What did you get for your high school graduation?
 

Teenage girls getting implants as graduation Gifts???

If we had asked for that we would have got wacked up the side of the head!!! ::)

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I got a watch from my parents and a "here's hoping you don't flunk out of college" from my sister. Ha Ha

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A wedding! I was married 2 weeks after graduation.

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I asked my parents for a sewing machine for my graduation. They thought I was nuts, but I still use it even 30 years later.

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My parents gave me the down payment for a car. It was a real beater, but heaven to me. :#1:

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I also got married just after graduation--still with him. Sometimes good--sometimes bad.
I graduated from a school that I only attened for 2 months. My Dad was military and we moved just before graduation. I had to study really hard and take finals on subjects that were really different from what I had been taking at my other school. BTW I did pretty good.

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a typewriter, to use while writing my college papers

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I got a seiko watch , and a trunk full of clothes to take to college. I went to a pool party the day after graduation and forgot I was wearing my new watch. It stopped after it had been swimming for the whole evening. My date took the watch to his parents friends who were jewelers and they was able to fix it. My parents never knew my watch went swimming. Whew!!!!

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P.S.
I still have the watch and it still works!!!!

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I can't remember which gift I received for graduation...the typewriter, the sewing machine, or the Bulova watch. But I want to talk about the watch.

For over 40 years it sat in my jewelry box. Every now and then I'd take it out and look at it because it was my all time favorite and most beloved watch of all time. The stem had broken off and I had taken it to various jewelers over the years. Each time I was told the same...it's not repairable.

This past winter I located the one and only authorized Bulova repair center located in NYC. Low and behold, they repaired it for about $150 only for me to receive it finding it not running. I was sooooo disappointed and ready to return it again to NYC when I remembered it was a wind up watch. Once I wound it, it worked and I'm now wearing the watch I wore over 40 years ago.

I LOVE IT!

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Thats a hearwarming story Bright. I lost my Seiko shortly after graduation and have never worn a watch since, Surprisingly, I have never missed having one. And surprisingly, Im always on time!!

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Nonie, my sweets, you don't need to wear a watch. But you do need to wear a compass! LOLOLOL :joke:

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Dinner with friends and family and that was a stretch for my parents. Still remember it so I guess it was priceless.

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A trip to Boot Camp!

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Kath, put your sweet daddy back there!!! NOW!

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A new bedroom set (dresser and bed). I was the youngest so I had never had any new furniture, always the hand me down so my parents wanted me to have something nice and new. Even though I have replaced the matress and box spring a few times, 33 years later I still have the dresser, frame, head and footboards- all in great condition!

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Colleen,

I didn't get my oak bed, dresser, desk, and hope chest for graduation. I got it when both my sisters were married and I moved into the unique bedroom we had upstairs when I was 14. I still have the set to this day, too.

In fact, it was my son's bedroom set and now is the set my grandson uses when he comes to spend the night. The set is 44 years old and in A-1 condition.

It's going to be hard to part with when we sell our northern home to move to TV permanently.

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I thought it would be hard to part with things too Bright, but the auctioneers comming in a few days and he can have it all!! Im grabbing life by the throttle and not looking back!

TV is so worth throwing out the material things for.
Im so envious of you right now but happy for ya. Aint it Grande??

Enjoy your summer in Never Neverland.

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Nonie

I hope I have your attitude once I have to sort then give away, sell, or junk. I'm going to have to change my way of thinking...accept getting rid of things so dear to my heart. I'm getting there slowly.

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Hey there my dear friend, You and Mr. Bright made it safe and sound. Really glad that you had an enjoyable and safe trip. Now don't forget, double the pleasure, double the fun, you're playing for two now, not just for one!
Vicariously yours,
;)

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Wish you were here Susan...Tom, too! Won't be the same without the 2 of you...sigh!

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4 years of college.

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MMC

I got that, too. And...it was something I passed on to my daughter.

My son...well, the money was there for him but he chose to have us spend it differently.

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OMG Susan, he is sooooooooo cute! I just want to squeeze him! Anyone you know????

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Susan, do you train dogs to wash windows?? My 2 tend to just press their noses on the sliders leaving slobber........ :dontknow: :dontknow:

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Essentially two scholarships: one for a free college education for four years, the second in cash that I saved to cover the cost of tuition for my MA. Not a bad deal!

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Don't (can't) remember ! ! !

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Scholarship to college. The love and pride of my mother. An atta girl from my brother (who surprised me at college after I could move out of the dorms with a car).

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Four years of college

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Got a portable radio (big deal back in the day). I also got luggage for my senior trip to DC. (No cruises, or trips to Disney back then.)

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I don't have a clue! Too long ago.

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It came a few months later - a letter from the President. It started with "Greeting:...." It provided me with a new job, new clothes and a chance to travel to exotic lands....