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My mother’s Hanukkah gift to me this year:

A bone china espresso set that she brought with her to Canada when she immigrated here in the mid-70s. My mother owns a ridiculous amount of china, and I had never, ever seen this set. I peered on the bottom of one of the little cups to find [...]

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The change that comes with marriage.

Is a whole lot of beautiful new stuff. Sure, we lived together for two years before we got married, in this very same apartment, but we still get to have some change. Since we’ve gotten most of our registry loot, our not very glam apartment feels like a whole new classy pad.
For those of you [...]

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OK fine, I admit it, I like stuff.

Remember back when first posted about registering, I was all conflicted and shit about asking people to buy me stuff? (Probably not, as I don’t think many people read this blog back then!) Well, in the past couple of weeks people have actually started buying us said stuff, and I gotta say, I am over [...]

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Gimme gimme never gets

The whole process of registering has made me wonder if I know my manners yet.
Both the mister and I were, and still kind of are, so torn about registering. On the one hand, we could use the stuff. After a couple of overseas moves and many years of student budget living, it would be nice [...]

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