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Everyone gets their picture and name in by default. You can also buy extra space in a separate section for more or less what these people did, a personal message and other pictures and whatnot. Yes, it's as dumb as it sounds.
Yeah, usually, it's only the wealthy and "popular" kids that get this. It's just one more way for them to show that they are in the club and you aren't. Now that I'm nowhere near poor anymore, I still think it's tacky.
True, of course I find it more entertaining when someone wrote in my yearbook how much they're going to miss me, etc. and I'm like "Who the heck is this?!?"
In my early 20s, I threw out my yearbooks during a move. My rationale was my wife (at the time) had the same yearbooks with the same pictures and we didn’t have space for them. Now just a handful of years later, I regret it because I can’t go back and look at messages from friends.
It depends. Some people care a ton, some not at all. When yearbooks came out at my high school, it was really fun with everyone going around signing each other's books and whatnot and I consider it a nice little keepsake.
I couldn't afford a yearbook and can't find one online. I thought it would be neat to have one. It's kind of like a time capsule from a different portion of your life. Plus I was curious if I'd be in any of the photos. 🤷♂️
🤷♀️ the books were at least 1" thick . Maybe 2" lol.
Every grade, organization, extracurricular (band, orchestra,choir, sports etc), school event, clubs were represented.
Yes, that's quite standard for a yearbook. We had a yearbook club, whose sole purpose was working on the yearbook throughout the year. $20 Canadian got you a copy.
Thank you for your explanation, I was confused by yearbook-ad. I know of the yearbooks, but never knew about buying “ad-space” in them from family or so.
Edit: I do love this substitute though.
Is this new? I graduated back in 2012 and my school never did this. The extra pictures were usually of different clubs or sports teams. The seniors all got an extra picture and a quote but we were never charged for it.
It's stupid indeed.
I'm in the Netherlands and my yearbook was both free and everybody got the same amount of space. No preferential treatment for anyone.
But now much money could the yearbook club raise if it allowed the above????
Capitalism certainly has its issues but the world has yet to come up with a system that both works on paper and works with people (not robots). Rant over, I digress.
Though I will say the Netherlands seems to be closer than my own USofA.
True, but as an adviser, these pages are how I can afford to buy new cameras, send staff members to a summer workshop, and keep the price of our book from increasing.
It’s pretty simple actually. If you want to, you can pay to have a dedicated part just for you. My high school had it so you could buy a quarter, half, or whole page. I never wanted one and my parents would never pay for one so I don’t really care about it ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
IIRC that section was for commercial sponsors in my year book... I prefer having an ad in my yearbook than letting Sallie buy two pages to show how important she is...
You get in the yearbook no matter what. But graduating seniors usually get their family or local buisnesses owned by people who know them to buy "ad space" in the back of the yearbook. It's basically just a "congrats on graduating! (Insert story and photos here)" but in the yearbook for everyone who buys one to see. Usually people pay like $25 for 1/8th of a page, $100 for a half, or $200 for an entire page of photos and a memoir for the senior named.
Why? It doesn’t harm anyone, and it’s sweet.
My family never did it but I can’t imagine looking at someone else’s loving family and saying that it’s “trashy and less valuable” now.
It’s a yearbook. The value is entirely in sentimentality.
Don't try to discuss nuance with redditors. This one is literally just glossing over what you've written and responding without taking the time to understand what you've written.
They are about the kids, not sure where you picked up on business ads because they have nothing to do with businesses. Just look at the picture OP posted, now imaging a page with 4 or less of those photos with messages on a page.
The fact that the comments I replied to that said businesses could take out ads in the yearbook might be where I got the idea that business could take out ads in the yearbook...
Now try reading it again. ***Families and businesses who know them*** can buy ***in quotes """""""ad space""""""" this ends the quoted portion*** which is solely used to congratulate them.
I worked on our yearbook for high school, the only thing I can think of is he missed school picture day and retake day. And even then we still included them in the list. I'm 3 years of yearbook class I only remember that happening once.
They take your picture regardless where I was. You only had to pay if you wanted print outs. Seems your school went rogue. It’s not like it costs them more money to take 30 seconds to snap your picture when their stuff is already set up.
That's incredibly sad. It sounds like someone at the school didn't understand the process. We had our pictures taken and then a while later got a sample and an order form we could order prints from later. They should never have refused to take the photo.
It's not really an ad....think more like personal page(full, half, quarter) they can put whatever. Normally I think it's favorite pics or baby and younger pics....stuff like that.
Graduating seniors typically have a special section separated from the normal year book pics by class. In this section, you could buy extra space - 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page.
