meauxna

Wot was that about the handbag fetish again... ? Any brand will do?



edit: never seen those homecoming things before (must be regional) and I didn't get a class ring or the senior photos. A defective American, that's what I am.

another bloody yank

My Mom thought class rings were dumb and I didn't care either way. She ended up having a gold signet ring made for me that has my initials engraved on the top, my HS on one side and my year on the other. It's a nice chunk of gold. It's in a box someplace...

Englishtart

Have to admit, I have yet to see a pretty 'girls' HS ring, but I really like hubby's it has a pretty oval sapphire in it which has a kind of sundial sparkle look too it, He only wears it when we go out, he doesn't like jewellry that much, I bought him a gold puzzle ring years ago, I think it's nice, but he just played with it if he ever wore it and it ended up coming apart, he can never get the damn thing together again, so it usually sits in a ring box waiting for some patient person to put it together again

Englishtart

That sounds like a good idea

sambapink

I've never heard of these rings.. I'll have to look out for them. I'm not a fan of jewelry on men.. except a wedding ring and maybe a cross and chain/St Christopher. My OH wanted to change his wedding ring to a super slim one - it's so thin looking you can hardly tell he's wearing one

ironporer

Let me think really hard.....
And yes, mutual giving is best.

Ditto when I was a kid. I wouldn't be caught dead with one of thos funeral sprays on me.

If I were the parent who had to buy it, I think my kid would have to suffer through the scorn of not getting/giving one...probably would help him/her to break out of all the peer pressure high schools impose anyway. I doubt they'd be scarred for life...

Then again, my mom and dad were horrible child abusers- and made us spend our own money for stupid ass s**it like this- and we actually WORKED...deliveryng newspapers, mowing neighbor's grass, shoveling snow or flipping burgers at McDonalds if we wanted any spending money of our own.

I remember buying my Homecoming date the cheapest day old corsage they had...mom and dad's frugality lessons worked well. Of course that may be why I never got my finger (or anything else) wet that night...

sambapink

Bob

Cost of platinum that...mines over a grand when I got it and it's only a 4mm band...the missus has a nice thick one, which was my pinky finger ring, spent a chunk of the money I got that my father left me when I turned 18 on it, that and a banger of a car so I wouldn't piss it all away on booze.

I can kind of see a college ring, the missus has a nice one, onyx set in gold with the college crest, very small and a bit of a talking point I guess when you bump into someone from the same college or town.

The sports ones are pretty garish and ugly though.

tamms_1965

I agree.

tamms_1965

My mom told me I had to buy my own senior pictures (very inexpensive back then compared to today's prices .... about $60 I think), so I said no thanks. I didn't want them. She ended up paying for them because she wanted them.

Kate2112

Totally agree - these things are tasteless as well as unecessary.

orangemirror

I'm completely in the dark about US school culture. I guess I'll have to start learning about it in a few years when my kid starts school.

I've no idea what homecoming is or what a class ring is? I know what the prom is from the movies, but I don't really get the point. In England, we just all went down the pub after our last day at school.

another bloody yank

Yep, we do things a little differently here.

Jerseygirl

You have a thing about my handbags don't ya?

That's different I am an adult...I buy my own things and I only buy what I can afford to pay for there and then. All these silly things seem to be instilled in school kids as 'must haves'...then they grow up with the must have mentality which gets them into financial difficulties. Not to mention the pressure it puts on the parents because they don't want junior to be the odd one out.

Bluegrass Lass

Hmmm, are we referring to recent increase in the number teens that are carrying Coach and other expensive handbags? That is something I really cannot comprehend. I'll tell my kid just like my mom told me: you want it, you pay for it. I was the odd one out in school, didn't do me any harm. In fact, those of us that are the odd ones out are probably better off.