The site, GreenWish.com, uses the familiar idea of an online gift registry.

A gift registry is a particular type of wish list.

Unless, of course, people decide to buy something off the list, as you did - then you don't need a gift registry at all.

And like other gift registries, Della.com has a simple strategy to overcome those hurdles: money.

The gift registry, however, has thrown a few people off.

Computers normally used for gift registry are sending e-mail messages to the military.

I foresee only one real problem in this kind of idiosyncratic gift registry.

The eToys.com site says you must be 18 to register to create a gift registry.

For the gift registry, which takes about a minute to create, you also must provide a shipping address and the name of the child.

Putting a gift registry on the website is looked down upon by some experts.