High school reunion

lexusolsen · June 2014

Did/ do you go to your high school reunions? Was it fun? Would you go again?

lexusolsen · June 2014

Mine is this summer. We have always had fb (fb started the summer we graduated high school) so I feel like there is no point. We already know what everyone has been up to. Plus, I live in my hometown so I run into people from time to time anyway.

magentawarped · June 2014

I was like 15 months pregnant for mine, so I didn't want to travel. I wouldn't have gone anyway, though...I keep in touch with most of the people I care about, and many of my good friends from school weren't going either for various reasons.

superToots · June 2014

I voted ss. I moved across country, so I didn't attend. If I lived closer I probably would have.

Lolapop29 · June 2014

We didn't want to go (H and I are in the same class) but we would have had to fly across the country for it anyways so we had a good excuse why we didn't.

Our 10 year reunion was so much drama. They had made a FB event for it so everyone could talk about what they wanted to do. The person in charge of it wanted to have it be at a nice restaurant and adults only, and a bunch of people got pissed cause they wanted to bring their kids. Then some people started fighting about how everyone was letting "the cool kids" run everything. It was kinda fun to watch the shit show actually.

Some people ended up having an alternative reunion, which hardly anyone went to. And I never heard any details really about the real one, except that it was a disaster and no one enjoyed themselves.

spring_time · June 2014

I did. I am glad I went. I don't need to go to another one.

I have not kept in touch with my high school friends, and I was hoping to see some of them, but they didn't go. It was fun to catch up with people, though. Most the people who went were the people who had a big group of friends, kept in touch with others, and were nice to everyone...the truly popular people, as opposed to the "mean girl" popular crowd.

minerswife17 · June 2014

I haven't had one yet, but will probably not attend when one is held.

bumpuser924057 · June 2014

I'm waiting until at least 20 years, maybe even 30.

kcisthebombdotcom · June 2014

Ss. I would have went if it were a nice sit down dinner or something...but it was at a nightclub from 11pm-2am at some place popular with college kids and I was hugely pregnant to boot. No thank you.

Hollylb3 · June 2014

SS, mine isn't until September. I haven't decided if I'm going yet. I want to, but my BFF doesn't, and if she doesn't go, I probably won't.

SallyAnneS · June 2014

Ss: as far as i know my school doesn't.do reunions. If it did i probably wouldn't go. I went to a huge school and so people only really knew their friends. And i still "know" most of them through fb.
I would totally go to an elementary school reunion though! I want to know what my grade 7/8 crush is doing now. And if the cool kids are still cool.

caybeh · June 2014

Mine is in a few weeks. We plan on going, even though I'll be 35 weeks pregnant and have to travel 2.5 hours. I have some of my classmates on FB. I graduated from a small school. They have all the reunions at one time (10, 20, 25, 30, etc) and have a banquet for the years. I really don't know who is all coming, but I figured I'd go to this one and then decide from there if I want to go to others. Also, my parents still live in my hometown, so I see it as a date night!

zbeesma86 · June 2014

nope. we moved. I'm not flying back for it.

rockyrollgirl · June 2014

Naw. It was $120 and that was more then I wanted to spend on one night with people I have no desire to talk to again.

Bah humbug.

ToastieSimons · June 2014

I did not fit in with my high school. Think Laguna Beach style and I was not one of the popular rich kids. I keep in touch with the people I was friends with and I have no desire to relieve the rest of them.

dmurrie · June 2014

We had a giant graduating class (over 1000). I went. Almost all of my HS friends did not. It was not well-organized. Going to the homecoming football game I saw more people and had more fun than at the actual reunion. In all, there was the general feeling of "if I haven't kept up with you then why would I want to talk to you now?". So if you know a bunch of people who are going, go for it. If not, then it's probably better to skip it.

penguingrrl · June 2014

I did not go. I had few friends in my class because my class was really mean. Most of my friends were the year below me (DHs class) and we have considered going to their reunion, but it ended up being insanely expensive and at a bar with a live band, so it wasn't going to be very chat and catch-up friendly so we skipped it. We ended up hanging out with a few other friends of ours who decided expensive and at a loud bar sounded like no fun and basically having our own fun.

fancefpp · June 2014

Hell no!

ordinary1 · June 2014

I voted no. My five year reunion is this summer and I will be about 12 weeks pregnant. My BFF will be about 20 weeks and probably won't go either. Being at a bar with people that I somewhat like doesn't sound like something I want to drive two hours for.

lexusolsen · June 2014

amy052006 said:
So many party poopers on this board! I am throwing major side eye at "if you are friends with someone on Facebook, what's the point?"

