Did your student have a Bed Party?

[Anonymous]

Nerd here 👋

I'm fairly confident this trend has its roots in D9 culture, where it's strictly forbidden to wear letters/colors of an org before officially gaining membership. Friends and family would buy gifts to celebrate when a new member "crossed" and store them in dorm rooms instead of bringing them to public probate celebrations. That developed into a dorm-room "reveal" -- later borrowed as Covid-era "bed parties."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

Oh, it's so much worse that I imagined. My eyes

[Anonymous]

Sweet Christ I hate China for unleashing the virus that led to ridiculous trends like this.

[Anonymous]

The rona did this? I thought it was social media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

Oh, it's so much worse that I imagined. My eyes

That was my post, these are subdued ones believe it or not!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

Oh, it's so much worse that I imagined. My eyes

That was my post, these are subdued ones believe it or not!

In my ignorance, I genuinly thought it was going to be some front porch planter with like, themed little signs or ribbons, and was already rolling my eyes. Little did I know...

[Anonymous]

Dumbest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope! I put these in the same category as the elaborate over-the-top gender reveal parties. Creepy, weird, unnecessary, wasteful, and obnoxious. Glad my kid made no mention of it—doesn’t seem to be as much of a thing in our area or in her circles.

Ewwww. Who wants that many clothes with a school name on it?

The Vandy kid will weigh 200 pounds after consuming all those foil wrapped chocolates that were bought based on their wrapper styling. Hope she likes Ferrero Rochers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

Oh, it's so much worse that I imagined. My eyes

LOLOL

These are *mild* examples of the phenomena. Some of them are absolutely massive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The reactions on DCUM are making me laugh! Op here. Awww I do like them, my kid not so much . But there’s just something about the decorating that I love!

You like polluting the planet with microplastics that don't serve any higher medical or other useful purpose?

You like that style of decoration?

My opinion of you is indescribable, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. That is ridiculous.

THIS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nerd here 👋

I'm fairly confident this trend has its roots in D9 culture, where it's strictly forbidden to wear letters/colors of an org before officially gaining membership. Friends and family would buy gifts to celebrate when a new member "crossed" and store them in dorm rooms instead of bringing them to public probate celebrations. That developed into a dorm-room "reveal" -- later borrowed as Covid-era "bed parties."

What are you talking about? What is D9 or "crossed"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man if I was still in high school I would buy out the Hobby Lobby of that metallic fringe stuff, get a helium tank, and start a side hustle staging these for kids. We did brisk business making Homecoming Mums for the uncrafty or procrastinators, and this looks just like that, only for non-Texans.

A "homecoming Mum?"

Yeah, wtf is that? I know I can google, but I like the person I am without knowing what this is.

Oh, it's so much worse that I imagined. My eyes

That was my post, these are subdued ones believe it or not!

But... what purpose do they serve? You walk all day with that? You hang it up somewhere? Why?

[Anonymous]

To play the devil’s advocate, the NYU example in OP’s original post comes from a TikTok video. In the video, the mom explains how her daughter is the first in their family to go to college. For them, it must be really exciting!