Apparently, the time has come for us to register for wedding gifts.
At first, I thought there was nothing that we really, truly, needed. Maybe some new towels and sheets. But the more I looked at it, the more I realized this was a time in our lives to upgrade to high-quality items that could legitimately last forever.
We have recently started figuring out where and what we want to register for. As we walked between three different options, K said: “I want the items on this registry to last the rest of our lives.”
And that has basically become the theme of our registries. We are looking for tools that are made from stainless steel and glass, not cheap plastic.
image: William Sonoma
For instance, K really wants a mandolin to slice vegetables nice and thin. As I have looked about for them, the only ones I can find are mostly made of plastic. I was shocked because the mandolin my mom has is entirely made of metal and that is what I thought all mandolins were made of.
Alternative facts. Fake news.
Just like my grandma’s, we want our pots and pans to able to be used by our grandchildren 65 years later.
We use my grandmother’s copper bottomed pots that she received for her own wedding shower in 1955.
No matter what the stores tell us we need to register for, we are only going to register for items we are going to use in the long run. We don’t need fine china. We are not going to register for a fondue set because it’s on a list somewhere.
I have made it a habit to poll all my married friends and family on what they use the most and the least from their wedding registry. Hopefully, down the road, we will be able to say we use absolutely everything.
waste not want not 