they probably just recycled the one they didn't want.
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I am at this moment pulling out the significant pages from my HS yearbooks (I have 3 books) to use in a scrapbook I am making with photos from HS. I have quite few great memories, but I also went to huge school... so REALLY big books for only a few pages that I really care about! I'm also scanning these pages to keep in my digital files just in case the scrapbook is ever lost or damaged.
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When I went to high school (in the 80's, in Australia), yearbooks were only just beginning to be published. My 3 were very thin affairs and after keeping them for over 25 years (gulp!) I threw them in the recycling bin last week, along with all my school reports. I am just not that person any more, and it felt so freeing to have shed another part of my past.
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Great posts. I'm convinced. Threw out my yearbooks today.
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i threw my yearbooks out years ago....not that they were a very big deal to start with.
my school wasn't big on yearbooks in the late seventies/early eighties.one thing i have insanely held onto is my pilot log book.
o how i cherished that thing.
it is still on my bookcase and now i think if i got hit by a truck tomorrow, someone else would have to get rid of it.
i may as well save them the bother and do it myself.
it's clutter. i haven't opened it in fifteen years. i haven't flow in 24 years, more than half my life away.
but i'll keep the actual license. it's tiny.Posted 1 year ago # -
Wow, now you all have me thinking do I keep or get rid of? Both my husband's and mine are just in a pile in the den, (they don't fit on the bookcases in there), and I only looked at mine last year because it was our 20th reuninon. We do get attached to things don't we? I think it's time to take out the pictures I want, and dump the rest. Thanks all!!!
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I have mine at arm's length as I type. I have great memories of HS and now with Facebook, I'm reconnecting with people I haven't seen in 30 years. It comes in handy when I get a friend request and don't recognize their picture. I've also enjoyed reading what people wrote as I hadn't looked at that in over 20 years. That's what makes the book valuable to me. I plan to scan it over the winter in case it ever gets lost.
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Oh, and my mother has hers still too - from 1954!
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I didn't get yearbooks from high school. There was very little of high school that I wanted to be reminded of, and I have individual photos of the things I do want to remember. I don't facebook: I choose to make it difficult for anyone from high school to track me down.
I had both of my yearbooks from junior high. Now I only have one. I suspect something happened to the other in the flood. I wish I did still have it, even though it's been years since I opened it. We had a huge picnic event on the last day of school and everyone went around signing everyone else's yearbooks, so I had a lot of signatures and messages about good memories. I keep them on the bookshelf where I keep all my photos.
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I have all my yearbooks from grade 3 through grade 12. I also have my freshman college yearbook and kept the one from each year I finished a degree in college after I transferred. (Ahem. I also have a couple of VERY old yearbooks from my Alma mater.)
I actually USE my high school and junior high yearbooks even though I graduated over 20 years ago. I have used them to figure out who people were on Facebook and to Identify some people in photos I have from my school years. I did go to small schools so that probably makes a difference. I never went to a school in K-12 that had more than 300 people in K-12.
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High school? College? I still have my ELEMENTARY school yearbooks! Of course, they're some of my few childhood keepsakes and I know right where they are and have looked at them within the past year. It's something fun to see when the family trots out childhood pictures of the holidays.
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Here in the UK, we don't really go into the whole yearbook thing. Some schools do one for the final year of school, but that certainly isn't common.
My university faculty did one in my final year, which I did buy and still have. It's nice to look at occasionally and I've used it to grab the odd email address now and then (I graduated in 2006).Posted 1 year ago # -
My year books were the first things to go.
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My parents had my college yearbooks stored in their attic. I retrieved them last summer and DH and I had a great laugh. We knew we had lived within 100 yards of each other at one point back in the 1970's (we met through the internet 30 years later!) and now we have the dorm pictures to prove it!
Ancestry.com is digitizing yearbooks, so perhaps if you are searching for people, you might find them there.
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I really wish I could sell my college yearbook. Can't really be sure what possessed me to purchase it in the first place, especially since I tossed all but one of my high school yearbooks during college. I see that some yearbooks sell on eBay but I highly doubt the year I went will sell. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try?
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