Tyler and I need to register for wedding gifts this weekend, but I feel weird about it. Somehow it seems tacky, like we're saying you need to buy us a gift and this is what you're allowed to buy. I guess it's not much different than Christmas lists, though. And I get that it's helpful because people want to get you something that you'll actually use and they obviously have no idea what you have and don't have, but you're both assuming and expecting that people are going to buy you things. Not that such a thing would be completely out of left field, given the situation! I would probably be way more into it if we were a younger couple and just setting up a household, but I've been living on my own for years and he's been married before. We have two already set up households. Well, one and a half, I guess, considering most of his things are now either at the dump, being given to the ex or after all this time, need to be replaced. And technically, while I do have an already established household, it is established for a small grouping of people, not 8 people.
Plus, and this is going to sound really selfish, I have nice things and I have carefully chosen these things over the years and spent lots of money on them and I know that they aren't going to last long with six kids around, so I really just want to not unpack them and hide them away until the kids are grown. My decor, housewares, etc., have never needed to be kid-proof or kid-friendly, so pretty much they aren't. I'm having visions of the heads of the dolls my grandpa bought in the 50's and 60's while stationed overseas being ripped off like Barbie heads. What if one day I stumble across a cemetery of doll parts from around the world in the back yard? Oh look, there's a head from Okinawa! And there's half of the body of the doll from Peru! And the legs of the flamenco dancer from Spain are just barely sticking out of the ground! Ok, that may be a little bit dramatic (and slightly creepy), especially considering that all of those things have been packed up and in my parent's shed for the last 15 years, but you see what I mean! Is my "Original Art Work Collection"* going to end up being drawn all over with crayons? Is it silly that I'm even worried about it? I think maybe this is just the way the fear of my impending complete 180 degree change in lifestyle is expressing itself. But seriously . . . if my complete collection of 1937 Harvard Classics or my signed Amy Tans are destroyed, we're going to have some problems. I feel like Mel Gibson in Braveheart . . . They may take my sanity, but they'll never take . . . MY BOOK COLLECTION!
*That is now its' official title.
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This is your first wedding. So yes you should do a registry. On my second one, a friend had me to a shower. I felt a bit awkward as I had been married before, but it was still fun. There is nothing wrong with keeping nice things away. The only thing to consider is when after so many years youll look back and think I never did use this because I waited for the right time and really that now was the right time. Ah maybe I am telling you to use your nice stuff because all my nice stuff which I had little to begin with is ruined and I want you to be like me. Misery does love company.
I've done my best to keep my stuff I truly care about out of reach of the boys (think China cupboard). Still hasn't been 100% effective, but helps. And I don't think it's bad to pack some stuff away at least until they are old enough to all have impulse control.
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