| obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #145819] |
Fri, 09 July 2004 10:12  |
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Regular posting with anon handle here.
I am embarrassed at my crass materialism but I am obsessed with looking at my registries online to see what people are buying.
Additionally, I am upset because people seem to be shopping only at one store and not buying things we really need (like pots and pans).
I think this is the true sign that I have totally lost what little is left of my mind to the WIC.
Please, even if anon, tell me that I am not the only one caught in the online siren songs of gift acquistition!
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #145823] |
Fri, 09 July 2004 10:20  |
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Wow, I never even thought to feel guilty about my obsessive online registry checking. Between the time we set the registries up and the wedding, I checked each registry daily, sometimes several times a day. (This was only for about 8 weeks, but still.) None of the early wedding presents were surprises to me, because I'd look at the name of the store that shipped the box, and figure out the most recent item to disappear from that registry. Six months after the wedding, I still occasionally check the registry, to see if anyone has bought us stuff late. As habits go, I don't think it's an especially dangerous one.
(We, too, were frustrated at the fact that folks bought only china from our registry--no everyday dishes, no glassware at all! We wound up buying our everyday dishes with cash gifts, and are saving up for glassware.)
It's one way, I think, that we avoid asking our partners to be God for us--if we invite God in to be God with us instead. Then our spouses are left with the more manageable job of just being Xena, Warrior Princess.
--Stephen Edmonson
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #145971] |
Fri, 09 July 2004 12:38 |
tree519
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I'll admit, I am a registry-checker. I didn't even want a registry, but then people started threatening buying me stuff I didn't need, and I figured I should do it. Not even one day after I set it up, a sheet set was purchased. I only saw that because I decided to add another thing, but now I check it everyday. I didn't feel too icky about it, until I found myself getting upset that still, after only a week, that sheet set is the only thing that's been purchased. If registry-checking is a sin, then I'm definitely going to hell. 
~Tree~
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." -- Charles M. Schulz
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #148993] |
Thu, 15 July 2004 01:24 |
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Speaking of obsessively checking the registry stats: should I be weirded out by the fact that, three weeks before the wedding....no one has bought a single registry gift?
my blog | my wedsite | my book, offbeat bride
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #149839] |
Fri, 16 July 2004 13:01 |
Tactful Cactus
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| Ariel wrote on Wed, 14 July 2004 23:24 |
Speaking of obsessively checking the registry stats: should I be weirded out by the fact that, three weeks before the wedding....no one has bought a single registry gift?
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Heh. Not if your guests are anything like me! You might want to check the registry the day before (or even the day of) and watch those gifts fly off the shelves!
It's L.D. under cover. The Lord loves a working man, don't trust whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it.
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #163234] |
Thu, 12 August 2004 20:40 |
emijane
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Grr...I have become an obsessive checker. Grrr.
I think I ruined my shower gift from my SIL, b/c it is the only thing that has been bought from Williams-Sonoma. I would not know what it was had I not been so effing obsessive about checking the registries.
Only good thing is that Lucky is just as bad--if not worse--than I. 
Bye. I'll miss you.
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #164007] |
Sat, 14 August 2004 11:26 |
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #164056] |
Sat, 14 August 2004 15:07 |
emijane
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Well, Linens-N-Things is having problems with its website--anyway, I can't get the damn thing to load properly. It's frustrating, but probably a good thing in the long run. Now I can't check it every five seconds. So I just check Target and W-S even more.  (SDER)
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Bye. I'll miss you.
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #165318] |
Tue, 17 August 2004 15:02 |
dogstar
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Just wanted to chime in and say that I, too, check my friends' and acquaintances' registry stats. It's just so damn interesting SDER.
We haven't gotten around to registering, but I know I'll be an obsessive checker. I don't think it's greed, it's just curiosity. Long ago and far away, I used to watch MetaSpy, which would flash in real time the searches people were running on MetaCrawler, one of the earlier spider search engines. Same sort of thing. Only with more personal investment.
