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aestas wrote:aibrean wrote:Redrose27 wrote:i know people who are spending several hundred---meaning close to a thousand. i'm all for making memories too, which is why i used that money to pay for my grad trip to ny---at around 800 total (that includes both transportation, housing, tickets to plays and sports games, entrance to different events, plus the money i spent on food and shopping and souvenirs) i think my money was spent much better, and if i can say so, i'd consider the graduation experience i had as being more worthwhile than one drunken night i probably won't remember. one week of freaking fun in new york (and with a lot of my good friends also graduating this year) + all the shiz i get to keep >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a night of partying and a dress i'll never wear again.
i'm very happy with my decision YES! A grad trip is so much more worthwhile. Well couldn't you have done both? I'm going to Montreal for 5 days and I'm going to prom. Spent about $80 on a dress that was on-sale and the prom ticket is about $85. I'm planning to spend about $600 on the trip. So the total is just under $800. see that's reasonable (the dress..unless it's an overnight thing i don't get why prom tickets would be anything over 40 dollars). what i had issues with was the fact that people were willing to pay several hundred or over a thousand even for a dress alone. i just find that ridiculous
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Redrose27 wrote:aestas wrote:aibrean wrote:Redrose27 wrote:i know people who are spending several hundred---meaning close to a thousand. i'm all for making memories too, which is why i used that money to pay for my grad trip to ny---at around 800 total (that includes both transportation, housing, tickets to plays and sports games, entrance to different events, plus the money i spent on food and shopping and souvenirs) i think my money was spent much better, and if i can say so, i'd consider the graduation experience i had as being more worthwhile than one drunken night i probably won't remember. one week of freaking fun in new york (and with a lot of my good friends also graduating this year) + all the shiz i get to keep >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a night of partying and a dress i'll never wear again.
i'm very happy with my decision YES! A grad trip is so much more worthwhile. Well couldn't you have done both? I'm going to Montreal for 5 days and I'm going to prom. Spent about $80 on a dress that was on-sale and the prom ticket is about $85. I'm planning to spend about $600 on the trip. So the total is just under $800. see that's reasonable (the dress..unless it's an overnight thing i don't get why prom would be anything over 40 dollars). what i had issues with was the fact that people were willing to pay several hundred or over a thousand even for a dress alone. i just find that ridiculous yep exactly my feelings
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I don't know how much I'm going to be spending on the dress yet, probably in the 200-300 range. Hopefully I can pick something up at a designer outlet store. I want awesome shoes, though. My mom promised to fork over some cash since I didn't go to any of the semiformal dances.
Anyway, that's what I'm thinking will happen, but as prom gets nearer, I am realizing more and more how over high school I am. I mean, it's four hours of mingling, eating and dancing, and then getting drunk off our bums, and I'm thinking I don't need to spend $500+ to do that.
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aibrean wrote:alliyah2090 wrote:umm y'all are liek haitng on prom
the whole "overated thing" is your perception of prom in the movies with all he cheesiness
and yes some girls go WAY OVERBOARD
but hey we ve been in school for 13 years including kindergarten
so its ok to blow sum cash and have FUn wit ur grad class
and make memmories
CNAT WAIT TILL MINE
i have da hottest dress eva!!! omg why do you have to write like that. you don't sound very intelligent when you do that. actually most of the people who are criticizing prom are current university students who have already had their prom. or they're current high school students who are smart enough to realize that spending hundreds of dollars on one night that will be completely meaningless in a few months is pointless. consider the amount of money you'll need for university and blowing a lot on prom seems stupid. b/c i liek writing liek this and in fact i am ralli smart for ur info w/e its once in a lifetime so go crazy right and i am going on a grad trip 2 europe 
*mz_alliyah* SuMmEr 08 iS hErE !!!< done high school; gonna live it up....b4 i go 2 uni>
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BLEH. I plan on going to my prom- but not really THAT excited about it. Mind you, I still need to get a dress and everything. I do believe it's over-rated, but everyone should still go!  The more, the merrier.
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ye, im going to prom cause i never went for any of the dances in highschool....besides every1 goes for prom, (thats what TV told me) and LOL to the person who paid 3000 bucks for a dress...she could have bought a TV....and then given it to me  but ya i dont even noe what im doing about the whole suit/tux thing...w/e last minute planning rocks
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You can get a heck of a lot more than just a TV for 3000 bucks.
