In article >,
Goomba > wrote:


> Who gives consumables for a wedding gift!? Not what I consider de
> rigueur at all. Traditionally people gave gifts of lasting value (not
> necessarily expensive) which are meant to help set up home and *last*,
> not be disposable.

This thread wasn't the original, but as I remember this was two people
who already had two full households full of stuff, so they needed to cut
back on duplicates, not set up a new household.

Besides, life has changed. We went to a wedding earlier this month.
The month before, they had a party to meet their baby. They had been
living together for at least a couple of years. It may once have been
traditional to get married, then set up house and only then have babies.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA