High School Yearbook.

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So it's been 20 years since I graduated high school:yikes: Bought all the yearbooks - what a waste of money. Blah blah I was sweet.

Thoughts on keeping them? I feel like putting them in the recycling bin and getting a bunch of bookcase shelf back. I know it's my decision but I'm curious to those that got rid of them or never got them. Regrets?
 
I still have my high school and college yearbooks on the shelf. Oh, and my high school class celebrated its 40th reunion a couple years ago. :D
 
I was in the Class of 1956 and my wife was in the class of 1958. We love to go through them from time to time to remember what we looked like back then. :-)

I still carry a picture n my wallet of my wife at our senior Prom.

Keep em.

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I, uh, have one yearbook from my senior year in HS. My junior year yearbook met its demise from an overzealous alumni from my school that thought it best to retain it.

I don't give a ****. I don't choose to live in the past.
 
saracelica said:
So it's been 20 years since I graduated high school:yikes: Bought all the yearbooks - what a waste of money. Blah blah I was sweet.

Thoughts on keeping them? I feel like putting them in the recycling bin and getting a bunch of bookcase shelf back. I know it's my decision but I'm curious to those that got rid of them or never got them. Regrets?
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I've kept mine. Actually, it has helped in that when I get a friend request, some names are so different from high school, I can look for the face and recognize who the person was...
And as mentioned by someone else, it can be fun to see what people used to look like versus how they look now...although that's a double-edged sword:eek::rofl:
 
How many years did you need to graduate? If I threw out all three years the space gained would be less than 2 inches.

saracelica said:
So it's been 20 years since I graduated high school:yikes: Bought all the yearbooks - what a waste of money. Blah blah I was sweet.

Thoughts on keeping them? I feel like putting them in the recycling bin and getting a bunch of bookcase shelf back. I know it's my decision but I'm curious to those that got rid of them or never got them. Regrets?
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I'm 22 years out and NEVER look at mine. BUT... one of my grandfather's 1930's New Orleans Charity Hospital class photos, wearing the old white scrubs, hangs on my wall. You never know who might want them one day.
 
I have mine in the basement. I haven't looked at them for years. I haven't attended a reunion in twenty-five years, and don't plan to. High school was the worst years of my life. I wouldn't get rid of them though, No reason to and it wouldn't change anything. Actually my lawyer is one of my old classmates and I have been seeing him quite a bit lately on legal business. He is a nice enough guy.
 
Somewhere along the way, during one of my several military moves or civilian moves to get or keep my job or during the divorce or the couple of years I put stuff in storage during deployments I lost my senior yearbook.

I wish I still had it. It's only 1/2" wide at the most (senior class was 27 people) but it would be nice every once in a while to look through it and laugh about how rail skinny I was or how goofy I looked in a wrestling uniform or how that hot cheerleader that turned me down at the prom now is twice the woman she used to be (at least).

Memories are a good thing. I say keep them. :)
 
I flip through the year books of old every few years and have several laughs reminiscing over the memories of crazy things we did back then.
 
Ugh... I normally use too many commas. Looks like I finally ran out of them in my last post. :redface:
 
We have ours. They're good for a laugh on a snow day.

Biography will want yours when you makes your first billion for the Ken Burns style still shots and B-roll while they babble about where you grew up and went to school.

Or they'll ask your family nicely for them when you become the next Unibomber.

Better hold on to them for your publicist or the media.

Heh heh. :)
 
saracelica said:
So it's been 20 years since I graduated high school:yikes: Bought all the yearbooks - what a waste of money. Blah blah I was sweet.

Thoughts on keeping them? I feel like putting them in the recycling bin and getting a bunch of bookcase shelf back. I know it's my decision but I'm curious to those that got rid of them or never got them. Regrets?
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"bought all the yearbooks"? Do you mean you have the last 20 yearbooks?

Alternatives to recyling:

Keep any yearbook for the years you were in school - a relative of your may eventually want to see them.

Assuming you have the last 20 years of yearbooks, contact the various class reunion committees or the school to see if they'd like copies.

on the other hand, you might want to see if there are any photos or text in there that you would find embarrassing. If so, burn the books.
 
I had the 4 years that I attended. They went into the recycling bin last night. Thanks for your thoughts. High school memories I don't care to relive over and over again :shudder:

I don't remember who even signed my year book. Someone named "Dan" was evidentally very fond of me. Eh, oh well.
 
saracelica said:
I had the 4 years that I attended. They went into the recycling bin last night. Thanks for your thoughts. High school memories I don't care to relive over and over again :shudder:

I don't remember who even signed my year book. Someone named "Dan" was evidentally very fond of me. Eh, oh well.
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Twenty years ago I'd have done the same thing. Today I'm glad I kept them. The bad memories mostly fade; the books bring back the good ones. This is especially true when your classmates start "fading away".
 
Friend has one with a high school photo of yours truly. I had the opportunity to surreptitiously throw it onto a bonfire, but failed to follow through. Never invested in the things myself and not sorry at all.
 
Donate them back to your school. A few years ago, I was contacted by someone in my class who wanted a yearbook that they could cut up and make copies of the pictures for a reunion. If your class needed one for the same reason, I bet the first place they would call would be the school.
 
I recently scanned my Junior High yearbook from 1976 and posted individual pics on Facebook. Amazingly, I've received no death threats.
 
My yearbook is still around. It has survived a number of moves being located at the bottom of my sock drawer. I don't think I've opened it in years.
Sitting right on top of it is my HS diploma.
Two pieces of paper that really don't mean a thing after a few years out the door.
 
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