College Graduation Gift

[flex]

Question:  when you graduated did your parents give you a gift?  If so, what did you receive?  Cash?


Sincerely,
A Proud Mom 

[rbp]

I think a nice diploma frame?

[humpforfree]

Basically cash. They gave me $500(?) deposit on my car and then paid the first six months of loan payments for me (mine weren’t outrageous). The loans kicked in 6m after graduation, so I got a full year to get my feet under me and figure out my budget before I had to start those.

[Jalapeñomel]

Money

[kadams767]

A queen bed (frame, mattress and boxspring). For a very, very long time, it was the only piece of furniture I owned that wasn't used or a hand-me-down.

[msmerymac]

I had just moved to LA and they bought me a new laptop so I didn't have to cart my Dell desktop across the country.

[silvercrayon]

The title to her car.

[notoriousmeg]

My parents gave me a strand of pearls. Not necessarily my taste now, but I do wear them on special occasions, and they have a lot of sentimental value.

[cabbagecabbage]

I got a Barbie cake.

[nsl]

My parents gave me a sapphire pendant and traded my car for theirs (old, but still a lot newer and nicer than mine) when I moved cross-country for a job offer.

[macmars45]

They offered to sell me one of their cars for a very discounted amount. I turned them down as I was planning on marrying my now H and he already had a car (we were going to be living very frugally and didn't want to pay for another car or insurance for two cars). They also paid for the majority of our wedding 11 months after I graduated.

[spindle92]

Diamond earrings and my now exh got me a matching tennis bracelet.

[pumpkin]

Feb 17, 2019 14:59:36 GMT -5 notoriousmeg said:

My parents gave me a strand of pearls. Not necessarily my taste now, but I do wear them on special occasions, and they have a lot of sentimental value.

This is what I got too, also wear it for special occasions, and am totally sentimental about it too.

[rosiebear]

My parents got me nothing. Same when I graduated from law school. Nothing. Not a card, a phone call, nada. I’m still kind of pissed about it.

But I think money, luggage, or a nice professional framing for the diploma are all frequently given gifts.

[ssmjlm]

I don’t remember. I think they helped buy my laptop for grad school. Obviously nothing sentimental.

I mean they paid out of state tuition and all expenses. I wouldn’t have expected a gift.

[samanthamkm]

My parents upgraded me to a nicer car. I was driving a '97 Buick Skylark and I got a '03 Pontiac Grand Am. They also let me live at home for $100 a month, everything included. I moved out 18 months later when I got married. Once we bought our first home they gave us my rent money back to spend on the new house.

[shamrockshake]

A sapphire and diamond bracelet. My school colors were blue and white

[dreamcrisp1]

Money. Diamond earrings. And I moved out so they helped me furnish my new apartment.

[alleinesein]

New car and they paid for me to move back to CA.

[flex]

Thank you for all the suggestions! DS1 who is 35 is graduating in May. He put himself through school, while raising my granddaughter, without asking for any financial help from me or his dad. He has been able to do all this thanks to the support of his fabulous GF, whom I hope to call DIL one of these days. : )

[af1212]

I got a nice DSLR camera from my dad. I don’t remember what from my mom. They had paid for my tuition (along with scholarships and loans).

For my masters, my mom got me luggage and my dad a check. I had paid for my own tuition in that case.

[bex1973]

Nothing. But a lot of my students get diploma frames (our campus bookstore sells them). I get the students who work in my office their first Alumni sweatshirt.

[Bernadine]

My sister graduated high school the same year, and they sent us to Cancun.

[VillainV]

They gave me the car I’d been driving around since HS. Diploma frame and school/themed rocking chair. A shit ton of stuff for my first real-person apartment (pots, pans, plates, silverware, etc).

[gastro]

They bought me a car my sophomore year of college and I was to pay them back for it. When I graduated they forgave that debt.

[medicmommy]

They paid for a nice dinner for everyone after graduation ( my family of 6 and one of my sisters).

When our daughter graduated, we took her and a friend on a vacation without the other kids.

[notsopicky]

A car. Full disclosure, they had contributions from both sets of grandparents and my uncle (my mom's brother). It was an $11K white Ford Aspire, base model. We called it The Egg.

[Gato]

No, but I was 35 when I graduated. my parents probably took me out to a nice dinner.

I think I would take my kid on a trip anywhere in the world she wanted to go. Or just give her the money to do it.

Congratulations!

[undecidedowl]

A new car. And two weeks later, a wedding (the cost was contingent on graduating first, worth it). I think DH got a diploma frame and part of a school loan paid off.

[gt7301b]

A desk for my home office.