What did you do with your old high school and college yearbooks?
Posted by throwitlikethewind@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 186 comments
I'm planning on getting rid of my yearbooks and I see that there's a lot of options to donate HS ones but not college yearbooks (anyone who knows where to donate college yearbooks I welcome suggestions). I never look at them and they're just taking up space at this point. I never went to my high school reunions (and never will) and only attended one college reunion (my 20th, and I didn't see anyone I knew back then).
Do you still have your yearbooks? And if you don't what did you do with them?
handsomeape95@reddit
I honestly didn't know there was such a thing as a college yearbook.
Ltimbo@reddit
Came here to say this. And I went to college.
No-Highway-1446@reddit
My child is at the same HS I went to and they get a kick out of going through my old yearbooks to see how different things were back then. Keeping them. Nostalgic for sure, as well.
Last_Inevitable8311@reddit
I kept all of mine, going back to 1st grade. And I’m so glad because one of my oldest and dearest friends just passed and I was able to go back and see what he wrote to me. ❤️
KingdomOfFawg@reddit
Yearbook design and production is a dying thing. Back in the day, kids were trying to capture a feeling or a moment. Now all feelings and moments are indelibly etched into the internet.
Someone walking around the lunch room in a dark green hoodie and Old Navy jeans with a 35mm camera with black and white film is something hard to explain to kids. Kids getting in trouble because the yearbook advisor intercepted photos of them smoking cigarettes is rapidly being obscured by the sands of time.
Chemical_Butterfly40@reddit
I threw out my high school yearbooks about 20 years ago; I was tired of lugging them around every time I moved.
I never bought my college yearbooks; I figured I'd paid enough to my university without spending another $100. Unrelated, but I got an email from the alumni association just this morning asking for a donation. DELETE
KingdomOfFawg@reddit
I get alumni mail all the time despite never having given them my address.
mobtown_misanthrope@reddit
Someone can throw my high school yearbooks away when I'm dead.
Didn't know colleges had yearbooks...
cloudydays2021@reddit
I still have my high school yearbook; I had a good time in HS and am still in touch with some people (went to a very liberal school in NYC so I know my experience is vastly different from many)
Never got a college one, IDK if they even had them for order.
KingdomOfFawg@reddit
Shout out to Kids. One of the most traumatizing movies of all time.
unethicalposter@reddit
Trash
HughJuvula@reddit
I didn't want my parents to find my senior year one and read all the comments about us getting high at lunch
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
Hey, wanna go get high after work?
KingdomOfFawg@reddit
During lunch at work.
BasicRabbit4@reddit
My parents found mine. Someone wrote in big letters 'hey stripper, i will miss your strip shows'. I got in so much trouble.
I was not a stripper, the person who wrote it was just a complete jack ass.
starzzz2000@reddit
omg same some guys drew penises in mine and made nasty bj comments. I was devastated 😢 jerks
TheCheshireCody@reddit
We're not your parents, you can let go of the lie with us. ;-)
throwitlikethewind@reddit (OP)
I may do the same
MyKidsArentOnReddit@reddit
paper recycling
pizzabirthrite@reddit
Where do you think paper recycling goes?
caramelpupcorn@reddit
Same. No need for a book of photos of people I don't talk to.
russ257@reddit
It’s on a bookshelf. Why would you throw them away. I pull them out every now and then if I need to remember a name
Blackbird136@reddit
Same. This is akin to throwing out photos. I have not only my photos (from before digital), but my parents’ as well.
Most things on this sub I relate to, but the absolute minimalism that everyone here seems to want is beyond me. People saying they don’t want ANY of their dead parents’ stuff breaks my heart.
tickled_your_pickle@reddit
I threw out 90% of my photos too.