I went to my 5 and 10 -- had a wedding the night of my 15.

I'm considering it simply because it's a night out. It's $50 a person at a bar that my sister says is very trendy... They are struggling to get 50 people to sign up to have a enough cash to pay the deposit. I'm wishing I had taken advantage of the opportunity to help plan it. Then maybe it wouldn't be so expensive. Oh well!

jnksmom · June 2014

SS- We didn't have one. I would have gone if we did. The guy trying to plan it was being ridiculous and wouldn't even pay a deposit/make definite plans until he had 3/4 of our class commit. We had a class of over 500 so that was too much. I am hoping we have one at 15 or 20 years.

Arnegard · June 2014

My 10 year was planned very last minute, or at least the invites were mailed last minute. DH had to put in vacation the fall before for the entire next year. DH couldn't get off to go with me and I was 6 months pregnant with DD1.

I went to DH's 20 year and got shit faced drunk driving the golf cart in the pre-reunion golf fling. I tripped over a step and skinned my knees before I had to put on my dress and 4" heels for the night.

I was so hungover the next day!!!

penguingrrl · June 2014

NandaB said:

Also, it makes me feel super old that some of you haven't even had your 5 yr yet!

We don't have 5 year reunions at my school, so maybe some of the people who haven't had them also don't. We do them every 10 years if someone organizes. My husband's was at 11 years because nobody thought to organize a 10 year.

PaisleyRuth · June 2014

I didn't go to my 10th. It was $50 pp and $100 was too much to spend for DH and I to go. I was 33 wks pg so didn't want to go alone. I wasn't really friends with many ppl in HS anyway.

We did go to part of DH's 10th last fall (the football game alumni tent part). He went to a private school with more like 80 in his class (I had 450), so he still knows more of them.

dizzycooks · June 2014

I went to my 10year. It was a waste if time and money. BFF and I have agreed we will take our money and go out to with the hubby's and have way more fun. I keep in touch with one person, BFF and we see each other regularly.

barnwife · June 2014

NandaB said:

Also, it makes me feel super old that some of you haven't even had your 5 yr yet!

Ditto this!

Also, neither DH nor I have gone to any of ours. I have no desire to. Especially because the ones that have happened have been super expensive. We like a nice night out just as much as anyone else. But I don't want to spend the money to spend time with people I didn't like years ago.

bumpuser794640 · June 2014

DH and I haven't had ours yet, it is this fall. We are planning on going!

MesmrEwe · June 2014

I'm also an SS on this one... Our 5 year was basically the class president inviting only his buddies with no notice until after the fact for everyone else, which he spent every last cent that was in our checkbook for reunions. Then our 10-yr was skipped because he simply didn't want to do it, though that year I attended the "big" reunion held by the school for all classes holding reunions that year. It was fun even if I was the ONLY one from our class or the classes around ours to attend.

Then for our 15 year one other gal got sick of what happened for the first two reunions and took things over. She sent out notices to everyone stating that the 15yr would be a pot luck and asking each classmate to contribute $20 to a fund so that the person working on the 20+yr reunions could have some seed money to use for sending out the notice(s) on it and potentially a down payment on a venue instead of "sticking" it to anyone. She got a lot of grief about it from people, but honestly, I was happy to hand over the $20 because this stuff doesn't come together out of the goodness of someone's heart. Now next year for our 20-yr we're going to have a brunch at a golf course locally there which FAR surpasses a park shelter house and then apres' at a bar..

