Graduation gift ideas...

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Graduation gift ideas...
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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 12:38pm
Our daughter is graduating from 8th grade this year. Her grandparents are asking for gift ideas, I have no suggestions. Any ideas?
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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 1:31pm
Has your dd made out any kind of list?
Pam
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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 2:35pm

Jewelry, money, a commemorative gift such as a nnice framed photo of her on graduation day.

I never even heard of giving gifts for 8th grade graduation. We took our dds out for ice cream the evening of the graduation. I don't know of anyone around here who does gift giving or parties for this graduation. Is this new?

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 3:02pm
I gave my boys watches for 8th grade graduation. For grandparents, I would suggest something small---I liked the "small picture of grad in a nice frame" idea. Here, although we do give gifts, they are really only token gifts to mark graduating from middle school to high school, and are from the immediate family (mom and dad, and I suppose grandparents. I think grandparents LOOK for an excuse to give their grandkids gifts! LOL)
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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 3:16pm

One set of grandparents in our family will give a gift if it rains if I would let her! She used to keep a closet full of wrapped presents in her house and when the girls went to visit they got to pick a box! Needless to say, I had to put a stop to that.

My mom likes to take her granddaughters' to lunch and shopping for gifts. This way the girls get what they like and grandma gets to spend time with her grandchildren. She does set a $ limit on them before they leave.

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 3:33pm
When my DD graduated fom middle school two years ago, she got money from both sets of grandparents.

 

 

 

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 3:42pm

I'm afraid our community goes over the top with this sort of thing. It is rather embarassing, actually.

Since both sets of grandparents were in town for DD's 8th grade graduation, I hosted a brunch and DD invited a couple of her friends and their parents over. No big thing, really.

However, I know there were quite a large number of parents who hosted extravagent parties involving limos, dj's and other frivolous expenditures.

The following year, several families got together and booked a cruise to celebrate their graduates ... ridiculous, no?

 

 

 

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 4:39pm

Our school district makes a big point of NOT having "graduations" from one level to the other, except for high school. From elementary to intermediate school, from intermediate to middle school, and from middle school to high school, the event of passage is called "recognition." I think the feeling is that to have "graduations" at the lower level schools dilutes the importance and significance of the high school graduation.

I, for one, am glad of that. I have an eighth grader, and I'm certain he's not expecting a darn thing because he's finishing eighth grade.

My HS junior has already requested a laptop for his HS graduation gift next year, and given that he's sixth in his class of 250 kids, I think he deserves one and will get it (at least he gave me a whole year to save up for it).

Elizabeth J

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Wed, 05-02-2007 - 5:39pm

> > extravagent parties involving limos, dj's and other frivolous expenditures < <
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> > booked a cruise to celebrate their graduates... ridiculous, no? < <

Definitely ridiculous. Good grief, what do these people do when their kids graduate High School?

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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 9:29am

We switched to a family plan and got ds a cell phone for graduation - there are many after school activities or he could visit/get help with teachers/classmates and as we both work, I wanted to be sure he could tell us his plans if needed.

Sue