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Do people really buy off registrys?
There have only been 4 items bought off my registry. My showers are in a week! I'm seriously hoping this is not an indication of how many people show up for my showers.
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Re: Do people really buy off registrys?
I feel ya, we invited close to 100 people to my shower and like 10 people have RSVP and mine is Saturday. I am trying not to use the registery as a guide because people don't always use it and will buy what they want. Plus they may print up the registry and but the items somewhere else.
I've been told a lot dont buy off registries.. They might use em as a guide and if they find stuff cheaper somewhere else they get it there..Or buy it without it getting marked off a registry..
I only have 23 items on mine (we have everything else) and put Def no clothes on the invites..I'm afraid to look at my registry and see nothing picked up but I'm sure they got something..
#1 some poeple use it and forget to tell their cashier
#2 some people never RSVP
#3 a lot of people don't buy their shower gift until the day before
#4 some people hate buying off of registries(like my mother)
YES!
Alot of people buy at the last second. For this last shower, more than half of our guests bought the day of the shower (it was a 4 pm shower, on the weekend). Remember that if you are registered at a place like BRU, it is probably inconvenient for your guests to go there, so they're not just going to pick something up randomly, but will instead have to make a separate, special trip--and usually you don't even think of doing that until the shower is close.
We did get alot off our registry from the first shower-the next is in a week and a half. However, we started buying the things we would need for the baby really early, so that we could financially spread it all out, and we don't *need* anything off our registries because of that (we have an "essentials" list still, but its well within our abilities to take care of within a couple of weeks). Also, because I started shopping early, people also realize that they can't just go buy me whatever they want and expect me to still need it. The family all knows I've been taking care of things myself for the last few months.
I keep hearing that nobody ever uses them, but my shower is in 3 weeks and I've already received some things off my registry (didn't open them yet though).
We are getting so many hand-me-downs from my aunt and SIL that we don't need any clothing. I already have 2 large rubbermaid bins full of clothes from 0-6 months and that isn't even all of it yet! My mother mentioned this on the invite, saying we were all set on clothing. If people buy us clothes, we'll just exchange them or donate them.
I'm a strict registry buyer- I know how much research I did on all the baby stuff I selected, and I just assume other people put the same amount of effort into theirs.
This! We got a lot of clothes, blankets, and then a few gift cards that we used to buy items that we needed.
My shower was last weekend & I got almost every single thing off my registry. My guests were very generous, I was really lucky.
Edit: I think the fact that we are team green had something to do w/ how many registry items we received. People like to buy gender specific clothing so if the gender is known you have to expect that will happen. We were prepared to buy every single thing for our LO, so anything I got that we needed was just a bonus to us.
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