A graduation gift? Dont think so - Page 2

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@QVCkitty1 Me too, I don't think they even had student loans when I went to college. Parents paid the whole bill and I got a nice watch for graduation.

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Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
@QVCkitty1 Me too, I don't think they even had student loans when I went to college. Parents paid the whole bill and I got a nice watch for graduation.

@Kachina624 Yup.....and the tuition at in-state schools was around $1,000......for the WHOLE YEAR......

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PickyPicky3 · ‎10-22-2018

I have come to believe there is absolutely no way to predict whether someone will like a gift or not. I spend much less time choosing something these days.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

My best "gift" was to leave home. I had a unbearable step mother. She was never in true form around my dad.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

Nothing. My parents paid a lot of tuition for me to go to school for grades 1-12, plus I went to beauty school after 10 grade all summer long and on Monday nights

By the time I graduated from HS I was almost done with my beauty school. I was fortunate my parents were very generous.

A year later, they paid for my wedding with over 500 people in attendance.

patbz · ‎03-10-2010

Don't remember what my gift was for H.S., probably a small gold necklace. My parents paid for everything for my State University education ( tuition, books, dorm, sorority and clothes). In 1966 that all came to $9000. For college graduation they gave me $300, which was enough to pay for a used VW when I worked in Germany. I've been grateful for having an easy go of it. I started working school breaks and summers when I was 16.

insomniac2 · ‎02-20-2016

From my immediate family--zero.

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@ECBG

I'm sorry to read your reply and others☹️.

Seems you did quite well in life so don't look back🙂🙂🙂

hugs...homedecor1

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
I have come to believe there is absolutely no way to predict whether someone will like a gift or not. I spend much less time choosing something these days.

@PickyPicky3 I have a 100 percent successful way: ASK them! If you get "anything" get a gift card. If something specific, get that. Otherwise, don't bother with a gift.

It isn't 1960 and things are very different now. Needs and wants are different, people are different, so gifting is different--except that a gift is about the recipient, not the giver!