Club Wedd

I have to begin this post with a special thank you to Amy. A month or so ago, she mentioned in her Blog that she received an offer from Target. The offer stated that if she filled out a wedding registry, she would get a $20 gift certificate. Only problem was, she's not getting married. She wrestled with the idea of just making one up and getting the free $20, but all her friends talked her out of it. I went as far as suggesting she send me the offer, since I was getting married. I was only kidding (partly), and a week later, it was in my mailbox! So Eric and I had fun (ok, mostly I had fun) putting together a registry at Target.com. It was actually more difficult than fun. We both have houses chock full of stuff. We really don't need anything! Thankfully you only had to have 10 items on the registry in order to qualify for the gift certificate. I think I managed to find 14.

A week or so passed and I sort of forgot about getting the $20 gift certificate. I knew it expired in the middle of May, so I had time. In the meantime, we received a packet of things from Target's Club Wedd in the mail. There was a fun file folder just full of nifty things. My favorite was the book of coupons, some of which were free items. There were checklists, shopping lists, post it notes, etc. None of which we really need or will probably use. Well, the coupons will be used, but probably not the other things. It really looked like a neat packet of items. I highly recommend anyone getting married to register at Target.

Today, Alex and I went to get the $20 gift certificate. All you have to do is print out the registry and present it to guest services and you get your gift card. (You have to present the offer as well.) We found our "registry", printed it out and took it to the service desk. There was a young kid working there. I handed him the offer. He didn't ask to see the registry at all and within 30 seconds just handed me a $20 gift card. I felt like he really didn't think I was getting married and that I was just trying to get free money. I almost felt guilty! But I wasn't guilty. He just gave me that look. It annoyed me. But I got the $20, so I guess I shouldn't care what a 16 year old kid thought.

Alex had a nice idea about what to do with the $20 gift card. He thought that we should split it between the 4 of us. So that's what we did. He bought 2 packs of Yu-Gi-Oh cards with his $5 and I bought a "fancy" Chicken Caesar frozen Pizza with my $5. I'll give Eric the card with the remaining $10 so that he and Kelsey can each get a little something for themselves.

Thanks, Amy!