My high school graduation gift was 2 suitcases. My clothes were in them.
My Mother said I should attend summer school.
By the way, I paid for all my college working at Safeway.
“”My high school graduation gift was 2 suitcases. My clothes were in them.””
LOL - I didn’t laugh all day until now!!!
“My high school graduation gift was 2 suitcases. My clothes were in them.
My Mother said I should attend summer school.
By the way, I paid for all my college working at Safeway.”
Your parents were like mine. My mom said she wasn’t going to take care of me and I needed to be out on my own. I rented a small efficiency apartment for $100.00 a month. Worked my way through college working on cars and doing construction work.
Honestly, I think that’s cold.
Four of my five have moved out and established their own households. My single youngest daughter lives with us (works and contributes). So we didn’t raise pansies.
But we didn’t hand them suitcases with their clothes when they turned 18, either.
BOL! My high school graduation gift was 2 suitcases. My new graduation shirts, pants and underwear were in them.
They stayed with my parents during that pre college summer as I was in Idaho working for the summer. I got home in time to find my new dorm room and roommate.
My mother took me to my new college and dorm room.
We unpacked the new clothes and put them into drawers and on hangars in my closet. She suggested that I hitch a ride home every 2-3 weeks to do my laundry and to say hello and goodbye.
She gave me a credit card to call home once a week. 60+ years later, I still remembered that phone number and credit card.==
Then, she said, “Walk me to my car and say goodbye.!”
I did and she gave me a hug and kiss and said she would call my dorm phone when she got home.
Years later, she said that was a really tough moment in her life, yet she had to kiss me goodbye and leave.I was basically on my own from then on.
Years later, she laughed at how she slowed down to 10 mph to drop off a sibling sister at her first year of college.