It's HOMECOMING today!

[wavepool]

woohoo!! Ours is in two weeks.
I am fascinated by the mum thing, since I just heard of it last week. Pics?

[panicked]

I had no idea what these things were until I saw the display in HEB (which only comes in second to Wegmans as the best supermarket of all time). Texas, you are weird.

[glitzy07]

Huh?

I mean, I know what homecoming is...but what do mums have to do with it?

[cincodemayo]

Oh man, I still don't get it.

[MamaMaui24]

There are some local kids who came up with "mumz 4 kidz" where they're challenging their friends instead of doing mums this year to donate the money instead to buy groceries for Thanksgiving.

www.mumz4kidz.com/

Those huge ones are OOC! (And I live in TX!)

[Deleted]

Huh. I have never seen anything like that. Strange. And the guys wear them too?

[GracieLouFreebush1]

Sept 26, 2014 9:05:17 GMT -5 TamiTaylor said:

Sept 26, 2014 8:04:31 GMT -5 glitzy07 said:

Huh?

I mean, I know what homecoming is...but what do mums have to do with it?

These are mums (not any of my students):

What!? Why!?

Signed, Midwesterner

[glitzy07]

What the...what? The photo did not help explain this to me. lol

[Deleted]

But really, I'm mystified. Do you make your own? Is it only if you win? If you're nominated? So strange, but from a crazy pageant state I can't say that I'm surprised. 

[MamaMaui24]

Sept 26, 2014 9:11:53 GMT -5 @drewly said:

Huh. I have never seen anything like that. Strange. And the guys wear them too?

The guys wear garters on their arms:

[panicked]

It's in place of a corsage. It's an unofficial contest to see who has the biggest and most creative ones. Dates usually coordinate.

[Deleted]

I'm literally LOL'ing at the stuffed lion head on his arm. It reminds me of those wrist rattles for newborns.

[glitzy07]

OMG at the "garter." Bwhahaha.

[Deleted]

I feel like we have this same conversation every year.

"What's a mum?! Isnt that a plant?"
"Texans are weird."
"Wow! Ive never heard of that before!"
"What's the point?"
"Back in my day, we just had corsages and boutinierres."
"Texans are a breed of their own."

Every. Single. Year.

[sometimesrunner]

Huh. Well that's interesting. When you said "mums" I assumed your school likes their fall flower decorations.

[212]

Sept 26, 2014 13:37:36 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

Well, there's a point in the "reasons to send DS off to boarding school" column.

I just snorted.

[Deleted]

I'm just replying to say I don't get it lol. Hence my liking of all the wtf are these posts.

[MadamePresident]

They seem so awkward to wear.

[mcfelix]

My brother used to live in the Woodlands. We visited in October one year and I took pictures at the grocery store around the corner from his house of the mums on sale and posted it to Facebook because I knew all my friends would be all wtf is that? The responses were hilarious.

[gogadgetgo]

Mums have always made me laugh. I loved the giant aisle in the craft store with mum supplies. The popular kids always had real flowers. My friends (drama geeks) were never into it.