What total $$ does your registry amount to?

wilburbud · January 2012

DH and I were doing some budgeting last night, and while we now know we are having a shower, we aren't depending on it. So we added up the total cost of everything on our registry (we added everything we will need, as it's also serving as a check list for us). I was a bit surprised at the total!

Our registry (which you can look at, its linked in my siggy) came to $2500.00. Part of me expected that to be a lot higher, but at the same time, thats a LOT of up front cost!

so, whats your up front cost?

stephlas8 · January 2012

Oh man I haven't even thought about that... I'm having 2 showers so I figured I'd wait to calculate afterwards but maybe we should go ahead and do it! eek!

mrslisawright · January 2012

HA! I'm afraid to look!

Lina1030 · January 2012

HA HA HA I did this w/DS's registry....but only calculated what was purchased, money and gift cards....I think we were at $3500ish (total not sure about but we got all the big items and mostly everything...just little things weren't purchased)...not including the nursery furniture that we bought which was about $1300-1400 w/mattress, crib, dresser, changer/dresser combo.

orriskitten · January 2012

I haven't been using mine as a shopping list for myself and find that most of the things on it are nice-to-have's as opposed to must have's. The must-have's come out to around $1,150 for us, but we're also being given a few big ticket items as gifts from immediate family (crib, travel system, pack and play, swing). We also have older dressers that we're re-finishing to help save costs. And I'm pretty sure most of the things on my must-have list can be caught on sale or cheaper with more extensive searching.

Honestly its not as bad as I thought it'd be! I don't know if I have a concept of how much baby stuff costs yet since we've been holding off on buying almost anything.

AshleyC0117 · January 2012

Ahhh I don't want to know!

TrendyTina · January 2012

Ours is about $1700, but there are very few large items on it. The biggest items are the car seat ($250) and the breast pump ($300).

We bought the other large items (furniture, glider, stroller, high chair) ourselves already.

funkymonkeyohyeahhh · January 2012

Over half of our registry is just "nice to have" stuff that we added to give gift givers choices. "Must haves" left on our registry amount to less than $300 for us at this point- breastfeeding supplies and a few toiletry/medical type items mostly. We already have a crib, a cloth diaper stash, car seat (hand me down from SIL) and stroller (gift from a few of DH's aunts). There isn't much else a baby truly needs in our minds (and even the stroller is just a big bonus).

TotallyLoCo · January 2012

When I added mine up a little while ago it came to about $2000. That doesn't include the stroller, nursery furniture or any clothing.

Since my shower will be pretty small, I kind of wish I only put the things we need right away on the registry. I was kind of annoyed when the first things to be bought were the mobile and high chair, neither of which will be needed until he's several months old (we're not setting up the nursery until after we move this summer). Oh well, I guess we would have needed to get that stuff eventually, and it does give people more variety to choose from.

Fortunately we have a ton of credit card points that we will cash out for amazon gift cards to get most of the must-haves that we're not gifted.

Sclines2595 · January 2012

Ours at BuyBuyBaby adds up to $2100. That does not include any furniture or bedding though. The furniture was all purchased by my parents (totaling $1200) and we havn't chosen any bedding yet.

countdowntolockdown · January 2012

I have no idea. That's a good idea though, adding it up. If I had to guess maybe $1500-$2000?? It's probably more. I'm bad with money. Good thing I married a man who isn't.

Ours is on the cheaper side because we don't have a separate room for a nursery, just a little nook under the stairs. It works and is very tastefully done to match our living room in our 1BR lofted apartment. That means only a crib and a dresser we bought at Ikea for furniture.

Tiffy75 · January 2012

Not quite what you wanted to know but...

The grass drying tray (according to my cousin) doesn't have drain holes meaning it grows mold down in the grass.... I was really bummed because I really liked it but I took it off mine

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