Promposals? $1,200 for Prom?

[Magneto]

Things sure have changed in the 24 years since I graduated. Promposal seems like something teenage girls want to be able to post on Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat and brag about. $1,200 blows my mind. That would buy a NICE 1911, some mags, and some ammo.

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/inside-teens-1-200-prom-the-dress-the-date-115350425102.html

 

[VUPDblue]

I think I spent about $300 on prom IIRC but that was almost 20 years ago.

 

[451_Detonics]

1978...didn't have to rent a tux...

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[HoughMade]

There's nothing quite like teaching them young to worship money and manufactured prestige.

 

[Roland of Gilead]

Don't remember what I spent on prom. I do remember it was worth every penny.

 

[beehunter]

I have two daughters 19 and 22 so can verify that proms are big time expensive.

 

[HoughMade]

Promposals are a big deal, says Miller, and even more so because they get shared on Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks. The dinner at Mastro’s, Miller says, cost her boyfriend about $160; the accompanying dozen roses ran another $40. And that $200 is actually below the national average. According to Visa’s survey, teenagers are spending an average of $324 on promposals.

Bridezillas in training.

 

[1911ly]

My daughter's prom was last year. I hate to say what I spent for her dress but it was more then I have paid for a used car. She has only one prom. She did awesome in school. It was her reward. I have no regrets. I am glad I could do it for her.

 

[Dirty Steve]

Don't remember what I spent, but I remember the 1969 Eldorado I went in ....

Dirty Steve

 

[BogWalker]

Didn't go to senior prom. Went bowling instead. I think I made the right decision.

 

[Indy317]

Completely ridiculous. We seriously have lost all common sense in this country. I went to my junior prom, just spent the minimum. I have no idea how much the girl spent on her dress. I really didn't even know her that well, just asked her to go out of the blue really. Being shy I didn't ask anyone to my senior prom, but was close to almost going as some girls from one of my classes were trying to set me up with another girl who didn't have any prospects.

 

[rhinoabe]

I did not go to the Prom. I went to the after prom and that cost about $3.00 for a pint of vodka.

 

[Bennettjh]

My GF and I skipped the prom and went to a Bob Seger concert. Don't regret one minute of it.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Wow... I went to Junior prom in a suit & tie that my mom agreed to buy me if I'd fore-go the extravagant tux rental. Pictures consisted of the free pictures at the school sponsored after-prom. Senior year I went ahead and rented the tux because I wanted it to be a bit more special. IIRC suit & tie cost my mom ~$120, tux-rental senior year cost me ~$135.

Senior year we had a limo; one of my close friends won a "free limo ride anywhere, anytime" at a youth event. He used it for prom and took me and another of our friends along...

 

[singlesix]

I think I spent about $300 on prom IIRC but that was almost 20 years ago.

That around $800.00 in today's money, so you are close.

 

[VUPDblue]

Damn. It didn't seem like that much at the time. 100$ for 2 tickets, $125 for the tux. Then there was the corsage and post prom tickets.

 

[longbow]

Don't get me started on prom costs. My daughter is going to two proms and has to have two dresses. Between fittings, photos, make up and hair, I'm doomed. I don't want to know. This year I'm taking photos so at least that will save me about $200.

 

[Baditude]

You know if I was a teenage boy spending that much on prom, I would be expecting some action - just saying

 

[JollyMon]

The girl I went to prom with had a boyfriend that she didnt tell me about. .... Then I made out and felt up a girl who later became a lesbian.... overall it was not a good day... glad I didnt spend $1200.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Me and my girlfriend had a great time at our senior prom, but we both had jobs and we paid for everything. She bought her dress and I rented my tux. We didn't have a limo, we went in her 1978 Chevy Chevette.