Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 11, 2024

Your wedding is an opportunity to get all that expensive stuff you will never use.

We got an InstaPot for our wedding. We rarely use it. Ditto with the knife set.

I use my bread dough maker twice a week. Homemade pizza is the best, and I NEVER skimp on the toppings!

Throw away the crockpot in which Aunt Helga left you $250K…

And that’s just all the gifts related to dining … I can only imagine what else might be on the gift list, and how much it all costs. AACK.

HI, MOM. Good Sunday Morning, “Cathy” Clan.

I cook a lot – a variety of cuisines – but I only got married twice. You’ll always want to buy your own small kitchen appliances, if you actually use them. A lot of stuff is just “gift junk” sold to the unwary to give to the “takeout/coronary” lifetstyle crowd.

I miss the point of wedding presents, especially for people with two incomes who are living together.

I went through a phase some time ago where I began working with several women who, the same year, were having big weddings. I had to listen to them complain about how they hated their wedding gifts, how they resented how little various people spent, what idiots the guests were to to not get together and plan better so they didn’t have to wind up with three toasters and two coffee makers, and how horrible it was to actually be expected to waste their time signing their name to a Thank You card.