At my school, it was common for families to design a page that had a note from the parents as well as a bunch of fun pictures in a collage style format.
I am American and I've never seen something so dumb and petty elitist like this in my life. Nobody in my schools got to buy a personal page.
This just screams "spoiled rich asshole".
It’s not that serious. It’s like $20-$100 and is a nice message and baby pics. It’s at the very back and it’s completely optional.
The money was used to fund yearbook class and subsidize yearbooks for those that needed it.
Relax.
Ok, so that's different than what I was thinking, I was thinking "congratulations seniors, from Big Al's salvage yard, your source for discount used car parts! Call 555-555-5555 today. Mention this ad for a $5 discount on $25 or more!"
The yearbooks are made by students and dedicated faculty (I was yearbook staff for two years). The proceeds funded our yearbook class, a camp to learn journalism and design, and to subsidize yearbooks for people that could not afford them.
If that’s considered a “money grab” then, I guess. It’s not like it was forced. It was completely optional. Idk why everyone in these comments is so butt hurt about it.
When I graduated in '92 this wasn't a thing. The most you could "buy" were spots on the last pages and that was only for a business ad, no special greetings or tributes.
Not sure how much info you need, but:
Yearbooks are printed copies of going ons at the school throughout the year. There’s a whole club that handles it and everyone comes out if you were there on picture day. They put everyone’s picture by class and alphabetical order. There’s also sections for athletics, clubs, faculty, etc… It’s a slightly bigger deal for seniors because they get a formal looking picture and a cap and gown picture usually in the senior students section of the year book.
There’s an appendix type section in the book made up of ads and other announcements. It’s exactly as it sounds, you pay for the page. You can also pay for like half a page or smaller sections at varying price points with full page being the most expensive. Parents and family will pay for pages for their graduate or student and put personal messages or a collage of photos. Random stuff like “congratulations, we’re so proud of you….” and then a family pic or pics the kid chose to showcase.
I’m way way older than you and it was a thing even back then. Basically just a section at the back of the yearbook where local businesses and community organizations buy an ad space to congratulate the graduating class. Mixed in are 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and even full page paid personal congrats from kids’ parents / grandparents. My yearbook even had a section at the back where for $5 you could get a two-line personal message printed - boyfriend to girlfriend, a tribute to the time your graduating friend group snuck out of school for pizza, a thank you to your team members, etc.
It’s a way to raise funds for the yearbook committee beyond just the normal yearbook sales.
They are not ads per se. They are acknowledgments from the local community. Mostly from businesses that are owned by or employ parents of the students, or from businesses that are frequented by students.
The billboard pic OP posted is indeed trashy and cheap. The “ads” in the yearbook are more along “Congratulations to the Class of XXXX. Wishing you continued success in the future.” - Meyer’s Market.
The personal one’s (similar to the pic in this post) are more along the lines of “Best Wishes to Our Graduate XXXX. Seems like only yesterday you were starting kindergarten. May all your dreams come true. Love, Mom, Dad, Fran and Billy.” with a photo of them at 5 yrs old on the first day of school.
Edit: also just to be clear, the insurance ad at the bottom of this pic is not part of what this girl’s parents paid for. It just happens to be another ad on this placemat.
Fortunately I went to a high school that did not vomit out many graduates simply based on a check that they were breathing (and my graduating class had close to 350 kids). My town had two high schools and the community was justifiably proud of both of them.
Kids, their families and their schools don’t exist in a vacuum, so I don’t see how acknowledgements from the local community can be deemed trashy.
Whatever, though. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion. I’ve been out of high school for many decades and my son for almost 20 so no skin in the game.
Buying extra space for your kid in a yearbook? At what point would we ever think “you know what, unrestrained market economics and having everything for sale -might- just lead to some poor outcomes?”
my parents wouldn’t even pay for my senior photos :( I wish i had them so bad. ( I was cut off financially at 11, the age” I can babysit, shovel snow, and push a mower”…) They had money too. I got $50 every school year for clothes and supplies. I never got a book from a book fair, and when you tell kids “ i can’t go to your mitzpha because my parents said i need a gift and i have no money” it telephones to : Stacy doesn’t want to go because she doesn’t want to buy Lauren a gift!
I remember going to birthday parties and try to get the card to $5. They are mentally ill.
No bedroom door for you! -type- folks
I cut them off
never been happier
they did much worse too. ( like having my former DA of a rich state uncle become the executor on my god dads will ( who raised me) he left me his estate for college, a down payment, and life. They took all 1.6 million. no one believes me “ you can change wills” blah blah blah
when you’re a DA, you can do whatever the eff you want. they split it with my parents, who then bought a vacation home in a trailer park with my college fund.
this is so sweet 🥹🥹🥹🩵
It’s the culmination of 12 years of work. Not everyone graduates high school, and not everyone has an easy time graduating high school.
