What do you get your child graduating from high school?

[Anonymous]

A ROTH IRA

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so lane rrwading these responses.
I was going to do a fancy balloon, flowers, and a hoodie with the college.

Maybe I'll run out to Costco now instead and see what laptops they have on sale and have sibling gift the hoodie. Yikes!

Don't do that!

Colleges will send specific specs for what laptop incoming students must have. Where my DD goes to school, we had to buy from their supplier, too.

My son's university required AirBooks, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencils and all had to be purchased through them. Even if your kid had those exact items, they had to buy new ones.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel so lane rrwading these responses.
I was going to do a fancy balloon, flowers, and a hoodie with the college.

Maybe I'll run out to Costco now instead and see what laptops they have on sale and have sibling gift the hoodie. Yikes!

Don't do that!

Colleges will send specific specs for what laptop incoming students must have. Where my DD goes to school, we had to buy from their supplier, too.

My son's university required AirBooks, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencils and all had to be purchased through them. Even if your kid had those exact items, they had to buy new ones.

Which college ? We haven’t heard anything like this from ours

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A fancy dinner after the graduation dinner. A trip abroad. A brand new Prius.

No flowers, no jewelry, no bags, no card, no grad party.

Kid got merit at state school. we paid the rest. we covered her for every cost - rent, food, gas, entertainment, clothes, insurance, medical, travel, eating out etc - until she began her career.

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Guys, balloons are not a gift.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got her a new car. She had a tough year and her old car was totaled while it was parked out front so we wanted to do something really nice for her.

I was surprised it took so long to see this one.

The rich/UMC kids I knew got cars.

Really? Most middle class families I know give their kids Honda Civic to drive back and forth for college. They just wait until after graduation to give it to them.

[Anonymous]

A special ring that she picked out herself. We gave her a budget and she found something well within that. She loves it and I'm so glad we had a discussion about what she wanted instead of buying something expensive that might have been hit or miss.

[Anonymous]

$5,000 to invest/save. We also got her earrings but $$ is the main gift. We do the same for all of our kids when they graduate (minus the earrings).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel so lane rrwading these responses.
I was going to do a fancy balloon, flowers, and a hoodie with the college.

Maybe I'll run out to Costco now instead and see what laptops they have on sale and have sibling gift the hoodie. Yikes!

Don't do that!

Colleges will send specific specs for what laptop incoming students must have. Where my DD goes to school, we had to buy from their supplier, too.

My son's university required AirBooks, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencils and all had to be purchased through them. Even if your kid had those exact items, they had to buy new ones.

Which college ? We haven’t heard anything like this from ours

There are different requirements by college and major. Don't buy one before you know what they need.

[Anonymous]

^ I have three kids who went to different colleges with three different majors and have never heard of a college providing computer specs.

[Anonymous]

laptop, flower, $500 cash

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A big trip (to a place she had had always wanted to visit).

But that was planned months ahead, just sprung on her for graduation.

[Anonymous]

He's getting a new laptop. I also paid for dinner, some balloons, and a DoorDash card.

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I paid over $600,000 for their private school tuition and they have a fully funded college fund. That’s plenty.

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Anonymous wrote:A ROTH IRA

Little late on the uptake, aren’t you? I did this sophomore year when she got a job.