Mine is Sunday and I'm curious to hear! People keep asking me for a name so they can get something monogrammed but we haven't shared it.
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I think everyone purchased off the registry but they also bought smaller off gifts like clothes, snot sucker, burp cloths, and books.
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Same as @autumnlove: Most everyone bought off the registry, but added a few other things that they found useful or cute
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I got really close to 100% registry items. Most of the extras I got were bows - but my SIL threw me a 'bow' shower, where she asked people to bring a bow along with the gift if they wanted, and we put them all on a board at the shower.
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Most of the gifts were off the registry, except for clothes, books and a few gifts from experienced moms that they loved. I really liked getting some of the stuff I didn't know about and returned or donated some things I didn't think I'd use...
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We got about 80% off our registry.
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Mostly clothes and no registry.
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Pretty even split of registry, and non!
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@wheres_c: Why do people do this? It blows my mind! Considering all the monogram questions, I'm guessing we will get mostly clothes.
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Not a lot off the registry and we got a lot of clothes and books. BUT we did ask for the books. Maybe 30% bought off the registry.
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Some registry but lots of clothes.
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We got almost nothing off the registry from my traditional, women only shower, which surprised me! Mostly clothes and blankets. At our coed shower, we got all registry and tons of gift cards.
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I think we got 80-90% from our registries. Some people added little things in addition to registry gifts also. But we all made a concerted effort to let people know baby had a TON of clothes already.
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mostly off registry!
but we got a number of gift cards to the registry place, so i guess similar?
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@grizz: Have you been checking your registry like a madwoman to see if items are purchased?? I did this for my bridal showers
We haven't had ours yet, but I have done everything I can to encourage people to buy from our registry. We are not announcing the gender until the shower (it's actually going to be a guessing game then will be revealed at cake cutting), we DEFINITELY aren't telling anyone the name, I am adding clothes and blankets to the registry and marking them as purchased so people think we already have a ton and my shower hosts are going to spread work through the grapevine that we don't need clothes, but only if people ask.
Good luck!
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@Modern Daisy: Yes I am! haha! No one has touched our registry for the most part, but people keep telling me they bought the cutest outfit, or the cutest clothes... so I'm thinking DH and I will be spending a lot of time with our registry print-out afterwards buying what we actually need. I didn't think boy clothes were that fun for people to shop for, but I guess I was wrong!
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we got a lot of clothes. and some off registry items. My friends knew to stick with the registry. In the end DH and I had to buy a lot of little things.
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It's so frustrating that people don't follow the registries! We wouldn't put it on there if we didn't need it. I think I'm going to include a little note in the shower invites that says something like "we already have lots of clothes, so we'd love it if you could help us get the necessary gear". I think if I talk to both sets of people running my showers and let them know that's our priority, they can also work to share that information with my guests.
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At the shower from my family it was entirely registry items. At my work shower it was almost entirely off-registry items. Our small friend one was like 6 registry gifts and 2 off-registry gifts.
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Probably 60% off registry and 40% from registry.
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Mostly registry gifts with plenty of 'extra' non-registry items. LO has a jam-packed closet and I made sure to barely register for clothes so that people might get the hint that we have enough.
They did not.
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Almost everything was from our registry, I think it helps that we were Team Green though, so people were less tempted to get us clothes and gendered items.
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I think 90% of our gifts came from our registry....those gifts that weren't from the registry were monogrammed towels and clothes!
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@hergreenapples: This is making me glad we are team green! It's tough buying cute outfits that are neutral so hopefully people will get me the stuff I need more!
It's funny how often I hear people complain about going to a team green shower and how they can't buy cute dresses or little boy outfits, when inside I'm thinking... the parents probably would rather their registry stuff anyway...
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Besides my mom and MIL, only two people bought off my registry. Everyone else bought clothes and towels.
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@Foodnerd81: that's why I wish we would've remained team green... or at least told people we were. We had a super cheery ultrasound tech who greeted us at an ultrasound with "Well, let's check and make sure your little boy is still a little boy!" She felt so bad!
I got two texts this morning from people who wanted to buy decorations for the nursery, and I wanted so badly to say that we have everything we need in the nursery and we would rather have practical things.
I also have a friend trying to throw us a diaper shower... I explained to her that we are doing cloth diapers and her response was that we'll get sick of cloth diapers in a month anyway and start doing disposable, so she still wants to do a disposable diaper shower.
I am baffled
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For G we got mostly clothes, most of which weren't size/season appropriate. (We knew the gender). For P we were team green & got mostly registry items!
Sorry your friend would completely disregard your wishes for cloth diapers....
I have heard of diaper showers where they did a poker game & the buy in was a CD, maybe you could suggest something like that? Or tell your thank you & you look forward to being able to donate them to your local shelter! Yea I would totally do something like that... What's the point of doing something for *you* if she's going to do what *she* wants?!
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