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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 8:16:36 GMT -5
My first year book was from eighth grade.
Not sure where that is, or where my HS year books are.
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Post by Formerly SK on May 12, 2011 9:01:17 GMT -5
OMG I'm sooooooo with you!! The pressure to buy stuff through the schools is quite high.
My biggie at the moment is school photos. Even the cheapest package is $20-25. And this is for 2-3 prints of a crappy picture. I'm an amateur photographer and have a bazillion great pics of my kids. Every year I swear I'm never buying them again. We'll see how I hold up next fall. ;D
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Post by 973beachbum on May 12, 2011 9:25:59 GMT -5
It wasn't so bad when they were cheaper. My DD's Middle school yearbook was $35. The HS ones are over $200. ![](http://us.social.s-msn.com/s/images/emoticons/what_smile.gif) Without asking she had decided that she was just going to get one in her senior year. It sounds good but the shame is that she won't get any pictures of the kids 10-12 that she is friends with when she is in 12th grade. I do like that she made the decision by herself though.
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Post by qofcc on May 12, 2011 9:44:40 GMT -5
My daughter liked buying the yearbook but my son didn't care so since they were in the same school, we just bought one. I still have my HS ones and look at them at reunion time. It's a nice idea as long as they don't get carried away and make it unaffordable. I think our grammar school ones were softcover and cost about $10. We didn't buy the school pics every year, but we went to sears with a coupon and got a picture package every year so we do have formal pictures from every year in addition to all of the candid ones I scrap booked.
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Post by Small Biz Owner on May 12, 2011 9:53:56 GMT -5
What, no preschool yearbooks yet? Time to get your new business started. ![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_eQvT5hsJfdE/SyhlJLyTerI/AAAAAAAAEZA/lKYFm8t5-mY/Family%20Page%202009%20-%20Page%20001_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg)
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 12, 2011 9:59:58 GMT -5
I think the elementary school yearbooks started when I was in 4th grade? They were just cheap, little paperbacks, but I loved them because I always wanted one, just like my sister had (she was in junior high at the time). I was editor of my high school yearbook my senior year and I had such a blast. I recently got rid of all my HS yearbooks, but now I'm kind of wishing I kept them. Even after all these years, I would flip through it and remember exactly which stories I rewrote. Pretty easy, considering it was most of them. Our HS yearbooks were really nice books. My HS won a lot of awards each year for the books. They were also pretty affordable ($40, if I recall), but with a school of 3,000 students we were able to keep the cost for most things down since we'd get a larg group rate. I remember prom tickets cost the same as your graduation year, i.e., my senior prom was $20.00, my sister's was $19.96, and my brother's was $20.01.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 12, 2011 10:16:43 GMT -5
I got my first yearbook in 7th grade. I have no idea where the middle school ones are at now, my HS yearbooks are somewhere in my parents' basement. Looking back now I don't really see the point of having one from all four years. I will probably take out my senior one to show DD someday and look at all the signatures I got from friends in there.
DD's daycare does picture day twice a year. We haven't ordered anything because I thought the quality was junk, I can get better pictures from my mom or SIL.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 10:24:17 GMT -5
Why not Daycare Yearbooks? How about Yearbooks of all the babies born in the same hospital for the year your kid was born? It could go on and on. The "room mom" in our daycare put together a placemat with a picture of the each kid in the class. It came out beautifully (but I have to say that because my wife is the room mom.)
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 10:24:48 GMT -5
My son got a "yearbook" from his Early Childhood "Baby and Me" and toddler classes. LOL They were about $10 or so, but I love them! He's going into 4th grade this fall and is in class with a lot of those kids that were in his baby class. Some of them he'll even end up graduating with...maybe even marry one of the girls! It's cute to see them together when they were tiny.
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Post by thyme4change on May 12, 2011 10:28:47 GMT -5
Our elementary school has a yearbook. So, yes, Kindergarten is included. I thought it was ridiculous, but it was $12, so I bought it. I have to say - I'm mightly glad I did. First off, my daughter loves to just look through it. Also, when we talk about her friends or people that are in her class and I can't place them, she can pull out her yearbook and show me their pictures. When we remember a face, but not a name, we look them up. It has turned out to be quite fun and handy. The thing that does tick me off is that each of my kids get their own copy, every year. So, I will 2 copies of the same book for 4 years. ![](http://media.funsmileys.com/smileys/sad024.gif)
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Post by kimber45 on May 12, 2011 10:30:45 GMT -5
I don't think we had them in jr high (middle school), just senior high and I don't think DS had them either until Sr high. I bought them all four years of hs so did DH and DS.
