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"What They Don’t Tell You About Registries - by Melissa Roja-Lawlor

I come from a long line of natural born shoppers. Outlet malls salivate when they see my parents’ car pull into their parking lots. My family’s bargain hunting is so intense and so strangely efficient that it should be featured on the Nature Channel. So when it came time to register for gifts for our wedding, of course I became giddy with excitement the moment that magical price-scanning gun was placed in my hot little hands. 

I’ll admit it: we (and by we I mean “I”) went a little nuts at first. But I’ll also admit that we needed everything. We were two boarding school teachers who, thanks to a dining hall and unlimited free meals, didn’t own a single piece of dining ware or, quite literally, a pot to … well, you know. So we (again, I mean “I”) ran rampant through the aisles of the department store, eager to hear the satisfying bing! of the registry gun on the way-too-expensive … well … everything. Two years later, here I am, writing out a guide on registries – and telling you to do as I say, not as I did.