As for DH's class, I've gone to both of his that he's had since we got married. They were actual NICE reunions that were enjoyable to attend (cocktail hours, full formal meal, DJ or Band, dessert), even if I didn't know a single person there!!

meglew · June 2014

CnAmom said:

Yeah, I read this and thought holy shit I graduated from high school SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. Thanks a lot.

Yeah, I graduated 15 years ago. I feel ya.

MesmrEwe · June 2014

meglew said:

CnAmom said:

Yeah, I read this and thought holy shit I graduated from high school SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. Thanks a lot.

Yeah, I graduated 15 years ago. I feel ya.

I'm 19 years ago - I get it!!!

Xtine22 · June 2014

I did not go to my 10th. It was te same year we got married and I wasn't going to fly back up when I was just there. I also saw everyone I really wante to see from my high school at my wedding. If we still lived in the state the only reason I would have gone is it was held at the same bar DH and I met at.

penguingrrl · June 2014

MesmrEwe said:

I'm also an SS on this one... Our 5 year was basically the class president inviting only his buddies with no notice until after the fact for everyone else, which he spent every last cent that was in our checkbook for reunions. Then our 10-yr was skipped because he simply didn't want to do it, though that year I attended the "big" reunion held by the school for all classes holding reunions that year. It was fun even if I was the ONLY one from our class or the classes around ours to attend.
Then for our 15 year one other gal got sick of what happened for the first two reunions and took things over. She sent out notices to everyone stating that the 15yr would be a pot luck and asking each classmate to contribute $20 to a fund so that the person working on the 20+yr reunions could have some seed money to use for sending out the notice(s) on it and potentially a down payment on a venue instead of "sticking" it to anyone. She got a lot of grief about it from people, but honestly, I was happy to hand over the $20 because this stuff doesn't come together out of the goodness of someone's heart. Now next year for our 20-yr we're going to have a brunch at a golf course locally there which FAR surpasses a park shelter house and then apres' at a bar..
As for DH's class, I've gone to both of his that he's had since we got married. They were actual NICE reunions that were enjoyable to attend (cocktail hours, full formal meal, DJ or Band, dessert), even if I didn't know a single person there!!

There are schools that set classes up with seed money? Ours doesn't so much as give the planners contact info or a class list, forget money! Anyone who couldn't be found on FB or through friends on FB were SOL!

bumpuser794640 · June 2014

NandaB said:
Also, it makes me feel super old that some of you haven't even had your 5 yr yet!

I don't think 5 yr reunions are a thing at our school. We didn't have one, our 10th is this fall though.

Mama-Bear · June 2014

I absolutely didn't go. If I wanted to see the people I went to HS with I would see them outside of a reunion, why wait 10+ year and spend money to spend an evening with people you're not friends with>

jlpev · June 2014

We didnt go to our 10 yr. Dh & I graduated together & keep up with our close friends. Plus I had just had dd less than a week before the reunion.

MesmrEwe · June 2014

penguingrrl said:

MesmrEwe said:

I'm also an SS on this one... Our 5 year was basically the class president inviting only his buddies with no notice until after the fact for everyone else, which he spent every last cent that was in our checkbook for reunions.

There are schools that set classes up with seed money? Ours doesn't so much as give the planners contact info or a class list, forget money! Anyone who couldn't be found on FB or through friends on FB were SOL!

What it is - the school has one of the oldest Alumni organizations in the state (not sure what the classification of it is in terms of tax code, but it's independent of the school)... What they do is Freshman year there is a newspaper/magazine sale that the money goes into a dedicated fund for that class year's events such as prom, their graduation year's first invite to the banquet, and if there's money leftover future class reunions. It wasn't "given" by the school or anything like that and only housed that amount to work as "seed money" earned by the class.. The Alumni organization for each reunion allows each class one mailer (i.e. one first class stamp) for each classmate to be notified of the big Alumni dinner, where-in the class may send out an invite to their class' reunion. It's a setup that works especially when there are class years like mine that are their own unique dynamic and that even if there isn't a formal reunion that year they're still invited to the association's banquet recognizing the class.

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