Believe it or not, some people *want* to give you expensive gifts. We registered for a few things that we really wanted (like a $450/set of pots and pans) and we got them! The most important stuff to register for is kitchen stuff and sheets/blankets/towels. Honestly, skip the technie stuff... most people (particularly family and close friends) don't want to buy you that kind of gift for your wedding.
If you have lots of in-town guests, use a local store. If you register at a place like Famous Barr, DON'T also go to Target. Its not worth the time and effort. If you have lots of out of town guests, do something like Target, but make sure that you don't duplicate. Target will allow you to return gifts, but only with a receipt.. but our experience was that they only allow an in-store exchange.
Famous Barr was really good about taking stuff back, even things that might not have been bought in their store. If they don't recognize the item, they can probably tell you where it came from.
You only have a week though... so you might consider asking for cash instead of gifts. Your poor wife-to-be is probably going crazy right now and the last thing she wants to do is traipse around unending aisles zapping cleaners and silverware.
Good luck and Congratulations!
P.S.
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Just an idea... if you're going to have to deal with crap from tight-ass bosses, its time to go anyway. It doesn't sound like you have the best of working environments anyway.
Then you can go write your application, wait a few months, make up a great company name (without telling your old buddies from work) and go into business (but don't sell to your old company... that just sounds like a bad idea).
Under no circumstances should you sign an agreement or begin work on a project when something as slippery as the "look and feel" of the website is still under negotiation.
The pages should be designed and the client should have signed off on them before any programming work ever begins. That way you're never caught in a pickle with a complete product and a client who can't make up their mind about whether a button should be red or blue.
The best approach, in my opinion, is to divide your project into phases. Before each phase begins, the users sign an agreement that says they will pay when that phase has been completed to their satisfaction (with a conditional clause that says they have 24 hours to respond and 3 weeks from the time the product was delivered to be "satisfied" without implying satifaction or incurring additional costs.
In a nutshell, always put the agreement on paper and make sure its signed before you ever turn your computer on.
Telephone number information will be used for contacts related to programming registered for by a household member (changes, cancellations, emergencies, and satisfaction surveys).
Unless this rec center enjoys annoying its patrons, I'd consider it essential to give the them the ability to opt-out of survey phone calls. Since survey call-centers are usually blocking caller-id, I think most people would agree that such calls an are, at minimum, suspicious and annoying.
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Just an idea... if you're going to have to deal with crap from tight-ass bosses, its time to go anyway. It doesn't sound like you have the best of working environments anyway.
Then you can go write your application, wait a few months, make up a great company name (without telling your old buddies from work) and go into business (but don't sell to your old company... that just sounds like a bad idea).
We did it and it worked for us.
The pages should be designed and the client should have signed off on them before any programming work ever begins. That way you're never caught in a pickle with a complete product and a client who can't make up their mind about whether a button should be red or blue.
The best approach, in my opinion, is to divide your project into phases. Before each phase begins, the users sign an agreement that says they will pay when that phase has been completed to their satisfaction (with a conditional clause that says they have 24 hours to respond and 3 weeks from the time the product was delivered to be "satisfied" without implying satifaction or incurring additional costs.
In a nutshell, always put the agreement on paper and make sure its signed before you ever turn your computer on.
Let the games begin!
Unless this rec center enjoys annoying its patrons, I'd consider it essential to give the them the ability to opt-out of survey phone calls. Since survey call-centers are usually blocking caller-id, I think most people would agree that such calls an are, at minimum, suspicious and annoying.
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