Middleschool Yearbook

[RaistlinZ]

Just buy the book. That $60 won't make one difference to you 30 years from now, but at least she'll be able to look back on herself and friends with fond memories. I'm sure you've blown way more than $60 on things in your life that were just for sh*ts and giggles.

 

[mugs]

The smaller the school, the more it's going to cost to print. Or if it's a big school, they may have opted for the larger sized (bigger pages) yearbook that costs more. My high school used a smaller sized book, and it was about a $4000 base fee for the book (more pages = higher base fee) + about $40 a book to print. More copies would have meant a lower per-copy price but the same base fee. Of course the base fee is spread across all of the books. So if you figure 100 books using those figures, you're looking at $80 a book. If you had 1000 copies and the printing cost dropped to $20 a book, add in the base fee and it's only $24 a copy. I'm not sure how much the printing cost drops as the number of copies go up.

Many schools subsidize the cost of the book, so even if you're only paying $15, it may really be costing you more than that when you figure in the amount the school paid for each copy. Of course with a public school that's divided among the taxpayers, not the families of the students as it was in my private school.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Please buy every grade in high school though. I love having mine to thumb through every now and then.

 

[dudeman007]

It all depends on the book. In my middle school we paid around 30-40 bucks for a hard cover yearbook with about 80 pages in it. I really enjoyed receiving a yearbook even back at middle school, and I'm glad my parents allowed me to get one. Not to mention I would have felt really left out.

$60 isn't that outrageous though. At my high school yearbooks ran about $90 if you bought them early and over $100 if you bought them last minute. They were very nice quality, with a hardback cover, and around 350-400 color pages.

Maybe ask your kid to meet you halfway?

 

[Miramonti]

wtf, like its sold by the junior achievement club or something.

 

[IronWing]

The problem with keeping middle school years books is that there will be pics of kids in there that your child will have had a crush on. Thirty years later your kid feel like pervert when looking at the yearbook and those feeling resurface.

 

[alkemyst]

Man many here would drop $50-60 on a game they won't be playing in a month.

 

[dudeman007]

Originally posted by: ironwing
The problem with keeping middle school years books is that there will be pics of kids in there that your child will have had a crush on. Thirty years later your kid feel like pervert when looking at the yearbook and those feeling resurface.

wtf no?

 

[schneiderguy]

The yearbooks at my HS cost $120

 

[cKGunslinger]

My 11-year-old's yearbooks are $15. $20 if you want it personalized with your name on the cover.

The one odd thing about them, however, is that they pay for them in the Spring, but don't get them until Fall the next school year. I mean, WTF? The whole point in having a yearbook is to look back on the current year and have all your friends sign them before the long summer break. Getting them the first week of the school year is rather anti-climatic, in my opinion. (or IMO, as the kids say.)

 

[Demo24]

yeah 60 is a bit too much. They aren't very good to start with and typically not very big. Mine were around 25 bucks. Highschool ones were I believe 75.


I still have my yearbooks from elementary school

 

[nageov3t]

that's nuts.

I think every yearbook I ever got was built into the tuition.

 

[SpiderWiz]

Funny. I just ordered my daughter's middle school year book. $51.29.

 

[alfa147x]

I bought one in 5th and 8th and plan to buy one in 12th
wait tell she gets to high school mine normally run near $90

 

[alfa147x]

Oh and 3 years ago (8th grade) my parents paid around 60$

 

[Miramonti]

Scan one of his/her friends.

 

[Anubis]

to answer your poll i got one in 9th grade only because i was moveing,
and then i got one senior year 12 grade,

dont remember if i got one in MS or not, if so prob only 8th grade

i dont think any of them cost more then 40$

 

[alkemyst]

You should have set the poll up with are you still in high school or recently grad'ed

I am 36 and have mine, of course some may say I probably recently graduated as well.

 

[alfa147x]

Just get her one in 8th and 12th thats what my parents did

 

[villageidiot111]

Thats way too much, I think $25 is about the limit for a middle school year book.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: alfa147x
Just get her one in 8th and 12th thats what my parents did

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
My 11-year-old's yearbooks are $15. $20 if you want it personalized with your name on the cover.

The one odd thing about them, however, is that they pay for them in the Spring, but don't get them until Fall the next school year. I mean, WTF? The whole point in having a yearbook is to look back on the current year and have all your friends sign them before the long summer break. Getting them the first week of the school year is rather anti-climatic, in my opinion. (or IMO, as the kids say.)

If the school has an 8th grade graduation or any other events at the end of the year that they want to put in the yearbook, that could be why. Or it could be the case that they have a regular teacher doing the yearbook and she only has time to do it in the summer.

 

[illusion88]

I paid that much in High School. But ours was thick and had color.

 

[Saint Nick]

I'd say get it.

Its sixty bucks, but they'll look at it later on and at least remember a little bit of their childhood. I looked at mine every once in a while in high school. But now that I'm 21, I don't look at either my middle school or high school yearbooks. They are at my parents house, in a box, in the closet.

Maybe you shouldn't get it.

I say don't get it.

 

[Electric Amish]

We didn't even HAVE Middle School yearbooks. :roll: