On 04/12/2012 3:20 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> Thinking of impractical, never-used, and expensive wishlists: When
> good friends of mine got married, in the pre-Internet era, I had
> barely heard of registries. He wanted solid copper pots, while she was
> content with these heavy orange pots and pans that I later realized
> were LeCreuset.

It used to be that you registered your china, silverware and crystal
patterns so that people could buy pieces to augment your collection.
These days it has just got plain silly. Couples now come up with a wish
list of everything they could possible use, right down to make, model
and colour.

One thing I have noted from weddings I have attended over the past few
years is that the cheapest items on the list seem to be to bought by the
other guests. There have not been many family weddings lately, so these
were weddings of friends of our son.


> I gave them an envelope full of cash according to the way of my
> people.

I don't like giving cash and I don't like getting cash. I like gifts to
be something special, something that has some thought behind it,
something individual. Cash just gets lumped in with something else.

We have our 40th anniversary coming up this year and we still remember
who gave us those special gifts and think of them often. Some people
gave us cash, which we used to buy a nice area rug, a rug that we got
rid of about 25 years ago.