Amelie22902's Profile

When I was condo shopping in a close suburb of Boston, aside from a safe/highly walkable neighborhood and proximity to public transport to get downtown, as well as at least one private parking spot (only because that town doesn't allow on-street overnight parking, otherwise I would have been fine with on-street parking):

non-tandem parking spot (no coordinating with a neighbor to get in and out
cat-friendly
second floor or higher - I wanted to be able to leave windows open sometimes without feeling like someone was going to climb in. Also nice not to worry about flooding.

I agree with what M'Elizabeth said about registering but only telling people where you're registered if asked. I'm always a little surprised when a couple's wedding web site or invitation includes their registry info. Convenient, yes, but it also kind of says "give us gifts!" Part of the reason I registered at places like Crate & Barrel and BB&B is that I figured it was someplace people were likely to check if they went looking for a registry for us (it helps that my last name is pretty rare, so they weren't going to have to wade through a ton of Jane Smiths to find me).

I was definitely trying to include things in a range of prices, so among other things I registered for knives as open stock rather than as a set, though I had no intention of exchanging the individual knives for a set when I did this. I just really wanted decent knives, was not about to put an $800 item on the registry, and figured that a single knife here and there would be within more people's budgets. (Then my very generous MIL went and bought all the individual knives for us in one fell swoop for us before anyone else got a crack at them. Not that I'm complaining.)