What Exactly Are We Going to Do With All These Novelty Waffle Makers?

First things first — we are so appreciative of your generosity. As a newly married couple moving into our first place together, we are absolutely thrilled that so many of you took the time — and money — to send us \ wedding gifts. We can’t say thank you enough. But we are wondering what exactly we’re going to do with all of these novelty waffle makers.

Again, it’s wonderful to know our friends and loved ones are thinking of us. Maybe there’s something about us that just screams “novelty waffle maker.” There must be. We didn’t ask for any novelty waffle makers or non-novelty waffle makers on our registry. We had a registry. There was a link on the wedding invitations. We put a lot of things that we could use on that registry — like kitchen towels and tongs.

This is in no way a slight on all of these novelty waffle makers. This one makes waffles that look like Captain America’s shield and this one makes waffles of Bob Ross’ face, for some reason. A Snoopy waffle maker? We’ve got one. Another one makes Pokemon waffles. We don’t know anything about Pokemon and we didn’t even download the Pokemon Go app when everyone was doing that a few years ago but it’s still a nice gesture. And earlier today, we got another one — it makes mini dinosaur waffles. The diversity of waffle options will slightly amuse the children we haven’t fully decided we want to have someday.

It’s just that we did have a few needs. Most of our cutlery is plastic. We don’t even have a toaster. We store our leftovers in old take-out containers. We’re young and in love but we’re just barely holding on here, friends and family. And we’re not sure why people kept asking us about our registry — which, again, we totally made — if they were all so convinced that what we needed was novelty waffle makers. We went through Target with a scanner and made our registry together. It was fun. We even passed the waffle makers and thought — should we add one of these? And then decided, no, we should probably ask for things like plates and glasses first.

Also, our apartment is small. Which, not surprisingly, means the kitchen is small. We can probably keep one of our novelty waffle makers on the counter (the Olaf one maybe?) while we store the others in the — we don’t know — bathroom under the sink? Inside the stove? Since no one got us bath towels or pans, there might be room.

While there might have been other things we could have used, we know one thing for certain — if any of you come to visit us, you’ll have to bring your own towels and silverware and cups but you’ll definitely know what you’ll get for breakfast.