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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.
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> I gave them an envelope full of cash according to the way of my
> people.
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> 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.
What's your question?
--
Barb,
http://www.barbschaller.com, as of August 20, 2012
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