Interesting Wedding Registry Items

[AChiOhSnap]

A mf-ing TOILET.

[VandalSquirrel]

Fat Percentage Scale. I would have bought it but it was an in store only purchase and shipping it to where they were moving to would have been a pain.

[LeslieAGD]

A nose hair trimmer is probably the weirdest thing I have seen on a wedding registry.

[KSUViolet06]

*6 foot inflatable palm tree.

[GeekyPenguin]

Stainless steel toothpick holder and paper towel holder. I totally bought them too.

[KSUViolet06]

This isn't so much weird as outrageous. I was just checking out a friend's registry (at Nordstrom) and saw:

*a $250 gravy boat
*$200 salt and pepper shakers
*a $100 wooden mixing bowl

Seriously? I've heard of having nice things on your registry, but I think that's a bit much.

[OleMissGlitter]

A friend is getting married in the spring and she's registered for TWO ice cream maker machines at two different place....just seems a bit much to ask for two.

I am going home in November to register for my wedding. I'm actually excited about it. Most New Orleans girls register at Adler's, so I'll do my formal china, crystal, and silver there. Then some place fun like Williams Sonoma for everything else.

[Infamous12]

Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

A mf-ing TOILET.

Was the house on the registry too?

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by Infamous12

Was the house on the registry too?

No, but they were redoing their bathroom and figured they should just go ahead and register at Lowe's too (along with the standard dept. store registries). They registered for mirrors, light fixtures, little trinkets for the counter, TP holders, a soap dispenser/toothbrush caddy. And yes, a toilet complete with ugly wood seat.

I don't know what was wrong with their original white porcelain toilet, or why they would think it appropriate to ask their wedding guests to furnish their bathrom remodel, or why they would put a TOILET on their wedding registry. I have to chalk it up to a complete and utter lack of class.

[cuteASAbug]

did anyone get it for them?

[sageofages]

I think alot of the strange items on registries come now, not from crassness, but from running amuck in the store with the little hand held scanner they give you. When you had to WRITE in your handwriting what you wanted, I think you thought about it a bit more, just zipping a little red beam over a UPC code takes all the thought out of it.

With a bazillion registries now, for weddings, babies, birthdays, christmas, etc etc etc, it is just too easy and too impersonal.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by sageofages

With a bazillion registries now, for weddings, babies, birthdays, christmas, etc etc etc, it is just too easy and too impersonal.

Who REGISTERS for their birthday or Christmas????

[cuteASAbug]

I've seen it done.

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Who REGISTERS for their birthday or Christmas????

I have seen it done so many times now, I gave up counting...it boggles the mind.

It is "let's play with the scanner at *insertwhateverstoreyouareinatthetime* and see what we can get" type mentality.

It is all about making it easier for the store to rake in the money on *insertwhatevereventyouaregivingagiftfor* event in a person's life.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Who REGISTERS for their birthday or Christmas????

My family doesn't register at a store or anything, but since my 3 siblings and I all live in different states, we usually do send each other "wish lists" for Christmas. Usually a list of 10 or so items that the kids and/or the adults would like to have. Sometimes you get something from the list, sometimes you don't, but it at least gives us an idea of what to buy.

Oh, and if I had seen a toilet on the gift registry, I think I would have tried to pool money with a few other people and buy it (and put it on the gift table front and center!)