JeffTS@reddit
The funny thing is, I see this same view in the Gen X sub. I've been building a family tree since the early 2000s and I'm one of the few people in my now very extended global family who has been working on it. It disappoints me when I hear people throwing out family photos, recipes, records, etc. Someone, someday in a future generation may need or want that information for their family tree and to keep your memory alive.
tagehring@reddit
I hate that I'm this person for my family. I love genealogy and old photos and inherited my grandmother's negatives and have been slowly digitizing them over the years. But I don't have kids, and I have no idea what to do with any of this in my will.
JeffTS@reddit
You could digitize everything that you have and put it up on FamilySearch[dot]org, Ancestry, or similar. All documents, photos, and data would then be there for some future generation.
tagehring@reddit
That's pretty much what I'm doing, but that still leaves boxes of prints and negatives with my grandmother's handwritten notes. I'll more likely than not end up leaving them to a cousin, but haven't really doe any kind of planning in that direction.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
You gotta remember that cutting off all contact with parents is standard Reddit advice too. This is not representative of the general population.
tagehring@reddit
As I'm already starting to have memory problems (they run in the family), I'm more and more grateful for my grandmother annoying the hell out of me and my cousins at every family gathering with her little 35mm point and shoot camera. The two best presents I've ever received were the negatives from her photo collection and the Beta tapes my dad recorded my childhood on. Getting to hear my grandmother's voice again for the first time in 20+ years was one of the most moving experiences of my life.
JamesMattDillon@reddit
I understand not wanting every single thing, but they should at least keep something that has sentimental value
Blackbird136@reddit
Fully agree. When my mom passed, I was definitely picky about what of hers that I kept. But photo albums and her senior yearbook were two things that made the cut!
I feel like the trend anymore is a home that looks like a sterile medical office lobby. And that makes me sad. I see nothing wrong with a couple of boxes of sentimentality in an attic or basement.
throwitlikethewind@reddit (OP)
They've been sitting in a box for the better of 25 years and I looked at them a handful of times.
I haven't been in touch with any of my college classmates (I lived off campus the whole time so not much bonding there). IRT to HS, I didn't like most of them and they didn't like me. Respectively. I would have not gotten the yearbooks at all, but I drank the Kool-Aid about saving memories
russ257@reddit
Ahh well then if you are still local maybe library book sale donation. Or just throw them out
throwitlikethewind@reddit (OP)
I'm donating the HS one, but it seems college yearbooks are a novelty and not often sought for donations.
tagehring@reddit
Donate to the university library?
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
Me too. I even have a few from elementary school!!!
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
That’s why I still have Facebook
AwkwardlyTwisted@reddit
Same. Mine are on a bookshelf in the living room and I put my daughters up there too when she gets them.
tickled_your_pickle@reddit
Threw them out as soon as I finished high school. Haven't seen a single person from high school since then.
59apache01@reddit
Mine are sitting on a shelf.
I wouldn't recommend getting rid of them, If you do, you may wish you hadn't. They don't take up that much room.
LovelyHead82@reddit
I kept mine, I'm a nostalgic person and I like to look back at them and see all the things my friends wrote
bugorama_original@reddit
Same! I pulled mine out recently to show my own kids and we saw that one of my friend’s in 8th grade wrote a note to my future children! It was a totally inappropriate unhinged note, but it was a sweet and hilarious moment to share with my own 8th grader.
missgiddy@reddit
Me too! They’re on my bookshelf.
mistegirl@reddit
Same, still have all 4 somehow. I love them
Fawners@reddit
I have every yearbook K-12. They are a part of my history as a person. I guess Im nostalgic 🙂
rialucia@reddit
Same. I have every school yearbook from 3rd grade on up. I was also on the Yearbook staff in both high school and college and am inclined to hang on to things that I helped create.
Somethingisshadysir@reddit
Never bothered buying the college one. I think the high school one is in a closet somewhere.
Haemwich@reddit
I still have my HS yearbooks. Never got my college ones.
elonmusktheturd22@reddit
I never wanted the high school one, was vocal about it, i was pissed off that they used my artwork in it, cropped my signature off it in the picture, and credited "artist unknown" i only went for the school nonconformist picture (voted unanimously, though i threw out my ballot) because a teacher paid me $5 to do it after i refused , i argued that not doing it was more appropriate.
