If the original topic is still of interest....I find telling parents to be easy in my family...and they are the ones who were pestering us 'why didn't you register yet? Aunt Lue is asking what to buy you'...so since they are the ones asked what to buy they were perfect to fill in money for a house as the true need. Not that all gave us money..you can't change folks traditions..we were told in advance what one lady would give us, not because she talked, but because it was the same present she had given every newlywed in all her known years
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