Thankfully, we didn’t put everything on our ‘Definite’ list or we’d be required to purchase a lot after the baby was born! Basically the store, Baby 2000, requires you to say if the item you want is a ‘must or definite’ in that case they put it the backroom in a box for you; if you say the item is ‘not a definite’ than we’re not guaranteed to be able to get that product or forced to buy it, especially if it’s seasonal or some product that they won’t get again. When we were at Premaman, I don’t think we had the option to hold items back or make a ‘Definite’ list unless we wanted certain clothes which were seasonal, in that case, they’d hold them back and we’d be required to purchase them (though, you could only register for clothes 2-3 weeks before the baby was born which wasn’t worth it in my case b/c of the showers being before those dates). We created our registry back in April and the baby is due in July which is not normal by European standards since they wait until a month or less before hand to create their baby list(I think). Also I was a little annoyed that the websites didn’t have better pictures (if any at all) or descrptions…oh well, it was a new experience!

Thanks again and by the way I love the adorable burp clothes you made! I’m going to pick up the other items at Premaman soon, so I’ll get the baby food cups and bottles as well! Thanks!

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And yeah the candy that visitors get is called doopsuiker in Dutch. No idea about French.

Hans can’t grasp the fact that we can’t do money tranfers and paylents via computer like they can here. I like the amount of online banking here, but that digipass? PAIN!

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In Belgium, when one visits a new baby, the visitor recievers a gift – usually sugared almonds. They are like the bomboniere given out at weddings :)

I really struggled with the lack of onine banking in the USA – we even paid our rent and electricity by cheque. But then in Belgium I have to remember to bring our little KBC digicard reader with me whenver I make an electronic payment.

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