I was a social outcast and treated like crap by everyone, so i hated them all, my abusive father was the school day janitor, so everyone targeted me when they knew i would get a beating in front of the principals office (small rural school) if i fought back, ended up bitter, cynical, and wanting nothing to do with any of them.
My mother insisted on buying the yearbook then added it to the ledger (every cent she slent on me and demanded i pay her back), i was 18 and living in my car in the parking lot and worked until 1am after school, the $5 was the only reason i went for the picture.
Anyway i burned the yearbook almost immediately, also my diploma. Only time i smoked was a huge cigar at graduation (parents beat me for refusing to go so i did it, i was already 18 but things sucked. I blew smoke in everyones face like bender bending Rodriguez at that spider tapestry galla (just being a jerk, one last f you to those shitz who tortured me for years).
violetstrainj@reddit
I tried to throw them away when I moved out of state fourteen years ago, but my dad took them instead, and now he keeps asking if I want them back. I don’t.
nocleverusername15@reddit
My dad does that. I'll put things to donate or toss and he'll go through everything and put stuff in the garage because "he knows I'll regret getting rid of (fill in the blank)". I have not used or wanted a single thing he's ever saved in 25 years.
bex_nh@reddit
Funny story… I went antique shopping with my mother-in-law and was browsing through old books and came across a few old yearbooks from my school from when I was in elementary school! Which made me feel like, I am so old now that I am in an antique store!
It makes me so sad that I can’t find my Senior year yearbooks bc there were notes written in there from old friends that I don’t see anymore and I wish I had them. I don’t really care about all the others, but I wish I had hung on to my Senior yearbook.
blondeviking64@reddit
Mine are in a box. Ive maybe pulled them out of the box once? Didn't get college ones. I didnt know colleges had them honestly...
Subject_Command5442@reddit
I never bought any because I hated high school and had no intention of dealing with those people anymore.
Minute_Upstairs1458@reddit
Lost them in a flood.
Tinkerfan57912@reddit
Mine are in our guest room closet
MoodScripted@reddit
Only had one and its been trashed.
SanPadrigo@reddit
I have mine ‘97-‘01 and my late father’s ‘75-‘79. Same high school.
Lessa22@reddit
Trashed the day I moved out of my parents house.
ketamineburner@reddit
I keep mine and never plan to get rid of them.
BronskiBeatCovid@reddit
Have a JHS and HS one which I don't want to look at but my wife loves to take it out every so often to remark how cute I was when I was younger. I don't think I would throw them out but they're just sitting in the basement literally and figuratively.
DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit
Haven’t looked at HS in a while. Found my college one online last week and flipped through it and it was a great trip into the past.
Repulsive_Science254@reddit
I carried them around to every house since 1994. After moving enough times I let it go. I never looked at them so it was truly dead weight.
Jewbacca522@reddit
I only have my 8th and 11th grade yearbooks. They’re still sitting on the bookshelf, every now and again when I feel nostalgic I’ll open them up and browse through them.
tevamom99@reddit
Yeah they’re in the basement. My husband and I went to the same high school but he graduated the year I started so we have eight consecutive yearbooks. I used to love looking at my mom’s and I kinda wonder if my kids will too one day.
No-Gas5342@reddit
Pull them out once a year or so when I’m trying to remember who someone was 😆
Helo7606@reddit
Lost my high school one like 2 decades ago
grandma-activities@reddit
Still got 'em. I'm sentimental like that.
JurisUrsus@reddit
I have all of them from middle school, two from HS (not sure where the other 2 went), none from college (never bought one), and all from law school. I'm not planning to ever get rid of them. They are part of my already larger than average collection of books.
jeophys152@reddit
I never got one. Didn’t care about them. I do have one my bookshelf, my cruise book from my navy deployment.
