Woman Makes Gift Registry Celebrating Her Choice Not To Be A Mother

Gift registries has been around for many years now.

People will often make a gift registry if they are expecting a child or having a wedding. A woman has decided to make a registry for a different reason.

Meet Jackie Dives

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Jackie Dives is a young woman who lives in Vancouver, Canada.

She is very active on social media and is constantly posting updates on her life to her @jackiedives TikTok account.

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She's A Photogropher

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In her professional life Jackie works as a photojournalist.

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She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She shares a lot of her professional work on her Instagram account.

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She's Making A Gift Registry

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In one of her recent videos, Jackie announced that she was starting a gift registry.

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The gift registry was to celebrate her choice to be single and that she was not going to be having children.

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Wants To Make A Point

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She said that she was doing this because she wanted to prove a point.

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She is trying to bring awareness to those women who choose to live a child-free life.

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Everyone Should Feel Fulfilled

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She says that those people who choose not to have children have that right.

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She says that whatever they decide to do with their life is just as important as those who do decide to be parents.

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Sharing The Link

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She shared a link to her registry on her Instagram account.

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To some people this sounded like an unconventional reason to create a gift registry versus the more traditional reasons for people to make one.

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Started Receiving Gifts

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People clearly were appreciating her views and supportive of her registry.

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She started to post videos of her opening gifts that people were sending her. This person sent her some film for her camera.

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Some Were Big

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One of the gifts that she received were rather large.

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This person sent her an espresso machine that she had on her registry. She said that she never thought anyone would buy that for her.

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Some Were Small

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Other people sent her smaller gifts like this person who sent her a book.

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She said that it was never about actually receiving gifts buy more bringing awareness to people's choices.

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Thanking Everyone

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Some people attached notes with their gifts.

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People who sent her gifts would say how they appreciated what she was doing and they wanted to make sure that she was feeling fulfilled.