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Yellow > wrote in
T:

> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> Sqwertz > wrote in
>> :
>>
>> > On Sat, 24 May 2014 22:26:43 -0700, sf wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, 24 May 2014 21:54:40 -0800, Mark Thorson
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I'd like to hear suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> Listen to yourself! Go to their registry and pick something from
>> >> that. If they have a toaster and bread knife on it, buy EXACTLY
>> >> what they have listed. Do not deviate from what they say they
>> >> want.
>> >
>> > Totally **** that idea.
>> >
>> > The whole idea of wedding registries is highly controversial and
>> > impersonal.
>> >
>> It's offensive. I would *never* buy anything on a wedding registry,
>> but I *might* some time in the future, check off items anonymously.
>> Anyone who uses one of those deserves it.
>> >
>> > -sw
>
> Get what you are given and be grateful for it?
>
> Well it's one way of wasting your money and burdening the couple with
> a load of crap they do not want.
>
> But then as most modern weddings are just an expensive circus show
> perhaps this is all just a consequence, whichever side of the gift
> debate you occupy.
>
> I think my middle-aged friends who married recently had the best idea.
> They said "if you must give us a gift then please give us cash" and
> they spent it all on a month long honeymoon visiting all the sights of
> Europe. Fabulous!
>
Cash is fine--especially with the, "if you must" words--and what a great
think to do with it, but the wedding registry is just crappy.

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--Bryan
You can cover up your guts, but when you cover up your nuts
You're admitting that there must be something wrong.
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