High School Graduation Gift from Parents

[Anonymous]

What do you give your own child?

[Anonymous]

College.

[Anonymous]

Trip to China, Beach Week, and $300 spending money.

[Anonymous]

College, and beach week, for one.

College, and a MacBook, for the other (the other kid already had a newish MacBook so didn't need one before going to college).

[Anonymous]

My parents gave me a high school graduation party that I desperately didn't want. If they gave me a tangible gift, I can't recall that.

When my brother graduated he had a high school graduation party as well. I can't remember him getting a tangible gift either.

[Anonymous]

Beach Week: no way! An excuse to get drunk underage and possibly get arrested.

A nice trip: OK, depending on maturity level.

Also spending $$ to celebrate responsibly with friends.

[Anonymous]

We're taking our daughter on a trip to NYC.

[Anonymous]

A computer for school (I graduated back in the massive desktop days, when not everyone even brought one to school...early 90s) + a simple gold necklace w/diamond pendant.

[Anonymous]

Great-grandmother and grandmother: ring to go with the necklace they gave me when I started school and the earrings I got at 13 when my ears were pierced.
Mother, grandmother and great-grandmother: enough tp, paper towels, napkins, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent and dish soap for a year in an apartment or a dorm room. Fully outfitted a bathroom in my favorite colors (various prints in those colors, but mostly solids), no shower curtain, but everything else. Furnished enough dishcloths, dish towels and hanging towels in my favorite colors for a kitchenette, corelle ware and flatware(my great grandmother's), baking dishes (my mother's), pans (my grandmother's) and new dish drainer and cooking utensils (no knives). I knew about some of it, saw them purchase some of the things as early as freshman year, and by senior year, I knew what was going on and was helping find sales. Each got new things they wanted, I got a bathroom and kitchen almost completely outfitted, best of all it was with things I was used to using.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great-grandmother and grandmother: ring to go with the necklace they gave me when I started school and the earrings I got at 13 when my ears were pierced.
Mother, grandmother and great-grandmother: enough tp, paper towels, napkins, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent and dish soap for a year in an apartment or a dorm room. Fully outfitted a bathroom in my favorite colors (various prints in those colors, but mostly solids), no shower curtain, but everything else. Furnished enough dishcloths, dish towels and hanging towels in my favorite colors for a kitchenette, corelle ware and flatware(my great grandmother's), baking dishes (my mother's), pans (my grandmother's) and new dish drainer and cooking utensils (no knives). I knew about some of it, saw them purchase some of the things as early as freshman year, and by senior year, I knew what was going on and was helping find sales. Each got new things they wanted, I got a bathroom and kitchen almost completely outfitted, best of all it was with things I was used to using.

WTF were you going to do with a full kitchen when you're in a dorm with a one by one foot fridge and a huge meal plan>?

[Anonymous]

Sterling silver Tiffany necklace with her initial. We had the back engraved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great-grandmother and grandmother: ring to go with the necklace they gave me when I started school and the earrings I got at 13 when my ears were pierced.
Mother, grandmother and great-grandmother: enough tp, paper towels, napkins, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent and dish soap for a year in an apartment or a dorm room. Fully outfitted a bathroom in my favorite colors (various prints in those colors, but mostly solids), no shower curtain, but everything else. Furnished enough dishcloths, dish towels and hanging towels in my favorite colors for a kitchenette, corelle ware and flatware(my great grandmother's), baking dishes (my mother's), pans (my grandmother's) and new dish drainer and cooking utensils (no knives). I knew about some of it, saw them purchase some of the things as early as freshman year, and by senior year, I knew what was going on and was helping find sales. Each got new things they wanted, I got a bathroom and kitchen almost completely outfitted, best of all it was with things I was used to using.

WTF were you going to do with a full kitchen when you're in a dorm with a one by one foot fridge and a huge meal plan>?

It was stored for me, so that I would have it for later I was the only one who wasn't worried about how to outfit an apartment after college.

[Anonymous]

I got college, graduate school and a new computer and everything else I needed that I did not have for college. Plan to do the same for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Since she will be a freshman -

College, new computer, cleaning service for dorm, all new wardrobe for college, spending money (5 K), uber account.

[Anonymous]

I graduated hs in 2001 and got college. And a computer to take there.