Being a bad modern couple who bought their house prior to tying the knot, the home improvement stores are a place we frequent on the weekends and get lost in -- and lost from each other -- as we gaze at paint, tools, planters, electrical boxes, sheet rock and gardening supplies.
We were giddy with the excitement of unwrapping things that we desperately needed as we hammer, revamp and refinish our way through our adorable 1950s dream house.
Well... as many of you bees know Lowe's & Home Depot both discontinued their registries to the disappointment and outrage of brides & grooms-to-be across the country. Trust me. Just google "Lowe's" and "registry."
After digging and digging, I wound up finding this:
Image Via Home Depot Online
So... In the year 2011, Home Depot conveniently allows lovers of home improvement to register in store. Nothing will show up online, nothing anywhere, well except for in that brick & mortar building. I checked with HD Headquarters and they told me that they do old school registries in store.
Well! That's better than nothing, and off to our local Depot we went.
The service desk was more than friendly handing me their registry sheet & a pen -- no scanners guns here -- and we could run through the store gun pen in hand, registering for anything we wanted.
Being a little obsessed with gift giving, I just knew that guests would want to log online to see the goods to know if it was worth the trip to the home improvement mecca because...what the heck did we really want there anyway?
Enter Blogger.com.
We set up a Blogger account, took pics along the way through the big aisles and yards of lumber (including of our hand written registry to get the sku numbers) and made sure to include the link to our finished make-shift Home Depot online registry in the shower invites.
We wrote a little welcome letter & explained to visitors that Home Depot doesn't have an online registry, but we are registered at our local [insert town name] Home Depot. And then we included pics & sku numbers. The girl at the service desk suggested to do it this way since it is the same in all Depot stores. If guests go to a different location, they just call the [insert town name] store & get it crossed off our registry. I promise it's worded a lot more simpler (see above!).
Now I don't really know how this is going to work out. I'm not sure if we are going to get 4 mailboxes and 12 smokers (imagine all the waistline damage I could do with that!). I guess its a roll of the dice.
We are also registered at Target & Kohl's... but we just had to give the Depot registry a try -- because there were some things that we just really, really wanted at our favorite home store!
Well, you may be thinking, what the heck did we really want there anyway??
We can picture this cooler on the deck we make after our wedding.
Next summer will be hanging out, cold beers in hand, thinking how clever we were to
register this way! (fingers crossed).
I've wanted a smoker for as long as I could remember, but never bought one.
Now is the perfect opportunity to get one!
We desperately need a fan once we redo the kitchen. Mr. Sweet Cream
hates the way the kitchen heats up with all the baking & cooking I do!
A shower head? Trellises that I will use to plant climbing roses?
We need these things!
We also did a bird feeder, wood chips (for the to-die-for-smoker), a tree trimmer, a bedroom ceiling fan, a mailbox & a pressure washer, to name a few. Keep your fingers crossed that this runs as smoothly as I first imagined when I jumped for joy in front of Mr. Sweet Cream, telling him my devious master plan to overturn the home improvement store registry conundrum.
I can't wait to share with you how it goes down.
Is there somewhere that you are dying to register for that just doesn't have registries? If you could take a magical little gun to any store with you to register, which one would it be?
*All pics are from our Blogger.com registry unless otherwise noted.
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