Saturday I had my shower (which was amazing), Saturday evening Chris had his Diaper Crawl and EARLY Sunday morning I drove his adorable drunk singing butt back from the city. Sunday we woke up with the best intentions of hitting Target to use my registry completion coupon to get all of the little things we still need (and a few big things). I hadn't received a coupon, but figured they would give me one when I closed the registry.
A quick note about my Target Registry. We don't have a Target in my teensy town, so I just registered at BRU because it is a bit closer. The Target registry was my secret only-for-the-completion-coupon registry. It contained all of the same things as the BRU registry, but Target's prices are cheaper and they have nursing camis. I was going to keep this completely secret but one girl wanted to shop at target so I extended the registry (which originally "ended" Jan 8th) until my shower so that she could shop there.
I show up at Target, ready to drop some serious cash. I talk to someone at customer service and he helps me at the kiosk. He tells me it should be coming in the mail, or that it should have come by now, but if I close my registry they will just give it to me now. He goes back to do so, and his manager mentions that I am still pregnant. She explains to him that the coupon is only to be used *after* the baby is born and thus, they will not give me my coupon because I am still obviously pregnant. Oh yes, because sure I really want to wait until I have an outside baby to buy breast pads and nipple butter and burp cloths...
Well Chris suggested that we peruse and price, so I wrote everything down. I came home pretty livid. A bit of internet research led me to Amazon.com's baby registry. Same completion coupon percentage, except it was online... hmmm....
Sure enough I can get the EXACT same products (minus the camis which turned out to not work for me but plus several other things) for six dollars cheaper. I got my completion coupon instantly and the only reason I haven't yet ordered it all is because I am waiting for my visa gift card to magically become a amazon gift card.
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