I am dying of curiosity about what we all consider crazy expensive when it comes to registry items, given the range of responses to the post below.
I consider a Stokke stroller to be crazy expensive. There are other strollers like Uppa Baby that I consider expensive, but not crazy expensive. So just for perspective what do you consider crazy expensive?
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I think over $500 is crazy expensive for a single stroller....not sure what I would consider crazy for a double.
When I had DS, I got a Bumbleride Flyer...I think I paid 300 and I got quite a few you are paying how much for a stroller comments. But most people I know get either a Graco or Chicco travel system so they thought I was nuts for getting a stroller and plus an infant seat instead of just getting a travel system.
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It's interesting that people say registering for crazy expensive is o.k. because people may want to go in on a gift together.
My take on that, though, is that if a group of people want to go in at (lets say) $50 a piece, I'd rather 6 people go in on a $300 stroller instead of 20 going in on a $1000 stroller.
Budgets are still budgets and there was a lot of other stuff we needed that I would rather have had people help us get vs one insanely priced item. It being crazy expensive isn't going to make people spend more, it's just going to pull more people's $$ to that one item instead of spreading it out.
I realize that in some circles and some regions (NYC - EVERYWHERE you turn, everyone is using the super expensive strollers. Obviously it's more the norm there), so I really try not to judge it. But just in my world, I just could never justify spending that kind of money on one item or looking to my friends to buy it either.
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I don't know...I mean $1100 for a stroller is expensive, but I would have spent it if I really liked the stroller. DH liked the Orbit, which was $1200, but I just didn't care for it so we didn't get it.
I do know someone who bought a CRIB BUMPER that cost $900. That's definitely crazy to me. I also don't think I'll be spending on a Stokke Trip Trap high chair, NMS and just not worth it, but I'll probably go in with someone else to buy one for a girlfriend.
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I think the most expensive gift on my registry was my breast pump and that was over $250. That was pretty much the only expensive thing on my registry. We got a Graco double stroller and it only cost about $170, but my grandma insisted on buying it before the baby shower.
I made sure I had a wide variety (price wise) on my registry. Everything from $1 to the breast pump.
I consider our UBV crazy expensive, but I am very glad we own one! Our crib was almost $600 - something I also consider crazy expensive, since I can get one that is JPMA just as safe for $150. However, that $150 crib was made in China, and I am not comfortable with that. (yeah, I know, UBV is made in China too)
For a shower gift, anything over $100 is expensive to me. For something I'm buying myself, I'll weigh the options and figure out what I think is important. (See stroller and crib)
I haven't set up our baby registry yet so I don't have a solid idea of possible prices (those stroller brand names mean nothing to me) but I know I felt guilty putting a $250 item on our wedding registry. That was the most expensive thing by far. And then someone bought it.
Since assorted immediate family has already offered to buy the largest items, I can't imagine we'll go over $200 for anything this time either. But we also just don't buy expensive things in general, in part because we're not in a part of the country where you come across them, so it's just not on the radar.
We registered for 3 things I thought were "crazy expensive":
Breast Pump: $279
Convertible Car Seat: $250
Stroller (Phil& Ted): $429
I didn't really expect anyone to get any of those things, we added them more for the completion discount and so we remembered which ones we liked while scouring Craigslist.
Everything else was under $100, vast majority under $40, which I think is more reasonable most people for a baby shower.
I would register based on wedding gifts. We had multiple $500+ wedding gifts. We had nothing on our baby registry over $200... The same people who had given us very large wedding gifts ended up purchasing large baby gifts, even though we didn't register for any. A few different friends bought us multiple $100+ items, two different friends bought designer baby bags. In hindsight, I should've put a few higher priced items. $1,000+ is more than any one person spent on baby gifts for us. But it might not be for everyone. People will spend what they're going to spend, regardless of what you register for.
The jogger strollers, like the BOB ($300-$400 range), are too expensive for me to put on my registry. If we want it that badly, we'll buy it ourselves, but like a PP said, there are too many necessities for me to put pricey luxuries on there.
For the record the most expensive item on our registry is the $239 BJCM we want, because while we could spend more on a stroller I am just not interested in spending our money that way or asking anyone else to either. Anything over $300 would go on our registry after the shower just so we could get the completion discount on it.
That said the BJCM is not what I consider expensive or even crazy expensive by any means. What I really wanted to see was the difference between what we all consider crazy expensive because of the reactions to the term "crazy expensive" in the post below. I had a feeling what I imagine being crazy expensive someone else would consider doable and what someone else considered crazy expensive another person would consider inexpensive or very affordable.
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This. The most expensive items were a jogging stroller from Target - $165 - and our crib - $180. We are right down the middle of middle class and we registered as if we were going to buy everything ourselves. Mostly in my fam we don't go in on gifts together, and the two big ones were bought by my grandparents and parents. Then they got us other little gifts too.
It's pretty standard in our circles to give a gift of $50-$100 to family and $35-$50 to friends.
I don't have an answer for it...and I think it would depend on the item. $900 for a crib bumper is insane, but I don't think $900 for a stroller that you would use every day for the next 4 years is, you know?
Re: registries, we had quite a few $200+ items (stroller, car seat, pump, etc) and some $100+ items (monitor, p&p, etc) but there was nothing on there that we did not plan on purchasing ourselves.
Exactly! On both of your points...
We only registered for a couple of things over $200: breast pump, video monitor, carseat.
We bought other things ourselves Uppababy stroller, Stanley crib, Kate Spade diaper bag. None of these were offered at our registry places.
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