On 12/4/2012 6:15 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
>> 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.
>
I didn't register for anything, it never occurred to me to do so. While
I appreciate the sentiment of personally chosen gifts, I wound up with
things like electric can openers and toasters. You can't tell me any
thought went into those gifts. I'd have rather been given cash so we
could buy what we needed.

Jill