Dry-Astronaut-8640@reddit
I didn’t know college yearbooks were a thing.
I still have my high school yearbooks.
I bring them out when I want to show my kids or a lady-friend how much of a dork/nerd I was back in the day.
farfanseaweevil@reddit
I can never run for public office.
timidusuer@reddit
Donate them to your local library even if you're in a different city.
Cisru711@reddit
In a box on a shelf in the basement.
TheCheshireCody@reddit
I used to look at them occasionally. Now I'll pull out the senior year one once in a while to show my son that I used to be badass. 99.99% of the time they sit on the bottom of the bookshelf and will be tossed when he eventually has to clean out my place after my death.
Slytherpuffy@reddit
Still have my high school ones. Don't think my college had them. I cherish the ones I have because at least one high school friend has passed away recently.
Timmonidus@reddit
I don't think they'd take mine. The autograph section is NSFW
InternationalMap1744@reddit
Hurricane Katrina took mine.
Ramone5150@reddit
Stored upstairs in a box. High School along with my Jr. High yearbook. I don’t mind hanging on to them. There were good times and there were bad times, like every other part of life I guess.
AllTheStars07@reddit
I decided I’m going to look through them, show them to my kid, maybe take some photos of certain things, and then let them go.
fullthrottletomboy@reddit
I kept them to laugh and also reminisce with kids and grandkids. Yes I almost threw them out
Ginger630@reddit
They’re in a box. I won’t get rid of them though.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
Keep them on a bookshelf in the basement. It’s fun to look back once in a while. Maybe I’m in the minority of redditors; my HS and college experiences were fine.
Fawners@reddit
On my dresser :)
Dare2BeU420@reddit
They're on my bedroom bookshelf
maceilean@reddit
When my dad passed away we found his old yearbooks and it was interesting to read what his friends at the time had to say about him, what clubs he was in, who he kept in touch with, etc. It gave us a new perspective on the man.
IchibanChef@reddit
I bought two, ever. Freshman year of HS because I was moving and thought I would forget people. Then senior year of HS because I was forced to. Both have subsequently been trashed.
red286@reddit
I honestly have no clue at this point.
I moved out a month after graduating from high school. In 1999, I had roughly 75% of my belongings thrown in the trash due to a dispute with my landlord (whose son was a cop, so the cops refused to help us when he threw our shit in a dumpster and took it to the dump).
At this point, I have no clue what belongings from my teens were lost and what is sitting in a box in my parents' attic somewhere, if they even kept my stuff that long. Currently, in my possession I have 3 items that predate moving out on my own -- a pair of maracas that my grandfather gave me for I think my 10th birthday, a silver belt buckle that my grandfather gave me for I think my 11th or 12th birthday, and a book of Mensa games that my uncle's parents (not related by blood) gave me for Christmas one year (I've literally never even opened it lol, I don't know why I still have it, but I do). There is no specific reason I have kept any of these three items, they're just all that's left. Well, that and like 8 CDs that I managed to save.
tagehring@reddit
I have all of mine but my 3rd grade yearbook (my younger sister trashed it). I'd consider donating them, but when I look online at archives of scanned yearbooks, they're covered in deeply personal notes written to the owner by their former classmates and it makes me cringe. No thanks.
kiipii@reddit
Both of us threw them away our last move.
lueur-d-espoir@reddit
I've heard of people donating them to library's to keep for locals to browse and remember.
letterstosnapdragon@reddit
Cut out a handful of pics with friends. Cut out some signatures. Tossed the rest.
elmoosh@reddit
I believe they are probably all now mouse nest bedding in the attic.