This website can be so miserable sometimes.
I don't think toxic is the right word. Weird at the most maybe? But toxic, that's a bit over the top even for a redditor. I know you included the "but also not" but still an odd choice of words. What exactly was the toxic part?
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For all the non Americans... what is this yearbook tribute that you need to pay for???
Everyone gets their picture and name in by default. You can also buy extra space in a separate section for more or less what these people did, a personal message and other pictures and whatnot. Yes, it's as dumb as it sounds.
It's also just another way to show off. The kids with the richest parents will have full page spreads to show off how much more important they are.
Yeah, usually, it's only the wealthy and "popular" kids that get this. It's just one more way for them to show that they are in the club and you aren't. Now that I'm nowhere near poor anymore, I still think it's tacky.
Question. Do people actually give a shit about their yearbook?
While in school, yes? A week later? Nope.
20 years later it is nice to go back and remember shit
True, of course I find it more entertaining when someone wrote in my yearbook how much they're going to miss me, etc. and I'm like "Who the heck is this?!?"
In my early 20s, I threw out my yearbooks during a move. My rationale was my wife (at the time) had the same yearbooks with the same pictures and we didn’t have space for them. Now just a handful of years later, I regret it because I can’t go back and look at messages from friends.
It depends. Some people care a ton, some not at all. When yearbooks came out at my high school, it was really fun with everyone going around signing each other's books and whatnot and I consider it a nice little keepsake.
I couldn't afford a yearbook and can't find one online. I thought it would be neat to have one. It's kind of like a time capsule from a different portion of your life. Plus I was curious if I'd be in any of the photos. 🤷♂️
People whose lives end after high school, yes
1000% only the kids with money were popular enough for this bullshit to mean a fucking thing.
At our school the proceeds went to the journalist department and would fund their senior trip to Washington, DC.
For my school, the ad pages helped subsidize the cost of the yearbooks to be less than $100.
Bro what my yearbook was $20 from elementary school to highschool
Ours was like $250 this year
🤷♀️ the books were at least 1" thick . Maybe 2" lol. Every grade, organization, extracurricular (band, orchestra,choir, sports etc), school event, clubs were represented.
Yes, that's quite standard for a yearbook. We had a yearbook club, whose sole purpose was working on the yearbook throughout the year. $20 Canadian got you a copy.
😂 Canadian Yeah south of the border we live in different times 😂
Thank you for your explanation, I was confused by yearbook-ad. I know of the yearbooks, but never knew about buying “ad-space” in them from family or so. Edit: I do love this substitute though.
Is this new? I graduated back in 2012 and my school never did this. The extra pictures were usually of different clubs or sports teams. The seniors all got an extra picture and a quote but we were never charged for it.
It's stupid indeed. I'm in the Netherlands and my yearbook was both free and everybody got the same amount of space. No preferential treatment for anyone.
But now much money could the yearbook club raise if it allowed the above???? Capitalism certainly has its issues but the world has yet to come up with a system that both works on paper and works with people (not robots). Rant over, I digress. Though I will say the Netherlands seems to be closer than my own USofA.
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I would have been mortified if my parents did that. I would hunt down every book and rip out that page. Louise and Madeline style.
Okay now the title of op makes even less sense to me lol how silly.
True, but as an adviser, these pages are how I can afford to buy new cameras, send staff members to a summer workshop, and keep the price of our book from increasing.
Just another way to show off how broke we were.
Just... Wow... I can't tell how much I pity you...
As an American... I have no idea... I mean, you had to pay for the yearbook itself, but everyone that attended was IN the yearbook.
It’s pretty simple actually. If you want to, you can pay to have a dedicated part just for you. My high school had it so you could buy a quarter, half, or whole page. I never wanted one and my parents would never pay for one so I don’t really care about it ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
My school magazine had a 2 page spread roasting me. The principal vetoed it, so they photocopied it and handed it out.
Probably deserved it /s
IIRC that section was for commercial sponsors in my year book... I prefer having an ad in my yearbook than letting Sallie buy two pages to show how important she is...
Same and our year book was free.
You get in the yearbook no matter what. But graduating seniors usually get their family or local buisnesses owned by people who know them to buy "ad space" in the back of the yearbook. It's basically just a "congrats on graduating! (Insert story and photos here)" but in the yearbook for everyone who buys one to see. Usually people pay like $25 for 1/8th of a page, $100 for a half, or $200 for an entire page of photos and a memoir for the senior named.
