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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you still have your old yearbooks? Jr. high, high school?
I have one from each -- 9th grade and 12th grade.
Aside from the nostalgia I feel when I come across them once every 2-3 years, I don't know why I've kept them...
My school years were fine - I wasn't really popular, but I wasn't unpopular & I was pretty happy overall - but certainly not the best years of my life (so far).
I'm contemplating tossing them next time I see them. Maybe scan a few pages to keep for old time's sake. But no need to hang on to big, heavy books. I've been decluttering gradually and see no need to keep them. I haven't kept in touch with any of my friend from that time, and I have no intention to join Facebook, so ... I guess that's that.
How about you?
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Heck I even designed the cover and theme of my HS Yearbook when I was a senior and I don't even have that one.
elleng
(130,974 posts)Jr. high didn't have one.
Valuable for recent 50th graduation reunion. Will never dispose of them! Many of us reconnected for reunion, largely through FB, and remain in touch.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Apparently my mom - who works at the district I went to - said that the most recent yearbooks talked more about what kids owned than who they were. "Oh so and so has an iPod touch, iPhone 5, and Macbook Pro!!" Talk about de evolution...
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)but nothing after that. They're soft bound so they weigh very little. I don't think my junior high had yearbooks because they didn't take school pictures. I don't remember seeing any for high school, either.
bif
(22,720 posts)Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)put away in my storage closet. Don't really know why I keep them, but I do.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Tossed them out around 1970. Too much stuff to carry around.
Kali
(55,014 posts)I have my GRANDMOTHER's yearbooks!
I don't need to declutter, I need to have a fire.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)They were online somewhere (Ancestry?). I never would have guessed that grandmother, who was less than 5' tall, was on her college basketball team!
Kali, I hate to break it to you, but you are a hoarder.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)They might find it entertaining.
IcyPeas
(21,892 posts)but I can't even remember the last time I looked at it. I also have a picture of my eighth grade graduating class. I don't want to throw them away though. some silly sentimentality I guess.
I've never joined facebook. I know a lot of people "find" people from their old schools. I've never wanted to do that either.....
lastlib
(23,248 posts)guess I could digitize 'em but somehow it just wouldn't feel the same.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)my senior year yearbook serves as my laptop platform, don't know how it got that job. the rest are packed away in boxes.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)They are part of your family history and a little glimpse of another time. I have my grandfather's HS yearbook and it has some little pen and ink drawings in it that he did. I never would have known he liked to draw if I hadn't had that.
benld74
(9,904 posts)the wife has hers. I only use Facebook in order to log into certain sites requiring a login.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Also the years preceding my class. (We didn't have yearbooks in junior high.) I haven't looked at them in years. I did buy an alumni directory about 10 years and read through the names I remembered.
We also have my husband's and those of both my kids.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I worry about all this stuff accumulating. Will my kids be stuck with it? I'm sure I will inherit stuff from my mother and my mother-in-law and where does it all go? And what do we do with old family movies that nobody ever watches? Sigh.
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)that his grandfather and parents had filmed, and had them converted to a VHS tape in the late 80's.
His mom had died when he was in his teens, but her sister (his aunt) watched it and loved it so much that she had copies made for that cousin's two brothers, my mom, and me. My mom and her sister, their parents, and several of their aunts, uncles, and cousins are on the earlier ones, when my mom was a teenager. My brothers and I, when I was about 2 1/2, showed up in one at a family reunion. It was really fun to see these old films!
Now you can have old films turned into DVDs. I think they'd be especially fun to watch many years later.
ElbarDee
(61 posts)I haven't looked at them in thirty years. I think I will get them out tonight and have a look.
HowZanyIsThat
(3 posts)I have all of mine, K-12...I went to small schools
We have a couple of my grandmother's (my mom's mom) and my somehow ended up with my grandfather's sister's yearbook.
My dad has his, 7th-12th. His older sister is in his 10th grade yearbook, it's cool to see pictures of both of them that year. And her ex-husband (my oldest cousin's dad) went to school with my dad in Jr. High so I can see pictures of him.
My mom has a couple elementary yearbooks and her 11th and 12th grade yearbooks. Her mom's cousin went to school with her, so I can see pictures of her.
My mom's oldest brother passed away before I was born and we have a couple of his yearbooks. I love seeing stuff he was involved in at school. Their cousin graduated with him so I get to see both of them, and their other brother and their other cousin are underclassmen so I get four family members in one yearbook.
shanti
(21,675 posts)from jr. high thru high school. however, when i was going thru a breakup years ago, my ex's grandmother tossed all of my hs yearbooks except for my senior yearbook, as well as other family heirlooms. i went ballistic to say the least!
now, my reason to keep them is for my children/grandchildren....