Re: No boxed gifts please
getting cash is great and who doesn't want money, but asking for cash is what i have an issue with.
I dont think saying 'no boxed gifts please' means that they are asking for cash. It just depends on how you take it. For me, it just means please dont go and buy us a crockpot, and if you really want to give us a gift, make it cash. As for people saying, how much should we give etc, well, you give what you can afford and also, how close you are to the family. Like my parents gave my cousin $200. But if we were to go to a wedding outside the family, it would be $100.
I think if people end up buying something off your registry that costs $25, as compared to somebody who bought you something for $100, if you are really arrogant, you are still going to make fun of the $25. When somebody buys something off your registry you KNOW how much it costs. Its exactly the same as receiving that in cash.
I think it is really presumptuous to say that the only reason people put that on the cards if because they want tonns of money. Maybe they just dont want the junk you've accumulated from the flea market!