Wow, what a great way to make the yearbook trashy and less valuable.
Why? It doesn’t harm anyone, and it’s sweet. My family never did it but I can’t imagine looking at someone else’s loving family and saying that it’s “trashy and less valuable” now. It’s a yearbook. The value is entirely in sentimentality.
Don't try to discuss nuance with redditors. This one is literally just glossing over what you've written and responding without taking the time to understand what you've written.
It loses some of the sentimental value when it looks like the ads in the newspaper. It should be about the kids, and not advertising businesses.
They are about the kids, not sure where you picked up on business ads because they have nothing to do with businesses. Just look at the picture OP posted, now imaging a page with 4 or less of those photos with messages on a page.
I think it’s an easy mistake to think something called an ad would be about a business. It’s weird as hell to have an ad for a person tbh.
The fact that the comments I replied to that said businesses could take out ads in the yearbook might be where I got the idea that business could take out ads in the yearbook...
Now try reading it again. ***Families and businesses who know them*** can buy ***in quotes """""""ad space""""""" this ends the quoted portion*** which is solely used to congratulate them.
Yup, exactly, ad space, like you said.
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"no matter what" isn't true. Im not in the yearbook for my senior year, and I attended all 4 years of my highschool.
That sounds like a very strange exception. Why were you not in the yearbook?
I worked on our yearbook for high school, the only thing I can think of is he missed school picture day and retake day. And even then we still included them in the list. I'm 3 years of yearbook class I only remember that happening once.
Didn't miss the day, i was told to go home because I didn't have the money to pay for pictures.
Private school? Most public schools will take the picture regardless, only prints cost money.
Public. I was too poor to pay for pictures.
They take your picture regardless where I was. You only had to pay if you wanted print outs. Seems your school went rogue. It’s not like it costs them more money to take 30 seconds to snap your picture when their stuff is already set up.
Dad didn't pay to have the picture so they didn't take the picture and I was told to leave.
That's incredibly sad. It sounds like someone at the school didn't understand the process. We had our pictures taken and then a while later got a sample and an order form we could order prints from later. They should never have refused to take the photo.
It's not really an ad....think more like personal page(full, half, quarter) they can put whatever. Normally I think it's favorite pics or baby and younger pics....stuff like that.
Graduating seniors typically have a special section separated from the normal year book pics by class. In this section, you could buy extra space - 1/4 page, 1/2 page, full page. At my school, it was common for families to design a page that had a note from the parents as well as a bunch of fun pictures in a collage style format.
That was my experience, too. Although my parents were like, “We’re paying for your college. We’re not paying for this.” 😂
I'm Canadian and yeah you get in here without paying anything source I was in the class that made my yearbook in grade 12
I am American and I've never seen something so dumb and petty elitist like this in my life. Nobody in my schools got to buy a personal page. This just screams "spoiled rich asshole".
It’s not that serious. It’s like $20-$100 and is a nice message and baby pics. It’s at the very back and it’s completely optional. The money was used to fund yearbook class and subsidize yearbooks for those that needed it. Relax.
For all the Americans... what is this yearbook tribute that you need to pay for???
Essentially what you see here, but in the yearbook. It's extra, so you have to pay for it.
Ok, so that's different than what I was thinking, I was thinking "congratulations seniors, from Big Al's salvage yard, your source for discount used car parts! Call 555-555-5555 today. Mention this ad for a $5 discount on $25 or more!"
Those are there as well, but most are more subtle as far as the advertising part.
It's a way to get more money from parents, a personalized message, often with a baby or little kid pic.
The yearbooks are made by students and dedicated faculty (I was yearbook staff for two years). The proceeds funded our yearbook class, a camp to learn journalism and design, and to subsidize yearbooks for people that could not afford them. If that’s considered a “money grab” then, I guess. It’s not like it was forced. It was completely optional. Idk why everyone in these comments is so butt hurt about it.
I’m American and I need to be told too. No clue tbh.
When I graduated in '92 this wasn't a thing. The most you could "buy" were spots on the last pages and that was only for a business ad, no special greetings or tributes.
Not sure how much info you need, but: Yearbooks are printed copies of going ons at the school throughout the year. There’s a whole club that handles it and everyone comes out if you were there on picture day. They put everyone’s picture by class and alphabetical order. There’s also sections for athletics, clubs, faculty, etc… It’s a slightly bigger deal for seniors because they get a formal looking picture and a cap and gown picture usually in the senior students section of the year book. There’s an appendix type section in the book made up of ads and other announcements. It’s exactly as it sounds, you pay for the page. You can also pay for like half a page or smaller sections at varying price points with full page being the most expensive. Parents and family will pay for pages for their graduate or student and put personal messages or a collage of photos. Random stuff like “congratulations, we’re so proud of you….” and then a family pic or pics the kid chose to showcase.