Also, I've noticed that people are very interested in which things get bought, because it's interesting to see which gifts are considered good ones to give. I gave my college roommate something off her registry that I knew most people would skip over, but that she would love. Turns out, she was really excited about it, but knew that most people wouldn't think it was a "worthy" gift.
"When I read your magazine I don't see one wrinkled face or a single toothless grin. For shame! To the sickos at Modern Bride magazine."
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #167588] |
Fri, 20 August 2004 15:09 |
emijane
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Okay, I haven't checked ANY of our registries in a WEEK...I have been such a good girl! But now this thread has weakened me and I must go look. Damn you all!
Oh...and what a pretty gravy boat! 
Bye. I'll miss you.
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #182784] |
Mon, 20 September 2004 15:26 |
CrazyB
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| borisita wrote on Mon, 20 September 2004 16:05 |
LOL! MCF called me too. I didn't ask how they were planning to make sure the guests knew where we were registered. Skywriting, perhaps? Singing telegrams? Maybe just grave, urgent phone calls?
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Maybe surprise horse heads in the beds of all your guests? With a tasteful, engraved card from MCF around each dead horse's neck?
Hmm, time to lay off the free work cookies.
"Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" - Orgazmo
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #182895] |
Mon, 20 September 2004 18:05 |
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #183212] |
Tue, 21 September 2004 12:38 |
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sorry for the hijack, but ...
gretagretchen, i wanted that china! it's soooooo beautiful. i love it so much. sadly, mr. rebelchanteuse thought it was too busy (glad that he has better taste in women than he does in formal china!).
i'm so jealous!
I collect sexy young working class boys, and I recommend it to anyone -- Closer to Heaven
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #183381] |
Tue, 21 September 2004 16:38 |
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Rebelchanteuse---
To continue the hijack...King B didn't like it either. He wanted the plain white Bernadaud. He didn't believe me when I told him that no one was going to buy us $60 plain white dinner plates whether or not they came from France and are dishwasher / oven / microwave safe.
It was 3 trips to Bloomingdales and a very heated session with the pricing zapper before we made it to the pattern. I think King B considered giving in on the china pattern the utmost in marriage compromise.
And I'm still sort of shocked I fell for something with a gold rim.
edited for spelling
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #186098] |
Mon, 27 September 2004 14:42 |
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Mr. Mantis and I had the huge debate with the china pattern too. What is with that? Usually he doesn't care at all about any household item. If it does the job, he's happy.
Yet when it came time to pick a pattern, he suddenly became this opinionated bone china snob. Where has he been hiding that facet of his personality for these 7 years?
I so wanted to get some pretty flowery/decorative pattern, but we settled on a plain white plate with a silver and black edge design. I'm hoping that since our china and silverware settings are between $30-$40 people will actually buy them for us.
Subvert the dominant paradigm. Play accordion.
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #233996] |
Tue, 14 December 2004 20:25 |
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #234695] |
Wed, 15 December 2004 15:26 |
Julia
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Gretagrechen - I'm not sure if you're still checking this thread, but did you register at that place above? They have my china, also from Bernardaud, but at much cheaper prices than Bloomingdales, where I originally registered. They also have my crystal for $40 less per stem than Bloomies. I was wondering what you thought of their service, if it was worth it to switch.
Here's a link to my plates - I love them and the green colors!
http://www.upscalegallery.com/china-silverware-flatware/crys tal/China/BERDWCONST5PC/Bernardaud-Constance.html
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| Re: obsessed at looking at registry stats [message #282137] |
Mon, 14 February 2005 09:27 |
gretagretchen
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I just looked at this after many days ----
We still registered at Bloomingdales. We didn't think many people would buy gifts for us via an internet only site.
I bought a platter that Bloomingdales didn't have and it took a really long time. But I figured it was par for the course on that sort of item. I may be buying some other pieces to complete a few place settings but otherwise not a lot of info.
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