For those of us who can never decide upon what to give a person or a couple or a newborn baby on their special day, a gift registry is indeed a blessing. Started by the famous department store Marshall Fields of Chicago, the concept is simple: the soon-to-be husbands and wives go to their favorite store and register their names there as well as choose those objects that they think will make their new life together all the more convenient. Guests and friends are discretely told where the couple have registered themselves and are asked to go and choose presents from the list. It is a situation that will ensure no one is stuck scratching their heads in frustration, wondering what to buy the couple as a gift. Neither is the couple annoyed by getting a gift that is unsuitable or worse, given to them in many numbers by different guests.

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