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yeah, u can get this for around $4298.00
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honestly i will never understand people who pay huge amounts of money for dresses like that^. if i saw someone wearing that particular one at prom i'd say they paid maybe like 300, 400 for it (and in pictures it'd be even harder to tell) but 4300??? that's just insanely wasteful. you could get a second hand car for that amount
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Redrose27 wrote:honestly i will never understand people who pay huge amounts of money for dresses like that^. if i saw someone wearing that particular one at prom i'd say they paid maybe like 300, 400 for it (and in pictures it'd be even harder to tell) but 4300??? that's just insanely wasteful. you could get a second hand car for that amount If you can afford it, why not? People buy stuff like that for the same reason people buy Ferraris, Rolexs, etc.
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liol i agree...the fabric looks really plain and only a really gorgeous body type would be able to pull it off to make it look anywhere close to $1000. i guess it's another one of those "inner comfort" things...If I bought any dress for over $200, I'd expect it to make me look insanely gorgeous no matter how fat/flabby i get in the future
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Stringer wrote:Redrose27 wrote:honestly i will never understand people who pay huge amounts of money for dresses like that^. if i saw someone wearing that particular one at prom i'd say they paid maybe like 300, 400 for it (and in pictures it'd be even harder to tell) but 4300??? that's just insanely wasteful. you could get a second hand car for that amount If you can afford it, why not? People buy stuff like that for the same reason people buy Ferraris, Rolexs, etc. yeah but with a ferrari and a rolex people can point to it and say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money". that dress honestly doesn't look worth even a thousand dollars. The only way people would say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money" is if you tell them it is. and then that kinda defeats the purpose
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Redrose27 wrote:Stringer wrote:Redrose27 wrote:honestly i will never understand people who pay huge amounts of money for dresses like that^. if i saw someone wearing that particular one at prom i'd say they paid maybe like 300, 400 for it (and in pictures it'd be even harder to tell) but 4300??? that's just insanely wasteful. you could get a second hand car for that amount If you can afford it, why not? People buy stuff like that for the same reason people buy Ferraris, Rolexs, etc. yeah but with a ferrari and a rolex people can point to it and say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money". that dress honestly doesn't look worth even a thousand dollars. The only way people would say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money" is if you tell them it is. and then that kinda defeats the purpose I'm sure certain people would know. It's like buying an Armani suit, your average person might just think it's a nice suit but a trained eye will know it's worth thousands.
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Stringer wrote:Redrose27 wrote:Stringer wrote:Redrose27 wrote:honestly i will never understand people who pay huge amounts of money for dresses like that^. if i saw someone wearing that particular one at prom i'd say they paid maybe like 300, 400 for it (and in pictures it'd be even harder to tell) but 4300??? that's just insanely wasteful. you could get a second hand car for that amount If you can afford it, why not? People buy stuff like that for the same reason people buy Ferraris, Rolexs, etc. yeah but with a ferrari and a rolex people can point to it and say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money". that dress honestly doesn't look worth even a thousand dollars. The only way people would say, "holy noodles that must be worth a lot of money" is if you tell them it is. and then that kinda defeats the purpose I'm sure certain people would know. It's like buying an Armani suit, your average person might just think it's a nice suit but a trained eye will know it's worth thousands. well you're probably not going to find a lot of trained eyes at prom. in fact, with the assumption that at least 50% of the graduating class will be drunk before the after parties even begin, you'd be lucky to find a clear eye at all lol
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so has anyone reworn their prom dress? to what occasion?
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Quote:yeah, u can get this for around $4298.00
is that a joke? i think it's hideously boring and simple, something i can get from le chateau.
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Corsages... whats your guys' take on em? Necessary or do kids at ure school not bother?
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gundam501 wrote:Corsages... whats your guys' take on em? Necessary or do kids at ure school not bother? Yeah the people with dates are getting corsages. Even some of the ppl w/o dates are getting them from their parents I bought my prom dress last week. It was just over 200 bucks. Definately more than I wanted to spend on this event.
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anniepoohh wrote:yeah, u can get this for around $4298.00 That looks like some curtains I have.
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i've always had this passionate hatred for Ralph Lauren...duno why
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