re: Why the poor stay poor, Prom Episode

Posted by LNCHBOX

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:22 am to yellowfin

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after party drinks - high school kids can't drink much

You had me until this line

Posted by WG_Dawg

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:23 am to LNCHBOX

I can drink more (quantity) now as an adult then as a high schooler, but the hangovers in HS were about 10 times easier than they are now.

Posted by tigerfoot

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 9:37 am to anc

Daughters Prom....
Dress was 250 bought a year ago on sale.

Having private dinner for 16 with passed apps, chef put together a cool menu and came in very reasonable, 22 a head, plus 350 for space and staff for 2 hrs.

Moms are decorTing table for almost nothing, pics are a Mom that does some photo work on side.

That is it for us, so I got out at like less than 500 bucks including hair and nail shite. No limo or bus, not doing that crap

Parents are ooc though

Posted by RBWilliams8

Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 11:19 am to KG6

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Everyone keeps talking about her dress and your tux, but this says each family spends $1300. So unless you're going to prom with your sister, that $1300 is just for one person.

Idk why they'd spend that much. Maybe different for a girl but we went in groups so the limo was split, tux is cheap and we went to a moderate restaurant like cheesecake bistro. Factor in alcohol and misc stuff and we still didn't get close to that.

Posted by SirSaintly

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Member since Feb 2013

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 12:24 pm to anc

People are fricking nuts these days when it comes to money.
I spent maybe $400 on prom. Already owned the tux. Corsage, dinner at Commanders for date & I, and rented a limo bus with about 10 friends and their dates.

Even my bar tab after prom was only like $75.

My date had to have a dress, I covered everything else.

ETA: The majority of that $400 went to my portion of the limo bus rental.

This post was edited on 4/2/15 at 12:35 pm

Posted by CoachDon

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 12:26 pm to heypaul

We are helping, but our son works part time and has been saving all year for prom.

#TeachingFiscalResponsibility

Posted by JayDeerTay84

Texas

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 12:40 pm to anc

we just went tot he after party

Posted by Dr. Shultz

Baton Rouge, La

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 1:17 pm to anc

There is no way those numbers are accurate.

A guy has to rent a ~$100 tux. and thats it.

Splitting a limo\partybus and a dinner is another $100 or so.

The rich girls got ~$500 dresses and maybe another couple hundred in makeup\hair.

Either way no way the average is $1400 or $800 for that matter.

This post was edited on 4/2/15 at 1:19 pm

Posted by SCwTiger

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 1:19 pm to SlowFlowPro

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getting your hair/nails/makeup done can be $500 or more. add in a $500 dress and that's $1k

Power of the puss = downfall of many 'a po boy.

Posted by anc

Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 1:21 pm to Dr. Shultz

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There is no way those numbers are accurate.

I thought the same damn thing, but I didn't conduct the survey. CNN Money is a reputable site. I don't know what to think.

I, like many of you, have tried to wrap my head around the $1400. Also found this story on the same survey: LINK

quote:
The phone survey of over 3,000 people, aged 18 or older, found that promposals are, on average, costing $324 this year -- and now represent one-third of the nearly $1,000 prom-going teens (or, actually, their parents) are expected to shell out on attire, limousine rentals, tickets, flowers, pictures, after-party festivities and the like.

What the hell is a promposal?

and here is a breakdown of average costs in Birmingham and Huntsville that pretty much says what the OT has said. LINK

This post was edited on 4/2/15 at 1:25 pm

Posted by Dr. Shultz

Baton Rouge, La

Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 1:23 pm to anc

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What the hell is a promposal?

LOL where people go out of there way to do an extravagant
"proposal" for prom. Similar to proposing for an engagement.

That's not even very common

Posted by TheBoo

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Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 4/2/15 at 1:31 pm to TROLA

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50 for food and booze as we did dinner at a friends house with about 20 of us.

This, but the dads drank and and cooked all day and didn't charge us for the food.

So, $75 tux, $10 flower, $20 case of beer for after party at a friend's house, and the parents hosting provided a keg.

So $105 out the door myself. Date got a $100 dress and drank off my case and the keg.

Each couple we went with did this also, and there were some financially comfortable families involved.