Buy, Buy Baby

Today, we decided to venture out into the land of baby apparel and start our first registry.  Thinking that we could address a lot of needs at once, we went to Buy, Buy Baby.  If you’ve never been there, it’s like the Bed, Bath, and Beyond of baby stuff.  Needless to say, I was not prepared for the inundation of stuff and information that was about to be thrown in my general direction!

We trolled every aisle, every rack, and every shelf for over four hours…bleeping our little registry gun at barcode after barcode.  My wife had to quit partway through and take a seat because her back was starting to hurt.  In hindsight, we probably should have paced ourselves and done it across several visits.  But it’s done now, and we have a good start on a list.  I’m sure that we’ll continue to think of new things to add, but at least those are one-offs instead of the foundation.

And now we can focus on registering at other places to add some variety and give people some pricing options.  My friend CC was telling me about BabyList.com, where you can have all of your registries in a single place, so maybe we’ll check that out.