The Things You Can Learn From Gift Registries
Posted by Babies - 02/04/10 at 04:04 pmThere are times when we realize that we may not know a person as well as we thought we did. When you go to shop for a shower gift it could be one of those times. We you go and get the registry list from the store guest services and start browsing through it you may start to wonder if you got the right one.
As you flip through the pages and start locating one item after another, you learn more and more about your friend, this expecting mommy. You start to learn more about their values and tastes. You can begin to find out what sort of life they are expecting to have with their baby, and how their life will change.
She does not wear skirts, or make up, or heels. Her ears are not pierced. Nothing about her is particularly feminine, yet at the top of that list you see ladybug baby bedding. You are wondering if this is really the same person. Maybe someone else put together the registry for her.
She is a bargain hunter through and through. She is the original thrift store junkie. The mark up stores use sickens her. There is designer baby bedding on her registry. You wonder all sorts of things about her now. What is her new value system? Will we still be friends? What is the bedding made out of?
Your friend is unorganized, scatter-brained, and hardly can plan for dinner, let alone anything else. She has always been happy to fly by the seat of her pants. Convertible baby furniture is not something that seems like a likely fit for her lifestyle, but there it is on the list. In a one shopping trip your image of her has been thrown out of the window.
The registry serves not only as a tool to make sure that gifts given serve a practical purpose, and avoid duplicates, but also communicate a fair bit about the person making the list. When it comes to baby shower registries it acts as a reflection of the expectant mother’s expectations for her baby, and the life that they will have together. It tells more than you ever could in a hundred text messages.
You have been giving a special glimpse of the parent and person your friend is becoming. The changes may seem extreme, but she probably hardly notices them. Becoming a parent is a momentous event that changes you forever. That gift registry is one way to tell your loved ones all about it.
