Creating a Registry Part III

So despite the shock of looking at china patterns, we survived the first part of our trips to Bed Bath and Beyond.  The nice woman who was in charge of the registry let us know that the process could take up to two and a half hours, but that was a long time.  I think she underestimated how much we like to look at kitchen stuff. 

That was our first stop.  Diana really wanted a set of Calphalon pots and pans and although they’re expensive, I agree with her.  Unlike dinner wear, cooking utensils can genuinely affect the way that food is prepared and the taste of it.  I do not like my set of church rummage sale pots and pans which have had the non-stick coating rubbed off of over a series of careless past roommates.  That’s something I’m genuinely excited about. 

Next we looked at a lot of smaller stuff.  I’m not sure of the purpose of putting something like a baster or a wine opener on the registry.  I could have bought those things right there, and kind of thought about it.  Aparently that’s part of building a “balanced registry.”  Ok.  We did register for things like a cutting board, which I liked. 

By the time we had got through kitchen utensils, we had been going at this for well over an hour and a half.  The next stop was placemats and table cloths and I could see myself losing patience with the process.  I try really hard not to make color choices for people in part because I am partially color blind.  So we had to make the important choice of finding placemats, I really wasn’t able to offer much help and just kind of stood around. 

Next we were off to stemware.  Stemware is something that I do care about.  Although it is not the highest quality stuff, I do pride myself on the fact that I own just about every kind of drink glass except for highballs and double old fashioned.  But they didn’t have either at BBB so that’s great.  Then we looked at silverware.  I think that was the time where I lost it and began looking at things with a glazed over look.  By the time we got to talk about the importance of duvets, duvet covers, and shams, I was done. 

The experience was pretty good. Although I faded at the end, I feel that we’ve gotten a good part of the registry out of the way.  The last place we were thinking about registering was Macy’s.  I’ll tell you about that experience pretty soon.