<p>I’m trying to figure out what I want to ask my parents for as a graduation gift, and was wondering what’s considered the “norm”. This is what I have in mind so far:</p>
<p>-A weekend in San Francisco/Lake Arrowhead with friends (SO FUN!).
OR
-A laptop (very practical as I’ll need one for college anyways)
-Cash (useful, but has the potential to be wasted on impulse stuff).</p>
<p>What do you guys think/other suggestions?</p>
<p>DD got a laptop. DS got an instrument case (a very expensive one…holds three instruments).</p>
<p>Money (airfare) for a trip with a friend.</p>
<p>Digital camera from us; top of the line mp3 player from an uncle; $$ from an aunt. She figured, rightly, that we would provide a computer for college.</p>
<p>We gave our son an IPOD.
We also purchased his laptop for college.
By the time the 18th birthday rolled around this fall we had run out of ideas. So we gave him an IOU for something at a later date. He would have loved an XBox 360 but we didn’t want to promote another activity that took away from studying.</p>
<p>A laptop of his choice–and, of course, college tuition–a princely gift.</p>
<p>College:
Nothing. However, he did earn the admiration of his parents and grandparents. He also earned valuable experience in summer positions, saved his money, saved us money in being careful how he spent money, and getting scholarships as undergrad and graduate schools, very very high grades, recommendations from his advisers.</p>
<p>For that he earned the privilege to take 8 weeks in China.</p>
<p>For HS: The amount that we had to spend for his college was a daunting sum. He got that privilege to be accepted, able to attended.</p>
<p>For S1 h.s. graduation present, we covered the cost of his airfare for a trip to Italy with friends he had met in a college summer program (the Italian friends were letting the American kids stay at their homes during the visit.) His spending money there and the cost of a cheap digital camera for the trip came from savings and cash gifts from relatives for graduation. </p>
<p>His Sept. birthday present (18th), which he received in August during college move-in day, was the laptop he would need for school.</p>
<p>Hey, my birthday is September 10th! ^_^</p>
<p>Those are all great ideas…I’m so thankful that my parents are paying for my tuition, and I’ll probably ask for a laptop. Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>18th birthday present for both of my kids was jewelry. For DD it was a necklace and for DS it was a watch.</p>
<p>Mid-priced Apple laptop.</p>
<p>I will contribute money to a backpacking trip that she is planning with her friends to Europe.</p>
<p>Are these trips to Europe for HIGH SCHOOL graduation??? or for college graduation?</p>
<p>I didn’t get anything from my parents (they don’t have very much money, my mom made me a lovely dinner). My grandparents gave me $1,000 which I spent on travel.</p>
<p>We gave both my Ds sets of luaggage. Otherwise all my luggage would have left home with them.</p>
<p>It’s for high school graduation. It’s not the money that I’m worried about, it’s the fact that 4 young girls under 18 will be travelling by themselves for the first time.</p>
<p>Luggage is our family tradition. Not very sentimental! It says, “Time to go.”</p>
<p>graduation from high school?
it was also for her 18th birthday. I gave her a silver bracelet that I had, had for a long time ( I have little jewelry, so it at least to me meant a lot- it is pretty nice a solid chunk of carved sterling silver)
graduation from college we gave her a nano ipod.</p>
<p>both Ds got laptops, and as bethievt said, the gift of college! their grandma helped with that part, too!</p>
<p>toledo…that’s really funny! i love it!</p>