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Title: Not really a find, but.... Post by: logical123 on June 08, 2008, 05:25:19 PM I got $1200 for Graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That $150 gaming spree is a reality, and I am getting an iMac!! I is be very happy. ;D ;D Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: NES_Rules on June 08, 2008, 05:38:47 PM Damn, that's more than twice what I got for graduating High School :o
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: bum-man on June 08, 2008, 09:55:01 PM Nice, have fun on that spree!!
I just figured out that I would have had to have received $3428.56 for my High School graduation to have the same amount of buying power as your $1200. Needless to say I didn't get anywhere near that much. I would have just blow it on a bunch of new 2600 games anyway ;) Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: BadEnoughDude on June 08, 2008, 11:21:50 PM Yeah. I got about $600 for graduating high school in 2000. That's roughly $2200 in today's dollars, I guess :)
I took a road trip to Arizona with my money. It was a blast. Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: bum-man on June 09, 2008, 08:25:57 AM Wait I just found out that this is an 8th Grade Graduation!!! I need to add 4 years to my adjusted money. That makes it $4621.29 that I needed to receive. And the bad news is I wouldn't have been able to spend it on Atari 2600 games (since they weren't out yet) Perhaps a nice new PONG or a Magnavox Odyssey (the original of course not the O2)!!!
Here's the site I used for the calculation: http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/?redirurl=calculators/ppowerus/ Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: logical123 on June 09, 2008, 09:29:57 AM That site is cool!!!
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: Grim Fandango on June 09, 2008, 05:02:04 PM hell all I got was a pie when I graduated high school
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: BadEnoughDude on June 09, 2008, 05:29:48 PM Yeah. I got about $600 for graduating high school in 2000. That's roughly $2200 in today's dollars, I guess :) I took a road trip to Arizona with my money. It was a blast. In all honesty, $600 in 2000 is worth $780 today. That's almost a 33% increase in less than 10 years! I think we may be heading for trouble... Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: jcalder8 on June 09, 2008, 11:31:07 PM hell all I got was a pie when I graduated high school I hope it was warm apple pie ;)I got a book, I think..... Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: ganonbanned on June 11, 2008, 04:19:32 PM I know someone that got $17000
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: Fuyukaze on June 12, 2008, 08:33:30 PM wow, i got to eat at the waffle house for my graduation.
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: Talen on July 13, 2008, 12:43:46 AM Damn...I don't think I got anything for my graduation.
Damn kids today *grumble* Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: Silent Scythe on July 13, 2008, 07:51:54 AM I think all I got was $480 a few years ago.
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: James on July 13, 2008, 09:07:28 AM I got a £70 watch, and that was only after I complained about my friends getting £200+ each.
Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: Game Freak on July 13, 2008, 10:37:48 AM Damn...I don't think I got anything for my graduation. Damn kids today *grumble* hey, dont be grumbling. All i got was $300 for my 8th grade graduation, well, technically. I paid for half of my computer ($600). And if i hadn't had gotten all As from 4th to 8th grade i probably wouldn't have gotten that. Now the REALLY unfair part is that they act like they're deducting it out of my bithday money! I graduated 8th grade not this past june, but the june before that. I got my computer in November or so, where all the big deals are. My birthday is in the first quarter of the year. So what do they do? they didnt give me a birthday present. My dad sent a little something while he was away on business affairs (a pirated 132 in one NES collection on the GBA) which was only like $20. That was it pretty much. I asked my mom why she didnt get me anything (my dad was away while this was going on) and she said "You got a computer!" just like that. Do you really think i busted my ass through 8th grade to have perfect grades? I still have perfect grades today, with the exception of a B in Geometry (9th grade) but thats because its the highest level geometry (5) and its really hard >< Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: James on July 13, 2008, 11:23:50 AM hey, dont be grumbling. *cough* \/ \/ All i got was $300 for my 8th grade graduation, well, technically. I paid for half of my computer ($600). And if i hadn't had gotten all As from 4th to 8th grade i probably wouldn't have gotten that. Now the REALLY unfair part is that they act like they're deducting it out of my bithday money! I graduated 8th grade not this past june, but the june before that. I got my computer in November or so, where all the big deals are. My birthday is in the first quarter of the year. So what do they do? they didnt give me a birthday present. My dad sent a little something while he was away on business affairs (a pirated 132 in one NES collection on the GBA) which was only like $20. That was it pretty much. I asked my mom why she didnt get me anything (my dad was away while this was going on) and she said "You got a computer!" just like that. Do you really think i busted my ass through 8th grade to have perfect grades? I still have perfect grades today, with the exception of a B in Geometry (9th grade) but thats because its the highest level geometry (5) and its really hard >< Those damn circles with their volumes, and rectangles with their sideways widths. Title: Re: Not really a find, but.... Post by: logical123 on July 13, 2008, 11:29:08 AM I am scared for my amazing math record throughout school. Fenwick is uber tough, and I am on the Honors track in EVERY subject except religion and history. (Honors history is in 10th or 11th grade)
I am not going to have time to do anything once the school year gets started. Oh yeah, I forgot... SCHOOL STARTS ON AUGUST 18TH!!! So darn early!!! But (!) we get a long x-mas break, so that's cool. |