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Going rate for money gift for graduating high school?
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Anonymous
| This is for the daughter of good friends of ours. Our kids are babies, so not sure what amount to put in the card. Thank you. |
Anonymous
| it depends so much on your economic status, and the kind of gifts you have given her previously. When my niece graduated, I gave her $250. |
Anonymous
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Ditto to PP. Our family tends to be more in the $25-100 range depending on the closeness of the young person. Nieces and nephews got $100, we are close to them and see or talk to them often. Cousin's kids whom we see less than 1x/yr got $25.
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Anonymous
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For good friends I'd give 100-250 depending on what your normal gift giving budget is.
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Anonymous
| We gave 100 to nephew graduating high school this past week. |
Anonymous
| We just gave $250 to a niece. It felt like a lot to me, but we can afford it and her parents just went through a divorce in the last year and are not in a great financial place so it felt like the right thing. |
Anonymous
No more than $100.00 if they graduate with honors, otherwise no more than $50.00. I might also add that I would not want my son (who will graduate in 2012) to be given more than these aounts. |
Anonymous
| Wow, I think over $100 is A LOT, unless it's someone you know well or a close relative. |
Anonymous
| Op here--thanks. I was thinking around $75-$100, but didn't want to go overboard or be cheap! |
Anonymous
| My first cousin just graduated from high school -- daughter of an aunt that I am very close to. I am planning to send her $50. |
Anonymous
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When I graduated from HS in 2000, $100 seemed to be the standard amount. Some people gave less, a few superclose relatives and friends gave more, but $100 was the most common.
When I graduated from college in 2004, it was about the same. |
Anonymous
Even from people you aren't that close to? My husband's former boss's daughter just sent him a graduation announcement. Tacky in the extreme. Even if he still worked for that boss, not sure we'd give $100. |
Anonymous
| I was shocked at that amount. I think my parents were freaked that people gave me so much. I wrote out the thank you notes that night and dropped them in the mailbox same day (I think most people were really surprised to get the thank you note before the check even cleared. So many of the guests were people that I was not that close to at all. And my family/family friends are not a super HHI set. Maybe people just liked me a lot? My younger sister did not get as much as I did the following year... |
Anonymous
bizarre |
Anonymous
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"No more than $100.00 if they graduate with honors, otherwise no more than $50.00. I might also add that I would not want my son (who will graduate in 2012) to be given more than these aounts. "
Every kid in DCUM world graduates with honors ..... |