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Still have it, like I do? Or was it lost somewhere along the road of life?
I came across mine today, buried in a box of high school nostalgia stuff I saved. My prom corsage is in that box. My college photos from graduation. The scribblings from each kid who signed his name and wrote on the HS yearbook pages. And alot more memories. What do retirees of a certain age do with this stuff? Keep it til the day you pass on and then it goes to a kid, if you have one? Or send it back to the high school, in case they want to preserve it in their glass case in the entry hall?
Am asking because maybe some of you have already thought of a good way to do something with these items. Neither my son nor daughter is interested so now what? I can't just dump it. It would hurt too much !
I have all four of mine from the early 1960's. I was on the staff all four years and was editor my senior year, so they have a lot of fond memories for me. I get them out every five years or so to snicker at. I'll probably hang on to them until I die and then my daughter will throw them away. I also have my mom and dad's yearbooks. She'll throw them away, too.
I gave mine to my best friend when I moved from Michigan to Texas. She was into FB and I wasn't, she kept in touch with many, I couldn't care less (shades of the car commercial where "So and so got another promotion at work today" while she is parallel parking the vehicle). :-0 Other than my graduation pic I was not in any other photos as I did not participate in any extra-curricular activities. I have no regrets for not keeping it.
I have my junior yearbook but regret that I never got my senior one. I graduated mid-year and was in the mindset that I could not wait to get out of this one horse town and never look back. Now I am FB friends with many of my former classmates and we have a FB page devoted to my hometown. Sometimes I don't remember someone and need the yearbook to refresh my memory.
For those who grew up in a small town or city, perhaps the local library would be interested in your yearbook.
I have my junior yearbook but regret that I never got my senior one. I graduated mid-year and was in the mindset that I could not wait to get out of this one horse town and never look back. Now I am FB friends with many of my former classmates and we have a FB page devoted to my hometown. Sometimes I don't remember someone and need the yearbook to refresh my memory.
For those who grew up in a small town or city, perhaps the local library would be interested in your yearbook.
Many years ago I worked with a man who graduated in 1964 and lamented he never got his yearbook. I secretely shopped ebay and after awhile I found it! I bought it and gave it to him as a gift and he was shocked, but really thrilled to get it. I love "the thrill of the hunt".
I donated mine to a historical society in the County I graduated high school in, they were trying to acquire year books for all the years the high school was in existence and since I hadn't looked at them in decades I figured they would have a better home with them than in my closet.
Never bought it. I have a long history of hating pictures of myself
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