ArtsyRabb1t@reddit
I have mine on a shelf as my partner and I graduated together. His are on a box, since we have two sets. I threw out almost everything else but can’t seem to part with those
Left_Maize816@reddit
My wife keeps telling me not to throw them out. I have no good memories of my time there and the only people I care at all about talking to, I still do.
star_b_nettor@reddit
I lent them to someone on the committee for the first reunion and never bothered to get them back. They are just fine wherever she put them.
hajisaurus@reddit
I have mine. I’m currently in a huge photo organizing project as I inherited everyone’s photos. Once I finish I’ll probably look through for anything worth keeping for the scrapbook and then get rid of them. Reunions are long past and I didn’t attend but having the touchstone of my formative years has been enough justification to keep them. They’re on the shelf for now but I look forward to sharing them with my kids if they’re curious what high school was like before Columbine.
Zealousideal_Job5986@reddit
Have all my yearbooks from Kindergarten on, my mom was big about them. I also worked on Yearbook 2 years in high school so kinda cool to look back and see my layout work, if I wanted to lol. They're kept in bins though, however it's nice to have them to look for older photos, especially friends who have already passed on.
Inspi@reddit
College had 50k students no yearbooks.
HS, and even elementary and middle are on a bookshelf
JenninMiami@reddit
I just moved and mine are sitting on a shelf while I try to decide if I want to keep them.
During this move, my ex also left me with a bin of his mother’s things - and her yearbooks were among them. He didn’t want them. Her other son didn’t want them. They ended up in the trash.
Mine probably will too. Maybe the next garbage day. No one will care about these things once I’m dead.
Miz_momo82@reddit
They're still in my old bedroom at my parents house. If I really wanted to I prob could sell them on ebay since I went to school with a widely known person (not trying to doxx myself) but i enjoy looking back thru them
SpinachnPotatoes@reddit
Trash. Ive already had to deal with assisting with my parents "sentimental" hording. Im not doing that to my kids.
BillyDMountain@reddit
I just have the one from the year I graduated that I'll probably either keep or scan a few photos from since I dropped Facebook it's the only real link I have to those times now. There's a few nice signatures in there as well, that's the other reason I kept that one.
JeffTS@reddit
There is such a thing as college yearbooks? I never knew. My middle school and high school yearbooks are in my closet.
abbydabbydo@reddit
Haul them around and resent it
Epicardiectomist@reddit
I keep the one from my senior year. My kids will get a kick out of it someday.
My advice to so many of you - let go of the past. Let go of what you've carried for 25+ years. The things you remember can only hurt you when you allow them to. The taunts of the past have no power over your life anymore.
I was one of the bullied outcasts, and not letting the past impose its bullshit on the present is true liberation. I walked into my 20 year reunion with a smile on my face, showing that they never had any power in the first place.
It's time to let go.
mistlet0ad@reddit
I still every one in my hope check. Kindergarten thru graduation.
Typical-Human-Thing@reddit
Never bothered with a college yearbook, people either stayed in touch or didn’t. I have my high school yearbooks in a box. A couple people I really liked died either during HS or between graduation and when everyone got on Facebook so I keep them as memorials.
Dh2007@reddit
Mine are still sitting in a box. My wife threw hers out but took photos of the pages she was in and some of the signature pages, which seems like a good compromise. It’s been 30 years and I don’t really talk to any of those folks, I left town a week after my 18th birthday and (apart from a few months home from school) never really went back. It’s starting to feel like all it happened to somebody else now.
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
Left them at my parents house. They wanted them in the first place. Not me. Ive never taken them .
muhhuh@reddit
Mine probably got lost somewhere in a move or couch surf where none of those fuckers would have helped me anyway. I don’t miss them at all.
on_fleekwoodmac@reddit
Maybe check with your local library to see if they want them?
NighthawkCP@reddit
I have all of mine and I actually went through and scanned about 6-7 of them a decade or so ago and posted them on FB. I even made a local page with the thought of scanning more of them but never got around to it. At the time I got a lot of positive feedback appreciating the effort and enjoying tagging others on them, sharing them, etc. I still get some people that chime in on them every now and again when they pop up in somebody's memories.
