NWR: Housewarming registry?

From my experience usually single people throw the type of housewarming party where you might register. But since you are engaged and will be having a shower, if I were you I would not do a registry for your housewarming. If you send out invites for a housewarming I would find a way to state that in the invite. Now if someone wants to bring you something anyway, you should accept the gift.

I hope this has helped you see perspective.

I didn't register for my housewarming. I had a cookout at the house. Some people did bring gifts. I think most did to be honest.

I agree with with Michelle. If you receive gifts accept them graciously. If you already have a registry people may purchase from it.

My sister and her husband had a housewarming in lieu of a wedding shower since the purchase of their home was within a few months of the wedding. The gifts people did bring weren't pulled from their registry (I don't think they'd registered yet) and they hosted it, not someone else. It was more of a "Hey everyone, we would love it if you came to see our new home now that it has been all put together" instead of a gift-giving event.

I'll tell you this: my sister had a housewarming party with a registry, then a bridal shower, and then a wedding. She didn't receive many cards or gifts at the wedding, and people still talk about how gift grabby it all was.

No, I wouldn't register. What I would do is start a small bridal registry now and put a few items on it.

If I was going to a housewarming party and I knew the couple was engaged, I might search for their bridal registry to grab something small from it. But I wouldn't make a separate registry. That comes off gift grabby. If people want to find your registry, they'll seek it out. So maybe start a small bridal one now? You have plenty of time to add to it or change it before your wedding.

I wouldn't either honestly. I'd make sure your wedding registry is set up and if people ask, you or your relatives can tell them about it.

I agree 100% with PPs. I would not do a separate registry or advertise your registry for your housewarming. It seems gift grabby, especially since your wedding will be within a year and a half of your housewarming. If someone wants to know what they should get you, at that point it would be OK to mention your registry.

I wouldn't register. However a couple years ago when my FH and I moved in together I always thought it'd be so much more helpful to have a housewarming shower, rather than a wedding shower! Wish it could be a Thing, but traditions are traditions I guess, and you don't want to look like that guy..

Thanks everyone! I agree, I found it strange and asking for wayy too much to have a registry for every single milestone in your life

My friends are having one (calling it a "grooms shower") along with a bridal shower and everyone is pretty annoyed by it.

Yeah I knew of a couple that got married and bought a house right after and registered again for housewarming gifts. Major side eye. Like pp said just make sure your bridal registry is set up and if people want to get you something they can pull it off of there.

We did not have a registry for our housewarming. People brought gifts, mostly gift cards Lowes and Home Depot. We were grateful for gifts, but didn't expect them. I agree that if your bridal registry is set up, people could pull from there, but I wouldn't even suggest it in the invites, let people do it on their own.

A housewarming registry sounds like a corporate scam to get people to spend more money on shit they don't need. Have a party; if people bring a gift, Yay! If not, no biggie. A registry is presumptuous, imo.

Nope, don't register! I would eye roll so freakin' hard if I saw a housewarming registry.

I wouldn't register for the housewarming party! I think many people would down on you for that honestly.

I think registries should be reserved for weddings and babies. Only a few people brought gifts to my housewarming, and I didn't expect them to.

When you don't ask or mention gifts people will be more likely to bring something. They won't want to come if they think the only reason you are inviting them is for the gifts.

See I'm contemplating having a house warming registry as we did not have a wedding shower our house we just bought is pretty barren so we do need things and could be years until we get them however I want our housewarming to be just that come over and enjoy our house but we don't even have a grill yet but have a pool !