What was your high school and college graduation gift from your parents? Your best gift?
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Anonymous
| My parents got me a Tag Heuer watch for HS graduation, and gave me a sizable check for college graduation. They also co-signed an Amex card for me. |
Anonymous
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High school: A word processor (this was in '93--everyone else had computers, but my parents figured I didn't need one for college and that a word processor would suffice) and a watch (I hate wearing watches.)
College: nothing, but I was getting married a few months later and they were paying for my wedding ($15,000) |
Anonymous
| They payed for my college. Best gift ever. |
Anonymous
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I believe I received luggage as high school graduation gift.
Don't remember anything for college. But they paid for college and grad school (which I was beginning immediately after college). Both were at in state public universities. After grad school, I believe I requested a piece of furniture for my new apartment in my new town (Washington DC). (Kinda bratty thinking of this so many years later.) Graduations were in 1987, 1991, and 1993. |
Anonymous
What is a sizable check? I want to give a check to my kid, but don’t know what amount. |
Anonymous
| We gave money and he used it to travel to Europe before college started. |
Anonymous
right? My parents had paid for me to attend a parochial HS for a better HS education (I didn't grow up in the DC area-I also had gotten a small merit scholarship that covered about 25%) and then paid for my private college tuition. It helped that I was an only child, but seriously, not having loans to pay back was the best gift ever. They then signed over the paid off Geo not long after I graduated. I wasn't allowed to take it to college, but I didn't really need it as my campus was pretty self contained. I had driven it my senior year in HS and anytime I was home from college. It became mine and ran for about 4 more years. We'll see what happens with my kids. We are basically steering them to state schools. My oldest is not a top student due to ADHD, is into dance and is also a bit of a homebody - I see no reason to send her outside of VA. Her top choice right now is probably Radford, which is regularly laughed at on these boards, but they actually have a really great dance program, a decent sports medicine program and the campus is really nice (she spent 2 weeks there last summer). Our second is much younger, so we'll see, but we will remain in VA where we have really great state school options. |
Anonymous
| A week after college graduation, they took me to IKEA and bought me some furniture for my little bedroom in my first apartment in NoVA. |
Anonymous
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High school a $5k bike
College a Rolex and a car |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
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High school- 10k.
College- new car (it was a 1 year old preowned, but still very nice!) I think the car was key. SO many of my friends had junkers and immediately had to go out and get $500 a month financed cars and they really weren't able to save much because of that. Partly their own fault for getting such expensive cars though. |
Anonymous
| I got a trip with my Mom to England for college graduation (vacation plus visiting family). For high school, they bought me a desktop to take with me to college. |
Anonymous
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$500/month for a car? Yeah, that is ridiculous for a recent college grad
My husband drives a pretty nice Toyota sedan and it is $350-ish/month. |
Anonymous
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High School: dinner
College: security deposit and first month's rent on an apartment. Best: my now wife got me a tag watch for college graduation. |
Anonymous
Without a trade in or down payment or a credit history, that Toyota sedan may cost nearly $500 a month |