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Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:16 AM Dec 2012

Do 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?

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Do you still have your old yearbooks? Jr. high, high school? (Original Post) Flaxbee Dec 2012 OP
Anything worth remembering from then -- good or bad -- I don't need books for. dogknob Dec 2012 #1
Have high school, my year and year prior to mine. elleng Dec 2012 #2
All four years of high school, and I don't know why either. Initech Dec 2012 #3
I have all my elementary school yearbooks from the late 50s - early 60s aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2012 #4
Yes. But it's now on line! bif Dec 2012 #5
I have most of them Hayabusa Dec 2012 #6
No. Blue_In_AK Dec 2012 #7
oh hell. Kali Dec 2012 #8
I downloaded my grandmother's yearbook pictures csziggy Dec 2012 #14
I'm keeping it for possible future grandchildren LiberalEsto Dec 2012 #9
I have high school year book from 1974 IcyPeas Dec 2012 #10
kept my college ones--has pics of an old flame I want to keep..... lastlib Dec 2012 #11
i have all of them from 7th-12th fizzgig Dec 2012 #12
I never bought any yearbooks struggle4progress Dec 2012 #13
Keep them TuxedoKat Dec 2012 #15
Got all mine,,, benld74 Dec 2012 #16
I have my high school and college yearbooks. femmocrat Dec 2012 #17
I have 'em, 7th through 12th, but I do think: "What's the point?" Arugula Latte Dec 2012 #18
As a present for him, my cousin's wife took old family movies from ~1930-1953 marzipanni Dec 2012 #19
I have all four. ElbarDee Dec 2012 #20
I have all HowZanyIsThat Dec 2012 #21
i used to have one from every year shanti Dec 2012 #22

dogknob

(2,431 posts)
1. Anything worth remembering from then -- good or bad -- I don't need books for.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:42 AM
Dec 2012

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)
2. Have high school, my year and year prior to mine.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:03 AM
Dec 2012

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)
3. All four years of high school, and I don't know why either.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:16 AM
Dec 2012

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)
4. I have all my elementary school yearbooks from the late 50s - early 60s
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:54 AM
Dec 2012

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.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
14. I downloaded my grandmother's yearbook pictures
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:42 PM
Dec 2012

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.

IcyPeas

(21,892 posts)
10. I have high school year book from 1974
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:01 PM
Dec 2012

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)
11. kept my college ones--has pics of an old flame I want to keep.....
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:34 PM
Dec 2012

guess I could digitize 'em but somehow it just wouldn't feel the same.

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
12. i have all of them from 7th-12th
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:37 PM
Dec 2012

my senior year yearbook serves as my laptop platform, don't know how it got that job. the rest are packed away in boxes.

TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)
15. Keep them
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 10:03 PM
Dec 2012

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)
16. Got all mine,,,
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:12 PM
Dec 2012

the wife has hers. I only use Facebook in order to log into certain sites requiring a login.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
17. I have my high school and college yearbooks.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:18 PM
Dec 2012

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)
18. I have 'em, 7th through 12th, but I do think: "What's the point?"
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:21 PM
Dec 2012

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)
19. As a present for him, my cousin's wife took old family movies from ~1930-1953
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:31 AM
Dec 2012

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)
20. I have all four.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:26 AM
Dec 2012

I haven't looked at them in thirty years. I think I will get them out tonight and have a look.

HowZanyIsThat

(3 posts)
21. I have all
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:35 PM
Dec 2012

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)
22. i used to have one from every year
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 02:03 PM
Dec 2012

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....

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