If you get an invitation in the mail that is not from an immediate family member it is really just about sending money, right?
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Attending graduations
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Posts: 2232 (05/07/08 4:42 PM) Registered loser
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Posts: 8137 (05/07/08 4:43 PM) Guttersnipe |
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merkyl |
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Posts: 52612 (05/07/08 4:45 PM) Registered loser |
My niece is graduating this year. I had no intention of going but my mom is flying in for the ceremony. Does this make me more obligated to go?
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Quaffetti |
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Posts: 5583 (05/07/08 4:45 PM) Registered User |
Well, originally, it was not an invitation, it is an announcement so that you know your close friend/family member actually graduated. But now it is really
just a plea to send money.
So send money. Don't waste your time going to some boring graduation. They usually have limited seating anyway. Honestly, I could barely sit through my own kids' hs graduations. |
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Posts: 2233 (05/07/08 4:46 PM) Registered loser
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Good cause I wasn't going to do both (attend and send money) so I assumed the extended family member would rather have the money. Money is so much easier.
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Posts: 47 (05/07/08 4:49 PM) |
I got one from my maid for her daughter. I went to her very lavish quincenera but that was the only time I remember meeting her. How much am I obligated for? Can I deduct it on my taxes? |
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merkyl |
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Posts: 52613 (05/07/08 4:49 PM) Registered loser |
Sending money is also always better than wasting your time volunteering for shit.
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thesego2eleven |
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Posts: 74 (05/07/08 4:50 PM) Registered user |
Soooooooo, are you a bad person if you get an announcement and throw it in the trash and don't send money? What if you haven't see the kid in 10 years?
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Posts: 3068 (05/07/08 4:51 PM) |
Avoid the pretense and just by them beer. That's what they're going to spend the money on anyway.
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Posts: 2234 (05/07/08 4:54 PM) Registered loser
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Good question. How much should I send? I was thinking $100. So that batch of family members will eventually cost me $600 that is not so bad to avoid ever
going.
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Quaffetti |
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Posts: 5585 (05/07/08 4:55 PM) Registered User |
thesego2eleven wrote: Yes. Don't you remember the joy of being a HS student and getting all that money when you graduated? It's time to pay it back. |
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Posts: 30594 (05/07/08 4:55 PM) Registered user |
How much money are we talking here?
When my cousin graduated, I sent her $200.00. I'm not sure if it was enough. |
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Posts: 2235 (05/07/08 4:56 PM) Registered loser
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I could be a douche like so many people were to me and buy them a cross pen and pencil set.
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thesego2eleven |
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Posts: 76 (05/07/08 4:56 PM) Registered user |
Yes. Don't you remember the joy of being a HS student and getting all that money when you graduated? It's time to pay it back. No. My parents thought announcements were tacky and I didn't get ANY money. I got a watch from them and other gifts from grandparents and aunts and uncles. |
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Tres Gay |
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Posts: 3283 (05/07/08 4:57 PM) Registered user |
You don't consider your niece a member of your immediate family? Wow.
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pie123452001 |
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Posts: 30596 (05/07/08 4:58 PM) Registered user |
r wrote: Yeah, but that was the norm in the '50s.
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merkyl |
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Posts: 52615 (05/07/08 4:59 PM) Registered loser |
I think you are mixing up posters, Tres.
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Posts: 17985 (05/07/08 5:02 PM) Registered User |
Are we talking high school graduations? I never understood the point of getting so much money for doing something that you're expected to do. It's not
hard to graduate high school.
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Posts: 49 (05/07/08 5:05 PM) |
I dont remember getting a fucking nickel when I graduated. Payin' it forward bitch.
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thesego2eleven |
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Posts: 77 (05/07/08 5:05 PM) Registered user |
I never understood the point of getting so much money for doing something that you're expected to do. It's not hard to graduate high school. That's pretty much my feeling also. |
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Posts: 2236 (05/07/08 5:12 PM) Registered loser
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khnum wrote: Yes. See that is why I was thinking $100. If it was a private school it might be worth more but this is public. I don't mind paying for the priviledge of NOT attending tho. That is why I think it is either attend or pay. If it was immediate family I would do both but not extended. |
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