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Ms.Jade
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Small Registry WWYD?
Ms.Jade
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Hey Ladies,
DH and I are buying/have bought most of what we need so my registry is looking a bit on the small side - about 20 items. My shower guest list isn't long, but there are about 30 people on it. Usually I wouldn't worry since people will just buy clothes, but we're team green and I've seen in the past that there are fewer clothes given at showers where the sex is unknown. My mom thinks I should add items. What do you think?
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Re: Small Registry WWYD?
I would add a few small toys.
Do you have diapers on your registry? Also, make sure you have several of the necessities such as crib sheets, mattress pads, etc. You will want at least 2-3 changes of crib bedding.
We are team green and we bought all of our bigger items. There were still 70 items on our registry.
I would add a few more things just to be on the safe side. There may be some people that buy multiple things off of the registry and there may be some people that pool their money together to buy one of the bigger items. You never really know....so it is a little hard to plan for.
We are team green and have bought most of our big items ourselves. Other things like bedding items and such I bought after searching for (I didn't get a bedding set, I got individual pieces from all over the internet so I couldn't really register for them). So most of the items on our list (besides the Ergo and the swing) are under $50 (most of them being $20 or less). When it comes to the baby shower, I am not really worried about the registries because I figure if they don't see anything on there that they like, there is always gift cards (which SO's family did when his cousin was Team Green....she got a TON of gift cards), and they also don't like to shop off of a registry. So most of them will make a gift and include a gift card, or just make a quilt or something. Some will just wait until after the baby is born and then get a gift (his family will be the majority of people at the shower).
We chose to buy most items because I didn't want to wait until two months before the baby was due and after the shower, and then have a ton of items to buy all at once. So I since I got pregnant, I have been watching sales, promotions, coupon codes, etc...and have been making purchases here and there. I have several friends that have had showers in the past few months and got hardly anything on their registries, so now they are all scrambling to get items and paying full price for them.
So I would rather have the items that I know I need, and then at the shower people can get the smaller items, buy something that they like for the baby, get gift cards, or they can just show up and not give a gift. No biggie!
My little man at 0-1-2
I agree with this, and if you end up getting things you think you wont need, return them for diapers and wipes, or other essentials.