I'll hang on to mine for now. When I have more time I will probably digitize them with one of my Nikon cameras instead of the flatplate scanner to get higher resolution images. I still know a lot of people back home and could share the digital copies, plus post them on social media, on my Flickr account, etc.
sravll@reddit
On my bookshelf 🤷♀️
ShillinTheVillain@reddit
They're probably in a bin at my parents' house.
I never got a college yearbook. I doubt I would even be in it, undergrad was 35k students.
MojoHighway@reddit
I have all my high school yearbooks and my college never did yearbooks.
They are interesting, seeing a look back at times gone by. I'm also married to a woman that I went to high school with. We weren't together at the time but we had common friends. Memory lane every day, all day in my house. lol
meenoSparq@reddit
I still have mine, but mostly because I keep forgetting they exist. They’ve basically become a box of emotional archaeology in a closet.
HorseWorking@reddit
College had yearbooks?
ki11a11hippies@reddit
I had a great group of friends in HS, still visit each other often, and go to the reunions. I’ve kept the HS yearbooks.
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
I have them in my fireproof safe.
NightCheeseNinja@reddit
Mine are stacked flat on the top shelf on my giant bookshelf. they make a nice riser for displaying stuff on. I keep mine because I liked to try to jump in as many group club photos as possible so when you flip through the section with all the clubs, there I am in SO MANY CLUBS! WOWIE WHAT A TEAM PLAYER I WAS! 🤫
Fr0stbite37@reddit
Mine are in a box in my closet
BrightAd306@reddit
I’m keeping them for my kids and grandkids to look through. It’s like a time capsule.
Weekly_Library9883@reddit
Burned the one yearbook I had that I never wanted to begin with. High school is more than 20 years over, if I wanted to relive those memories, I’d rather just find my old therapist.
limelight022@reddit
I have no idea where they are.
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
Colleges have year books? How small or big were the colleges?
moon_child1442@reddit
Forgot to grab them when my dad’s house sold. They’re gone. But I don’t talk to anyone from high school anymore… high school sucked for me.
OhTheHueManatee@reddit
An old roommate was mad at me, to be fair I was an asshole, so he destroyed a bunch of my stuff including all my yearbooks and photos.
lifeat24fps@reddit
Must have been trashed in a move at some point. I found my partners the other day in the basement. The entire yearbook was uploaded to some site a few years ago so on the off chance I ever want to look there it is.
jawnbaejaeger@reddit
I lent one of my friends my high school yearbooks over a decade ago and have never asked or wanted them back.
I never got a college yearbook. I don't think those were a thing at my school. You can probably donate them to your college alumni association though.
Funandgeeky@reddit
I still have mine and always will. They are reminders of important milestones. Though to be honest the quality of those college yearbooks took a dive the last two years I was there. I hope the people who made them still feel deep shame and embarrassment about how terrible they were.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I didn't even know college year books existed. I only ever bought my senior year book. I have kept it for trying to remember names of people if I see them out in the wild. Part of small town growing up.
WheelLeast1873@reddit
In bookshelf in office. My wife and I went to same hs so sometimes we'll look through them together.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
No idea
I_like_flowers_@reddit
we cut my dads up to use some images at his funeral (this was more than 20 years ago, so scanning wasn't a realistic option.)
brokenman82@reddit
My parents have them. I told them feel free to toss them but I think they are still there
krystopher@reddit
Lost them in a move... Now I'll never be able to "have a great summer and K.I.T. <3"
Smoky1279@reddit
My high school yearbooks are all in a closet at my parents house. I think i have 7-12.
catjuggler@reddit
Used mine last night when it turned out a tradesperson who was quoting had someone i went to high school with on the team.
Archivarianne@reddit
Kept two, burned the rest. Very satisfying.
Expensive-Day-3551@reddit
I don’t have mine, it got lost in the shuffle in my many moves. I only really wish I had it because of something I left in between the pages
Old_Association6332@reddit
My junior school had a yearbook that came out every year. I think we have all of them somewhere. I went to an expat school in a SE Asian country, and those yearbooks tended to be of very high quality. I don't want to part with them yet.
