Prom: Ridiculously expensive, overrated, and on my calendar
With prom, the biggest dance at any school, less than 2 months away, everyone is hurrying to find outfits, dates, and make plans.
Now let me tell you, all the hustle and bustle is not worth it by any means. Don’t get me wrong, prom is something to be excited about. But there is so much time to figure things out and the amount of stress is not necessary.
Last year, I went to prom with 4 of my friends, and 2 of them had dates. It was a mess. I found a dress 2 months early, so that
was nothing to worry about. Then, we had to do pictures, and dinner, figure out who’s riding with who, and 2 of my friends and I ended up getting a room afterwards (it was held at the Radisson). Why on God’s green earth was all of that needed for a high school dance?! The only difference between prom and any other dance is location and price. Tickets alone are three times the price, but girls buy dresses three times what’s necessary and go to a restaurant that a middle class family probably can’t even afford. The moral of the story?
Prom is beyond expensive, and it is the only time you’ll ever catch me in a dress…that’s right, despite the frivolity, you already know I’ll be at prom no matter what.
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Harry Warford • Sep 24, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Prom can be a pretty expensive proposition. There’s of course finding the right outfit for the occasion, like a dress in this case. But let me ask something. What would all this amount to fifty years from now? Would the answer be nothing? With that in mind, this prom business would amount to nothing.
Mec'asia Smith • Sep 24, 2019 at 12:05 pm
I agree that prom is an overrated, overly expensive, “night to remember”. Last year when I went to prom I wore a dress that costed me a whole paycheck, went out to dinner at an expensive place, and then went to the theater where prom was being held. The actual dance was sooo out of my expectations. Going in I already knew it wasn’t going to be like in the movies, but wow. The dance floor was painfully small to fit the amount of people that attended. There were chairs that took up a lot of room, and they couldn’t be moved because we were in a theater and they were bolted to the floor. Long story short my friends and I ended up leaving the glamorized school dance, and we had ten times more the fun in the later hours of that night than we did at the dance.
Evan Wahmhoff • Sep 24, 2019 at 9:16 am
First of all, I respect your opinion. However, none of the things you listed are necessary to attend prom. They are all personal decisions that come with an economic cost, as everything else does in life. Getting a new dress or suit for prom is NOT necessary , you can use a dress or suit you already own. People don’t care if you don’t get a dress, or if you don’t go out to eat, they’re just there to have a good time.
Caitlin Sullivan • Sep 24, 2019 at 8:53 am
While I agree that prom is overall expensive and can be seen as ridiculous. I don’t think it’s as ridiculous as you’re making it out to seem. See the point of Prom is essentially to go overboard to have a good time. It’s kind of a way to treat yourself to have a lot of fun for a night. While it may take a lot of planning after your first year of going you kinda get the jist of what you need to do to be more prepared. See Prom is a dream for people and at our school it’s a privilege because we can go both Junior and Senior year and a lot of my friends that are in bigger schools don’t have the chance to go multiple times like we do. In the end we are lucky and if you’re complaining about Prom then maybe it’s best to just not to waste your time and just not go.