How many people have heard of registering for gifts for an apartment warming?

My friend is having one and I am shocked at the items she has put on her list. She invited 44 people and is not even having it AT the apartment. So we are going to another friends house basically to give her gifts. I feel this is the rudest thing ever! No one furnished my first place. She has also turned down freebies but yet wants me to buy new stuff for her.

How many people have heard of registering for gifts for an apartment warming?
WHAT?? This is incredibly rude and tacky!!! If I were you, I wouldn't go. That is appalling.
Reply:That is a new one for me! LOL





Absolutely laughable.





House warming with food and good friends is one thing but REGISTERING for gifts. HA! In her DREAMS.
Reply:I agree enthusiastically with the other answerers on this one: RUDE AND TACKY. And, how can you even have an "apartment warming party" at someone ELSE'S place? Isn't the whole point to welcome all your friend to your new digs?
Reply:Only if she registered for a hair crimper, acid washed jeans and a bedazzler. RUDE and trashy!
Reply:Is she buying or renting?





It doesn't matter... that's crazy. If you have a house warming party, you accept the gifts people show up with, if they choose to show up with gifts. Don't be greedy.
Reply:No. You register for weddings and baby showers. Nothing else. If someone brings you a house-warming gift, that is very gracious of them, but it's rude to expect people to buy what you want them to buy.
Reply:House warmings are meant for the FIRST NEW HOME people buy, not an apartment. I can't believe people are actually attending. I would say something, but that's just me. Miss Manners would faint if she heard this. Don't go, I wouldn't.
Reply:Definitely sit this party out! Anyone willing to go to this "party" is only going because they either feel obligated to go and give a present or they want to go and give a present.





Either way, your friend is treating her lease-signing like an event equal to a wedding shower and it would be laughable if it wasn't so offensively mercenary.
Reply:As old as I am I have never ever heard of anybody registering for gifts for a house warming party.





I have heard of people having house warming parties whereby some friends might bring a bottle of booze along, but never a gift.





I wholeheartedly agree with you. Your friend is very rude in that she expects people to buy gifts for her new home. If she can't afford to furnish it then she can't afford to rent/buy it either.





Ah so, she doesn't want freebies hey... I take that to mean second hand goods... well that is just tough.





I have always had to furnish my own property, even when I first started out living alone. As a single-parent I have to manage. Many people do. They don't expect 'hand outs' in life.





You are NOT a charity. Buy her something small and affordable if you want to, but do so because you genuinely want to give from your heart, and not simply because your friend has produced a list of items she wants and expects others to buy for her.





Blessings x
Reply:LOL how hilariously rude of her! Go to the party if you want but tell her you haven't found the right gift for her yet.





I presume you'd just never find that gift EVER.





LOL what a selfish fruitcake of a friend!