More Registering, Including the Greatest Home Store on Earth!
I have discovered a new favorite store thanks to the wedding registry excursions. Maybe it’s just their great displays, or maybe their wares really are just that wonderful, but I’m in love with Crate & Barrel these days.
The next time we headed out to register on a Sunday afternoon. We headed to Oak Brook seeking two-for-one efficiency – Crate & Barrel and Macy’s.
We started at C&B with a hilarious group of sales associates introducing us to their scanning gun. From using the gun to what we wanted to scan, this one was a breeze. Even though we didn’t agree on every single item, we did agree on a lot. Dishes, vases, pitchers, bowls. FUN.
We had no problem finding things to scan, but we started to get frustrated because I was moving at a faster pace than Gavin, who has this loveable obsession with order in the registry process. He’s keeping an inventory of we scan as we go to make sure there are no duplicates. It’s possible that my new-found love for decanters and pitchers sparked the resulting spreadsheet… I had scanned three of each in two stores by this point. Something about the blown glass makes me happy! When we’d had enough and both looked sufficiently tired, we moved on.
We walked the few steps over to Macy’s, where they take registering seriously. We had to sit with a consultant who suckered us into a store credit card and baby-stepped us through their registry catalogs. We got free Frango mints and a Victorinox bag out of the process.
We headed out with their scanner in search of “nice stuff.” Instead, we found a small selection of crazy stuff such as the $2,500 massive Waterford wine goblet that Gavin scanned just to share how ridiculous it was with everyone. We scanned a few things throughout the store, noticing a lot of overlap with BB&B since we weren’t interested in most of the fanciest things.
Sadly, when we got home we saw that our Macy’s scanner had stopped working after the second item we scanned, and we didn’t feel like fixing it since we were nonplussed by the store overall. We decided we’d have to try a better Macy’s with more selection next time, and that we’ll aim to get bedding, and linens/towels from there to make it worth while.
On the way home we set up a Target registry in-store, but didn’t take a scanner out to add items to it. Their scanners were broken anyway. We started that process online instead.
It’s a slow, long process to complete a registry, as we’re finding!
The next time we headed out to register on a Sunday afternoon. We headed to Oak Brook seeking two-for-one efficiency – Crate & Barrel and Macy’s.
We started at C&B with a hilarious group of sales associates introducing us to their scanning gun. From using the gun to what we wanted to scan, this one was a breeze. Even though we didn’t agree on every single item, we did agree on a lot. Dishes, vases, pitchers, bowls. FUN.
We had no problem finding things to scan, but we started to get frustrated because I was moving at a faster pace than Gavin, who has this loveable obsession with order in the registry process. He’s keeping an inventory of we scan as we go to make sure there are no duplicates. It’s possible that my new-found love for decanters and pitchers sparked the resulting spreadsheet… I had scanned three of each in two stores by this point. Something about the blown glass makes me happy! When we’d had enough and both looked sufficiently tired, we moved on.
We walked the few steps over to Macy’s, where they take registering seriously. We had to sit with a consultant who suckered us into a store credit card and baby-stepped us through their registry catalogs. We got free Frango mints and a Victorinox bag out of the process.
We headed out with their scanner in search of “nice stuff.” Instead, we found a small selection of crazy stuff such as the $2,500 massive Waterford wine goblet that Gavin scanned just to share how ridiculous it was with everyone. We scanned a few things throughout the store, noticing a lot of overlap with BB&B since we weren’t interested in most of the fanciest things.
Sadly, when we got home we saw that our Macy’s scanner had stopped working after the second item we scanned, and we didn’t feel like fixing it since we were nonplussed by the store overall. We decided we’d have to try a better Macy’s with more selection next time, and that we’ll aim to get bedding, and linens/towels from there to make it worth while.
On the way home we set up a Target registry in-store, but didn’t take a scanner out to add items to it. Their scanners were broken anyway. We started that process online instead.
It’s a slow, long process to complete a registry, as we’re finding!
posted by Laura @ 10:32 AM
2 Comments:
At November 23, 2006 11:30 PM,
-^_^. said…
ha. it took us more trips than i remember to count. we tried bloomingdales. i think all the big dept stores don't have cool things. BB&B is where it's at! =)
At December 03, 2006 10:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
Just FYI, I think the only things we got from Marshall Fields (I refues to give in to the Macy's takeover!) was our crystal and our china. The rest was just too pricy and we found stuff we liked at BB&B. Definitely register for the china. I know your family and you know mine. We are the next generation of entertainers so be prepared. Also I just wanted to share that no matter how meticulous and thorough you think you are being, you will most likely have to re-register at some point because of the large number of wedding attendees and multiple showers. My friend Christie had to go back and re-add stuff twice and ended up registering for furniture because she already had loads of kitchen stuff. and you will still end up with people who get you a double wide crock pot that you will inevitably re-gift to someone else...
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