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[ScrapHappy]

Just wondering, are High School yearbooks and class rings popular anymore?  Do kids these days want them?  I know both my husband and I both wanted yearbooks throughout our school years, especially high school, and our class rings.  My daughter is a senior this year but hasn't been interested in getting a yearbook throughout high school.  Yesterday an email came out about rings, staring at $700.  Ouch!  Yearbooks are $125.  

[ninjawife]

My daughters are 26 and 21.   DD who is 26 automatically got a yearbook her senior year as part of her private school tutition.  DD who is 21 got a yearbook each year during high school.  She went to a different private school and had to pay for her yearbooks.  Both got class rings but never wear them.  I went to the same private school as DD who is 21 and as an alumni I was able to present her ring to her at her ring ceremony.   I did the same for my goddaughter who went to the same school. 

[kaydee50]

I sold both my high school and college rings.  10K but didn't get much for either.  Still have my senior year--1967--yearbook from high school.  The rings were/are a waste, IMO, but having 1 year book is nice.

[Goldengate8361]

I wore my class ring water skiing a month after graduation from high school---and lost it! (Something an 18 year old would do, right? Haha). I've always wished I had my class ring. I treasure all of my yearbooks--both from high school and college. I went to a private school and we paid for our yearbooks.

[CelticCrafter]

I sold my class ring with a bunch of old gold jewelry that wasn't being worn.

The yearbook went into the recycling bin years ago.    

[shoptilyadropagain]

I still have all my yearbooks and even glance at them occasionally when a name pops up and I'm trying to remember who they are.  I purchased a class ring but rarely wore it.  About 15 years ago, I took it in (along with other 14K jewelery) to a place that was buying back 14K jewelery.  I never regretted getting rid of it.  I have no idea what the kids are doing now but I don't think any of my great nieces got a class ring.

[drizzellla]

I has been awhile since my son graduated high school. So I don't remember exactly BUT I am certain he was not interested in a class ring. And he never mentioned it to us. He wasn't a chatty guy and still isn't. We learned so much from his friends, rather than him, even at 10 years old.

 I also doubt he was interested in a yearbook. He had his circle of friends and that was it. He did play soccer and hockey but  not for the high school but for our local Township. He didn't go to the prom, wasn't the least bit interested about the whole routine. He and his group of friends had their own party.

But what did interest him was that he was determined to take French class. For one reason only. The French class could go to France at the end of their senior school year. The Spanish class went to Chi Chi's. So he went to France.


PS - My yearbook is in the attic. It has been there since we moved in. Wonder if mice have found it.

And my class ring (that I just had to have) has been sitting in my jewelry box since I graduated high school many many many years ago.

[ALRATIBA]

I still have my high school year book (1960) and my grammar school autograph book from 1956, my report cards and college grades, my diplomas.

Those were good yesrs and I did rather well. 😀

[RollTide2008]

My son graduated this year. Yearbooks snd class rings were available. He had no interest in either. I don’t know anyone in my friends group who bought their kids a class ring.

[LindaSal]

Interesting question.  When I graduated high school everyone got a ring and a yearbook.

That was in 1978.   My daughter graduated in 2001 and my son 2003.  Neither bought a class ring though they did both buy a yearbook.   I still have my yearbook but I did lose my ring on the beach soon after getting it, sadly.  It was actually a pretty ring, had a citrine stone in it which is my birthstone.