Moving into a new house - registery?

Have neighbors that are moving about 2 hours away into a new house. One of their friends is having a ';farewell'; party and on the invite is a few places they are registered at. I found that kind of odd - but just wondering what you thought. Thanks!!Moving into a new house - registery?
bizarre - I would bring just a bottle of wine to the farewell, not a new fridge or ice makerMoving into a new house - registery?
Ehhhh...that's tacky. It's enough registering for wedding gifts and baby shower gifts, but the idea behind that was to make it easier for guests to figure out what the couple needs. The registry information was only to be given out if asked. It wasn't mean to be a ';solicitation'; for gifts.


Now people completely abuse it. I've seen it used for children's BIRTHDAY parties, for Pete's sake! There's teaching your child to be a greedy little monster.


You don't register when moving. If people are holding a ';farewell'; party, they should not indicate that gift are expected. That shows a lack of class.


The only acceptable thing to do in that regard would be something more personal like ';Please bring a copy of a photograph you have of yourself with 'Jane', so we can include it in a scrapbook for Jane so she can have memories to keep of her life here!


I've also seen requests for a ';super-special secret family recipe'; that they could use in a home-made cookbook that would be given to 'Jane' from all of her friends.





Doing things like that is more personal, more appreciated by both the guests and the hosts, and avoids the awkwardness of the average gift-solicitation. I've been to a few farewell parties, or housewarming parties where people did things like that, and they were always the warmest, closest, and most friendly parties.
It could be kind of a like a precursor to a house warming party. Maybe the people that are moving have already made a list of things they're going to need for their new house and since they're moving two hours away, they won't really have a chance to have a house warming party with all their friends.
yes, that is odd - it's just asking for gifts and that's not cool. If you want to get them a housewarming gift, that's entirely up to you but being asked to get one would totally turn me off to the idea.
Tacky and ill mannered. It's the gimmie gimmie gimmie syndrome at work! I would ignore that. Maybe a card to wish them well. I don't think a gift is needed.
I find this fad of registering for every single event rather tasteless. Frankly if I received that sort of notice I would not even get a gift. Send them a card. Registries are always for gifts that are way way too expensive....
Pretty tacky imo. These people who feel the need to register for every life event are just pretty much saying, please buy me stuff! Sheesh.
I think it is tacky as hell to have a registry like that! Babies and weddings are the only thing someone should register for!!!