Registry

KayJ88

My SO gave me complete control of the registry (he doesn't want to see it since he doesn't know what we are having)...

I have about 80 items on my list so far and I keep finding things to add. Am I going gift crazy? How many items have you added to your registries so far?

eli_and_jeff

We registered for about 40 items, but we're breastfeeding and using a cloth diaper service so that knocked out a lot of stuff. We also are getting a lot of great hand me downs from my SIL. If you're bottle feeding and using disposables and starting from scratch, you're going to need a lot of stuff.

The last friend I went shopping for on a baby registry had 15 pages of small print. Literally hundreds of items. I thought that was overboard, especially since she and her husband are much more well to do than the rest of the friends in the group. But it was nice to have a wide selection to chose from.

FYI: I was also the only person at her shower that bought something from the registry. Just because you register for something, doesn't mean you'll get it.

KayJ88

That's good to know. I plan on breastfeeding, but might use bottles if my SO wants to help feed the baby as well.

This is our first so we are starting from scratch, and it's also the first grandbaby of the family and I don't have many friends with children so I haven't been able to get a lot of hand-me-downs which is unfortunate.

I feel a little better knowing that I won't have 100s of items at least. And I'm trying to keep everything relatively low cost. Basically my plan was if it's something I could afford to buy (most of my friends and family are in the same payscale as myself) I'll put it on my registry. If no one happens to buy it then I know I'll be able to go out and purchase it myself later.

The hardest thing is putting baby toys on the registry... I was never much of a kid person, so looking at baby toys just makes my eyes glaze over and I can't bring myself to scan anything that makes noise! Lol... Hopefully a few people out there remember/know what to buy!

MOONGIRL2467

We registered at Target and also have about 80 items. We didn't add any toys, and since this is the first grandbaby and our first...we are pretty much starting from scratch!! No hand-me-downs either..we decided we wanted all the essentials on the list vs items that were wants. GL!

love_melongtime

Wait- so you know what you're having and your hubby doesn't...??!??

eli_and_jeff

I wouldn't worry about registering for toys and clothes. If the baby showers I've been to are any indication, you're going to get lots of those (they're more fun to buy than a case of diapers)

I'd put a few bigger ticket items on the registry too. People like to go in on larger gifts together. For our wedding, several friends pooled what each of them was planning on spending to get us a bigger gift then they could have afforded on their own. I've done that in the past as well. 

KayJ88

love_melongtime:

Wait- so you know what you're having and your hubby doesn't...??!??

Yup... I couldn't NOT know, I would have lost my already crazy preggo mind! But it's worked out because I liked having neutral baby stuff for the major things and we aren't the type of people to do color specific rooms. We wanted to do a green baby room before I even found out. And all the girly stuff is hidden away at my parents for now.

laurasuzanne2006

eli_and_jeff:

I wouldn't worry about registering for toys and clothes. If the baby showers I've been to are any indication, you're going to get lots of those (they're more fun to buy than a case of diapers)

I'd put a few bigger ticket items on the registry too. People like to go in on larger gifts together. For our wedding, several friends pooled what each of them was planning on spending to get us a bigger gift then they could have afforded on their own. I've done that in the past as well. 

agree with this.  We have about 40 something items on our registry.  I registered at target and BRU.  I didn't put duplicate items on the registries.  If they had the item i wanted at target i put it on the target one as there are more targets than BRU and if it wasn't available i put it on our BRU registry.  I had a friend like one of the PPs that had a TON  of items on her registry.  Most notably probably at least 5-6 boppys and 5-6 boppy covers, as well as 4-5 playmats between her three registries.  She registered for the same stuff at multiple places and i was actually afriad to buy off her registry because i didn't want to get a bunch of duplicates.  I think i registered for one toy.  Books, toys, clothes, bibs I feel people will just buy and don't really need to be put on a registry.  I put the things on the registry I actually had a preference on:  bottles, bigger items.  The little stuff i couldn't care less about i left off. 

StrivingArtist

I'm registered for 86 line items right now. (my registry keeps count) I'm starting from absolutely nothing, and I plan on cloth diapering, which actually added things to my count. I am both breastfeeding and pumping so my DH can feed her as well.

Most of our friends are either recent college graduates or currently in grad school as we are, so probably 60 of those items are under 20$, and except for the crib, the electric double pump, and baby monitor, I don't think anything else is over 100$.

I'm trying to keep it that way so that they can send gifts without it being a financial issue, and, whatever doesn't get purchased we can buy ourselves.

Also, I have to mention that I love the Amazon registry.