unpacking gifts..

sarack

was a huge PITA! We were so excited to register and receive all these wonderful things but I don't think DH or I realized how much stuff would be in our tiny apt!

 how long did it take you to completely unpack and finish your registries?

 we finished our registries on friday and we are almost finished organizing and everything.. ih ave pictures of how packed our living room was with everything! soo much paper to recycle!

FutureMrsGeltz

We have not finished our registries, or finished unpacking our gifts.  Our guest bedroom became "wedding central" during the planning process.  Now it's "gift central".  I never realized how much work it would be to unpack and organize everything! I've been doing a little at a time, but the majority of the gifts are still in there. 

SLAHSarah

We haven't finished our registries either.  Most of our guests gave us a monetary gift so there is still TONS left on our registries.  We probably won't finish them either.  With my birthday coming and then Christmas, it'll give people an opportunity to purchase from there if need be. 

 We are going to clean house first and get rid of some things we don't use.  Then we'll finish unpacking all of our gifts.

benmel31

we got back from our honeymoon on saturday, on sunday we opened gifts, and yesterday we went through them.  we needed the room!  we decided to return a bunch of stuff even though we had registered for it.  we just don't need it right now and plan to move in october, so we do not feel like packing and unpacking stuff we really do not need.  we did buy some more stuff when we returned the gifts, but it was all stuff we knew we wanted now.  i know there is more i want to get, but i can wait and get it later.

now everything is stacked against a wall in our living room.  for most of the stuff, it will be packed up as is and we will not use it until we move. 

kaynix21

We still have a ton of stuff that wasn't purchased off our registry. And we can't afford to buy it all lol. It's all packed in my mom's living room. It's a mess. And it doesn't fit in our storage unit right now. It'll be OK once we're in our own place, because we got a lot of dishes and towels, so we'll get rid of our old stuff and update it with the new.

AndysBride10

Ugh!!! Us too! We have a 2 bedroom apartment but we had to put a closet and a half into our bedroom one which now looks cluttered so we could pile all the boxes on top of each other in our middle closet. I think it took us 3 days to even move the first box cuz it was so overwhelming. That was after the shower. We just bought the rest of our registry and just added it to the closet so that wasn't that bad.

dmorris5

I did it in phases, kinda.  The things we really wanted, I unpacked right away and started using.  Then I would choose the area (Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedding) and completely clean, then pack up the old and replace with new.  We only just did the bedding set last weekend. 

We haven't bought anything off the registry because I'm watching for the brands to go on sale.   

tailspin430

Literally half of our apartment is covered in broken down boxes, tissue paper, and bubble wrap. It's a mess. We've unpacked almost all of the gifts that were sent to us, but a bunch of them are sitting on the kitchen counter waiting to find a home.

We've completed at one of the places we're registered at, but still need to pick up a few things at the others. We also got mostly $$, so we're spending some of that on registry items.

We also have a handful of large items at my parents' house that we couldn't fly back home with us. My dad is going to drive them down (from PA to TX!) in September sometime. Don't know where they're going to go, though! We only have a one bedroom apt and very little closet space.

GracefulMeadow86

yeah...our spare bedroom is our gift room. we opened them all, but we havent used many or put them away! it probably doesnt help that we're still renovating our house too!

lburkey21

Since we're still living at MIL's house, all our wedding gifts are packed up and in storage. I can't wait til we move and get in our own place and can start using all our new, fun stuff!

Jeffie86

All of the gifts we received from the wedding and shower, along with the stuff we bought off of our Target regsitry this past weekend have been living in my parents' basement, with the exception of our bedding, which we needed right away.

But we're finally moving to our new apartment this weekend and I am soooo excited to unpack it all and use it!

I wish we could have waited for brands to go on sale, but having none of your registries in your hometown and getting that 10% off that you can only use once, we just sucked it up and spend a large portion of our wedding money.  We did get invited to a special 20% off night at BBB, though, which should be fun.

lisam1217

We mostly received monetary gifts as well so our clutter isn't too bad.  Though, there are some random kitchen items that we received that are all sitting on the kitchen counter.  We will get around to organizing eventually

ellen73

We kinda took over my parents basement.   And we will have to keep them there until we have a house!  The condo is "staged" for showings- and I didn't even bring my kitchen-aid. Which really stinks. 

slpmay03

We are still unpacking, but my husband got rid of a lot of the empty boxes this week.  Our cabinets are full and we still have presents under and behind the kitchen table.  We are truly blessed!!

Megglez2008

We're still working on unpacking. I've been trying to do it by room (starting with the kitchen) but it's not working out that way, haha. We were given mostly money or giftcards, so we still have quite a bit on our registries to get. We did one shopping trip last week to buy some of the stuff we really needed (pots and pans, knives) but we'll get the rest of the stuff when we can afford it. Our apartment is a tiny two-bedroom and our second bedroom/den which was wedding central is now the gift room. I can't wait for all of it to be put away!