How much are you giving good friends kids for graduation?

[Anonymous]

All the drop in parties, kids got $25 gc (and our kids got the same), aunts and uncles gave $100

[Anonymous]

I gave my best friends kid $300 but she has been amazing to me for the past 30 years and I consider them my family.

[Anonymous]

I gave $200 to the first DC then my friend did nothing at all for my only kid graduating from college so I didn't do anything for the rest.

[Anonymous]

I give between $100 and $200. I gave my niece and nephew $500 each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea you were supposed to give kids money for graduating. Not joking.

$500 for a friend’s kid? I would pause before giving my own kid that amount, but will likely give around that amount in gifted, or cash if he would prefer. He is graduating 8th grade this year and I got him probably close to $400 in gifts, and I thought that was excessive. I got nothing from my parents - not even a card - for graduation from high school, college, or grad school (I paid for grad through loans and they paid for the lead up to it). They paid for private school and college and I guess thought that was gift enough. I was not about to ask or argue over it.

[Anonymous]

How about a neighbors kid you don’t know too well? I was thinking $50 but DH assumed $100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a neighbors kid you don’t know too well? I was thinking $50 but DH assumed $100.

Either is fine. Split the difference.