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Post by freecharlie on Nov 10, 2019 18:03:58 GMT
A guy posted on my hometown's Facebook page that he was looking for a yearbook page from when he was in high school. I happened to have graduated with the guy, so I went and scanned the page for him.
It got me thinking. How many people still have their HS yearbook?
FTR, I graduated 25 years ago
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Nov 10, 2019 18:06:44 GMT
Yearbooks have only become a thing in Scotland in the last ten years or so. I left school in 1981, so I don’t have one! 😄
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Post by lisae on Nov 10, 2019 18:06:53 GMT
It's funny I went looking for mine recently and found them where I thought they were. I had 2 of them boxed up with some other things. My senior year is kept on a shelf with some other books. It isn't that I look at it very often but it is particularly special to me and I don't want anything to happen to it.
I also found the two college ones I'd bought. I tore out the photos with my picture just because I don't have many photos from that time in my life and tossed them. College was a means to an end for me so there was nothing special in those books that I cared about.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 10, 2019 18:09:59 GMT
I do and so does DH.
They always make the cut when we purge and declutter.
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Post by finaledition on Nov 10, 2019 18:10:26 GMT
Yes. I have mine-4 from high school and 3 from middle school. and I can’t even recall the last time I had any desire to look at them. I should toss them.
And just a tangent, but my already graduated kids had to have them and neither of them brought them to school to have friends sign them. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?
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Post by leeny on Nov 10, 2019 18:10:59 GMT
Yes, I still have mine 40 years later! My Mom has hers too.
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Post by MaryMary on Nov 10, 2019 18:15:49 GMT
Nope, I got rid of them in my early 20s. High school wasn’t a time that I look back on fondly.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Nov 10, 2019 18:16:10 GMT
I keep them at my mom and dad's house, but yes.
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Post by Neisey on Nov 10, 2019 18:16:51 GMT
I have my three from high school and my grad year from University and surprisingly at least one gets pulled out every year, either to refresh my memory on someone’s last name or to put a face to a name that I should remember but can’t. These are items that I will probably keep forever. I’m a scrapbooker after all LOL
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 10, 2019 18:20:52 GMT
Yes, but I should get rid of them. I never look through them and I know my kids wouldn't want to keep them.
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Post by nlwilkins on Nov 10, 2019 18:33:31 GMT
mine is 51 years old. I keep it because it is a relic!
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Post by Loydene on Nov 10, 2019 18:48:42 GMT
Until about 2 months ago -- I gave up all but my Sr. year book to the local library when I moved.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Nov 10, 2019 18:57:21 GMT
Yeah, but they're in a box in the basement under other boxes. Who knows what condition they're in down there. LOL.
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Post by peaname on Nov 10, 2019 18:58:37 GMT
I got rid of mine maybe six months ago.
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Post by julie5 on Nov 10, 2019 19:01:43 GMT
Mine were lost in a house fire. Luckily my dh was a grade behind me at the same school and he has his. So I can look at them. I graduated 24 years ago.
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Post by Cupcake on Nov 10, 2019 19:01:48 GMT
My 30th (!) reunion is this month, and I still have mine, mostly because a boy signed mine with “Keep in touch”. We were not together in high school, but we’ve now been married 22+ years. 😂
Lisa B.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Nov 10, 2019 19:04:43 GMT
I keep them because it feels like I’m supposed to, but I’m not sure why. Nobody looks at them so they just take up space. However, they are proof that there was a time when I was cute so that’s probably why I hang on to them 😄
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Post by busy on Nov 10, 2019 19:13:09 GMT
I still have my high school ones (class of ‘91), but not junior high. DH did not want to keep his.
BFF and I still refer back to them sometimes lol
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2019 19:13:26 GMT
No, my suckass brother has them and he won’t send them to me. He won’t give me my school photos either. He is such a jerk.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Nov 10, 2019 19:22:46 GMT
I voted other because I lost my yearbooks in a fire over 40 years ago. About 10 years ago I was able to buy my senior album on eBay. It had belonged to a teacher so there were no signatures in it. Later the library in that town made them available for digital downloads so I have the other three downloaded on my computer. So while I have copies, they aren't my originals. DH has all of his, as does DD (though I suspect they would be ditched if I ever made her get them out of my house). College yearbooks didn't make the cut. I tore out a few pages that I was on, then got rid of them. DH did the same. I don't think DD ever bought a yearbook in college. And just a tangent, but my already graduated kids had to have them and neither of them brought them to school to have friends sign them. I guess that’s not a thing anymore? DD graduated high school in 2006 and they weren't signing them then. I was a bit surprised they didn't do it any longer. That's what I miss most about not having my originals, all the notes my friends had written in them. |
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Post by vi on Nov 10, 2019 19:23:25 GMT
Yep - I still have mine from over 50 years ago. I loved looking at my Mom's yearbooks and she graduated in 1944. My sister has those and I love seeing them whenever I get the chance.
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Post by auntkelly on Nov 10, 2019 19:25:36 GMT
I still have mine. I graduated in 1978 right after the printing press was invented.  I still have my parents' college yearbooks. They graduated from the same university I did and the books are so beautifully bound I display them on the shelves of our study. I also have my grandmother's high school yearbook. She graduated in 1917. |
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Post by pierkiss on Nov 10, 2019 19:36:55 GMT
Yes. And my middle school yearbooks. Hubs has all of his (and his elementary school ones too!). My parents have my dads. My moms were lost in a flood when I was a baby. 😞. I loved looking through my dads. My aunts and uncles are in them too. 😁
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Nov 10, 2019 19:44:42 GMT
Yes, I have all 4 from high school, 3 from middle school and 3 from elementary. My kids also have theirs from elementary, middle school and high school. I'm a scrapbooker, I could not, not get them!!
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Post by KelleeM on Nov 10, 2019 19:51:10 GMT
I have my junior high from ‘77, high school from ‘80 and college from ‘84.
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Post by padresfan619 on Nov 10, 2019 19:53:43 GMT
I have the small paper bound year end book from fifth grade all the way to my senior yearbook. Well they are at my parents house but I know right where they are.
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Post by garcia5050 on Nov 10, 2019 19:54:05 GMT
I do. And I married someone from high school so we have two sets. We hung out with different crowds, so we will periodically bring them out. Usually it’s a story that starts with remember joe blow? He was on the wrestling team? Of course you do. And then the yearbook comes out.
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Post by PLurker on Nov 10, 2019 20:01:28 GMT
Yes I do.
But not sure why I keep them.
I never look at them.
So there they sit. In a box.
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Post by frog on Nov 10, 2019 20:02:38 GMT
I still have mine and DH still has his. They're duplicates because we went to the same HS and graduated the same year. (1975)
I don't know if my kids still have theirs. Their HS got them printed over the summer and didn't hand them out until the next fall so they never got signatures from friends. I thought that was stupid. Isn't that one of the reasons to get a yearbook-to get your friends to sign and write memories from the year?
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Post by tiffanyr on Nov 10, 2019 20:02:57 GMT
Class of 85 and I still have all my middle and high school yearbooks.
The current yearbook sponsor at my old school just posted to some Facebook pages that they had leftover stock of previous years going back to the 60s just taking up tons of space so they sold previous years for $50 each as a fundraiser. I thought it was a brilliant idea. People were posting left and right asking if their grad year was available.
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