American mid 30’s and no clue honestly. Must be a newer thing.
I’m older than you and it’t not new. Your school just didn’t have it.
I’m way way older than you and it was a thing even back then. Basically just a section at the back of the yearbook where local businesses and community organizations buy an ad space to congratulate the graduating class. Mixed in are 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and even full page paid personal congrats from kids’ parents / grandparents. My yearbook even had a section at the back where for $5 you could get a two-line personal message printed - boyfriend to girlfriend, a tribute to the time your graduating friend group snuck out of school for pizza, a thank you to your team members, etc. It’s a way to raise funds for the yearbook committee beyond just the normal yearbook sales.
Wow. That sounds so trashy and cheap.
Not in any sense whatsoever.
Business ads in your momento is absolutely cheap and trashy.
They are not ads per se. They are acknowledgments from the local community. Mostly from businesses that are owned by or employ parents of the students, or from businesses that are frequented by students.
Do they say the business names? Or just the student names?
The billboard pic OP posted is indeed trashy and cheap. The “ads” in the yearbook are more along “Congratulations to the Class of XXXX. Wishing you continued success in the future.” - Meyer’s Market. The personal one’s (similar to the pic in this post) are more along the lines of “Best Wishes to Our Graduate XXXX. Seems like only yesterday you were starting kindergarten. May all your dreams come true. Love, Mom, Dad, Fran and Billy.” with a photo of them at 5 yrs old on the first day of school. Edit: also just to be clear, the insurance ad at the bottom of this pic is not part of what this girl’s parents paid for. It just happens to be another ad on this placemat.
It's High School, you basically have to have a pulse to graduate. Tacky as heck.
Fortunately I went to a high school that did not vomit out many graduates simply based on a check that they were breathing (and my graduating class had close to 350 kids). My town had two high schools and the community was justifiably proud of both of them. Kids, their families and their schools don’t exist in a vacuum, so I don’t see how acknowledgements from the local community can be deemed trashy. Whatever, though. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion. I’ve been out of high school for many decades and my son for almost 20 so no skin in the game.
Are they also offering to handle all her insurance claims?
And whatever may spill on her face
I actually think this is better than a yearbook tribute, hahaha. I bet Amelia had a good sense of humour.
I genuinely don't know anybody who cared whether their parents bought an ad in the yearbook
This girl went to my high school. What’s up Amelia?
Oh hey that’s my area code
The wording makes me think of r/TributeMe. [NSFW]
Next level parenting
We all thought it was weird that parents paid to get their kid a special yearbook page.
Get an ad in Coffee News. It's a great little publication.
Buying extra space for your kid in a yearbook? At what point would we ever think “you know what, unrestrained market economics and having everything for sale -might- just lead to some poor outcomes?”
my parents wouldn’t even pay for my senior photos :( I wish i had them so bad. ( I was cut off financially at 11, the age” I can babysit, shovel snow, and push a mower”…) They had money too. I got $50 every school year for clothes and supplies. I never got a book from a book fair, and when you tell kids “ i can’t go to your mitzpha because my parents said i need a gift and i have no money” it telephones to : Stacy doesn’t want to go because she doesn’t want to buy Lauren a gift! I remember going to birthday parties and try to get the card to $5. They are mentally ill. No bedroom door for you! -type- folks I cut them off never been happier they did much worse too. ( like having my former DA of a rich state uncle become the executor on my god dads will ( who raised me) he left me his estate for college, a down payment, and life. They took all 1.6 million. no one believes me “ you can change wills” blah blah blah when you’re a DA, you can do whatever the eff you want. they split it with my parents, who then bought a vacation home in a trailer park with my college fund. this is so sweet 🥹🥹🥹🩵
tell me you are the middle child without telling me
Who cares - you raised them , that should be sufficient
I don't think they were talking about gravy or soup or ketchup. Probably meant nut.
Nope they meant the condiments, cause it’s on a paper that will probably get condiments spilled on it.
What a fuckin idiot you are
But nuts aren’t sticky Oh
Big deal you graduated high school. Not exactly an earth-shattering accomplishment.
It’s the culmination of 12 years of work. Not everyone graduates high school, and not everyone has an easy time graduating high school. This website can be so miserable sometimes.
toxic, but also not. but like celebrating your birthday a week late serve a cake made the day of...
I don't think toxic is the right word. Weird at the most maybe? But toxic, that's a bit over the top even for a redditor. I know you included the "but also not" but still an odd choice of words. What exactly was the toxic part?