register for both sets?

My husband and I don't want to find out and I was wondering if anyone has this predicament..
The baby's nursery is done (painted tan and white trim) and I'd like to get a dark wood crib (but I like white!!!) to go with both and was wondering if you register for a boy bedding set and a girl bedding set, a boring gender neutral one OR none at all (but I don't want to pay for it myself ;) and have to get it after the baby is born.. What should I do?

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We registered for a gender neutral set during my last pregnancy. It's not boring at all, it's really cute. There are a lot of options out there for neutral. I would feel terrible registering for both sets, because then when the baby is born, whoever bought the wrong gender will know that their gift is getting returned and I think that would be a crappy feeling! So I would either buy it yourself or register for gender neutral.

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With my twins, I didn't know what I was having so I bought 2 girl sets and 2 boy sets. My poor dad did a lot of returns for me when I was still in the hospital. I didn't want gender neutral.

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i know a lot of people who register for a set each. if you are registered at bru though it might be a pain with the returns

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I just feel like everything is going to be gender neutral and the real reason I thought about registering for both was because I saw a really cute boy set.
Skinny, what did your babies sleep in when they came home? I'm also wondering how I would wash the baby's bedding while in the hospital.. Or maybe I'll put the baby in a bassinet?

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OMG THIS CUT OFF HALF MY POST!!! LOL

it really started out saying how we wanted to register for both, but thought that would be weird if ppl see 2 sets not knowing what to buy etc, and not getting other stuff we really need but tons of bedding related stuff (of course that you can return)

so then i thought, DH and I will just buy 2 sets, but then i worried, what if something is discontinued or out of stock for a while that goes with the set that we use??? then what? so then we thought we'll not just buy both beddings, but both full accessories as well, but now we're talking me spending 800 bucks, (returning like 400 of it after of course)...then realized thats alot of money that we could really use for something else, not to mention will I have an extra 400 lying around at the time???

so we decided to go with a neutral set, that other people can buy for us, and we love it and I'm thrilled with it

but I definitely contemplated many ways to do both...I guess ifyou have the $$ to do it, then definitely it is a great idea!

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I haven't registered yet but I'm just wondering.. Is BRU difficult for returns? I was thinking about BBB instead with everyone's positive posts.

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What does your set look like???

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I heard that BRU is bad with returns so we just registered at BBB.

We had originally registered for a neutral bedding set but took it off the registry. I plan to just buy it when the baby comes.

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MathWife, that's a great idea! We just had the room done and weren't going to paint it until closer to due date but the guy offered and I was like SURE! I wanted to get everything cleaned and organized before going back to work because of how busy Sept-Nov is with school!
MrsP, that's where I think I'll go then but I don't think my mom or husband would let me register for two lol! Maybe I'll just wait and see??

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Maybe register for one neutral and then return it and buy the boy or girl one you want?

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We are team and wanted a gender specific room. In a soft moment, I gave in to DH's suggestion to set the room up AFTER our LO is born - so we don't even have the room painted!!! What was I thinking?!?!? At 39 weeks, I wish I had just picked a neutral color and only needed to worry about the bedding!

I did register for both sets and got all of the girl stuff...lol So we will see what happens!!!

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I registered for one of each , the baby will go in the pac n play in the beginning so we dont need the bedding right away (and nobody will buy me anything until the baby is born anyway so i dont have to worry about exchanges)