen Aid mixer. I know that it looks cool, but there are so many things you'll need more than a pretty, expensive, space sucker.

I've used my kitchenaid mixer far more than most other wedding gifts I received. It actually just broke -- ten years later. Need to see if I can repair it myself. I love that thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing the big Kitchen Aid mixer. I know that it looks cool, but there are so many things you'll need more than a pretty, expensive, space sucker.

huh? that's my #1 most used kitchen tool. And my mom's is 40 years old and still going strong.

#1, huh. I can't see using it more than a good knife, or a set of pots and pans, but I guess it's nice that you do.

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Anonymous wrote:I shall start. Saw one today where the people stated: brand name items have been picked for a reason. No substitutes, please.

LOL! I would never write that on a registry, but I UNDERSTAND!

Well, the point of a registry is that you buy what they have picked out. Who on earth would pick something different? It doesn't get noted on the registry as a substitute. You have to select the items there, from that store for the system to work...

My MIL! And of course we ended up with duplicate items because people actually bought the stuff from the registry!

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Anonymous wrote:I shall start. Saw one today where the people stated: brand name items have been picked for a reason. No substitutes, please.

LOL! I would never write that on a registry, but I UNDERSTAND!

Well, the point of a registry is that you buy what they have picked out. Who on earth would pick something different? It doesn't get noted on the registry as a substitute. You have to select the items there, from that store for the system to work...

My cousin asked for the ever popular Kitchen Aid mixer. An aunt emailed everyone in the family to let us know she'd purchased this item from a different location on sale. Flash forward to after the wedding, my cousin and I were hanging out and she showed me her brand new Kitchen Aid mixer from Aunt P. Except it wasn't a Kitchen Aid mixer. It was Hamilton Beach stand mixer from Walmart or Target. She was counting on a family member to buy that for her because all of her friends were younger, new college grads who didn't have that kind of gift money.

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wonder if they are opening a hotel, given the number of place settings requested.

We entertain a LOT, with a LOT of people. At least twice a month we have 25-30 people over.

Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing the big Kitchen Aid mixer. I know that it looks cool, but there are so many things you'll need more than a pretty, expensive, space sucker.

huh? that's my #1 most used kitchen tool. And my mom's is 40 years old and still going strong.

I hate when people register for really expensive items but it is the same couple that only gives max $50 to other people. We had one couple like this in our group of friends. They were the last to get married and gave gifts between $25 and $50 to each other couple but registered for Herend china and Tiffany silver.

Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing the big Kitchen Aid mixer. I know that it looks cool, but there are so many things you'll need more than a pretty, expensive, space sucker.

Two relatives asked for gift ideas in the $300 range, so I added a Kitchen Aid mixer and a set of pots/pans. They bought them as soon as I put them on a registry. So there's that.

I used to judge a lot of things about registries, but now I focus my eye-rolling on the useless stuff on baby registries

I knew someone who put like 12 $500+ suitcases on there, several in the same size. She also at the time lived in a one bedroom apartment. Where was all that luggage supposed to go?!