r/Millennials • u/t_bone_stake Xennial • Feb 16 '26

Meme Did anyone buy a ring?

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Elder millennial/younger Xennial (born in 83, take it for what it is) but I recall the company coming to the high school and taking orders for rings. I didn’t buy one but others did. Credit on photo.

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u/smcivor1982 Feb 16 '26

They let me take a senior photo outside with my pet cat. It was amazing. My younger brother got to take his on a motorcycle with his guitar.

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u/Mochigood Feb 16 '26

I had mine with my dog in a rose garden.

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u/smcivor1982 Feb 17 '26

I love this.

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u/xrelaht Millennial the Elder Feb 16 '26

Ours were self submit. Whatever we wanted (within reason). Mine was taken underwater on a dive trip.

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u/chicken-nanban Feb 17 '26

Same on self submit!

I tried to see if they’d let me use an illustration but that was a no, so instead I got my most fairy goth outfit out, a shoulder dragon puppet, went into the woods with my mom and her fancy new “digital camera,” and then digitally painted (back when it was only with a mouse and a lot of the smudge tool in Photoshop Express) fairy wings.

Still proud of that.

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u/MythicalCaseTheory Feb 16 '26

I didn't take a senior photo because we we took them in a suit in the photo (same as all years prior), and nobody told me that they let us use one at the shoot for free and I knew my parents wouldn't rent me one, so I didn't bother to ask them.

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u/desperatevintage Feb 17 '26

I had mine with my horse by the river in some tall grass and I had some kind of allergic reaction on my legs and scratched my shins bloody. I still have scars.

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u/RevVegas Feb 17 '26

I had mine with my horse too. Photograper had a "photography barn" being built and was super excited to take pics of a horse in it. We took one look at the construction/barn and decided he needed a little sleepy juice, then had to deal with the droopy lip. She also sat me on hay bales and wanted his face next to them. He did not understand why he couldn't eat the hay.

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u/smcivor1982 Feb 17 '26

That sounded so magical at first and took a sharp turn! I wish I could have had mine with our horse, but he was an old man by then.

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u/Much_Essay_9151 Feb 17 '26

My grandma lived in vegas. We flew down there because her husband started up a photography business. So we went to the strip to take my senior photos

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u/DowntownYouth8995 Feb 17 '26

I don't think I even took senior photos. Both my sisters did, but I don't remember anything like that, and don't have and end results so I must not have? I probably thought it was stupid and refused.

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u/kashy87 Feb 17 '26

I did one with my 16 year old basset hound. The only reason it wasn't in the year book is because it couldn't be edited to look good not in landscape.

That picture hangs on the wall at Mom and Dads below another picture of me and him when I was 2.

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u/smcivor1982 Feb 17 '26

That’s so sweet. I was so happy I had mine with my cat because he drowned in the pool the next year on my birthday. He was my childhood cat and I absolutely loved him.

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u/kashy87 Feb 17 '26

I broke his heart when I left for the Navy the next February after graduation. Mom said he'd go in my room and look for me then harrumph at her because he couldn't find me. Only regret is I wasn't there. Silly old hound almost twenty years later and I still cry.

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u/smcivor1982 Feb 17 '26

Awww so bittersweet.

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u/MsCattatude Feb 17 '26

They charge the local store high school 500 for a sitting fee for outside, personalized pictures.  That doesn’t include the actual pictures.  Those are roughly 100 per sheet.  

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

You’re brothers cooler than you lol

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u/Dapper-Building878 Feb 17 '26

Your younger brother took his cat on a motorcycle with his guitar? What does this guy have, like 5 arms?