My high school only produced one yearbook that I can remember. I presume we still have it, don't know where.
elektrik_noise@reddit
I only have my freshmen year one, I think. I was on my own at 16 so my junior yearbook never surfaced (and idrc). My freshmen one, we were those girls and gays who passed their yearbooks around for at minimum half a day to write pages of stupid inside jokes and draw doodles. Then, once my friend group finished, we all got together and read all of our yearbook "autograph" pages out loud and pissed our pants laughing.
It's not the biggest deal and I haven't looked at it in years. But it's one of the few "conventional" HS experiences I had so I'll hang onto it.
pardonmyass@reddit
My HS yearbooks (along with my parent’s and I think my aunt’s) live on a shelf in a closet in my spare room. I don’t have kids so they’re destined for the trash eventually.
lorenzo463@reddit
I’ve got them on my shelf. My 11 year old loves to go through them and gawk at the 90s fashion.
My wife and I attended the same small K-12 school, so we have a lot of shared core memories in those books. There are a few pictures in those books that solidified in both of our minds what “cool” and “hot” were. So it’s fun to point those iconic photos out to our kid and see how they react.
SpaceLemur34@reddit
Never got any in high school.
I don't even think my college had a yearbook.
WhoYouBoo_eek789@reddit
You can see if your old HS would like them. I remember our library had some old ass yearbooks archived. Our school opened in the 30s so it was cool to peruse them.
brainvheart143@reddit
I have the senior year HS one. Will keep. College, I never bothered. My husband does have a bunch we need to get rid of. Idk Goodwill? Dumpster?
elphaba00@reddit
I still have them. In fact, I have two sets because I'm married to someone who graduated with me. I'm so glad that our oldest (Class of 2025) never asked for one. One of my friends has a son who is a freshman at the same high school, and she asked about ordering yearbooks. She thought she had missed the deadline and wanted some details. My initial reaction was, "Why would you want one?"
False-Cookie3379@reddit
I think kids these days aren’t into having yearbooks, class rings, letterman jackets, etc. I have a senior in high school, she has no desire to have any of those things, also have a sophomore in college who didn’t want anything either.
ConnectKale@reddit
I had this reaction about class rings. I am sooo glad my kids never asked for one of those.
elphaba00@reddit
Mine didn't want any of that: no yearbooks, no class ring, no senior pictures, no jackets, no shirts with the high school name, etc. He put in a picture and a quote for the PowerPoint that was uploaded to YouTube. That was it. He liked school. He was good at it, but he didn't like the people around him. He also just saw high school as a means to an end.
Plumeria9798@reddit
Too funny, I also have two sets because my husband went to my HS (we didn’t really know each other at the time) and was a grade ahead of me. I have mine in a bin on the top shelf of my closet because his are on his bookcase and if I need to see anything from freshman to junior year, I grab his. I was tired of them taking up space on my bookcase but I’d not toss them, I’m very nostalgic.
False-Cookie3379@reddit
They’re in a box in my parents attic somewhere.
bigfancydelta@reddit
I only got 1, my sophomore year of HS. Its at my parents house on a bookshelf next to my sibling's yearbooks and my parents yearbooks. They will probably end up on a bookshelf at my sibling's house eventually.
Logical-Cherry9395@reddit
I never got one in the first place, lol.
throwitlikethewind@reddit (OP)
Smart idea
sarithe@reddit
I donated them back to my high school. They have them on a shelf in the school library supposedly.
crazycatlady331@reddit
I decluttered middle school and high school. They were a horrible chapter in my life and don't know why I spent so much money on those things (I want ZERO memories from that shithole). Never bought college.
ConnectKale@reddit
I had a few good memories of Middle and HS…but only a few.
ConnectKale@reddit
They are in a box that my kids will discover when I die.
Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit
I use my HS yearbooks as a laptop stand!
martapap@reddit
Mine were destroyed in a fire.
Mondub_15@reddit
Why would you get rid of them? You can never get them back. Seems like I have to pull one out every now and then when a memory is triggered or I run into someone. Also, one of my calcite things to do when I was a kid was look through my parents’ yearbooks. Not sure if you have kids but that’s enough of a reason for me to keep mine.
VinylHighway@reddit
On my bookshelf
ComputerAbuser@reddit
I went to 3 different high schools and always regretted not getting my yearbooks. I would love to be able to look back at them.
Spartan04@reddit
I keep mine around. I have yearbooks for all 4 years of high school but only one year of college. The college ones were free to students (technically we paid for them with our tuition and fees) so I grabbed one my freshman year but didn’t bother the rest since they’re far less personal to me than high school yearbooks.
The high school ones are kind of fun to have around and I’ve used them occasionally to look up a person’s name that I’m trying to remember. They don’t take a lot of room so they wouldn’t be very high on the list of things to get rid of if I were decluttering.
UptownJunk802@reddit
Honestly the stuff my friends wrote in it is the best part so I'd never donate them. If they were damaged I'd trash them. Mine are in a tote in my basement closet.
snn1326j@reddit
I have all of mine and will keep forever, I love reading the stuff people wrote in them, and I loved high school so much. Never had yearbooks in college.
absentlyric@reddit
Never got one, too expensive, they were $100 even back in the 90s from our school, and I was being paid $5.00/hr at my part time job, the upmark was a little high for a book of black and white photos.
FatReverend@reddit
I only ever acquired 2 year books and one of them I wasn't even in. They sat in my parents house until my father got dementia and had to go into memory care. My sister then found them and I threw them away. That was last year.
bronzemat@reddit
I have all of my middle school and high school years books in a closet.
EternalMehFace@reddit
They're shelved next to my photo albums. I only ever purchased two from middle school (7-8) and one from senior year of high school. I never cared about my college class, but I do wish my elementary school even had yearbooks. We just had one of those big panoramic class photos friends signed the back of, ha.
ResponsibilityIcy187@reddit
Dont have any. classmates.com has some of them posted but my HS is still missing 99-01.
Alternative-Wish-441@reddit
I think they are in my basement somewhere but not sure. I haven’t thought of my yearbook since I moved last 13 years ago.
WhiskerWizard626@reddit
Threw them out a few years ago
AndrewInMN@reddit
Still have them. They're around somewhere. Got one for sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school. I've been meaning to find them so I can see what a friend of mine wrote in them. He passed about 5 years ago and I've been thinking of memorial tattoo ideas.
Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit
Threw them out a few years ago, didn't even bother getting one my senior year.
Inevitable_Tone3021@reddit
Mine are in a storage box either at my house or my parents house, not sure which.
My mom is from a small town of 8000 people and they have a history museum in the town with donated yearbooks from years past in part of it. I thought that was neat, and significantly cool in a small town where everyone went to the same high school throughout the years.
Opunaesala@reddit
Never ordered them or rings. Never have or will go to any reunions. I'm still in touch with all the people I would care to see again.
whywires@reddit
My high school yearbooks are still on a shelf at my parents' house.
The last time I looked at one was a few years ago during a holiday when an old friend told me that someone a couple years younger than us had recently committed a horrific murder. I didn't remember the person, so I looked them up in the yearbook.
TheREALBaldRider@reddit
No idea.
GetrIndia@reddit
Mom had a box full of that stuff in her basement, didnt take anything when I moved to another province over 20 years ago. She was cleaning stuff out and I told her to toss it. Those things were heavy.
piscian19@reddit
I have never owned nor appeared in a year book. I didn't something similar to homeschooling where I just skipped school a lot and loitered at the mall.
imlookingatthefjord@reddit
I threw them in the trash about 10 years ago.