<p>sitting in front of the computer during prom? sounds personal, i think you should just go. grab a couple of friends and head out! </p>
<p>i can understand not going with a date but not going at all? yeah, people are saying that they don't regret it but of course you're not going to regret it in a couple of days or even weeks, but once you graduate and all your "friends" (acquaintances) are gone, what happened to that last final hurrah?</p>
<p>Prom is not that "final hurrah". There's other senior festivities you know like senior breakfast, senior grad night, etc. It's not the end of the world if you don't go. Some people just don't prefer to go to dances like me. Psssh lame? I was Sadies King and a Homecoming Prince so I'm basically tired of dances.</p>
<p>my point of view on life is that if you think you will regret it, then do whatever you are considering. Never regret in life, just do it if you think you might have regrets later on</p>
<p>I didn't go to any dances in high school. Even when I'm with friends, I just don't enjoy them very much.</p>
<p>On prom night I went to the movies with a couple friends, then we had a Gilmore Girls marathon. Much cheaper, and I had more fun than I probably would have at prom. No regrets here!</p>
<p>Prom senior year and homecoming junior year were by far the best for me. A lot of memories with great friends I will never forget. I would regret not going to these knowing how fun they were.</p>
<p>Yea, I wasn't much for dances and social events in high school, mostly because I lived a freaking hour away and didn't own a car. But I still went to prom and had a blast! Even if you only know a few people in your high school, its fun because it is pretty much the last major party so everyone is in great spirits, and regardless how well you know each other it still works out well. Hell, I didn't have a date, still went and ended up with another guy's date halfway through (poor guy couldn't dance :D ). It is something that happens only once, just cough up some money and go. It's like deciding not to go to your high school graduation. Sure all you really do is walk on stage and get a piece of paper, but really its alot more than that.</p>
<p>Just curious, how much did it cost you all for prom? Because I keep hearing things like "cough up money" for it but the average amount my other female friends spent was close to $500- and often that was doing own hair and nails. That's almost a semester's worth of books or the cost of a round trip flight to my college. All to waste it at something that people go to an hour late and leave an hour early (therefore spending maybe 2 hours at the actual even)? Ridiculous.</p>
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Four years later, I'm still glad I didn't go. I hated my high school, and I've never been one for dances, school events, or even socializing in large groups. I would have spent way too much money, and I didn't have anyone to go with anyways.
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<p>Same here, except for the 'hating high school' part. I liked my high school, but I still skipped most of the social "events" or whatever. I stayed home and played Super Smash Brothers: Melee with my brother and had an awesome time. The thing is, my parents would have paid for me if I had wanted to go, but when I asked for the money instead to do what I wanted, they said no =( Oh well, can't blame a guy for trying!</p>
<p>i think the point is, as long as you do something special to celebrate the end of the year, you'll enjoy it. prom is just popular and convenient but by no means the only option</p>
<p>about the cost.. for me it probably cost somewhere around $500. but that is because i am lucky and have parents that can afford to pay for me. $200 dress, $50 hair, $35 nails, $50 makeup, $20 boutenteir (or however you spell it), $45 shoes, $50 new jewlery. and the $180 for afterprom at the shore i paid for myself. junior prom cost about the same but there was no afterprom house (just went to a friends beachhouse) but i also paid for a limo (no limo sr year cause it was on a boat).</p>
<p>BUT.. if you search hard enough you can go to jcpennys/sale at macys and get some decent dresses for under $100.. if you do everything else yourself then itll come out to like $125. </p>
<p>even if you arent BEST friends with EVERYONE in your grade its a nice opprotunity to see most people in your grade all dressed up and together at one place for one of the last times. like someone else said, if you even think a tiny bit that you might regret not going.. THEN GO</p>
<p>I was low on cash and went on the senior class trip, which included an informal dinner and dance I believe(just dress clothes, nothing like tuxes etc). So 3 day trip going to amusement parks, living in a hotel with your senior class, and all that was pretty fun. Prom woulda been too expensive and I only would've gone if I had a steady girlfriend at the time that forced me to go. Instead my friends and I built a boat earlier in the day which fell apart automatically on contact with water.. It was fun. I forget what I did that night, but I don't regret it at all. </p>
<p>If you really want to go, strap together some cash or borrow some from your parents and pay them back with cash from your summer job. If you don't really care about it, forget it, most people do. And if you think it'd be embarassing to not have gone, lie to people who ask you at your new college where no one knows you. You went, was crowned prom king, banged the queen, then banged her hot twin sister, and then later banged their MILF when dropping them off the next morning(photoshop a yearbook page to back your story up!).</p>
<p>...or, if you like getting fancied up, go.
personally, i freaking hate dances and always will.
i was miserable AT prom--i had no date (my then-bff and i went "together" despite the fact that neither of us are lesbians), so no one to dance with, am a vegan, so couldn't eat a darn thing on the buffet, and suffered the indescribable torture of being a feminist forced to listen to the blaring noise of misogynistic rap music for several hours straight. and, because i was still hung up on my ex-boyfriend, i spent several hours watching him grind with some unattractive girl as well. no, not fun.
but you know what? i looked FANTASTIC in my prom pictures. FANTASTIC!! best pictures of me ever taken. i'll have those pictures forever.
i got my dress vintage on ebay, it was only $100. as always, did my makeup by myself=free. my hair was like $20. ticket was less than most prom tickets, mainly because everyone knows our prom is lame.
but pictures, pictures of me looking fab=PRICELESS. PRICELESS I TELL YOU.</p>