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Post by azphx1972 on May 12, 2011 12:31:16 GMT -5
I kinda wish my family was well off enough to purchase a yearbook when I was in elementary school. I sometimes think about the people that I went to school with and wonder what happened to some of them, and if I had their names I could try to find them on facebook. I think if it doesn't cost too much and you can easily afford it, you might want to think about getting the yearbooks for your kids (and make sure they don't lose it) in case they want to look at them later on in life when they're reflecting on their youth. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on May 12, 2011 12:48:32 GMT -5
I always hated the yearbooks growing up. My parents didn't have much money and we had roughly a million kids in our family so we never got the school pics. We had to go in for the pics and act like we cared even though we knew we would not be getting any of them. Then the yearbooks would come out and you would see how bad your pic looked. In high school, I managed to get my pic taken officially just once (Freshman year). I looked like crap in the yearbook. Soph year I wasn't in the main class pics but was in the group photos for the events I was in. Junior year I got cornered one morning by someone from the yearbook committee and they took my pic (I had just woken up, no makeup, hadn't showered, frizzy hair, etc). Not a good look. My senior year, I didn't get any nice pics taken and the yearbook committee never brought it up. I wasn't even in the "not pictured" section so it was like I didn't exist that year. My mom bought me a yearbook that year (I didn't ask for it and thought it was a total waste of $$). So I have a book of pics for people I don't talk to anymore and nothing that has my picture inside it.
I do wonder if they use the yearbook for reunions, though. Anyone here on the reunion committee of their HS? Ours was a few years ago and I didn't get invited. I didn't even know about it until I ran into an old friend of mine at a bar when I was back in my hometown and she mentioned that they had it 6 months prior. I had moved out of town but my parents still lived in the same place w/the same phone number and I hadn't changed my name so I don't think I would be difficult to find. The only thing I can think is that they used our senior yearbook to invite people and I wasn't in it so they forgot. It was kinda amusing to me because I went to the same HS for 4 years, had been in class with the same kids since 3rd grade, and was valedictorian. I guess it is easy to forget folks..
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on May 12, 2011 12:51:43 GMT -5
Work Yearbooks! What would ya think of that? I like this idea! It could include clips of people stealing lunches out of the frig, fixxing paper jams, maybe an Office Space theme?
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Post by myrrh on May 12, 2011 13:03:50 GMT -5
I agree with azphx, it would be nice to have the last name of some of the kids I went to elementary school with. First names aren't much to go on. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) As far as high school books, I think it would be good to get one in freshman year and one in senior year; this would catch most of the kids you went to school with and only cost half as much as buying every year.
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Post by Havoc on May 12, 2011 13:04:39 GMT -5
We just ran into this issue this year, with our sons in K & 1st grade.... they took pics with their class, and we ordered the class picture for each, but skipped the over-priced photos as well as the yearbook. My wife and I both thought it was a little ridiculous - yearbooks when we were growing up didn't start till junior high, but I do get why people get them. And might.... just might.... buy them next year, especially if the boys decide that they want them.
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Post by Havoc on May 12, 2011 13:06:34 GMT -5
As far as high school books, I think it would be good to get one in freshman year and one in senior year; this would catch most of the kids you went to school with and only cost half as much as buying every year. Yeah, this is sort of what I did (8th grade, then senior year), in part b/c my family moved a lot, so I was in different schools for junior and high school.
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Post by midjd on May 12, 2011 13:07:40 GMT -5
My mom's boss (a multi-millionaire) once told her that he only bought his kids' yearbook photos every other year, because "they don't change that much". ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Mrs. Dinero on May 12, 2011 13:10:27 GMT -5
If it wasn't for my yearbooks(which I reference all the time) I would have no memory of HS. I wish they offered them in grade school when I was in school. I buy both kids one each year. Its fun to look back.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 19:12:41 GMT -5
One of my earliest memories is fourth grade. We were living with cousins then. I got "Student of the Month," and I was asked to bring in a picture. Picture? There were NO pictures of either me or my sister, who was four years older.
The cousin didn't buy that year's school pictures either. So when the yearbook order form came out, I wanted one. I was told that it would cost ALL my allowance for two or three months. That was fine. It actually only cost me about a month because it was hard for them to take THEIR daughter to skating, etc. and leave me at home. I loved that yearbook, but I lost it when we moved to another's relative's house the next year.
Just understand that wanting the yearbook may have underlayers. It may be about "belonging" or remembering certain friends.
Parents should talk to kids about this kind of thing before they say yes or no. It's is absolutely fine to say no, but figure out why they want it.
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