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RandySF

(59,340 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2015, 02:35 AM Apr 2015

Kids now spend hundreds of dollars on "prom proposals".

Hard to believe it, but prom season is sneaking up on us. That means millions of high school students will soon be fretting about dresses, tuxedos, hair, nails -- and the all-important "promposal." According to the Washington Post, the promposal is a relatively new phenomenon, mimicking a marriage proposal, "wherein students go to elaborate, terribly public lengths to ask each other to prom."

And according to a new national survey by Visa (V), promposals and the rest of the prom rituals are adding up to a pretty penny for a lot of American households.

The phone survey of over 3,000 people, aged 18 or older, found that promposals are, on average, costing $324 this year -- and now represent one-third of the nearly $1,000 prom-going teens (or, actually, their parents) are expected to shell out on attire, limousine rentals, tickets, flowers, pictures, after-party festivities and the like.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/promposal-where-one-third-of-prom-costs-go-today/

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Kids now spend hundreds of dollars on "prom proposals". (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2015 OP

what do they do for a promposal - skywriting? hollysmom Apr 2015 #1

This is as close as many of these kids will ever get to the hedgehog Apr 2015 #2

Is this for real? Or is the media hyping it, to encourage more spending? Quantess Apr 2015 #3

It's real and we are just too old to understand. Last year I had a kitchen full of boys... Phentex Apr 2015 #4

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)

1. what do they do for a promposal - skywriting?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 03:16 AM

Apr 2015

sounds stupid, only went to college prom and wore and old dress,did my own hair and make up and got there in my boyfriends crappy car. Granted friends were surprised that I didn't buy a fancy prom dress, but hey I was going to college and I was broke, my parents weren't paying for the college, they were not going to pay for a prom when they had younger kids to feed and dress and thought I should get married instead of go to college, Boyfriend dropped out of college for a year to save up enough money to finish college, he did n't have extra cash. I had to be part of a psych experiment at college to earn the money for the tickets.

Are these kids all working jobs instead of studying?

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

2. This is as close as many of these kids will ever get to the

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 06:54 AM

Apr 2015

glamor of an elaborate wedding.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)

3. Is this for real? Or is the media hyping it, to encourage more spending?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 08:31 AM

Apr 2015

First of all, going to elaborate "terribly public" lengths to ask someone to the prom doesn't sound cool to me.

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

4. It's real and we are just too old to understand. Last year I had a kitchen full of boys...

Reply to Quantess (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 09:32 AM

Apr 2015

all discussing the ways they were going to ask a girl to the prom. All of the ideas sounded stupid to me. And I just can't see the point. But this is what the kids do and they have bought right into the whole thing going as far to say that a girl wouldn't go with them if they just outright asked (the way we did back in the dinosaur days.) It's mind boggling!

My son may go stag this year because he saw that plenty of kids did this last year and it was perfectly fine.

I think one day the kids may look back at this trend and laugh about how young they were.

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