Registered at

[nq:1]A couple of times recently, I read in American books, comic strips, etc. "registered at" in connection with wedding presents. ... "We were registered at Wal-Mart" was a joke, but I didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please?[/nq]
You go to the store, a make a list of what you would like. Nowadays, they give you a scanner and let you do it yourself. In the old days, a sto

[nq:2]A couple of times recently, I read in American books, ... didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please?[/nq]
[nq:1]You go to the store, a make a list of what you would like. Nowadays, they give you a scanner ... your list. It says what and how many you'd like, and how many have already been purchased by other people.[/nq]
How would this be handled if registering didn't

[nq:1]A couple of times recently, I read in American books, comic strips, etc. "registered at" in connection with wedding presents. ... "We were registered at Wal-Mart" was a joke, but I didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please?[/nq]
This practice dated from the time there were only
a couple of top-quality department stores and
the like (e.g. jewelry stores) in each

[nq:2]A couple of times recently, I read in American books, ... didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please?[/nq]
[nq:1]You go to the store, a make a list of what you would like. Nowadays, they give you a scanner ... bad taste to put a slip a paper in your wedding invitation saying you've registered at such-and such a store."[/nq]
That "discreet, non-tacky way" is usually a

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}>>A couple of times recently, I read in American books, comic strips, etc. }>> "registered at" in connection with wedding presents. I presume that the }>> most recent example "We were registered at Wal-Mart" was a joke, but I }>> didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please? }

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[nq:2]You go to the store, a make a list of ... and how many have already been purchased by other people.[/nq]
[nq:1]How would this be handled if registering didn't exist? I guess you know you are visitin

[nq:1]A couple of times recently, I read in American books, comic strips, etc. "registered at" in connection with wedding presents. ... "We were registered at Wal-Mart" was a joke, but I didn't get it. How do you register wedding presents, please?[/nq]
Unfortunately not a joke. My granddaughter's recent wedding announcement said they were registered at Wal!Mart. Sigh...
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[nq:1]Yeah, Target does a real nice job of it. You can use the terminals in the store, too. Nosy people ... a fancy store might not budge for months, but the list at Target gets covered fast, as if by kudzu.[/nq]
I have one rich, really rich, relative. My mother's brother's daughter married into serious money. Homes in.. type. The couple came to my daughter's wedding after stopping at Target t

[nq:2]Yeah, Target does a real nice job of it. You ... list at Target gets covered fast, as if by kudzu.[/nq]
[nq:1]I have one rich, really rich, relative. My mother's brother's daughter married into serious money. Homes in.. type. The couple ... folding canvas patio chairs. They drank more at the free bar than they spent at Target. Ain't it the way?[/nq]
That's how they stay so rich.

[nq:2]I have one rich, really rich, relative. My mother's brother's ... bar than they spent at Target. Ain't it the way?[/nq]
[nq:1]That's how they stay so rich. My wife had a law-school roommate who came from old money. She (the roommate, ... of wealth they don't know about. But none of that justifies what your one really rich relative did. For shame.[/nq]
They're nice people, and we did