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Journal Some Woman's Journal: Do you see the insanity in this? [NOW WITH MORE CRAZIES] 26

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1. Kids these days.

$214 for a dress?! Registration?! Shopping for three months?! Prioritize much?

2. The following was said in the opinion section regarding the Vikings schedule including a football game on Christmas Eve next season:

A growing and insidious lack of sensitivity for scheduling conflicts with Christian festivals has finally gone about as far as it can go.

Whaaaaaaa? The insidiousness must cease!

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  • Something I get to look forward to when Emily goes to Prom. ACK!

    • Re:Bleh (Score:2)

      by turg ( 19864 ) *
      Maybe you can choose the dress and register it now.
    • You better start saving now, at the rate of dress-price inflation. I paid less than $100 for a dress in 1999. If the price can double in 5 years, imagine what it can do in 17!

      And you might want to consider having a hand-beaded dress flown in from Italy to ensure that nobody else has her dress. You don't want to risk having people circumvent the registration policy! Oh, the humiliation!
      • Maybe he ought to start studying fashion design. That way, he could both save on the cost, and make sure that her dress is unique.

        On the other hand, the chance of permanently scarring Emily by sending to Prom in a dress her Dad made is something that he'd have to watch out for.
  • Woman searches for months in dozens to places for the perfect dress.

    Man runs down to the mall the day before to pick up a tux at Gingiss.
  • He's wearing the same tux as me! I'll never be able to show my face around here again!
    • What I want to know is if you're both in the same tux, why didn't you notice this when you first got into it?
    • It should be:
      He's wearing the same tux as me! Must be a swell guy to get drunk with! Hey! Bartender, two beer, and give my mate one too.

      As someone who didn't go to his highschool prom, I find this highly disturbing. A dress, is a dress, is a dress... and all the guys on the prom are only interested in *removing* said dress. So, don't make our life difficult, buy something *simple*. Geeez...

  • From the article:

    "The worst thing is walking into prom and somebody has my dress," said Ashleigh Holmes, a junior at Cooper High School in Robbinsdale.

    Actually, the worst thing is to get broadsided by a drunk driver doing 80 mph in a 45 mph zone as you're leaving. I was asked back to my high school's prom two years after I graduated, and as we were leaving we saw a whole mess of emergency lights at the exit, because that exact scenario happened, killing a graduating senior. :-(

  • This is not a new practice. Back when I was in Junior High looking for a dress a local wedding/prom dress store had the registration policy.

    I spent close to $200 for my dress I wore to my senior prom but it was worn the previous year to my Junior Homecoming and recycled after that as well. Finding a dress that is nice and fit right required that much money, so I made sure to get my money's worth.
  • i never went to my high school prom.

    When i went to my then-GF's college 'event' we both wore dresses we'd picked up the week before off a sale rack for less than twenty bucks. I still have the dress. We matched stunningly and a lot of people took our picture.

    If i want a unique dress so badly that i would consider 'registering' for it, i'll buy a swath of fabric somewhere and ask my mum to help me make one. If i don't have time to make one, i'll get a friend to help me make a dress with some strategically
    • I'm quite proud of the dress I bought for $6 last week to wear to a formal event next month. I wasn't even really looking, but it was on the clearance rack (where I do most of my shopping, because I'm so cool that I can get away with wearing last month's clothing. Or something like that.)
      • Yeah, the dress Boo wore to our church's Valentine's Dance she bought for $20 or something. The dress she was going to wear to prom (had her parents allowed her to go) was about the same price, but she looks amazing in it. You hott girls don't need hundreds of $$$ in a dress to look good. :-)
  • A BINDER?!?! They're trying to gaurantee uniqeness via one frickin' binder?!

    That is total madness!

    See, ALL the dress shops in the metro-region need to get connected to a real time database thats up 24x7x365.

    a binder. Blech. That is totally stupid.
  • "I'm so excited! It fits like perfect. And it's bright yellow."

    Translation: "Could I be any more shallow?"
  • $10 for a tank of gas
    $55 for 2 hotel rooms 35 miles away[1]
    $65 for 2 kegs
    $10 for dinner

    Me and my ex chose to skip the prom and throw the after prom party for our friends. Since we didn't spend the money on tuxes or dresses, we decided to pay for the party. Much better choice in my mind.

    -Ab

    [1] my school submitted a list of all students' names to all the local hotel/motels so we couldn't rent rooms, so you had to drive a bit. We got 2 rooms so the 16 of us could stay there and not drive home (2 in each
  • Imagine if parents actually made their kids responsible for managing their own money [msn.com]?

    The whole prom dress industry would probably collapse overnight.

  • My prom dress choice was easy. I went to a place where a man hand-sews them, as well as other...pieces...of clothing. Half of the store was dresses, while the other half was kinky lingerie and roleplaying costumes. I could have looked like a princess or a sexy firewoman! lol

    In no time at all, I had a very lovely, long backless purplish red velvet dress for something like $50. And yes, I resisted the temptation to buy the firewoman costume. heh heh heh. Too damn bad there weren't pirate costumes or m
  • check it out! [uglydresses.com] :-)
    • btw: never went to prom either

      When I was in Thailand, I had some dresses tailor-made for me. Both Thai silk. One of them is a traditional Chinese dress, the other a more or less custom design. The dresses were about $75 USD each. As long as I don't gain a lot of weight, I can use them forever, at least the Chinese one (the other one would probably look silly on me when I'm 80). If I ever need a very nice dress again, I know where I'm going to get it...

  • I'm going to have to agree with the Christian with the persecution complex. Unfortunatley, it's not just Christian festivals. It used to be impossible to go shopping on Thanksgiving or New Year's Day. The stores, including grocery stores, were all closed. You had to hope that 7-11 had olives if you forgot to buy them ahead of time for Thanksgiving dinner.

    Not today. The malls are always open. The grocery stores never close. You never have to plan ahead or take time off from work. Capitalism trumps everythin
  • One thing that gets me is that Australia is not an overly religious country, and yet there are two Christian Holy Days that are granted soecial status whereby it is illegal for businesses to operate on those days (with a few exceptions, such as service stations, small convenience stores, pharmacies and other 'essential' services). Easter Sunday and Christmas Day both share this honour, yet no other holy days from other religions are similarly respected. My personal opinion is that shops should be allowed to

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