Jessa & BinBob's registries: Asking for over $30,000

[nst]

Will do it is due Monday

not giving her much time - due to her soon to be honeymoon - I thought ahead :D

:D

[bluebird]

Lol! You guys are cracking me up! However..it was very thoughtful that you sent gifts. Nice peeps around here.

[Ethdyl]

Anyway back to her registry. There is no way everything will purchased in a week. There's so much left!

[doggie]

My wax arrived

[grandmadugger]

With a week left she still has about 25k in gifts left on her registries.

[SassyPants]

With a week left she still has about 25k in gifts left on her registries.

Which is fine.

A wedding is not an opportunity to get you everything you could every want-

They can get jobs and work to buy the things that want or believe they need beyond the basics. $5,000 worth of goods is plenty-

[Rescinded and Mended]

My wax arrived

I feel like that's the title of a porno film waiting to be made, doggie. :lol:

[doggie]

I feel like that's the title of a porno film waiting to be made, doggie. :lol:

ya was kinda thinking the same thing Duggars get wax

[SassyPants]

My mind goes to sex wax-

[grandmadugger]

Which is fine.

A wedding is not an opportunity to get you everything you could every want-

They can get jobs and work to buy the things that want or believe they need beyond the basics. $5,000 worth of goods is plenty-

And I should add that's only what had prices up. Some of the stuff didn't have a price listed. I'm glad she's not getting it all or even close. I thought it was crazy she even thought anyone would buy that much stuff.

[ViolaSebastian]

Does anyone else think that thank you looks like it's written by a fifteen year old girl? The purple ink, the handwriting...yikes. :? At least she was polite and sent one, I suppose...but it just gives you insight into how stunted they are.

[Ethdyl]

Yeah it's probably closer to 6k with the amazon, walmart and target registries added on. Not as much as Jill got.

[Emme]

I'm glad it's not just me being jealous with thinking this registry is atrocious. I never really had a wedding (JP ceremony with 2 witnesses, no one else even knew about it) much less a registry, so I was wondering if I just didn't get the whole wedding/baby registry thing. But clearly, it isn't just me.

After 18 years of marriage, I still just have a hand mixer. I'd really like a stand mixer but they're so expensive. And my dream mixer is definitely not a Kitchen Aid. I did a lot of research a couple years ago and learned the newer ones tend to burn out fairly quickly if you use them for heavy stuff like bread. This is my dream mixer. One day....

It looks like a tiny car. I WANT ONE.

[nst]

It looks like a tiny car. I WANT ONE.

me to :D

[LadyBlue]

Happy to contribute to stand mixer lust. lol I've wanted one for about 3 years now and it's so tempting to blow all my new empty credit card balance to get it, but I'm being so GOOD and not doing that because I got the card for emergencies.....and because I want several attachments too. :o

[grandmadugger]

Yeah it's probably closer to 6k with the amazon, walmart and target registries added on. Not as much as Jill got.

That's all of them put together. I was bored not wanting to do what I should have been doing this afternoon.

[Trynn]

Also..: I kinda don't believe that Jessa is going to get THAT much tlc money. I doubt Jim bob will have shared. That's why I'm considering getting them a gift.

[Ethdyl]

But I'm sure they will get the money for all the magazine interviews they do once tey are married.

[Coco]

But I'm sure they will get the money for all the magazine interviews they do once tey are married.

or, probably, her 1.5x2 photo with caption beside Jill's interviews? :lol: :roll:

i hope for Jessa's sake that this is REALLY how she does want it -- to be a sideline to Jill (to the general public that's not close to their family in real life. For her sake i hope she's on equal footing at home and in their close circle).

[jozina]

The drip dry comment. :lol: Seriously they've had what, one towel purchased? They can dry themselves off with the oven mits while they eat hulled strawberries, smell scented wax and...tie themselves up with duct tape? What is with the duct tape?

Was there anything else on the thank you card? Bible verses, an early invite to the baby registry?

If I had money to burn I'd get them one of the two DVD players they've registered for and some defrauding DVDs to play on them.

[Phoenix]

When they were first on the market they ran right around $500. My husband got mine at a steal for $375. That's what they normally run now. I've never seen the pro for under $300. The artisans are usually in the 150-250 range but they have plastic gears.

This past weekend I saw the Kitchen Aid Pro mixers on sale at Macy's for $350.

[Trynn]

Maybe one of the howlers thought it'd be funny to put a bunch of random stuff on the registry so he ran around with a scanner scanning what he thought was ridiculous, hence the dict tape?

[Rescinded and Mended]

She wrote the thank you on the back of the envelope? I suppose that's better than nothing, but whatever happened to writing your thankyous on informals?

This confused me, too. I went back and re-read that whole part of the thread. Maybe nst sent more than one gift, and after the second one arrived, Jessa attached the post-script because her note had already been written, sealed and addressed?

Or maybe Jessa got confused and thought a second gift was also from nst? Hmm. :think:

[Walking Cat Bed]

Off topic, but I freaking hate ironing boards. We never had any place to store one when I was growing up (lived mostly in apartments when I was a kid), and the board part is never wide enough to completely lay a shirt out on to press. It was really only good for creasing.

After I became an adult, I looked for a portable ironing pad. I love it - you can lay it out anywhere on a hard surface, and it's wide enough to accomodate a shirt for pressing.

They are also more reasonably priced than ironing boards. Here's a link for one:

http://www.amazon.com/Whitmor-6154-2676 ... +for+table

That's been added to my "Grad School Supplies" wish list. (It's mostly refills for pens, paper, folders, etc, plus other useful non-book items.)

[Jessica]

Hey, her handwriting is better than my (almost 30-year-old, with a bachelor's degree, currently working on a master's degree) husband's! :lol: You can actually... GASP... READ WHAT SHE WROTE!!!