New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive

Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by mysterypie on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:15AM (#18581711)

Is there no way out of the antiquated gift registry idea? Could we have baby showers and weddings in which everyone contributes cash (and absolutely no gifts) to offset the event costs? Any excess cash becomes a gift to the parents or couple.

Gifts served a purpose in the distant past because people needed "things" to start their life, but that's no longer the case. Most people have way too many things, and most of their expenses are operating costs anyway (like mortgage, rent, education, health care, and transportation).

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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by prepend on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:47AM (#18582273)

Baby showers were extremely helpful to me because experiences friends and family with babies shared items I didn’t even know about, but were useful.

Personally, I don’t like to give cash because it’s impersonal and doesn’t allow me to express creativity of something relevant to my friendship or affection. I rarely get it perfect, but a gift let’s me interact with the recipient to find out how they are doing, what they need, what I think will help best.

If I don’t know someone well enough that I can’t help with an item and would only send cash, I use that as a filter for whether to send a gift.

I also don’t like receiving cash from friends, but appreciate gifts.

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