<p>I'm going. Sadly.
My mom made me go last year... I was a soph... I went with this guy friend. It wasn't very fun. I hated it actually...... </p>
<p>Now this year I don't want to go. My mom still insists I do.. I got a dress, (bought it from a friend), but the whole chaos of a date is bothering me. I refuse to go with someone I don't know very well because of the drama of last year. So I've been talking to a guy from another school, but.. I don't know.. I'd almost rather not go with anyone.. But, that's not really a common thing around here... It sucks basically. </p>
<p>it's definitely lame here if you don't go with a date...not to mention extremely awkward
I don't have to worry about that until next year though, haha</p>
<p>I mean, the money we females spend on prom can get a tad outrageous, but I don't mind the original concept too much. You've worked hard all through high school, you're about to graduate, you might as well reward yourself with a pointlessly ridiculously expensive night out, right? haha.<br>
I mean, really, when, exactly, is the appropriate time to be driven around in a limo? The point is the have fun, be crazy, and feel special for one night. </p>
<p>I do think that the original point has gotten a bit lost in the pressures of needing to find a date and feeling it necessary to spend a ton of money on a dress/shoes/hair/makeup. But, personally, I think it'd be fun to be all glamorous for a night.</p>
<p>blondie...go with a group of friends. It's actually very commonplace to do that nowadays. It's what I'm doing. I MIGHT be going with a guy friend. MAYBE. But I think it would be more fun to go with my girlfriends.</p>
<p>Go, but don't spend the money. Don't get a limo. Buy your tux or your dress at a thrift shop (if you don't say anything, nobody will know). Get your parents to make a fancy dinner for you and a few friends at your house before the prom. If your parents are nice, they'll even dress up and serve.</p>
<p>i actually had dinner served to us at prom, so we didn't eat beforehand. </p>
<p>also, i am a bit of a nonconformist (or maybe i'm just *** crazy) so i had the idea of going in a taxi - (everyone pulls up to the hyatt in a limo... and up pulls a taxi and my date and I get out. ohhh yeaa.) and wearing a white tux. (...and i get out. in a white tux. ohhh yeaa.)</p>
<p>turns out my administration is nazi and made us all take trolleys to avoid drinking issues, but hey, my good friend from another school actually used my idea. i wish i could have been there!</p>
<p>btw the trolleys sucked! it was raining that night, and they leaked water all over us. omfg and they are making us do it again this year!</p>
<p>i'm spending liek $375 on jr ball
$40 for the ticket
$60 for the limo (they got a stretch Hummer. I was reallllly mad because I hate them and think they're flashy and stupid and not classy at all, but I couldn't really do anything about it, and we have like 20 people, so yeah)
$20 for Hard Rock Cafe, after
$180 for the dress (I normally would never spend this much, except senior prom, but I swear this dress was perfect and I just could not let it goooo!)
$50 on shoes
$25 on nails</p>
<p>$600 suit (including shirt, tie, etc.)
$200 for limo (14 person stretch H2.... between 8 ppl, 4 guys. we're splitting our 20 person group between 2 12-14 person limos. probably 8-10 ppl in mine. my dad's also probably gonna pay the deposit first.)
$100 for dinner for two
$50 for tickets (not bad eh?)</p>
<h2>$20-40 for corsage</h2>
<p>~$1000 in the end... good thing my dad's paying for it all! :)</p>
<p>I am definitely going to prom. And Blondie, you should, too. It doesn't mean you need to spend tons of $$ and find a super date.</p>
<p>I'm worried about getting a date. I had been planning to go with somebody, but now they are my ex boyfriend, so that'll never happen...all the guys I can think of who could ask me I think have other girls in mind to ask. I'm just too new to the market, so to speak.</p>
<p>And my mom and I are thinking of making my prom dress...it'll be tough, but I think it'd be fun. (That is, if we don't find a better dress.) I just can't believe that all the prom dresses are 300 dollars or above! :0</p>
<p>I'm jealous of all the juniors who have junior prom. We just have senior prom, so I'm psyched for it.</p>
<p>PS: My prom ticket is free! I sold a lot of coffee for our senior fundraiser. I'm going to use that money to make myself look pretty. :)</p>
<p>@Sligh_Anarchist:
My class is 38 people. You have to pay for prom dinner at the place where prom is held. I don't want to go because I know it'll be lame. Parents think they've paid already and think I'm be a snobby brat who hates my class by my anti-promism (it's not...it's just that I really don't want to go because of personal reasons that don't include classmates). They will force me to go because in a class of 38, it's hard to ignore the fact that 1 person is missing. Oh, did I also mention that my entire high school (9-12) goes to prom? Which is why I don't see prom as anything special...</p>
<p>@4390116:
Parents don't say I study too much...they say exactly the opposite. Coincidentally my prom is Friday between AP weeks. My AP's run Wed-Fri (week1) and Monday (PHYSICS!!!) of week 2. And I suck at Physics so I'll freak out and be like OMG I CANT GO TO PROM I FORGOT TO STUDY FOR AP PHYSICS I'LL GET A 1 :D</p>
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Last year though, I went and I had an awful time. I had a date who I liked as a friend, but he liked me as more than a friend so the whole night was him trying to make moves on me and me trying to avoid him...so awkward.
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<p>Similar situation happened to me last year. Except it was more complicated and dragged into early June. It ****ed me off a lot and I had a terrible time at prom so last year's bad experiences led to me not wanting to go this year...</p>
<p>Anyone have any good excuses in avoiding prom on May 9? Besides failing my AP Physics of course...but when worst comes to worst, failing AP Physics isn't so bad.</p>
<p>WARNING! The following advice is from an old, over-the-hill, grown-up, out-of-it adult person. Feel free to ignore. But...
Go to prom. Buy the class ring. Buy the yearbook. Go to graduation. Get the senior class T-shirt. No matter how stupid and pointless these things seem to you now, you will later be glad you did them.</p>
<p>I went junior year with a date who paid for everything.. this year i'm going with my boyfriend (date last year) and he's paying for everything... </p>
<p>You should go, it's like the epicenter of high school life.. its like you have to go.. it's senior year do EVERYTHING.. it's so much fun not to care anymore!</p>
<p>its beautiful and perfect. i saw and and i was like. THATS IT. </p>
<p>also our group is renting this local trolley that drives around the historical district. it will take us from my friend who lives in the district's house, on a tour of the district for fun, then to the club where prom is.</p>