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Default Wedding registries for expensive gifts.

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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.
>
> When they split up, some eight years later, she kept the LeCreuset,
> while he hung on to the solid copper. By now, he has had to have them
> retinned twice.
>
> The only time he cooks is when he entertains, so the pots see little
> use these days.


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