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I don't dig gifts for achievements but if you feel obligated I'd say the fifty with a note toward the computer like everyone else said.
My high schoolers worked and sold stuff and saved holiday money for their computers. There reward for graduating is their education and getting to move on up and outta there. lol
There reward for buying their own computers is I nor their little brother can't touch it.
How many young men do you see who wear watches now? They all use their phone.
And cuff links??? sorry Julia i think that would not be appreciated at all. very few younger men and even older men wear shirts with cuff links. He might wear them in 20 years but even most professional men I know, lawyers, executives only wear cuff links for special occasions. Just something else to worry about taking off for air travel and to worry about getting stolen.
I still put stock in symbolic gifts for certain occasions and prefer them to cash that will most likely just get frittered away on nothing substantial. For me, graduation from high school is a moment where we welcome a child into the threshold of adulthood, in which they are presented with a small present fitting a young adult. That's me, though. Others feel the moment is barely worth a gift at all.
I still put stock in symbolic gifts for certain occasions and prefer them to cash that will most likely just get frittered away on nothing substantial. For me, graduation from high school is a moment where we welcome a child into the threshold of adulthood, in which they are presented with a small present fitting a young adult. That's me, though. Others feel the moment is barely worth a gift at all.
I think that is great if your family is raised to appreciate symbolic gifts. Unfortunately I think this would be lost on my grandson
Wow....after all these responses, and considering there is no graduation ceremony or party that we were invited to, well maybe as only a grandparent we don't need to go overboard.
I think a nice card and a little money will be plenty.
I think that is great if your family is raised to appreciate symbolic gifts. Unfortunately I think this would be lost on my grandson
Wow....after all these responses, and considering there is no graduation ceremony or party that we were invited to, well maybe as only a grandparent we don't need to go overboard.
I think a nice card and a little money will be plenty.
Thanks.
If there is no ceremony or party - how has the gift conversation even come up? My school went from K-8 so there was an actual graduation and my parents had family over. I think I got cards with some money. My brother threw parties for his kids when they graduated and we all gave them money as well. But it wouldn't have been more than $50.
$5 for popcorn? You're lucky to get a soda for that.
HaHaHa. I guess I don't get out to the movies very often other than the triplex in our little town where tickets are still $5 ($2.50 for kids) and the owner sells the tickets and than scurries behind the concession counter to scoop out the popcorn and fill the soda cups. And, of course, he sweeps up the popcorn after the movies let out.
I'll have to give my kid a $10 this weekend when she goes to the multiplex in our nearest city to see Hunger Games.
If there is no ceremony or party - how has the gift conversation even come up? My school went from K-8 so there was an actual graduation and my parents had family over. I think I got cards with some money. My brother threw parties for his kids when they graduated and we all gave them money as well. But it wouldn't have been more than $50.
I just looked back and realized it's your husband's grandson. So my answer has changed to "let him handle it". And tell him the gift better not be the computer.
Maybe regional dependant? Here, no-one gets gifts for 8th grade graduation, just for Highschool grad/ going to college. I don't think they even do grad photos.
I still put stock in symbolic gifts for certain occasions and prefer them to cash that will most likely just get frittered away on nothing substantial. For me, graduation from high school is a moment where we welcome a child into the threshold of adulthood, in which they are presented with a small present fitting a young adult. That's me, though. Others feel the moment is barely worth a gift at all.
I graduated at semester of 08.
So my graduation doubled as christmas too so i got a laptop on christmas, i was starting my college classes in january so i needed one.
i also got a luggage set from my grandparents.
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